Juliet is to blame for putting herself in this predicament of choosing between holding loyalty to her parents or Romeo. Juliet possesses red flags in the beginning and by masking them, she finds herself in this dilemma. She then matures while losing her logic and innocence thus, also losing her father and Nurse. Juliet matures too fast, causing problems that she did not even think of. Comparatively, imagine being married a couple days after meeting an individual and giving all loyalty to them. Moral compasses are needed to guide individuals into the right situations. In the end, individuals are left in situations that they allow themselves into. When it comes down to it, it is really just them, deciding.
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.
First and foremost, following Juliet's refusal of the marriage with Paris, her father tells her that she is “one too much and that “ {he has} a curse in having her”(III. V. 166-167). Juliet considers her father's reaction as a form of abandonment. This strengthens her isolation from her parents. Juliet is also affected by the nurse's advice to marry Paris and thinks “it is more sin to wish {her} thus forsworn” (III. V. 237). Juliet is hurt by the unsettling advice the nurse gives her at difficult circumstances. This causes Juliet to isolate herself from the nurse and does not confide in her anymore. Besides the nurse, Friar Laurence also betrays Juliet at a critical moment by saying that “stay is not to question, for the watch is coming…{and he} dare{s} no longer stay”(V. III. 158-159) and leaves her. This abandonment influences Juliet's isolation from the friar. Since the Friar is one of her most trusted advisors, this heavily impacts Juliet. The betrayal of her trusted friends results in Juliet’s isolation from them.
Juliet’s family, the Capulet’s wanted Juliet to marry a charming man named Paris. They thought that he was a very nice man but they wanted him to marry her when she was finally old enough to get married because she was only 13. After a while though her parents were really wanting her to marry Paris she wouldn’t marry him though and her dad had told her if she did not marry him he would disown her. “But, an you will not wed, I’ll pardon you. Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. Look to’t, think on’t; I do not use to jest. Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise: An you be mine. I’ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hand, beg, starve, die in the streets” (3.4 215-220). Second of all her parents and Romeo’s parents and family did not like each other at all, there was no way her parents would approve of her being married to Romeo. In the end her parents are a big part of her death because if they wouldn’t have wanted her and Paris marrying each other she could have just secretly been married to Romeo without them knowing, or pressuring her to marry another person.
Loyalty is usually considered an important quality for someone to have, but, as shown in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, loyalty can have some bad outcomes. Many of the characters in Romeo and Juliet are loyal to each other, particularly the servants of the Capulets and Montagues, Tybalt, and Romeo and Juliet themselves. Sometimes this loyalty can cause unwanted problems.
Juliet's parents’ were the ones to blame for Romeo & Juliet's deaths’. The reason being, that, Juliet's parents pushed Juliet into doing something against her will, which led to a chain of events causing suicide. Juliet's parents should have realized something was extremely wrong when Juliet, a 14 year old girl, didn’t wish to marry an 18 year old guy she didn’t like at all. Forcing Juliet to do this wasn’t right, or just at all, and they should have looked at things from her perspective and took her feelings into consideration. It is Juliet that’s going to end up with the guy forever.
Upon Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting, the Nurse fails to guide Juliet towards a good moral decision, instead she heeds Juliet’s requests, “And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’s cell Be shrived and married… This afternoon, sir? well, she shall be there” (2.4.86-91). The Nurse’s fixation with Juliet’s happiness hinders her role as an effective role model. Losing her common sense through this fixation directs her towards giving Juliet poor advice. Thus, the Nurse’s initial choice to bring Romeo and Juliet together results in several subsequent conflicts. Based on the support from the Nurse, Romeo and Juliet meet in secret to be wed so that they can be together and embrace their love for one another, “but come what sorrow can, It cannot counterveil the exchange of joy that one short minute gives me in her sight” (2.6.3-5) Due to a lack of moral grounding, Romeo and Juliet become too distracted by their love and therefore become very vulnerable. By giving Romeo and Juliet her approval, the Nurse greatly influences their decision to immediately be wed. The Nurse does not act morally and in this case does guide Romeo and Juliet towards the correct decision. Furthermore, lacking the guidance Romeo is need of from an adult, he meets Tybalt, Mercutio and Benvolio, which results in a major conflict: “Romeo, away, be gone!
William Shakespeare’s “King Lear”, the concept of justice a theme that many characters struggle with. Unforgiving justice results to serious punishments, in result of an individual’s immoral acts committed during the play. Furthermore, loyal is very hard to find among individuals in the play. It is shown to King Lear in both positive and negative perspectives. Loyalty plays off at the end of the play, when King Lear discovers who has been loyal to him all along. The greed of power is vividly shown in the Fool’s and King Leers point of view. After retiring his kingdom Lear discovers the loss of his power, and authority. Overall, justice, loyalty, and power are some struggling themes that progress the play,
The famous Romeo and Juliet, thinking that it could be a tragic love story that existed in the past, yet the Tomba di Giulietta is not true. William Shakespeare’s play is famous, but famous to the point where people speculate Juliet’s tomb is an actual tomb of Juliet because Verona is an actual city. If the tomb of Juliet is an actual burial of Juliet, then why would it be accessible to the public. The tomb of Juliet doesn’t seem right because someone could be actually profiting off of the tourist attraction, yet the evidence of Juliet’s tomb is too vague.
Love, loyalty, and death are each words with different meaning that work together to formulate theme. One theme in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is an obsession with loyalty leads to death. For family or for love, many of the main characters die or kill to stay loyal to the ones they care about. Once the star-crossed lovers are married, dependability becomes severely important. After the wedding, Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt because Romeo does not want to kill his new family member, but after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo seeks revenge. Wanting to stay loyal to her husband, Juliet refuses to marry the County Paris, but her enraged father will not let her. Juliet threatens her mortality to the Friar if she has to be disloyal
I believe these feelings transferred to the two families’ offspring, causing them to be born with a hatred for the opposing family. Due to this constant war between the families, Romeo and Juliet seem to have been trying to go against their respective parents, and be together, in what I believe, was an act of rebellion, something which is very common and occurs a lot still now. “Adolescent rebellion begins as a result of the desire for independence. It is a developmental norm. In fact, if you have the sneaking suspicion that teenage rebellion may be inevitable, you’re right! Pretty much every teenager will test the limits – and even cross the line – at one time or another.”
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the views of love held by the character Romeo contrast sharply with the views of Mercutio. Romeo's character seems to suffer from a type of manic depression. He is in love with his sadness, quickly enraptured and easily crushed again on a passionate roller coaster of emotion. Mercutio, by contrast is much more practical and level headed. His perceptions are clear and quick, characterized by precise thought and careful evaluation. Romeo, true to his character begins his appearance in the play by wallowing in his depression over Rosaline who does not return his love:
In the first scene of Act one there is the servants Sampson and Gregory talking about sexual love. As they both talk about taking girls virginity. They both sound arrogant as they talk as if it is through experience. To them the thoughts of taking a girl’s virginity seems a joking matter.
From the banishment of Kent and Cordelia till his death King Lear in William Shakespeare's play The Tragedy of King Lear is blind to the signs of loyalty. In the play, Lear has decided to step down from his throne and evenly distribute his kingdom to his three daughters : Goneril, Cordelia, and Regan. However, each of them must proclaim their love for him first, Goneril and Regan easily win Lear over by flattering and praising him. On the other hand Cordelia, Lear’s favorite, who truly loves him is left with a loss for words and he sees this lack of response as a sign of disrespect. His lack of judgment for her and others true loyalty leads to great torment throughout the development of the play. The recurring theme of loyalty in all aspects of the play is portrayed upon the characters of Kent, Cordelia and the Fool.
In Shakespeare's As You Like It loyalty is dominant theme. Each character possesses either a loyalty or disloyalty towards another. These disloyalties and loyalties are most apparent in the relationships of Celia and Rosalind, Celia and Duke Fredrick, Orlando and Rosalind, Adam and Orlando, and Oliver and Orlando. In these relationships, a conflict of loyalties causes characters to change homes, jobs, identities and families.
An obedient, loving daughter would follow everything her parents said and was not able to even think for herself. First, Juliet goes behind her parent’s backs and marries Romeo, displaying an immense amount of strength and bravery. Also, she had the guts to sneak Romeo into her bedroom so they could seal their marriage. While it was normal to consummate the marriage the night of the wedding, it was extremely risky what Juliet did because one, she went behind her parent’s backs and two, Romeo is her sworn enemy. This was Juliet’s first experience of adulthood and it was a huge step considering, unlike young males, she has never had any experience with adult activities or decisions (Kahn). Moreover, Juliet tells her father, Lord Capulet, that she will not marry Paris, “Not proud, but thankful that you have/ Proud can I never be of what I hate,/ But thankful even for hate that is meant love” (III.v.151-153). Given the circumstances, Juliet had to obey everything her father said and a large part of that was Lord Capulet arranging Juliet’s marriage. She decides her own marriage plans and also refuses the plans her father had for her. Throughout the play Juliet is either seen at the Capulet compound or at shrift, the traditional way a young girl would be raised, out of sight from the outside world. According to Hamilton, “She is either at home or at church, and she is subject to [Capulet’s] rule. But she keeps striving for some control.” Even in Juliet’s last few minutes of her life she continues to convey great strength and courage, unlike being the stereotypical “weaker vessel,” when she kills herself with a dagger, a much painful way to go (Kahn). All in all, Juliet does in fact take some control over her life because of her defiance of the teenage girl stereotype and she leans towards the brave, rebellious, and strong personality causing her