I. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless love story that ends in a tragedy.
A. A story that turned into a play, into a movie, and became one of the biggest successful love stories in the movie business and novel world.
B. This story is extremely famous for the poetry and love scenes Shakespeare wrote around 1596.
C. Even though people know what’s going to happen and they still attend because of the well written passionate poetry and story.
II. The background and inspiration of the story was a narrative poem written by Arthur Brooke.
A. The narrative poem was established in 1562 as a different and older version of Romeo and Juliet.
B. In Brookes Prologue he covered the fact that love is difficult and hard to have when others don’t approve
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Romeo and Juliet are caught up in this idealized, unreal, passionate love that they had for each other but to soon realize that she has to be set off to marry another and he was to be found to be banished didn’t make their plans to be together easy.
III. These lustful lovers are from two different worlds.
A. Juliet is a montague and Romeo is a capulet these civilizations aren’t at peace with each other and they say they will never be, working out their problems isn’t an option and didn’t plan on until Romeo and Juliet die.
B. In the story when they met and it was love at first sight so shakespeare wrote,
Romeo was 17 and Juliet was 14 and apparently age wasn’t in consideration back then.
C. There was absolutely no turning back they were madly and instantly in love but death was their way out. D. Romeo and Juliet were to die because they married without permission.
IV. To know what “Star-Crossed” means in this particular love story you have to realize that most people back in this era believed in astrology. A. Most thought that their lives intent was by the hour, day, month, and year of their birth and the stars that laid in the sky the night were born. B. Shakespeare didn’t share this belief with others and kept to
Romeo and Juliet are madly in love with each other and will go to any lengths to be together.
lent a hand to their own doom. The two lovers were fated to meet and die, but
The second difference is the way people talk in the old age and the new days. There is a huge difference in Romeo and Juliet and American teenagers on how they talk. In Romeo and Juliet, many people proceed to use numerous and plenty of words to present a very little bit. The language in Romeo and Juliet was poetic-type. In our time, teenagers get to the point when they are talking to their friends or other people. Teenage Americans don’t use poetic-type of language because we aren’t in the old medieval days. We even use slang and abbreviated words for us to talk
Because Romeo and Juliet knew each other for such a little amount of time, it’s likely that the feelings
The story began as it could be a fantasy. They seemed like the perfect couple. They were happily in love.
... truly in love, they would be inseparable and would not have left without exchanging information. The ending scene of them going their separate ways showed that what was experienced between them was romance, attraction, and lust—a one day stand—but not love. Love is just not as easy to walk away from, which is what they did in the end.
As time passes and they grow closer to each other they decide to get married by
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, a pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life.” (Shakespeare) Forbidden love and tragedy is evident in the prominent play of Romeo and Juliet, but this play differs from all the other works of William Shakespeare. The distinction between protagonist and antagonist characters in his other works are not as clear compared to the play of young lovebirds Romeo and Juliet. The two main characters are protagonist, while there are very few antagonist present. Individuals that could be considered antagonists in the play would be the two hating and feuding families: The Capulets and The Montague. Juliet was of the Capulet and Romeo was of the Montague. Because of the strong hatred between the two families,
known works, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. But is it so simple? How do these two compare,
Star-crossed love is a relationship that is said to be doomed, and will end tragically. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, that is exactly what happens. The story takes any reader or audience on a true journey of star-crossed love. There are many speculations on who and why certain characters in the story could have impacted the outcome of Romeo and Juliet’s love, however Friar Laurence, the nurse, and the two lovers themselves are the biggest reasons to the tragic ending of this story.
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In the prologue, the quote ‘ A pair of star crossed lovers take their life’ tells you they a...
Marriage in Shakespeare’s time mostly served as a union of two parties interested in acquiring property, money or political alliances. Few ever married for love.
that seems as if it was at first based on loving each other but over
Their love surpassed the hatred in which the families endured for generations. In the end, they both ended up killing themselves, for one could not live without the other. This story is a perfect example of true love.