Exploring Contrasting Natures from Romeo and Juliet
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Shakespeare plays have fascinated audiences with their ability to seemingly portray the depth of the meanings and descriptions of each scene. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet was for many years the world’s best love story and influenced readers and writers from around the world. Understanding the contrasting natures is one of the most important themes in this play and underpins the plot. Love and hate, life and death, lastly, missions and reality will only increase every reader’s sense of curiosity. Shakespeare’s play is about two families that hate each other for no obvious reason. This fight has dragged on for a long time in Verona, Italy where the play is set. In Verona there are public disturbances between the two families, Capulets and Montagues. It became such a problem that the prince announces “I have an interest in your hate’s proceeding, / My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a bleeding;” (Romeo and Juliet 3:1: 186-87). The families’ feud creates a creepy and dismal atmosphere in Verona, and this leads the Prince to promulgate the rule with both families. Public disturbances will not happen again and if it does then they will take any fighter’s lives in front of those both families. As the reader may notice, the Capulets and the Montagues’ hatred and indignation grew as the feuds escalated. At the Capulet’s party, Tybalt does not accept Romeo being a part of the party saying “I will not endure him” (Romeo and Juliet, 1: 5: 76) and convinces Capulet to drive Romeo out of the room. Although, Capulet accepts Romeo to enjoy the party, “He shall be endured./ What, goodman boy! I say he shall. Go to!”(Romeo and Juliet, 1: 5: 77-78). However, at the end of the play both families finally realize that they have done something wr... ... middle of paper ... ...s when Friar supposed to follow rules that he should observe. Therefore, Friar Lawrence’s intention to solve the problem of the feuding families actually ended up in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Understanding the Romeo and Juliet’s contrasting natures, love and hate, life and death, at last but not least, missions and reality provides greater insight into how Shakespeare dominate the history of world’s literature culture and serve as a international icon for the past 500 years. If one of the two is missing, then the other one would not exist. Vivian, “There isn’t growing without battles; there isn’t light without darkness; there isn’t freedom without chains; there isn’t happiness without sorrow. That’s life, a bittersweet melody.” March 27, 2011, Comment. Works Cited Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet Ed. John Crowther. New York: Coles Note, 2003. Print.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how shakespeare plays have fascinated audiences with their ability to seemingly portray the depth of the meanings and descriptions of each scene. romeo and juliet was for many years the world's best love story and influenced readers and writers.
- Analyzes how shakespeare's play is about two families that hate each other for no obvious reason. the feud creates a creepy and dismal atmosphere in verona, and the prince promulgates the rule with both families.
- Explains that romeo and juliet's sacrifice deeply impacts verona. their deaths help to rebuild civil peace and love in this embattled society.
- Analyzes how shakespeare introduces many contrasting factors and compares them to our lives in romeo and juliet.
- Analyzes how friar lawrence, the head of the church, marries romeo and juliet for political purposes rather than religious reasons.
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- Analyzes how men in verona are violent, sexually dominant, and take priority in deciding what happens or doesn't happen. they choose violence as their first choice of solving their problems.
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- Analyzes how in act i scene v, romeo goes to the capulet's party in search of "his one true love" rosaline.
- Analyzes how romeo is forced to leave his friends, pulled away by the ravenous need for the love of the one he desires.
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- Analyzes how romeo is forced to find and kill tybalt out of love for his friend. many of the lives in this section were senselessly taken too early.
- Analyzes how the "star crossed lovers" encounter another problem: the family differences between the young lovers. juliet decides to smite her parents by pretending to die.
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- Explains that shakespeare wrote 38 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous other works totaling approximately 884,647 words and 118,406 lines. romeo and juliet are arguably the best of them.
- Analyzes how shakespeare flawlessly demonstrates a case of this controversial romance in this tragedy. romeo knew that juliet was the one and the night reveals his true feelings.
- Analyzes how romeo yearns for juliet's love because he thinks it can rebirth him. since the two families of the young lovers have been feuding for generations, their love is not permitted in the households.
- Analyzes how romeo climbs over into the capulet territory to meet his new sweetheart, juliet. the journey was rough, but he knew exactly where to go.
- Analyzes how romeo and juliet's secret meeting strengthens their love rather than weakened by the feud between their families.
- Narrates how juliet is impatient because she loves romeo so much and cannot wait until they are bound. the nurse acts as the messenger between the two and delivers the news about the marriage.
- Analyzes how juliet is of a lower social rank because of her attitude towards marriage and sexual desire. she begs romeo to marry her, but worries about their return to the capulet's.
- Explains that romeo and juliet's romantic connection is anything but simple. their feelings are expressed for each other in numerous ways throughout the limited time they spend together.
- Analyzes how juliet thinks the entire plan through and looks at all of her options. she discusses aloud all the uncertainties of the plan before she drinks the concoction that friar made for her.
- Analyzes juliet's maturity and character development through the show and how she not only grows with her relationship with romeo but develops as an individual.
- Analyzes how romeo defies the stars when he learns of juliet's death and decides to make his own plan of death, without knowing her true state.
- Analyzes how romeo's love is strong with juliet that he knows that someday they will return to each other.
- Analyzes how shakespeare's romeo & juliet is a cultural ideal that shapes our social understandings about what love should be like in modern times through movies, television shows, and books.
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