Growing up in a Christian home, I have learned from a young age which values are important in an external perspective. Fame, success, and material items aren’t as important as love, family, and friendship. We are told, “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Eastern Standard Version, Matt. 6.19-21). This is important to live by and helps determine where our values should lie.My childhood is what leads me to say that circumstances shouldn’t affect values; however, in some cases they still do. If we live according to the Bible and how God calls us, …show more content…
Benvolio in Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (Rom.) is an ideal example of how circumstances do not change values. Throughout the play, one sees how Benvolio keeps his value of peace in every situation. Two street fights occur in the tragedy; yet, he tries to maintain peace by encouraging both sides not to fight (Rom. 1.1.65-70, 3.1.51-54). He doesn’t change his value of peace based on the circumstance. Benvolio is a Montague which to most people would mean he would fight for the Montague's family, but he stands strong and let’s his value control him, not other people. People get into the trap of doing something because the people around them are doing it, but Benvolio shows how you can support those who you care about while staying firm in what you believe.This is why Benvolio is the perfect example of why circumstances shouldn’t affect values. With God, one has the power and strength to stay strong in one’s beliefs in every situation (ESV, Phil. 4.13, Luke 1.37, Matt. 19.26). Though there are temptations and struggles, one shouldn’t let circumstances affect values (ESV, Jas. 1.2-4, Rom.
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 one of Shakespeare’s most masterful pieces, he depicts a tragic love story in which love conquers all…but at what cost? The truth is in this play, love is the victor, but with horrible consequences. Love lives on, love survives, but only at the loss of life. Not only in this play, but in many other Shakespearean works, the constant theme stands that any kind of marriage or deep emotional bond which is solely based on love ends tragically. Othello’s passionate love for Desdemona is the same passion that causes him to end her life. Antony, under the suspicion that Cleopatra has died, tries to commit suicide to only find out soon after that she is alive and in hiding, but all in vain for the fatal wound has already pricked it’s victim. Shakespeare constantly relates love with tragedy, stating that love is in fact fleeting and impermanent. The only way for love to live forever is if it dies young.
“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.
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.
Shakespeare cunningly gives the audience an early indication of Benvolio’s personality through his name. Benvolio translated literally means “good-will” or “well wisher” a role he consistently fills, although sometimes unsuccessfully throughout the play, striving to keep himself and others around him out of any conflict. In the very first scene of the play, Benvolio quickly establishes himself as the peacemaker as he tries to stop the fight between the Montague and Capulet servants by saying, “Part fools! Put up your swords, you know not what you do.”(I.i.64-65) Wanting peace he warns them to stop arguing before things evolve into a grave situation. In that statement, Shakespeare references the Gospel of Luke “Father forgive them for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34), using his skillful use of the written language to allude that Benvolio was taking on a Christ like peacemaker role in the play. Benvolio’s moral convictions do not change over the course of the play. His stance on peace is evident in all three scenes. In Act III, as Mercutio and Tybalt begin to fight, Benvolio once again attempts to be the voice of reason, “We talk here in the public haunt of mean: eithe...
During Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is under the influence of Mercutio with his joking air, Benvilo with his peaceful manner, and Juliet with her loving attitude. Mercutio often raises his spirits and give Romeo more confidence in himself. Benvolio helps to keep Romeo calm and reasonable throughout each of his ordeals. Finally, Juliet provides him with hope through her undying love for him. Romeo is often swayed by many characters, but he is swayed by those whom he keeps closest to him and he loves the most.
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.
In Romeo and Juliet it stays true that the noble character Benvolio knows the diversity between what to do and what not to do. Benvolio is the character to help others out of situations that can be heated,and offering guidance when needed.Although in Act 3,of the play during the fight between the Capulet and Montague it drove how Benvolio was a deceiver to his friends. Benvolio's character reflects on many people today,showing that there is good and bad in the world;and as people we need to learn how to help each other when situations go
Literature throughout history and all around the world frequently manifests sacrifices as the highlights of love. In the French novel Manon Lescaut, Abbé Prévost 's Des Grieux, the protagonist, becomes a thief and murderer for Manon--a girl who values luxury over love. Des Grieux sacrifices moral principles, innocence, and pursuits of becoming a theologian for his love. However, he does not regret making these sacrifices; in his eyes, being with Manon is worth losing everything. In many stories like this one, one idea is constant: love takes great sacrifice, which may lead to dire tragedies. This idea is explored in depth in William Shakespeare’s tragic play Romeo and Juliet, where the title characters are doomed ¨star-crossed lovers¨ from
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.
In life individuals have responsibility that may have an effect on their future it can be in an exceedingly dangerous approach or in an exceedingly great way. When an individual have the tendency to create a wrong call so we constitute the wrong path we have to require responsibility of our actions and fix our downfall. Responsibility is the state or fact of being accountable and accept the full responsibility for the consequences. Downfall is a fall from prosperity or power. The play romeo and Juliet took place in a city called Verona the play is about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes tragic results for the most characters within the play, Romeo and Juliet. The events distinction hate and revenge amorously
Within the script of “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, the concept of enduring a risk is a reoccurring theme portrayed by the plethora of characters. Romeo and Juliet are members of two opposing families, both attempting to find methods to unite their love, despite the wall of hatred separating them. All throughout the script these two star-crossed lovers endure many risks, each with its individual result which affects them and the society as a whole. It is evident in the plot of the play, Romeo and Juliet, that individuals who are willing to take a risk do so because of the illusion of a star-crossed love, which assigns a quest of reuniting two lovers who belong to families that despise each other, inevitably leading to death
Renaissance England often treats female sex and virginity as a commodity. Shakespeare recognizes this belief system in Measure for Measure and Romeo and Juliet.
In general, people have differing values in life, whether their values are good or bad they are all entitled. According to dictionary.com the term values refers to relative worth, merit or importance. Values are very different, like in the story “The Necklace '” by Guy de Maupassant values are very important. This story is about Mme Losiel dreams of being rich, popular, and fashionable. She believes that her beauty and attraction make her worthy of bigger things. Her husband got her tickets to a ball and she borrows a necklace. She loses it and she works ten years to pay her back for it and the necklace turns out to be fake. In this story “The Necklace” guy de Maupassant uses literary strategies to demonstrate that people come before material items.