lord capulet is the person responsible for romeo and juliet's deaths. One reason lord capulet is to blame is because he had a feud with lord montague “see, what a scourge is laid upon your hate”(5.3.291). The feud that lord capulet has with the montague is to blame because if there were no feud, Romeo and Juliet would not have had to go behind their parents backs and get married without permission.then lord capulet would not have tried to force Juliet to marry county paris. This brings me to my second point:Lord capulet forced juliet to marry paris when she really didn't want to; “I tell thee what. get thee to church o’ thursday or never after look me in the face again speak not reply not never answer me”(3.5.161-263).If lord capulet had…
In this morning, the city of Verona wakes up with the saddest true love story ever known. In the Capulets´ grave, Juliet lays dead beside her love one, Romeo. However, he is not the only one, Paris, murdered by Romeo lays there too.…
Official crime statistics show that males are four times more likely to commit crimes than females. Victim surveys show women to be more likely to be victims of sexual and violent assaults than males. It has also been suggested there are gender differences in punishments. And therefore different people have given their explanations for the reasoning behind this. The official crime statistics show that women commit less crime than men. Men are convicted of 80% of serious crimes, and women only make up about 5.7% of the prison population. There is also a difference in the types of crimes committed by men and women; most women are imprisoned for non-violent crimes such as theft or handling of stolen goods, which accounts for 57% of known female offenders in 2002…
Who is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s death? There are many different characters that are blamed for it, but I personally believe it is Romeo and Juliet. If you are wondering “why Romeo and Juliet?” I will provide some reasons why they are to blame for their death. Most importantly, they both made decisions that eventually caused their death. They could have been honest and told the truth about them being in love and married. Romeo and Juliet should have known that they couldn’t keep their marraige a secret forever, and there would be worse consequences if their parents found out that they were in love. Also, Juliet could have told her father the honest reason why she did not want to marry Paris. If she did not decide to drink the potion,…
William Shakespeare clearly draws the image that Paris is one of the most important antagonists in the story. Therefore the truth and the representation are inverted. Although Romeo clearly tries to do the right thing, he doesn’t realize most of his mistakes, and often acts without thinking. For example, he specifically says, “I must indeed, and therefore came I hither. Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone. Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth, Put not another sin upon my head By urging me to fury. O, be gone! By heaven, I love thee better than myself, For I come hither arm'd against myself. Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say A madman’s mercy bade thee run away.”(sparknotes, Shakespeare act 5 scene 3 page 3). Which means, since he is angry and desperate, Paris should not mess with him because Romeo can not think…
Romeo, the lover of Verona, and Count Paris, the ideal partner in marriage, are intertwined in fate and are seemingly made opponents of love in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with Juliet, daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. Due to the fact that the Montagues and Capulets still sustain an ancient feud between their households, Romeo and Juliet keep their love a secret. Unaware of their daughter’s love to Romeo, Lord and Lady Capulet make plans to wed Juliet to Count Paris, the Prince’s kinsmen. Although both Paris and Romeo love Juliet, their personalities and traits make them appear amiable to different characters in the story. In William Shakespeare’s powerful piece, Romeo and Juliet, characters Romeo and Paris share many similarities and differences.…
To approve that the authority figures lead to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet Lois Kershen quotes that, “As a young girl practically restricted to her house by the social customs of her time, she has very little control over anything anyway. Moreover, she lives in a family where her father does not know how to express his love except to make decisions for Juliet that he thinks are in her best interest. Her mother is too cold and distant to give her good advice, and her nurse, though she loves Juliet, is too crude to understand the delicacies and dangers of first love.” ( Source 1, paragraph.9) Lois Kershen argues that Juliet's authority figures are to be blamed because they don’t give her a voice and she has to obey her parents even if she doesn’t like it. Her authority figures put too much pressure on her (father) and give her bad advice(nurse and mother) as a young who’s getting to know how life works. Lois Kershen also mentions that “There, the family feud causes Paris to assume that Romeo has evil intent and the resultant fight costs Paris his life.” ( Source 1, paragraph.4) This paraphrase means that fighting between the families leads Paris to conclude that Romeo has cruel intention and the consequential fight causes Paris to die. So once again…
From the minute the play starts the audience are aware that the "star crossed lovers" Romeo and Juliet are going to die, this makes it clear that the play is a tragedy. A Tragedy is a traditional form of theatre where the main characters in the play die as a result of their tragic flaw, for example in the tragedy play Macbeth, Macbeth's vaulting ambition leads him to his death. Romeo and Juliet's flaw is the powerful love between them and it means their relationship has to be secret and this leads to Mercutio being killed by Tybalt and Romeo then killing Tybalt. The consequences of Romeo revenging Mercutios death by killing Tybalt means he is banished upon death.…
In conclusion, Romeo and paris are similar in various amounts of ways. All these similarities caused the death of Juliet, Paris, and Romeo. Disregard the point that this whole tail happened in the span of four days and that Romeo and Juliet just fell in love on the first day. Now if Romeo were to follow his gut and would not have went to the party he would probably still be chasing after Rosaline, Juliet would have been married to Paris, and lives would be spared. Because Romeo crashed the party, their whole life came to an end by a love for one lady and two…
Romeo, a daring lover (PP), confuses his feelings with his addiction to Juliet which amounts to a devastating concoction. Romeo emphasizes his need for Juliet’s love and approval in relation to his lifestyle when he says, “So thrive my soul¬¬−−” (2.2.153). This shows that Romeo has an unforgiving desire (PP) for Juliet and constant need to be around her (IP); also he will fight anything if it means getting to her which will eventually lead to his untimely death. Next, he exposes that he would do anything for Juliet’s love including fighting viciously (GP) and he states this when he says, “Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye/ Than twenty of their swords” (2.2.71-72). By stating this Romeo has shown that he would stare straight into the face of danger just to be with Juliet, this addiction will dumbfound Romeo and send him to his grave . Finally, Romeo mixes his poetic entity with his love for Juliet when he says, “Can I go forward when my heart is here/ Turn back, dull earth, and find thy center out” ( 2.1.1-2). Romeo is basically saying that he should turn around and be with his one true love, or Juliet which would be a daring act because he would be walking into his arch nemesis’s…
From his hiding place, Paris recognizes Romeo as the man who murdered Tybalt, and thus as the man who indirectly murdered Juliet, since it is her grief for her cousin that is supposed to have killed her. As Romeo has been exiled from the city on penalty of death, Paris thinks that Romeo must hate the Capulets so much that he has returned to the tomb to do some dishonor to the corpse of either Tybalt or Juliet. In a rage, Paris accosts Romeo. Romeo pleads with him to leave, but Paris refuses. They draw their swords and fight. Paris’s page runs off to get the civil watch. Romeo kills Paris. As he dies, Paris asks to be laid near Juliet in the tomb, and Romeo consents.…
“The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” could have ended in many ways that avoided the death of Romeo and Juliet, but this could not of happened because of one character, Tybalt. Tybalt was the instigator for everything bad to happen and without him our love birds could have had a happily ever after. This legendary play was written by William Shakespeare, and the full title is “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”. The main characters in this story were Romeo, Juliet, and Tybalt. Here is a short summary of the main parts of the play. Romeo goes to capulet's party and sees juliet. He instantly falls in love and they literally get married the next day. Also juliet knew that she was going to get married to the ugly uni brow paris, but she went and got married to a montague pheasant. Then juliet has to go into a medically induced coma so she can avoid the marriage between her and the ugly uni brow Paris. Romeo does not get the memo and he goes all depressed and buys poison. He goes to juliet's crypt…
The passionate proclamation of his death seems almost a piteous cry. Shakespeare uses the word “O”, to show both pain and anguish, but shock. The proclamation mark also shows this. Here Paris could be stating his death to evoke pity from the audience and/or to show the sadness that he feels about his death. This quote also shows Paris to be a selfish and greedy person, up to his last breath. Paris would have been aware at this moment that Romeo and Juliet were in love; however his last wish is for Romeo to “open the tomb” of his lover and lay him (Paris) in it instead. This implies that Paris intends to succeed in his marital union with Juliet, but eternally, in her grave, and maliciously chose her true love to do the deed. Though Juliet’s betrothal kept Romeo from loving her, Paris wishes intends to keep them apart forever. This shows Paris to be a villainous character, as not only does he think of his selfish desires, but decided to ignore the intangible love between Romeo and Juliet to suit his selfish…
To begin with, a change Luhrmann decided to make in the death scene of his version of Romeo and Juliet was that he would exclude all the characters mentioned in the book at the death scene. Originally in the book, Paris is outside the Capulet tomb, mourning Juliet’s “death”. Romeo comes along to kill himself, and ends up killing Paris.…
Romeo departing Mantua for Verona was a dumb idea because he never would have known if Juliet was alive or dead which would’ve stopped both of their deaths. So Romeo departs for Verona, with poison from the apothecary. He reaches Verona and discovers Juliet in casket and decides to take her ring and give her his goodbye hugs and pay his respects. Once Romeo saw that she was dead he took the poison, in the midst of this Paris thinks Romeo is trying to steal items from her. So, he tries to make a citizens and gets killed by Romeo. Next, Romeo puts Paris in the casket with Juliet than Romeo dies and falls into the casket. Romeo’s dumb actions of killing Paris then, killing himself lead to Juliet killing herself, which then lead to his mom dying. If Romeo would have simply just gotten over the fact that this girl that he knew for one day was dead everyone would have lived including Juliet.…