Throughout all of time, the discussion of good and evil has embedded itself within human society. Through careful observation, one may witness both horrors and blessings scattered throughout the world. As many came to view it, no individual or one thing on the earth is entirely benevolent or entirely malevolent. In the drama “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, many characters can reflect onto our current world today. Enter Romeo, who is a very double-edged character. The balance of good and evil is easily reflected by how his personality was written.
In the state of the current world, people have developed a taste for balancing the intent of their own actions. For example, the ability to lie to one another. Morally speaking, the entire concept of bending the truth comes at a cost; risk the backlash of being caught creating a false tale in exchange for self benefit. In some situations one may lie to cover a horrific truth, switching previous
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Enter Romeo, a young boy who has fallen deeply in love with Juliet. Romeo met Juliet only because he decided to crash a Capulet party. He then fell in love, balancing a bad act for a good outcome. Love itself is a very powerful emotion. The two find themselves being mocked by the world, as after they meet, they realize their love is forbidden, throwing more fuel onto a malicious fire. Romeo, the more outspoken of the pair, finds himself disobeying his family’s hatred for the Capulets to meet with and talk to his love. This is the first dilemma of the drama. Within Romeo lies an innocence that becomes tainted as his positive love develops. For instance, the killing of Tybalt. Although Romeo kills Tybalt in revenge for Mercutio’s death, Romeo knows Tybalt is Juliet’s dearest cousin. Though Romeo may be in love with Juliet, his positive feelings for her fan out into rage and anger towards
... off.”(“Love’s Bond”, Robert Nozick) If that is true when loving someone, Romeo evidently made the wrong decision to kill Tybalt. By fulfilling this revenge, Romeo not only caused Juliet to be upset, but he also placed a burden on himself: an imprudent decision. After analyzing Romeo’s careless approach to risking to lose Juliet’s love, it becomes clear that Romeo’s love for Juliet is not a real romantic love, but it is a hormone-driven, passionate, hasty love that is portrayed as ruinous and preposterous by Shakespeare through Romeo’s actions.
Romeo and Juliet is a story of two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. They could never have imagined that their love would lead to the tragedies that befell them. These two young people had done nothing wrong, unless it is wrong to fall in love with a person whose family is feuding with one’s own. Three aspects of the destruction of Romeo and his lovely Juliet included: the feud between the two families, the nurse and her betrayal of Juliet, and the most important aspect of all, fate.
In the tragedy 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare presents the inner struggles of Romeo and Juliet, the two protagonists as one of the main themes. This is clearly shown at the end of Act 3 Scene 2 when Juliet receives the news that Romeo has been banished and Tybalt has been killed. Juliet is distraught at the conflict of her loyalties. Should she express love for her family or should she express love for Romeo? By using many different language features, such as oxymorons, paradox, antithesis and dramatic irony, Shakespeare effectively displays Juliet's conflicting emotions. Later in the play, Shakespeare uses the betrayal by adults to again show the inner struggles of Romeo and Juliet.
“For never was a story of more woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (V.III.309-310). Love and hate has a major part in the play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, as the Montagues and Capulets hate for each other makes Romeo and Juliet’s love only stronger while causing the families to lose loved ones over nothing. For example, Romeo falling out of love then back into love with Juliet changes the two families’ relationship into one unlike any other. While Tybalt seeing Romeo at the Capulet Ball creates a violent uproar leading to two deaths; as he has to hold in his anger because Capulet does not want his Ball ruined. Just as important is how when the two families’ hate starts getting stronger, Romeo and Juliet only become more and more inseparable and are willing to do whatever is necessary so they can be together forever.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young lovers fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are here so very large. It is not simply that the families of Romeo and Juliet disapprove of the lovers’ affection for each other; rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides in a blood feud and are trying to kill each other on the streets of Verona. Every time a member of one of the two families dies in a fight, his relatives demand the blood of his killer.
Juliet’s love for and devotion to Romeo causes her to pursue her love, be committed to the marriage, and to be a faithful wife to Romeo. In the story, Capulet was hosting a party. The party hosted for Capulet’s family and his friends. Capulet’s servant unknowing mistakenly invited Romeo, who was a family enemy. Romeo, at the party runs into Juliet. Even though they are family enemies, they fall in love instantly with each other during discussion. As the story goes on, their love turns to be not infatuation, but true love. After they marry, a labyrinth of problems escalates. Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment add to their problems.
William Shakespeare is arguably one of history’s most celebrated playwrights and poets due to the contrasting themes in his works and Romeo and Juliet is no exception. Shakespeare has used his work as a conduit to explore greater ideas. Verona itself is a city of tradition, but a modern interpretation shows that the expectations on each character create an air of repression and strict conformity to order. The fire of Romeo and Juliet’s passionate love directly defies the values and expectations set by this society and it is this rebellion which propels them ever closer to the tragic conclusion of the play.
“The Tragedy Romeo and Juliet” torn apart from their parents as they despise each other. Problems faithfully got worse throughout the entire acts. Romeo and Juliet were secretly married. Romeo's friend Mercutio is annihilated, by tybalt, causing romeo to feel anger and kill tybalt for his murder. Romeo is banned from verona, this problem causes juliet and romeo to make big mistakes. As a consequence, this causes their deaths.
In Act I of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates different forms of love that characters face. From the beginning, Romeo struggles to find true love and what love really is. As for Juliet, she also struggles on what love is, but also finding her own voice. And when finally finding true love they discover that they have fallen in love their own enemy. They both realize that the idea of love can be amazing, but also a painful experience. Shakespeare demonstrates love versus evil and the forms love takes that is acknowledged as an universal issue that connects different types of audiences. Audiences are captured by relating on love and the emotions that are displayed. From Romeo and Rosaline’s unrequited love, Paris and Juliet’s false love, and Romeo and Juliet’s ill-fated love, create the forms of love that establishes love as a leading theme in Act I.
In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare introduces two lovers that are drawn to each other immediately. Although he demonstrates that Romeo and Juliet are not the only influences of their problems, their actions and decisions also contribute to their predicaments’. These complications arise from the feud created from generations before as their families aren’t speaking. Also, the fate and foreshadowing carried out through play. But additionally, as these two young adults are inexperienced and think quickly about their actions.
Romeo’s brash and sudden actions are a key player in the downfall of his and Juliet’s relationship. His impatience causes a relationship that is “...too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (2.2.125). His changeability is quite recurring throughout the play, and in this example he quickly falls out of love with Rosaline and in love with Juliet, only over the course of a few hours. Romeo’s devotion to Juliet seems to many viewers as an admirable trait, but ultimately this leads to his destruction. His actions overrun his thoughts, and his first reaction upon hearing of Juliet’s death was to “lie with thee tonight” (5.1.37). His brash and sudden actions take control of him, out of love for Juliet. He does not care to think about the future he could have had in front of him, but instead thinks only for a future with his wife. Romeo’s faults are crucial to the progress, and downfall, of their fated
“Is she a Capulet? O dear account! my life is my foe’s debt” (1.5.117-118). There are many factors that put pressure on Romeo’s and Juliet’s relationship throughout Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The young couple is effected in many ways by every instance that creates stress which Romeo’s and Juliet’s relationship is being forced to carry. The biggest factors that impact them are, their families ongoing feud, the broken relationships they both have in their families, and all the instances of miscommunication. Through the story of the couple who meet one another at a dance, sneak around at night to see one another, and fight for eachother, they face challenges many challenges, that add stress to their relationship.
Romeo has a passion for love that is unbreakable, and he will do anything to get who he wants, no matter the consequences that might follow. An example of this is when Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love for her, but what he does not understand is that “if they do see thee, they will murder thee” (Shakespeare II.ii.75). Romeo has trouble accepting the reality that it will not work out for him or her because of family differences. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing.
Love is one of the main themes throughout William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. We see how affection grows between the two tenagers, and how their lives unfold after they have found each other. Love is a double-edge sword, a force that can drive affection and hope, but it also can drive hate, rivalry, violence and death. On this paper, I want to approach the different sides of love portrayed in the play, and how it affects the outcome at the end of the story.
A critical uncertainty when discussing duality within literature is whether mankind is wholly good, wholly evil, or a balance of the two. In Romeo and Juliet,