William Shakespeare 's Romeo And Juliet

Young lovers defy their families’ long-established vendetta and jeopardize all they have to continue their relationship. The violent commotion between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, finally bring peace to their feuding families, with their own death. Like with many suicide cases, there are challenges and decisions being made that lead up to this decision. Often times, we question who contributed to the suicide. Regardless, others argue that Romeo and Juliet should be held accountable for their ultimate decision. Then again, there is no definite reason to assign fault to Romeo and Juliet. Not only are their brains not fully developed, but pressures from outside forces caused such stress within the relationship.

A popular idiom that many children are told are a young age is “You can’t judge a book by its cover”. Accordingly, this idiom holds true about people, how their appearance, background, or name do not define who they are. This meaningful message is expressed in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Beastly by Alex Flinn, and Scribbler of Dreams by Mary E. Pearson. These texts reveal the message that if one is willing to look past a prejudice, one can see who another really is, leading to the most unlikely of relationships.

Love is like a flame, it provides you with warmth, but too much of it can also burn you. Such is the plot of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It is a tragedy about two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who unfortunately, belong to families who bear an ancient grudge against each other. In the play, Romeo and Juliet fall in love and quickly decide to marry each other. At the end, Romeo and Juliet’s decisions cause their untimely death, but in reality, there were other people who also contributed to the lover’s death. Friar Laurence, the Nurse and Lord Capulet are responsible for the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet.

Mercutio, in Act 2, Scene 1, jokes about his best friend in a way that shows they are close to one another: “Romeo! Humors! Madman! Passion! Lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh; speak but one rhyme and I am satisfied!” (7-9). The influence of Mercutio’s character is clearly shown throughout the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, simply because Mercutio is Romeo’s inspiration for most of his decisions. Their friendship strengthens the choices made by the main characters. To put it simply, Mercutio plays a more vital role than Tybalt since he has a strong bond with Romeo. Mercutio is an overall more important character than Tybalt because his actions drive Romeo to make poor, impulsive decisions, he foreshadows the deaths

To assess Baz Luhrmann 's use of setting in his film, Romeo + Juliet, we can begin by contrasting the film with the play as it was originally performed in the 16th-century theatre. The key difference between the manner in which the film and the play deal with location is that the film is primarily an image-intensive medium that can visually show the audience the locale. Shakespearean drama, on the other hand, was written to be heard as an auditory experience.

SAMPSON A dog of that house shall move me to stand. I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.

Once in our lifetimes we all go through a tragedy, but who is responsible? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, several characters are responsible for the deaths in the play. The characters; the Capulets, Friar Laurence, and Tybalt are the ones most responsible.

“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” (2.2.33). The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular plays of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the story of two star-crossed lovers, Romeo & Juliet, who unfortunately take their own life in hopes of being together once again and ending their family feud. The deaths of these two star-crossed lovers didn’t just happen out of fine air. It was caused by the sudden events that took place after they met at the Capulet’s party, but ended due to a plan that was meant to help them, not kill them. Although the mastermind behind the plan, Friar Laurence, is the main person to blame, a number of people are to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The reason for this is because of Juliet’s parents bad parenting, the second party’s foolish decisions, and, of course, the family feud.

Two families at war, a love so forbidding it’s deadly, referring of course to the classic William Shakespeare play of “Romeo and Juliet”, set in Verona, Italy. The play examines two families, the Montauges and the Capulets caught in an ongoing battle of hate, however two of the children manage to find love. All is not fair in love and war, and this play examines some examples of how love and hate correlate to each other in this captivating tale of “Romeo and Juliet”.

Many people live their lives under the belief that everything happens for a reason. This belief, that the entirety of an individual 's life occurs for an exact purpose, relies largely on fate, or predetermined forces causing events to occur. Therefore, people believe that their pathway through life is paved for them, and external factors cause them to face specific challenges. On the contrary, a number of people believe that their pathway through life is based solely on their own actions, and no external forces are able to determine what lies in one’s future. These contradictory beliefs can be seen in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, as two lovers make ill-considered decisions that lead to their deaths, yet the force of fate largely assists to their mishaps as well. This uncontrollable force of fate brought hardships to Romeo and Juliet, therefore causing them to be “star-cross’d lovers,” or lovers destined to misfortune simply due to fate. While Romeo and Juliet’s poor decision-making contributed to the prevention of the two ultimately being together to some extent, they can accurately be considered “star-cross’d lovers” because despite their efforts otherwise, the predetermined force of fate seals the outcome of their relationship.

Former Soviet Statesman, Mikhail Gorbachev said, “ Sometimes it is difficult to accept and to recognise one’s mistake, but one must do it.” This quote helps you think about what you have done to figure out why you are being punished. Have you ever had the ability to pardon or imprison someone? If so, who would you pardon or who would you imprison? In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare many characters should be excused or be punished by the end of the play. This play is about two star crossed lovers from feuding families that take their lives in desperation. At the end the Prince says, “ Some shall be pardoned, and some should be punished. “ Lord Capulet should be punished because he is a demanding and disrespectful man.

William Shakespeare once said “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves.” This quote means people are self-determined, there is no such thing as a predetermination. You are not “fated” to a particular result. This is not to say that somebody 's circumstances (born into wealth or poverty) do not have a major impact on your life. It is not up to fate to decide what happens to someone, but it is someone 's choices and decisions in their lives that will determine the course of events in one 's life. Fate is the force, principle, or power that is thought to predetermine events. In other more understanding words fate is something someone can not control. Although not everybody would agree, some believe fate is the main position for Romeo and Juliets death.

Most people dream of the day when they will find their perfect half, someone they hope to share a “happily ever after” with. Although this fairy tale may come true for some, it is unfortunately not the case in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In this story, two young lovers from Verona are deprived of that opportunity from the moment they meet; instead, they are forced to head down a path that ultimately leads to their devastating deaths. Many critics argue about who/ what is the true cause of the lovers’ tragic ends, the possibilities revolving around Friar Lawrence, Mercutio and Tybalt, Juliet’s Nurse, politics during the Elizabethan Era, the Prince of Verona, Paris, the lovers’ parents, and even Romeo and Juliet themselves.

Throughout the Renaissance era, Shakespeare has made many great plays. One of the best plays, Romeo and Juliet, takes place in Verona, Italy. This play is a tragicomedy that involves many puns, jokes and laughs. Every character makes mistakes that contributes to the tragic deaths of Romeo and Juliet, yet, throughout the play, there is one character prompting the feud, Mercutio. Mercutio is the character most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he causes problems for both families even after his death. Mercutio pushes Romeo to crash the Capulet’s party, which causes Tybalt to get aggravated and duel with Romeo, and the cursing of both families that come true after his death.

It was a fine night for a party but Juliet was quite unaffected by the merry mood. It seemed that her father had thrown the party just to find her a proper suitor. All hell had broken loose since he had discovered her being intimate with one of her lady attendants and he was quite determined to have her married off before word of Juliet 's true preference could get around.