11/21/10
Romeo and Juliet Essay
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is commonly known as Newton’s third law of motion and it is one of the basic components of classic physics. This same concept is shown in Romeo and Juliet by illustrating that there is a balance in life, as in when there is a fortunate event that acts as a action force, there will always be an unfortunate event that is the resulting reaction force. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a story about two lovers whose fate was destined to be a calamity as a result of their parent’s strife. This play might convince readers that the story of Romeo and Juliet is merely doomed, but in truth, it is balanced between a series of events that are happy and tragic. In the beginning, when Romeo and Juliet meet, it’s almost like love at first sight- but then later that discover that they are almost forbidden for each other. Later, when they do end up getting married, Romeo almost immediately kills Tybalt for revenge, which forms a big issue since he gets banished from …show more content…
This event is really essential to the play because hope is the last happy thing that Shakespeare writes about. He makes sure that even though the reader knows the ending, that the end happens in a way that people start hopelessly wishing that there is some way for Romeo and Juliet to be together anyways. This action force gives the play the best component that balances out what was to happen with Romeo and Juliet. The reaction which was Romeo and Juliet’s death became something that by the end, didn’t seem like it was so bad that you had to cry your eyes out because Shakespeare made that balance from the start. He made sure that their was enough happy and pleasant moments in the book that the tragedies themselves didn’t seem too