William Shakespeare has made some marvelous characters over a long time period, from Midsummers Night Dream to Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare has adopted the idea of having some main character flaws so the audience would say “don’t do it” or “he’s over there” as if the main character doesn’t thoroughly look over the situation they are facing. These character flaws can be summed up in Juliet, these include loyalty to Romeo, defiance her parents and family, and gullible. Shakespeare uses all of these points to give his audience the edge on the love of the two star crossed lovers. One of Juliet’s major flaws is her loyalty to Romeo. This is a good flaw in the point that she can’t live without Romeo and could never love or marry again because she has known that he was her first love so she fakes her own death so that he will come back from Mantua, get her and they would live happy ever which of course is never the answer. So when Romeo gets the news that Juliet has died, he devises a plan to kill himself in the tomb of Juliet. Therefore after Romeo has killed himself, Juliet than wakes up to find …show more content…
Juliet is what I like to call gullible because she always thinks that everything will be just perfect and to plan, but as every bad plan goes it went bad. In Act IV Juliet thinks that the friar is a genius and sends many praises to him as she makes her way down town back to her house, but when she goes up stairs she isn’t to sure if the Friar tricked her and the potion is actually poison but frankly she doesn’t care and wants to be with Romeo no matter what and drinks it anyways. “What if it be a poison, which the friar; Subtly hath minister'd to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, Because he married me before to Romeo? I fear it is: and yet, methinks, it should not” (Romeo and Juliet 4) says Juliet just before she drinks the
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
Juliet strategizes her disastrous plan and worries, “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?” (Lines 30-32 of Act Four, Scene Three). Juliet is desperate to see Romeo, ergo she plans to fake her death. Her thoughts of Romeo finding her lifeless foreshadows their future. Romeo is deprived of the news of Juliet’s real state of health, therefore he says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. O mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!” (Lines 34-36 of Act Five, Scene One). Once again, Romeo’s perception is only focused on Juliet. His mental instability leads him to think Paris is in the way obtaining true happiness, thus he slays him. Romeo acquires poison, stands beside Juliet, and states, “Here’s to my love! (Drinks.) O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Lines 119-120 of Act Five, Scene Three). Romeo observes Juliet’s body and determines that he should die beside her. Juliet wakes to his lifeless body, and determines she should commit suicide, as well. Romeo’s foolish decisions lead to the death of himself and
The lack of communication between the young couple killed them. Romeo’s reaction to seeing juliet dead (not actually dead) was to kill himself. “Oh my love! My wife, death that hath sucked” (3.5.141-142) If Romeo and Juliet planned out the rescue of Juliet's body more thoroughly, Romeo would not have killed himself.
Romeo was gone, her parents, and the nurse. She had lost four people and the Friar is the only person for her to turn to. So Juliet of course, takes the Friars advice and does what he tells her to do. The Friar then proceeds tells Juliet obtuse scenarios for her to do. He comes to the judgment, while being impulsive, that the only solution is for Juliet to fake her death by drinking a sleeping potion. The Friar clearly stated, “A sleeping potion, which so took effect as I intended, for it wrought on her the form of death” (Crowther). With Juliet having no one to turn to, she takes the Friar’s advice and does what he says to do. These examples of unfavorable adult interference affected Juliet and made her do the things that she did. If the adults in her life would have thought things out more clearly and did what was right for Juliet and not themselves, things would have turned out differently for both Juliet and
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.
with Romeo's impetuous nature. In conclusion, we can see that the characters each have their own view. of love based on their own personal circumstances. And Shakespeare attempts to show his views through all of them. The point that
Albert Camus points out that for some people, it is easier for them to take their own life, than it is to continue living an empty one. This is the case for the star-crossed lovers, Romeo, and Juliet, in William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet. Although there were multiple contributing factors to the suicides of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence is directly responsible for their deaths. He is responsible because he trusted someone other than himself to deliver the letter to Romeo, he gave Juliet the potion, and left when Romeo and Juliet were in danger at the tomb.
Therefore, he does not take the time to further analyze the situation. He notices that she does not in fact look dead, a significant observation that would’ve stopped him from hastily killing himself, had he not let his sadness take over his reason. Had he not taken his own life so soon, he would have seen Juliet wake up and her plan would have worked. However, Romeo does not wait, he drinks the poison. Juliet, of course, wakes up and sees his dead body, killing herself as a result. Romeo’s impulsiveness and lack of emotional stability ruined his chance of a happy life with Juliet. This decision caused both of their deaths, therefore provoking much of the misfortune in the
How many times have we ever experienced death in our lives? None. That’s probably because we’re still alive. But, many of those who aren’t, probably had a reason why they aren’t with us today. In many cases, it can be said that our fatal flaws are the ones that are responsible for our demise. Whoever we are, we will always be people who have great flaws. That’s at least what most people know for themselves. However, are we really aware if whether these flaws will possibly dictate throughout their entire lives? In the late 1500’s, William Shakespeare wrote a magnificent play, Romeo and Juliet, which many audiences would consider it as a Love and Death story. Well, not
In the play Romeo and Juliet, I was amused by the character of Romeo the most. In the very beginning of this play he is depressed over his break up with a character known as Rosaline. Rosaline does not feel the same way about Romeo as he feels about her, which eventually makes her leave him heart broken.
Through the flaws in the characterization of his characters, Shakespeare allows their weakness to manipulate and cloud their judgment. This fundamentally leads to the outcome of Romeo and Juliet, with each weakness presenting a conflict that alters the characters fate. Being especially true with the star-crossed lovers, William Shakespeare leads their perfect love into tragedy with these conflicts. In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt all contribute to conflicts that enhance the plot. From destructive flaws in their characterizations, Juliet, Friar Lawrence, and Tybalt are all consequently controlled by their weakness, therefore affecting the outcome of the play.
“We met, we woo'd and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us to-day.” (Shakespeare II.III. 60). Romeo’s impulsiveness is clearly shown through this quote that he states. The reason for Romeo’s impulsiveness is because he just recently met Juliet and he decides to marry her very quickly. Also this quote reveals to the audience Romeo’s hamartia. Since he is too quick and rash it will inevitably lead him to his fatal death; and through this quote you could see where Romeo went wrong and how it will greatly affect him. Furthermore Romeo leads the audience to believe that he is just infatuated by Juliet’s looks; due to the fact he was strongly in love with Rosaline and then all of sudden falls in love with Juliet and forgets about Rosaline which he claimed to be his one and only love. “Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”(II.III.65). This quote that Friar Lawrence states planted into the readers mind that Romeo might not be truly in love but rather infatuated. This tragic play takes place in fair Verona where a quarrel between two families takes place due to an ancient grudge. Both families, Montague and Capulet hate each other with a great passion. Two lovers named Romeo and Juliet are both from the two opposing families and they love and marry each other in secret without their families knowing. Because of their impulsiveness and rash decisions it causes them to lead themselves to die a tragic death. Foil characters aid to heighten or highlight an attribute in another character which furthers the plot. Romeo is heightened and influenced by secondary characters that eventually brings out his hamartia, peripeteia, and anagnorisis. These chara...
When Romeo found out that Juliet was dead, he immediately without any forethought fled to Verona so that he could be with Juliet. This is shown in the book when Romeo says, “ Thou know’st my lodging. Get me ink and paper,and hire post horses. I will hence tonight.” This leads to him going to Verona and meeting Juliet. There he commits suicide since his motivation was to be with Juliet forever. This is shown in the play when its shows Romeo drinking the poison and saying, “Oh, that pharmacist was honest! His drugs work quickly. So I die with a kiss.” As a result, his rash decision marked the end of his own life. Hence, this shows that Romeo’s impulsive behavior not only took his own life but also Juliet’s life, who could not live without Romeo, and drank the
In the Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare proposes a major theme to whether it was fate or flaw that killed Romeo and his lover Juliet. Fate is defined as the development of events beyond a person's control while flaw is defined as a fault or weakness in a person's character. The answer to whether fate or flaw killed the two lovers is quite simple. Fate is what killed Romeo and Juliet. Flaws are something that are in you and you develop. Just as the flaw that Romeo would act out on impulse than rather thinking it out. If he was to actually sit back and think about what he was going to do next, a lot in the play could have been different. But personality is something you make; you develop. But fate, is something that is already
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.