There are two families that hate each other Romeo's family the Montague's and Juliet's family the Capulet's. The families have hated each other for many generations. Romeo and Juliet met at a party even though Lord Capulet has found Juliet a husband but she doesn't like him and falls in love with Romeo who was previously in love with Rosaline. Romeo and Juliet get married in secret hoping in the long run that this deed will end the family feud but Juliet's family don't know about the wedding. Mercutio Romeo's best friend and Tybalt Juliet's cousin get into a fight and Mercutio dies but Romeo turns up and kills Tybalt. Romeo is banished to Mantua for killing Tybalt so Juliet isn't happy because she has lost two of the people she cares about …show more content…
meaning that amongst all of this madness she will have a happy day. Juliet asks what will happen on this day and when this day is. Lady Capulet. ?Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn.? Juliet is very shocked by this, ?He shall not make me there a joyful bride.? Because she does not want to be married as she is married already so is not very happy with her family, ?I will not marry yet, and when I do, i swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate.? Which means that she would much rather marry Romeo who she ?hates.? When her father comes in she tells him and he goes mental and states ?is she not proud? Doth she not count her blest, unworthy as she is, that we have so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?? But Juliet comes back ?not proud you have, but thankful that you have: Proud can I never be of what I hate.? She is saying that wouldn?t marry a man she has never met because she wants to make her own decisions and would rather marry someone she hates. Capulet replies with ?you green-sickness carrion!? Capulet is calling Juliet a disease but Juliet replies with, ?I beseech you on my knees.? This means I beg you for mercy because she doesn?t want to be married at this point in time. Capulet replies with, ?Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!? meaning she is useless baggage and very disobedient because she should always do as her father say?s then he cried, ?my fingers …show more content…
Juliet is not pleased when she hears this because she was the only person she was able confide in and now she has no one and she doesn?t like the idea that she is all alone with no one but Romeo who is in Mantua and has been banished. Juliet feels as if the adults have won. So she decides to take action and stop the wedding because if there is no bride there is no wedding, ?Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I?ll to the friar to know his remedy, if all else fail, myself have power to die.? This means that if she has to go through with the marriage she has the authority and the power to kill herself. By the end of the scene Juliet is fed up with the adults as she feels that they are bossing her around and that she hasn?t the power to make her own decisions this is why she wants to kill
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.
Romeo and Juliet, a play by William Shakespeare, is about the tragedy of two lovers. The two lovers are from families that hate each other. Romeo is a Montague, whilst Juliet is a Capulet. Romeo had loved another girl, only to find she was to become a nun. He then went to a party hosted by the Capulets, and fell in love with Juliet. He met up with her, as she also liked him, and they eventually got married. Their happiness did not last long, however, as Tybalt, a man from Juliet’s house, killed Mercutio, a relative to the prince and Romeo’s friend. Romeo then proceeded to kill Tybalt, which lead to his banishment. Juliet put herself in a death-like state to be with Romeo, who found out and actually killed himself. Juliet
...these three hours will fair Juliet wake; She will beshew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents; But I will write again to Mantua, And keep her at my cell till Romeo come…"
The Pressure on Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare pressure builds up to Juliet. This is caused by a number of factors. Because Juliet is the only surviving daughter, the only child of the Capulet s, there there is a big expectancy on Juliet of the Capulets, because everybody expects her to make a marriage with a noble man.
Juliet is young and still eager to please her parents. She is only thirteen in the beginning the idea of
In the fair city of Verona, two rival families, the Montagues and Capulets were involved in a nasty family feud that goes back years before any of the members were born. Even the townspeople were involved in the dispute, because the families were always fighting in the streets and causing disturbances. They disrupted the streets of Verona and even Prince Escalus tried to break up the fighting. They were given a warning, by him that another public fight would result in death. While this was occurring, Romeo, (a Montague) the main character, was getting over his last love, Rosaline, and was very upset. Juliet of the Capulet household had just been introduced to a wealthy young man, Paris, whom her parents wished her to marry. Yet she did not love him. Romeo goes to a party in an effort to forget about Rosaline. At this party he met Juliet, and immediately fell in love with her. He later finds out that she is a Capulet, the rival family of the Montagues. He decides that he loves her anyway and they confess their love for each other during the very famous "balcony scene" in which they agreed to secretly marry the next day. Friar Lawrence agreed to marry them in an effort to end the feuding between the families. Unfortunately, the fighting gets worse and Mercutio (Montague) a good friend of Romeo ends up in a fight with Tybalt (Capulet), Juliet's cousin. Tybalt killed Mercutio, which caused Romeo to kill Tybalt in an angry rage. For this, Romeo is banished from Verona. At the same time, the Capulet's were planning Juliet's marriage to Paris. Juliet didn't want to marry this man so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that would make everyone think that she was dead. Friar Lawrence promised to send word to Romeo to meet her when the potion wears off and to rescue her to Mantua, where Romeo was currently staying. There they would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, Romeo didn't receive the message on time and upon hearing of her "death" went to Juliet's tomb where he drinks poison and dies. When Juliet's potion wears off, she wakes to find her lover's dead corpse. She then proceeds to stab herself with Romeo's dagger. The two families find the bodies and with their shared sorrow, finally make peace with each other.
As already shown, both Romeo and Juliet are horrified to discover that they were family enemies. Despite of this, they both choose to devote their love for eachother. Given this point, it is unrequited love that brings Romeo and Juliet together. But this also means that they would have to get over the fact that their families hate each other. This eventually leads them to forgiving the rival family for all the hateful acts that have occurred against one another. This is not the only forgiveness that is experienced in this play. Tybalt is a Montague with a fiery attitude. After catching Romeo at a party he was not supposed to be at, Tybalt had it out for Romeo. Just after Romeo and Juliet’s wedding, Tybalt comes looking for him wanting to fight. Romeo does not want to fight because he now loves Tybalt since he is family to him, but neither Tybalt or anyone else knows this reason. Quickly Mercutio steps in and tells Tybalt that he will fight him in honour of Romeo. Sadly this leads to the death of Mercutio. Romeo is angry and in need of revenge, which creates an intense fight between Tybalt and Romeo. Romeo wins this battle, killing Tybalt. He leaves in a hurry, only to discover that he would be banished from Verona. The death of Tybalt is absolutely devastating to Juliet. Her cousin was murdered by her husband. But she did not hesitate to forgive Romeo, she did so right away. She knew that Romeo had a reason for this incident and decides to
In the beginning of the scene, she urges the sun to set and night to come. She not only asks the night to guide her but also to hide her so she can “grow bold” (3.2.15). She wants to be passionate and please Romeo, in spite of her nervousness. As she is speaking, she realizes that there is nothing wrong with having sex with a loving husband. When she has this revelation, her longing for Romeo is renewed. While calling out for him, she refers to him as “day in night” (3.2.17), reminiscent of Romeo referring to Juliet as the Sun and saying that if her eyes were stars birds would mistake the night for the day. Juliet is as in love with Romeo as Romeo is with her. She is waiting for him to come to her room, for him to stand against the darkness “whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back” (3.2.20). He and she will glow with their love for each other, making up for the lack of light in the night. Juliet also trusts that Romeo has not been immodest with other women in the past. When asking night to help her, she says the match is being played for “a pair of stainless maidenhoods” (3.2.13), meaning both her pure virginity and Romeo’s. She trusts that Romeo’s virginity hasn’t been profaned previously. She manages to talk herself out of her nervousness by being poetically exuberant in expressing her romantic feelings towards Romeo,
The Way Juliet Feels in Act 3 Scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
In the poem “Juliet’s Soliloquy”, Juliet is alone in her chamber as she holds her vessel of poison. As Juliet expresses her fears in the heart-felt soliloquy, the complete severity of the situation weighs heavy on her mind. She thinks, “What if the potion is unsuccessful or does not work?” She wonders has the Friar deceived her and given her real poison instead of the nonpoisonous, so that no one discovers that he dishonorably wedded her to Romeo in disclosure. Juliet quickly gets rid of these difficult and unbearable situations and thoughts to be untrue. She still worries that she will find herself conscious in the hot and cr...
We are made to feel sorry for Juliet as nothing is going right for her
Thought the play, these lovers go through many obstacles that range from arranging a wedding and finding a time to meet to Juliet trying to get out of marrying Paris. The entire time fate is tossing them around. Romeo realizes this after he kills Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, in a brawl. At first, Romeo does not want to fight because Romeo and Juliet are already married at this time and he knows that they are cousins. Tybalt asks for a brawl from Romeo but Mercutio fights instead. Mercutio gets killed by Tybalt and that is what makes Romeo mad and fight Tybalt.
I was nervous entering the Capulet’s house at first I thought we would have been caught. When I saw Juliet I knew she was the one I loved her so much she was so beautiful. I just wanted to not let her go. I know that she loves me and my empty spot with Rosaline is gone finished my chin has been healed with Juliet’s love. And my lips have been sealed with her lips. What a beautiful day.
The audience’s first impression of Juliet however, is through her interaction with her mother (Lady Capulet) and the Nurse. From the Nurse’s remarks, the audience learns that Juliet is thirteen and “Come Lammas-eve at night shall [Juliet turn] fourteen” (Act I.3.18-9). As Juliet enters the presence of her mother and the Nurse, Shakespeare portrays Juliet as a very faithful daughter. When summoned by the Nurse, Juliet comes promptly then responds politely to her mother “Madam, I am here, what is your will?” (Act I.3.7). When Juliet refers to her mother as ‘madam” (Act I.3.7), the audience also gets the impression of Juliet being compliant to her elder’s wishes. This can be observed when her mothe...
Juliet cries a lot when she finds out about her husbands fate. Her parents think that she is grieving about the death of her cousin, but instead Juliet is crying for the murderer of her deceased cousin. The nurse brings Juliet the bad news about Romeo (Juliet’s husband) and Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin). She tells Juliet that Romeo has been banished form Verona for murdering Tybalt, who killed Mercutio. Juliet is devastated by this news and starts to mourn about her banished husband (Romeo). Later that day, Paris comes over to the Capulet residence to talk abou...