What? My journal entries on the book Romeo And Juliet focuses on many different topics. My entries include my general thoughts on the play, I included my thoughts of a character, and I compared the play to other things, like the movie version. But what I think my entries mostly focuses on, is my thoughts on the scenes. For example, in one of my entries, I talked about the scene when Paris is asking permission to marry Juliet. I like to focus on the scenes because I like expressing my feelings on what is happening in the play. I also like how I get to recap on what is happening in my own words, so that way I understand it better. What I learned from the characters from the journal is that the characters back then had different lives than from people now, because of the expectations back then. The expectations for people in modern time is really different from what the expectations would have been back then. I think that the expectations really shapes the characters because the expectations determine how they would act. For example, back then, the expectation for sex is to have it after you are married, but now people are not expected to do that, so they would be …show more content…
I feel like everything I put in this journal was really useful to me. I think the journal was useful in every single way because all of the information in the play would help in the assignment I do in class. I think that every information in the play has to be connected to society was like back then, and I feel like that is important for me to know. I would continue to write in a journal in the study of Macbeth and Hamlet in grades 11 and 12 because the journal could be really useful, in the same way, it was useful to keep a journal for Romeo and Juliet. I also have troubles understanding Romeo and Juliet, and I found having a journal was useful for understanding it more, and using a journal for that can help reading Hamlet and
Romeo and Juliet are committed to their love. There so committed that they got married the very next day they first met. The second time they met was on Juliet’s balcony by accident, because Romeo didn’t want to go home and he wanted to see Juliet again. They were talking for a few minutes and kissed each other many times, and Juliet said to Romeo, “If that thy bent of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow”(Act two, Scene two). Juliet tells Romeo if you you love me so much, the marry me tomorrow. Romeo without hesitation, agreed to marry Juliet the next day at the Church. Romeo and Juliet decide to marry at 9 o'clock in the morning. Later on, Romeo asks Faire ( a priest) to allow him and Juliet to marry. At
Did you know that Romeo and Juliet was one of the biggest love story of all time. Romeo and Juliet is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two families the Capulets and the Montagues. The Capulets and the Montague had a big fight that made the families very angry at each other. Romeo and Juliet decide to get married. The two couple marry and run away. In the process both of them will die. When it comes to Romeo and Juliet who are the top three people that caused the two to die. The two people that are chosen are Friar Lawrence and Lady Capulet. Friar was chosen because he is the one that married Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet was chosen because she is forcing Juliet to marry Paris which is making Juliet want Romeo even more. The third thing
Context has greatly influenced how Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in the 1500’s to how Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet was produced in 1996 by Baz Luhrmann with a more modern intention.
Who would be willing to die for their loved ones? Romeo and Juliet would and did. Romeo and Juliet’s love and death brought two families together who could not even remember the origin of their hate. When the parents saw what their children's love for each other, they realized that their fighting had only led to suffering and insoluble conflict. Romeo and Juliet loved each other to an extent that they killed themselves rather than live apart. They did it with no hiatus. Juliet says before she kills herself, “O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die.”( 5, 3, 182-183) demonstrating how she would rather die than not be with him.
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“O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name;” (Shakespeare, 536). In the book, ‘Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare there is a deeper meaning that Shakespeare is trying to portray other than parents cannot control their children’s hearts. He is trying to portray that a name is only a name and it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things and that even with a different name that person will still be the same person they have always been. Shakespeare is using the characters: Juliet, Romeo, Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the Nurse to get this message across to the reader or the viewer.
A character goes through many changes that depend on the kind of events they experience. The play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, uses different tones and language that shows the readers that Juliet, a Protagonist, changes over time, proving the idea that she is a dynamic character. At the beginning of the play, we are introduced to a young, innocent and inexperienced girl, Juliet the daughter of Lord Capulet . She has not yet seen the real world and is raised by the person she trusts most, her nurse. Juliet begins as a naive child who has thought little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family’s great enemy. Due to the fact that Juliet is a girl in an aristocratic family, she has none of the freedom Romeo has to rome around the city, climb over walls in the middle of the night, or get into swordfights. As we begin to learn more about the character of Juliet, we learn that Juliet is not the girl she used to be anymore. She is more courageous and willing to break the rules. She goes against her and her family beliefs. In the beginning of the play she obeys her parents. But as the play descends Juliet is disregarding of what her parents say. She is no longer the innocent girl she use to be. Shakespeare use of language helps the reader to see the change in a character that makes them a dynamic character.
William Shakespeare composed the tragedy Romeo and Juliet in the 16th century. This play vividly portrayed the banned love between the heirs of two families. Spoiler alert, Romeo and Juliet killed themselves in the end. Every person in Romeo and Juliet held responsibility for their death. Among all of the characters, Friar Lawrence and Capulet were major catalysts of the casualties. Let's not forget Romeo, the one that started it all.
When studying a play like Romeo and Juliet, it is easy to assume that it factually portrays the era in which it was made. A plethora of characters in the play such as Capulet, do in fact represent people of this era. However, when researching deeper into the context of the Elizabethan times, Romeo and Juliet, to little/no extent represents Juliet as an ordinary girl living in this period. Shakespeare has crafted Juliet through characterisation (speech and action) as a character that culturally and socially defies Gender roles, marries younger than the social normality and is not looked down upon after taking her life. These all rebel against how young women were seen and represented in the Elizabethan times.
Good intention will not always lead to a happy ending. When one thinks that they have made a good moral decision, the outcome may differ from the forethought. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, many characters thought they were helping the lovers but in fact, they were only assisting them in taking their own lives. Friar Lawrence’s good intention of marrying Romeo and Juliet led to the deaths of Mercutio, Paris, and Romeo and Juliet.
1. Romeo is so love struck that he compares Juliet to many things that show contrast to one another. For example he says that she stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring hanging against the cheek of an African. “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” He also says that she is like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows; “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.” At this point it clear that Romeo has fallen out of love with Rosaline and fell deeply in love with Juliet.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare introduces an immense amount of diverse characters, the Nurse and Friar Lawrence being two of many. Both these characters react to Romeo and Juliet’s situation out of the goodness of their hearts. For the Nurse, helping Romeo and Juliet meant that “her child” (in a sense since she raised Juliet since birth) would be happy and that’s all she could ever want. However, for Friar Lawrence, helping Romeo and Juliet with their marriage meant that he could help end the feud between both the Montague and Capulet families. Although, they both had good intentions, these goals could not be accomplished without the suffering of consequences. Furthermore, much controversy is seen throughout the play. Friar Lawrence and the Nurse both begin to contradict their original feelings towards helping Romeo and Juliet as they find themselves in difficult predicaments. Therefore, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse did not do the right thing as issues came about: the Nurse tells Juliet to marry Paris after hooking her and Romeo up, Friar marries Romeo and Juliet, and Friar leaves Juliet’s tomb when he hears trouble.
Of these, one of them is it’s use of suicide to influence the actions of it’s characters and how loss or the threat of loss can drive someone to end their lives. The second is it’s use of human recklessness to also drive the plot, and how recklessness almost never ends well for those involved, just look at Tybalt. The final one is it’s use of violence and revenge, the wish for vengeance on someone, like recklessness, can be horrible for everyone partaking in it; with Romeo this is when he gets revenge on Tybalt for killing Mercutio and he gets himself banished, one step closer to his grim fate. In conclusion, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet remains relevant to the modern day person through it’s use of themes about suicide, the recklessness of human beings, and our potentially vengeful
The classic play Romeo and Juliet by the famous playwright William Shakespeare is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time and has captured and inspired readers everywhere. Regardless of the fact that it was written in the 1500’s, it is still being performed and extolled today. There is a multitude of reasons for such continuance of the play. First of all, its everlasting themes of love and hate enable people to deeply relate to the story. Secondly, its memorable characters deeply imprint on the minds of readers. And lastly, above all, is its magnificent language which many writers today regard in awe. These three elements make the acclaimed play, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most timeless stories of our lives.
Shakespeare’s Juliet Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is very valuable in today’s culture. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet many people believe that Romeo is the star of the play, but in many ways, it is in fact Juliet; she speaks for herself, understands the consequences to her own actions, and is extremely intelligent given her age. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focuses on Juliet as the main character; she speaks for herself, understands the consequences to her own actions, and is extremely intelligent given her age.