Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet discusses the many challenges the ‘star crossed lovers’ face. It is their own deceptive actions that ultimately lead them to their untimely end. However Romeo and Juliet are forced to be deceptive due to their fate and misfortune, the ongoing feud in Verona, and the misleading guidance they receive from others; which also contribute to their deaths. Romeo and Juliet focuses on the theme of love and hate, this theme is interweaved throughout the play. Romeo and Juliet experience bad luck and misfortune, regardless of their deception. They have awful timing, and it is unfortunate that they must ‘love a loathed enemy’, as this is what causes Romeo and Juliet to be deceptive. Romeo and Juliet hide their …show more content…
Juliet’s father forces Juliet to marry Paris, and if she does not he threatens to leave her to ‘hang, beg, starve, die in the streets’. This arranged marriage with one she does not love compels Juliet to find an urgent resolution, and this resolution contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The families’ feud contributes to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, as they know that their relationship must remain unknown. The feud leads to delusion and deceit, and their eventual death. Ultimately, the feud between the families makes their deception necessary and inevitable; but this deception leads to their untimely deaths. Romeo and Juliet deceive others due to the poor guidance they receive about their situation. They resort to deceit as a resolution for their desperate situations. Friar Laurence performs their secret marriage as he believes that this alliance could ‘…Turn [their] household’s rancour to pure love’. Juliet is later forced to marry Paris and asks the Nurse for assistance. The Nurse replies that Juliet is ‘…better in this second match’. The Nurse helped Juliet to marry Romeo but as the situation becomes tricky, she betrays Juliet and encourages her to marry Paris; she provides poor guidance in doing so. This poor advice convinces Juliet to consider a plan involving a ‘desperate… execution’. This desperate execution is provided to Juliet by Friar Laurence who provides Juliet with a potion that puts her in a sleep like death. The Friar
In Act IV of Romeo and Juliet, things start looking up for Juliet as Friar Lawrence gives her a potion to fake her death so she will able to escape with Romeo. Hurrying to the Friar’s cell to seek help, Friar Laurence tells Juliet to plead for forgiveness and she would drink a poison that will fake her death for 42 hours. Leaving Friar’s cell Juliet hurries home to plead for forgiveness and that she will agree to Paris’ marriage. After being forgiven Juliet is starting to have doubts about the potion, but drinks it anyways. Going on at the same time, the Capulet family is preparing for the wedding in the morning. In the morning, the Nurse discovers Juliet’s “dead” body and everyone is confused and saddened at the sight of their child
“Romeo and Juliet” is a dramatic romance story that is full of love, hate, secrets, and lies. In Romeo and Juliet, the Capulets and the Montagues have a rivalry, a death penalty placed by the prince is threatened if the families have another brawl. At a Capulet party, Romeo and his friend, Mercutio sneak in, and he meets Juliet. They fall in love, and become married in secret, but Juliet is forced by her father to marry Paris after Romeo killed Tybalt, who is Juliets cousin. To avoid marrying Paris, Juliet fakes her death and Romeo thinks Juliet is honestly dead. He goes to her tomb and drink a potion that killed him almost instantly.When Juliet wakes up, she actually kills herself over the grief over Romeo being dead. In William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet”, Friar Lawrence is ultimately to blame for the deaths of the protagonists, by cause of Friar encouraged them to secure their love, he neglected to inform both parties if his plan to fake Juliet’s death, and he left Juliet when she was extremely emotional.
Juliet is not unlike the typical young women constantly struggling to find happiness and acceptance from those who are closest to her. Young Juliet must confront the harsh reality that exists between her and those who profess to be her friends and family, which is they failed to support her, love her, and lift her up with she needed it most. In the timeless book, “Romeo & Juliet” William Shakespeare writes a moving story about the betrayal, disappointment, love, and eventual death of Romeo and Juliet. No reader can truly appreciate and understand the level of Juliet’s struggles without first understanding the roles the Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence and Romeo, their betrayal and their role in her faithful decision.
Romeo and Juliet’s parents play an unwitting role in their children’s deaths. Their parents’ rivalry poses a big problem for them and makes it almost impossible for the two to live in peace. Romeo and Juliet acknowledge this obstacle when it is placed in front of them. The problems already arise from their first meet when Juliet just finds out about
Romeo and Juliet fall in love at a party. But they come from families which hate each other. They are sure they will not be allowed to marry. But the helped by Friar Laurence, they married in secret instead. Unfortunately, before their wedding night Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt in a duel, and in the morning he was exiled. If he returns to the city, he will be put to death. Juliet’s parents told her she must marry Paris. Her parents don’t know that she is already married. She refuses in the beginning, but later agrees because she plans to fake her death and escape to be with Romeo forever with the help of Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence designs the plan. He gives Juliet a sleeping potion. She appears to be dead and was put in a tomb. Romeo
In Act II, Lord Paris had no prior knowledge that the Friar had already secretly married Romeo to Juliet. Nevertheless, he continued relentlessly to pursue his loving bond to Juliet whatever the outcome. But Romeo’s wife Juliet tired of her families’ wishes and the persistent advances of Lord Paris, devised a plan with the good friar. He tells her to take a special sleeping potion which will fake her death, she will then fall into a deep and lifeless sleep and will wake many hours later. Romeo will be notified of this plot and will come to waken her. The plan goes ahead, and the fake laying to rest takes place at the churchyard. Romeo then finds out, believing her dead, fights and
In Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare many people recognize the play for the star-crossed lovers that fall in love, and eventually die together. The play is not what some people may call a beautiful love story is nothing but a terrible tragedy. The lovers did not have to die in each other’s arms. The tragic deaths that the two star-crossed lovers had, occurred from their poor decisions instead of what was supposedly written for them in the stars.
For centuries, the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet has made people, young and old, weep. It's a tale of love's doomed struggle against age, tradition, society and hate. A story where it seems as if all the world opposed them. And yet, it's not the world that condemned them to their fate, but rather than own rash choices. Choices which resulted in murder, sorrow and banishment from the kingdom.
‘Romeo and Juliet’: the most ill-fated tragedy of all time; a tale of the unadulterated strength of Romeo and Juliet’s love, pure and young, with power enough to conquer the hatred of generations even through the veil of death. But, were they really in love? Throughout, Romeo and Juliet’s three day ‘love’ affair, they experience a surfeit of emotions: anger, lust, fear, lust, confusion, lust, excitement, lust, sadness … more lust and a deep, overwhelming infatuation with each other, but never love. Romeo’s womanising nature and his capricious mind allow him to admire Juliet only for her aesthetic beauty to the point where he will do anything for lust for her. While Juliet’s child-like naivety beguiles
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One of Shakespeare’s most eminent plays, Romeo and Juliet is a tale revolving around a pair of star-crossed lovers whose premature relationship must go undiscovered because of their feuding families. However, in the arduous process of protecting its secrecy, several essential figures including Romeo, Friar Lawrence and the theme of fate play decisive roles that hold responsibility in the turnout of events that lead to a tragic conclusion. Romeo, the lover himself is rebellious and desperate for love. His impulsive personality towards love and marriage establishes danger not only upon himself but as well as his partner Juliet. Friar Lawrence is well-regarded, but his rashness, ignorance, and ill-advised thinking place both lovers in
In his iconic play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare incorporates a range of literary terms to explore the idea that, ultimately, the world must be governed by a delicate balance of good and evil. About two lovers, who are forced to hide their deep affection for each other because of their quarreling families, the Montagues and Capulets, this tragedy describes the actions the protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, as well as other supporting characters, take in order for the pair to be together, despite their fears of their parents finding out. The opposing characterization of different individuals and the several contrasting concepts described with literary elements contribute to the state of harmony in the play.
The hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets triggered Friar Laurence to give Juliet a sleeping potion, an action with grave consequences. Her dilemma is that her father, Capulet, is ordering her to marry Paris but she can't because it would go against her religion because she is married in secret to Romeo. Juliet asks Friar Laurence for a solution to her dilemma. The Friar proposes that Juliet take a special potion that would make it seem like she were dead. This is the Friar's instructions to Juliet as to when to take the potion and the effects of the potion:
When Romeo goes to the Friar asking him to wed him and Juliet, he goes along with it instead of saying no until they grew to knew each other better. Juliet also goes to the Friar, but this is when she is about to be wed to Paris. Instead of simply telling her to tell her parents about her relationship with Romeo, or tell her to run away, he gives her a potion in order to fake her own death. Just as Juliet is waking from her 48-hour slumber, the Friar is with her and hears a mysterious noise. He then decides to leave her in this vulnerable position.
William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet is filled with serious decisions. The two title “star-crossed lovers,” Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, not only decide to get married mere days after their first meeting, but also choose to carry out a ridiculous plan to avoid an unwanted marriage and eventually kill themselves (prologue). Although such subject matter is not often found in young adult novels, the impulsivity of this behavior is a mark of Romeo and Juliet’s teenage inexperience. Their immaturity ultimately results in drastic consequences— namely, their own deaths; however, their naiveté was not a hazard for the entirety of the play. The way it affects their decisions and relationships with others changes over time, different at the start of the book before they meet than at the end, when they both finally make the monumental decision to commit suicide. Before they first encounter each other, Romeo and Juliet’s immaturity is harmless, but after their first meeting and as their relationship develops, it begins to prove dangerous.