The purpose of this essay is so that our class understands the play of Romeo and Juliet, what it was like back in Shakespeare time and what hate between two families could do to two lovers. It also makes us understand more about Shakespeare, and that some of his plays he wrote were about romance. So to me, I think Shakespeare had a passion for love. The final scene in Romeo and Juliet is where Juliet is laying in the chapel, waiting for Romeo. She is there because Romeo had to go away after murdering Tybalt, and she took a sleeping potion so everyone thinks she was dead so she hasn’t got to marry Paris, but actually she isn’t dead, the plan was that Friar Lawrence sent Romeo a letter, and explain what was happening, Romeo would have gone to the chapel to get Juliet, and they would of ran away together and they would be happy with no one questioning them. The other characters who are in the graveyard at the start of the scene are Romeos servant Balthasar and Paris.
Balthasar has come to the graveyard with Romeo. He has brought with him a torch, a mattock and a crow of iron; He has also got a purse of money and a letter for his father. Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so basically he has gone to see for his self. Romeo has come to get the ring from her dead finger and to join her in death. The two things that Romeo gives to Balthasar is a purse of money to show his gratitude for their friendship and a letter for him to give to his father. He then said to Balthasar ‘I will tear thee joint by joint, and strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs’. So Balthasar doesn’t leave, Romeo will beat him up. Before Romeo breaks into the Capulet’s tomb, Paris challenges him. Romeo asks Paris to ‘stay not be gone; live, and hear after say, a madma...
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... the language of love, where in the final scene of the play the language of death is used to set the stage for their suicides, pulling together the tragic ending of the play. Throughout the second scene of Act 2, Romeo uses beautiful metaphors and similes to express his affection for Juliet:
‘O, Speak again bright angel, for thou art’
‘As glorious to this night, being o’er my head’
‘As I a winged messenger of heaven’
This passage is used to compare Juliet to an angel, something that is universally held as sacred and lovely.
In this play of Romeo and Juliet there are several themes. One theme deals with ‘eye love’ versus ‘heart love’. Eye love is loving someone at first sight because of their personal appearances. Heart loving is loving someone for who they are, no matter what their appearance is. Another theme of this play is fate and it hands in their lives.
...se he believes Juliet to dead, drinks poison to take his own life as a last resort. What Romeo is unaware of is that Juliet is very much alive, so it is very ironic when he says, “Death, that has sucked the honey of thy breath,/ Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:/ Thou art not conquered; beauty’s ensign yet/ Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,/ And death’s pale flag is not advanced there” (V iii 101-105). This is fate in the works in the play. When Juliet sees that her love has not rescued her and rather is dead, she kills herself with a dagger found in the proximity. “O happy dagger/ This is thy sheath; there rust and let me die” (V iii 182-183).
The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet Was it just one person’s fault, or a mixture? In this essay, I will include many different reasons as to why Romeo and Juliet die. I will explain in detail each point and put forward my own opinions. I will use quotes to back up each point and explain why the historical context is relevant.
Next, we begin to summarize Juliet’s secretive personal life through her eyes. Within her eyes are place two hearts: one fully intact and the other broken apart. The symbolism behind the two simple drawings stands for love and loss. Love and loss seem to be a constant theme throughout Shakespeare’s tragic romance. Perhaps due to being written in the Elizabethan era, where death and suffering were enjoyable to audiences. During the play, Juliet falls in love with her husband and loses many such as Mercutio, Tybalt and in the end, even her beloved Romeo. “O serpent heart hid with ...
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 the course of the play, Romeo and Juliet immediately fall in love. Also, they know they are meant for each other and therefore decide to get married. After this marriage, there was a brief moment in time where everything was perfect. They are married, in love and there is nothing stopping them from being together. This however quickly changes after a fight that leads to death. Once Romeo is banished from Verona for the penalty of murder, love grows tremendously between the couple and drives the need to be together. The marriage between Romeo and Juliet is hidden from their parents, so Montague decides to arrange a marriage between her and Paris. With all the conflict arising between Juliet’s family, Friar Lawrence creates a plan that unfortunately does not succeed. His plan for Juliet is to tell her father she will marry Paris then go to bed with no one, not even the nurse. After, she will drink a potion to make her seem dead for forty two hours and then have a messenger tell Romeo about it. He will have her put in a vault to wait for Friar to bring her out so she and Romeo can elope. The plan was perfect until tragedy occurs, Benvolio had seen Juliet dead and immediately tells Romeo about it. The result is Romeo and Juliet murdering themselves and the play had a tragic ending. Overall, young, innocent lovers die, through no fault of their own but a simple mistake. “How oft when men are at the
Romeo’s language in Act V scene III is one of the main factors as to why we feel so much sympathy for the two lovers: “Do not interrupt me in my course”, from Romeo’s emotive language we feel sorry for him as we are made aware of his determination to resign to fate and end his own life. “Why I descend into this bed of death...
Applebee, Arthur N. Romeo and Juliet. The Language of Literature. Evanston, IL: McDougai Littel, 2002. 990-1102. Print
Although true love is a dominant theme in both plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, there are differences in the way that true love is developed in both of them and the changes it makes in the personality of the lovers. In Romeo and Juliet love between the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, is more passionate and romantic, springing up at first sight between them. Love controls and changes both of them completely, turning them to more simple and pure; it affects their language that turns to be really the language of their heart. Romeo becomes a lover poet, expressing his love to Juliet by comparing her to the sun, "Juliet is the sun" (2.2.3) and to stars, describing here as an angel and a messenger of heaven, "o, speak again, bright angel, for though art/ As is winged messenger of heaven" (2.2.26-28). The language that the both lovers use is an important instrument to show and to express their love. The change in Juliet's behavior is noticeable. Whereas she used to obey the authority of her nurse, she now defies authority. This is a sure sign of her emerging independence, and is a crucial factor in understanding her decision to marry Romeo and defy her parents.
Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. Language of Literature. Ed. Arthur N. Applebee. Evanston: McDougal Littell, 2002. Print.
Romeo and Juliet’s young love reflects their abruptness, rashness, and lack of maturity which leads to them getting suicide impulses throughout the story and causing Romeo and Juliet to ultimately suicide at the end of the story. Their love causes them to act very rashly and make unwise decisions, such as getting married and killing themselves. They are also too young to love because they are not mature enough. Their lack of maturity influences their decisions, leading to them finding abrupt solutions, such as suicide. After Balthasar told Romeo that Juliet died, he proclaimed, “I do beseech you, sir, have patience/Your looks are pale and wild do import/ Some misadventure” (5.1.27-29). Once Balthasar delivers the tragic news of Juliet’s death to Romeo, Romeo makes a rash decision of going back to Verona, not thinking about the consequences of his act, which would lead to more complications, such as him being...
One of the main catalysts in Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' is powerful, uncontrollable emotions; love, hate, wrath, infatuation, and outrage are all apparent in the play and have a direct impact on the tragic events that unfold. In act one, scene two, the strongest emotions conveyed are those of despair, love and sincerity. Shakespeare uses imagery, figurative language and powerful vocabulary to convey these emotions to the audience.
Applebee, Arthur N. Romeo and Juliet. The Language of Literature. Evanston, IL : McDougal Littell, 2002. 990-1102. Print.
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young lad named Romeo who has fallen in love with Lady Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a long-lasting family feud. The play ends in the death of both these characters and the reunion of the friendship between the families. Romeo is in love with Juliet, and this is a true, passionate love (unlike the love Paris has for her or the love Romeo had for Rosaline) that nothing can overcome, not even the hatred between their two families that is the reason for the death of their two children. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of both true love and false love and hatred. Without either of these themes, the play would loose its romantic touch and probably would not be as famous as it is today.
In scene five, act three, Romeo was finding his way into the tomb where Juliet’s supposed dead body was resting. When Romeo found Juliet’s dead body, he brought out his poison and exclaimed that “Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 120), and followed to drink the poison, killing himself. In this passage, Shakespeare explains how Romeo dies, using diction to make the scene romantic. “Thus with a kiss I die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 120), can be seen as as a romantic way to die, but it was Romeo’s choice to drink the poison, which ended his life. Furthermore, this decision also resulted in Juliet’s death, shortly after. This passage explains Romeo’s foolishness because instead of killing himself on the spot, he could have waited. Although he would not expect for Juliet to wake up, simply waiting for others to arrive at the tomb to mourn with would have wasted enough time for Juliet to wake up. After some time passed, Juliet woke up from the effects of the potion she drank. When Juliet woke up from her fake coma, she found Romeo dead next to him. She took his dagger and exclaimed “O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die,” (Shakespeare 5. 3. 174-175), and of course, she died shortly after stabbing herself. Shakespeare included
Juliet and Romeo’s constant remarks of committing suicide if they cannot be together shows the love between the characters. To them death is better than not being together. I believe that Juliet faking her death and being put in the tomb is foreshadowing to future events. The plan involves Juliet dying, even though she is not actually dead, and being put in a tomb, this tomb will eventually be the site of her actual death. Romeo hearing that Juliet is dead buys poison to kill himself, this adds drama and tension because we as the viewers know that Juliet is not actually dead. Once reaching the tomb, Romeo kills Paris, which I believe shows Romeo’s feeling that is that he is really set on killing himself and doesn’t really care that he killed Paris because he knows that he will soon be dead. Romeo killing himself is in a way dramatic irony, because he killed himself because Juliet is dead but we know she is not actually dead. Drama is heavily shown as Juliet wakes up and kills herself because Romeo is dead, showing they followed through with their statements. Since both main characters are dead the story is wrapped up. Knowing of the couple's secret marriages, the families finally stop fighting after seeing the death toll it has