Literary Analysis of Romeo and Juliet
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the title characters didn’t just happen to fall in love and everything that occurred after that point was pre-determined for them. They made several choices that demonstrated free will throughout the story that made them responsible for the final outcome. The first decision was after they had met and matters were complicated because they were from separate houses. They still continued to pursue a future with each other. A second example was when Juliet decided to take the potion and deceive her parents to run off with Romeo. The third choice was when Romeo and Juliet both took their own lives as opposed to living without each other. It was the decisions that Romeo and Juliet made, not fate, that led to their marriage, Romeo’s banishment, and ultimately, their early death.
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Midway through Scene V of Act I shortly after Romeo met Juliet, the nurse interrupts their meeting and tells Juliet that, “Your mother craves a word with you.” When Romeo asks, “What is her mother?” she responds, “Her mother is the lady of the house (Capulet).” Though Romeo now knows that Juliet is a Capulet, a member of the rival house, he still continues to pursue a future with her as shown in the beginning of Scene I of Act II. In this scene, Romeo goes to the Capulet’s yard to see Juliet even though he is fully aware that their romance is doomed from the start because of their house name. Contrary to when they fell in love earlier, Romeo sneaking into the Capulet’s house was his own decision and was not determined by fate. This critical choice sets up the events for the rest of the
Poor choices can cause tragic outcomes. Fate, on the other hand, is beyond someone's control. Many people believe that regardless of their actions, fate and destiny determine the outcome of their lives. However, in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the outcome of Romeo and Juliet's lives were controlled by the choices that they made. Although the deaths of Romeo and Juliet were mentioned in the prologue of the story as star-crossed lovers, the tragic ending of the couple was determined by their free will as a result of unwise decisions.
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
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.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, all the choices made by the star crossed lovers have consequences. The two lovers blame fate for their misfortune. They refuse to believe that fate does not determine the end result, only that they can do that. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is presented with a plethora of choices. The audience is introduced to Romeo as he sulks over his lover Rosaline.
The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare tells the story of two very young lovers who die. It just appears that fate controlled the outcome of the story. But if you really study and interpret the story you will realize it is a series of a few simple coincidences, which made the outcome so tragic.
“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.
Many people think that society has changed so much over the years. That the way that children act, has taken a turn for the worst, but in reality children are learning from their ancestors. Children are lying to their parents, they are sneaking out at night to be with a boy that is “the one”, children are going back into the age of Shakespeare. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” which was written by William Shakespeare in 1597, there are two teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love with each other. These two teenagers try to do everything that they can to live the rest of their lives together, except their families despise each other, so there is no way that they can live the rest of their lives together. So, many people believe that the way that our children are growing up today is taking away the fun parts of their childhood. However in this play Juliet did many of the things that teenagers are trying to do now. Children and sometimes adults now need to realize how your actions not only affect you but also the people around you, you also need to think about the consequences of the actions you make. At first Juliet falls in love at first sight with Romeo, then she takes a potion, which causes her family to think she is dead, and then how Friar Lawrence helps Juliet with the scheming, which shows how adults have to think about others as well.
Although evidence points to bad choices causing the tragedy of Romeo and Juliets’ deaths, destiny could have played a part. A servant asked Romeo to read him a list which eventually lead to him being at the Capulet party and falling in love with Juliet (Shakespeare 385). Had he not been asked to read the guest list, their entire relationship would’ve never happened; they wouldn’t have died. Even though there are several points where it seems destiny and fate control the lovers, it was their foolish decisions that lead to their
However, some may believe that Romeo and Juliet were destined to love, then die. With their families hating each other, and Juliet being engaged to another, they were already destined for a tragic end. To make the situation worse, Romeo and Juliet were children so they had no control over the decisions of adults. Romeo and Juliet's meeting itself was due to an adult, Capulet. During the Capulet party, Capulet decides to leave Romeo “Alone” (I, v, 74) which eventually causes the first meeting of Romeo and Juliet. Capulet, an external force that unknowingly shoves Romeo onto the path of meeting Juliet is defined as fate. Another instance where Romeo and Juliet had no control over the situation was with the letter that Friar John was to deliver to Romeo. Due to the “infectious pestilence” (V, ii, 10) ) Friar John “could not send” (V, ii, 14) the letter. Since the letter was never sent, Romeo had actually thought that Juliet was dead. Although, these outside factors did have an influence on Romeo and Juliet they are minuscule compared to the actions Romeo and Juliet took to choose their own path. Falling in love, getting married, and killing themselves were choices that Romeo and Juliet made. Those choices affected them far more over the choices of
In the story of romeo and juliet's roller coaster of love, free will plays a huge part in the story, making their fate change every second. As they say, there are always consequences whether in life or romeo and juliett. In the story, romeo and juliett consequently met at the party but there free will to love each other and all the choices they made ultimately led to their death. The only fate is what we make, the world is broad and wide like said in the book, meaning many choices need to be made. Actions are the seed that plants your destiny, there is now way our life is just laid out in front of us. For example, Bill gates, on of the most richest men in the world was a high school drop out, but his choice to turn his life around made him
What makes a piece of literature relevant or irrelevant to a society? There have been many debates on the relevance about particular pieces of literature, especially old literature, in the modern day. Their relevance can be judged by how they address issues happening in society when they were written compared to those same issues today. It can also be judged on whether the themes present can apply to the modern day. And even if a story portrays issues that are either resolved or irrelevant today it can still have value on how it portrays human nature The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a relevant work for a person in modern times due to its themes on suicide, human recklessness, and violence and revenge.
There is in it a power of energy, a singleness of reason, an entireness, a fulfillment of
Lady Capulet, Juliet’s own mother was part of the star-crossed lover’s death. Lady Capulet has her hands full with Juliet. Lady Capulet does not make an effort to reach out her daughter now that she’s of an age to be married. But it’s obvious that Juliet’s closest bond is with the Nurse; Lady Capulet never even comes close to challenging that. As a result, Juliet's mother wasn’t supportive when Juliet needed her the most. Just when Juliet needs her mom’s support, Lady Capulet coldly ignores her daughter pleas to help her avoid marrying Paris. After Lord Capulet storms out, Juliet turns to her mother to soften her father’s punishment. Juliet begs her mom to delay the marriage. Lady Capulet responds, “Talk not to me, for I’ll not say a word… Do as thou wilt, for i have done with thee,” (3.5.214-215). It seems very likely that Lady Capulet herself had an arranged marriage with Juliet’s father, and it seems she went along with it obediently. Juliet did not have her mother’s support. Additionally, Juliet had fallen in love with Romeo and the two decided to get married. Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother, was unaware of the secret marriage and also encouraged the feud between the Capulet’s and Montague’s, creating more tension in Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage. Lady Capulet is pushing Juliet to marry Paris even though Juliet insists that she does not want to marry him. Alternatively of Lady Capulet listening to Juliet reason
In the play, Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, free will is more dominant than fate in the outcome of the play and is shown by Juliet’s actions, Romeo’s actions, and the actions of others. Free will is shown first through Juliet’s actions, most notably, when she is supposed to marry Paris, she drinks the potion to put herself in a coma and, when she chooses to kill herself. According to fate, Juliet was supposed to marry the county of Paris. “Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn/ The gallant, young, and noble gentleman/
In regards to Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare chose fate to be a strong underlying theme which constructs the basis of the story line. Fate has the ability to control the characters’ lives and one minor change in the way it had acted would have changed the entire outcome. Through Romeo and Juliet’s spontaneous encounter, fate was largely responsible for love at first sight alongside controlling the misfortunate events that occur as a result of their love. Apart from love and misfortune, Shakespeare suggests that Romeo and Juliet were destined to die the way they did, despite the fact that it was their choice to end their lives. The outcome of the play was a direct result of fate, which to a notable extent was responsible for the many events which were destined to occur.