The theme of the story is love and some fate. Romeo and juliet is a love story that went terribly wrong. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet in life death can be caused by oneself or people around them. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The horrible tragedy was caused by their families and themselves. Romeo lovesick for rosaline is comforted by his friend Benvolio.Capulet tells Paris that he may not marry his daughter Juliet until she’s older. Romeo and his friends learn of a party being held by the capulets and decide to go as masquers. At the party, Tybalt sees Romeo, but is prevented from fighting him by capulet. Romeo meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. After leaving the party Romeo eludes his friends returns to meet juliet and
In the play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, we learn of the many hardships and highs Romeo and Juliet go through over the course of the story. The play Romeo and Juliet is based off two star-crossed lovers who are separated from each other due to a feud between their two families. Their love is so strong that at the end of the story Romeo and Juliet both end up committing suicide because they can’t live without each other. Whether it is problems with love, or them complimenting each other on how they feel about the other person, Shakespeare uses many literary devices to make the reader dig deeper into the context to find the meaning behind the sentence. Some of the literary devices are; similes, metaphors, and personification.
In love, in hate, your actions ruled by your emotions believing whole heartedly in them and yet tragedy comes, your disregard for the life you were meant to lead buries you, was it worth it? Romeo and Juliet's belief in their love is why they didn’t regret the outcome. Romeo and Juliet knew their fate and ignored it the repercussions tremendous but not unexpected. The consequences are worth your actions if you believe in your actions.
The play Romeo and Juliet is a story about 2 different people who have fallen in love but their families have a long line of hatred for each other and in the end Romeo and Juliet end up killing themselves. The main theme of Romeo and Juliet is how death catches up to everyone. For example, in Act 5, Scene 2 (pg 276) Lady Capulet says “Some people in the street are crying “Romeo”. Some are crying “Juliet”, and some are crying “Paris.” The people are their names because all 3 of them died that night.
Anguish is conceived in love and death. William Shakespeare creates turmoil through his language in Romeo and Juliet. His tragedy shows how hate and love coincide with one another. Throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet’s passion for each other keeps them together, but eventually kills them both. Shakespeare creates the conflict through his language. His use of similes, metaphors, and verbal irony set the mood for his play. The way these components flow together create the atmosphere that made this misfortune legendary.
The story of Romeo and Juliet is a love story/ tragedy about two families: Capulet and Montague. Both families hate each other which leads to Romeo and Juliet knowing that they cannot be married, even though they are in love. They then try to arrange a secret wedding but Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin) and Mercutio (Romeo’s close friend) get into a fight in which, Romeo gets in the middle of and kills Tybalt. Juliet finds out about Tybalt's death and is mourning, to help, her dad (Capulet) tells her that she should marry Paris ( the kingsman of the Prince) However, to avoid marrying Paris, Juliet drinks a sleeping potion so that she appears dead to everyone else. Romeo finds Juliet and, because he thinks she is dead, he kills himself. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead and a result, she kills herself too.
The ideology that everything in the universe has a specific place and rank in order of their hierarchy importance created by God is known as the concept of The Great Chain of Being. The order of this concept consisted levels according to highest rank to the lowest accordingly: God, angels, humanity, animals, vegetation life, leading all the way down to crud. Within each category, more specific classification existed, placing these subcategories in a specific order. This concept was believed to be a way to keep the universe in order. As this was believed during Elizabethan times, William Shakespeare also believed in the Great Chain of Being, as many of his plays are prominently based on this concept. Some of his plays include characters that accept their place on the Chain, but others are not so complacent. By examining three different characters from Shakespeare’s tragedies, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and The Tragedy of King Lear, it is obvious to readers who is content with their place on the Chain and which characters have a difficult time accepting their place. Romeo and Juliet do not obey their parents’ orders, therefore suffer harsh consequences towards the end of the play. Macbeth is another Shakespearean character that violates the Chain, due to the committing of several murders, in order to gain the throne. In stark contrast, Cordelia, is content with her place on the Chain as she does not want anything greater in life, unlike her
Inappropriate kindness is very familiar in our society. Many people have kind acts, which’ll make less problems around us. Being kind is never a bad thing! You just can 't be too kind because the person receiving your misguided kindness will take advantage of it. But, it 's never wrong to give someone unexplainable kindness, if they do the same to you. However, in the 21st century you see misguided kindness everywhere. Even in Shakespeare 's world there was many acts of much kindness. Many people took advantage of it though which was a bad decision. Many characters in the play had at least one unexplained kind activity, that led to the death of the two young lovers. An analysis of the play will make it clear that misguided kindness caused
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet ended horribly and that’s why the play is called The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The two star-struck lovers ended up dying from taking their own lives, but who’s fault was it really? There are multiple people in this play that made Romeo and Juliet want to die, but Tybalt had the most effect on them. Tybalt was a fighter and killed Mercutio, which created Romeo to long for revenge. The two fought and Romeo ended up on top, but was then banished from Verona and was forced to go to Mantua. Every thing went wrong from there after he was forcibly evicted from his home town, and the cause was Tybalt.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare in 1597 and it is about two teens who fall in love although they come from two rival families. Romeo and Juliet’s hastened love turns into a tragic ending and takes the lives of both lovers and many others. The death of the two main characters is by far the most important scene in the play to show theme and this theme is that extreme conflicts lead to extreme endings. Romeo and Juliet’s death had the biggest impact on the play in showing the theme and this is because of the following four reasons, the first reason is the deaths ended a pointless and ongoing family feud, it brought back peace to the streets of Verona, it unveiled many important secrets,
The fate of Romeo and Juliet runs strongly through the entire play as the theme of misfortune where the deaths of the only child ends the family of both Montague and Capulets paying the price for the parents past actions. As Romeo walks to the Capulet party, he presumes the future ‘I fear, too early: for my mind misgives. Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, shall bitterly begin his fearful date’. The audience is left with a certain idea that what he is about to do, will lead to multiple events that will eventually result in the untimely death. Romeo following Tybalt and Mercutio death declares himself, ‘O, I am fortune’s fool’ revealing the fixed life of all characters and leaving the audience think they are moving and acting as according
Romeo and Juliet, a play about two star-crossed lovers, ones whose love was forbidden due to a feud amongst families, the Capulets and Montagues. This ‘feud’ put many lives in danger, one of them being Mercutio. Now, Mercutio’s murder is special, but only because it was kind of an accident. I know what you’re thinking... How could this be ‘kind of’ an accident? Allow me to elaborate, let me take you to the setting, Verona Italy, after Romeo’s heart is distraught over his oh so beloved Rosaline, a lady he had fancied for a while but she never returned the passion he held, and let’s skip along to the Capulet Ball.
There has been a burning question debated by scholars till this very day, is The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet a love story? Romeo and Juliet is a love story. They express their undying love for each other throughout the play. Within the play, written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet go to extremes to express their love for each other, ranging from their first kiss, to killing themselves by the end of the play. By going to such extremes they prove their love for each other, therefore, making the play a love story.
The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare was in the 18th century in a place called Verona, Italy. Shakespeare illustrates about how sometimes that life can be unfair or not, but it’s not worth dying for when something bad happens to them or not. There were two young people that are Romeo and Juliet, they fall in love when they first saw each other and later on, they get married because it was unfair when both families hated each other when they don’t want them to fall in love. Then, when Mercutio fought Tybalt and Romeo fight Tybalt, both Mercutio and Tybalt died during the fighting. Lastly, when Romeo and Juliet both killed themselves because when life was unfair to them.
Have you ever seen a murder mystery movie before? If so, you would recall that the detective tries to look for clues that leads to the suspected murderer. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, the same format applies, however, the murdering was done by the victims, Romeo and Juliet. With the tragic play coming to an end, we, the readers, are left wondering, “Who is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death?” While most characters may have a clear correlation to their suicide, the real murderer was in the stars, or in other words, fate murdered Romeo and Juliet. If fate had not have Romeo and Juliet’s death already foretold, provide hardships for the two, and mess up the Friars scheme to save Romeo and Juliet’s marriage, the play would not have been considered a tragedy.
Death leave heartache no one can heal, love leaves memory no one can steal, said by anonymous. The tragedy play of Romeo and Juliet as wrote by William Shakespeare. This story is about young couple that wants to be together but can't because their families has a bad history together. Their families didn't want them to be together. Juliet had a plan so that she can be with Romeo by that didn't go as planned, for anyone because not everyone knew what was going on. Everyone had different ideas of what was happening or what had happened. The untimely death of Romeo and Juliet were caused by the family feud and Lord Capulet.