Romeo And Juliet Research Paper
John Lenny
Advanced English 11-Literary Paper Final Draft
Miss Docktor
March 20, 2013
Themes in Romeo and Juliet
Everyone is affected by love in his or her own ways. William Shakespeare uses his intelligence to deeply describe the characters and how they make their next decision for one another. In Romeo and Juliet, the three important themes that are used throughout the play are the aspect of love, fate, and time and haste. In this paper I will be showing the three main themes in Romeo and Juliet and how those themes had effect on the characters in the play. The aspect of love is a major theme that can be found in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the story many characters have relationships between each other. Courtly …show more content…
They fall in love at first sights just like Romeo and Rosaline. There challenges only strengthen their love between each other where in most cases it usually weakens (Hacht 774). Romeo takes his love farther than just courtly love as for Rosaline they stopped there. Romeo and Juliet have great feeling for each other and have a love that has a spiritual quality (Hacht 774). They also have a clandestine relationship with each other. Romeo and Juliet only meeting at night and telling no one but the Nurse and Friar Laurence. Meeting only at night has a special significance on their love for each other. Juliet uses very strong words to describe her love for Juliet when he is on top of the balcony (Shakespeare). Juliet …show more content…
What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! . . . her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. . . O, Speak again, bright angel! For thou art As Glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven” (Shakespeare Act II. ii. 2-3, 20-2, 26-8).
What Juliet means by this is she converts the terrors of night to glory. She compares Romeo to a bright angel because Juliet thinks he is the greatest man she has every meet. Juliet is saying that Romeo is filled with lots of aspects and that in her eyes he is almost like a god to her. When Romeo hears this great, beautiful, long description from Juliet Romeo then say:
“I have nights cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let me find me here. My life were better ended by their hate Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (Shakespeare Act II. Ii.
Advanced English 11-Literary Paper Final Draft
Miss Docktor
March 20, 2013
Themes in Romeo and Juliet
Everyone is affected by love in his or her own ways. William Shakespeare uses his intelligence to deeply describe the characters and how they make their next decision for one another. In Romeo and Juliet, the three important themes that are used throughout the play are the aspect of love, fate, and time and haste. In this paper I will be showing the three main themes in Romeo and Juliet and how those themes had effect on the characters in the play. The aspect of love is a major theme that can be found in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the story many characters have relationships between each other. Courtly …show more content…
They fall in love at first sights just like Romeo and Rosaline. There challenges only strengthen their love between each other where in most cases it usually weakens (Hacht 774). Romeo takes his love farther than just courtly love as for Rosaline they stopped there. Romeo and Juliet have great feeling for each other and have a love that has a spiritual quality (Hacht 774). They also have a clandestine relationship with each other. Romeo and Juliet only meeting at night and telling no one but the Nurse and Friar Laurence. Meeting only at night has a special significance on their love for each other. Juliet uses very strong words to describe her love for Juliet when he is on top of the balcony (Shakespeare). Juliet …show more content…
What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! . . . her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night. . . O, Speak again, bright angel! For thou art As Glorious to this night, being o’er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven” (Shakespeare Act II. ii. 2-3, 20-2, 26-8).
What Juliet means by this is she converts the terrors of night to glory. She compares Romeo to a bright angel because Juliet thinks he is the greatest man she has every meet. Juliet is saying that Romeo is filled with lots of aspects and that in her eyes he is almost like a god to her. When Romeo hears this great, beautiful, long description from Juliet Romeo then say:
“I have nights cloak to hide me from their sight; And but thou love me, let me find me here. My life were better ended by their hate Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (Shakespeare Act II. Ii.