1. How does civilization breakdown as time passes in RJ and LOTF? • Montague and Capulet families have been bitter enemies for generations. • Bitter hate even extend to the families’ servants who open the play fighting in the streets. • Arguments end up in fights resulting in murder‚ followed by revenge and more murder – Tybalt kills Mercutio‚ Romeo kills Tybalt despite knowing that Tybalt is his new wife’s cousin. • Juliet finds out that Romeo kills her cousin‚ but tolerates it. • Juliet would
Premium Characters in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet Tybalt
The play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare illustrates that with the love between true friends‚ they only want what is best for each other. When Romeo is feeling depressed‚ because of how Rosaline does not love him back‚ Romeo and Benvolio then find out about the Capulet’s feast‚ so Benvolio tells Romeo “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s//Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves‚//With all the admired beauties of Verona://Go thither‚ and with unattained eye//Compare her face with some
Premium
released his statement regarding the death of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. In his report the Prince states the duration and events of the past days. ‘We have lost two of Verona’s fine youth. A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrows will not show his head. Go hence‚ to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned‚ and some punished‚ for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo’ .The circumstances in which these deaths occurred cannot
Premium Romeo and Juliet Romeo Montague Juliet Capulet
fearless character who is now brave and willing to face what everyone is scared of because she is reluctant to believe that she may be The Lonely one’s next victim. Also she is covering up her weaknesses‚ acting independent and like a man. This is shown when she says “If I’m the next victim‚
Premium Roald Dahl
Two Dead Early this hot afternoon the Montagues and Capulets had at it again. What started out as just some hurtful words at one another turned into a deadly battle between three men. One was killed and the other was reportedly killed shortly after. The first dead was claimed by the Montagues. He was 27 year old Mercutio. The second was claimed by the Capulets‚ his name was Tybalt the killer of Mercutio. After Mercutio was killed Romeo chased after Tybalt and killed him. Soon after prince Escalus
Premium Romeo and Juliet Characters in Romeo and Juliet
As we grow up we are bombarded with visions of what romance will look like. We see Romeo and Juliet‚ and read all of Shakespeare’s chimarical sonnets and think these‚ out of their mind lovers‚ are the pinnacle of romantic love; but are these characters really truly in love? Romeo and Juliet both end up dead‚ and sensing a theme here‚ so do Hamlet and Ophelia from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. They are depicted as a couple in the play‚ but are they truly in love? Hamlet is a prince driven mad by
Premium Romeo and Juliet Romeo Montague Juliet Capulet
The Sonnet’s Body and the Body Sonnetizedin Romeo and Juliet GAYLE WHITTIER HEN MERCUTIO NAMES ROMEO’S INHERITED MALADY-"Now is he for the numbersthatPetrarchflow’d in . . " (2.4.38-39)1-he places of thedynastic Petrarchas Romeo’s literary"father‚" thepoetic counterpart fatherwhose verbal legacy Julietsees as dangerous:"Deny thyfatherand refuse thyname. . .. " (2.2.34). In Mercutio’s allusion‚ renewal remembers inheritance;thereis no escape‚ familialor poetic‚ fromthe influenceof a preexistingword
Premium Romeo and Juliet Iambic pentameter Sonnet
and control Capulet exerts within the play. Power and Control is the main theme in Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo & Juliet. Power is presented by fate‚ love and parental control. Shakespeare clearly demonstrates that Lord Capulet is a very protective father. This is because in Act 1 scene 2 Capulet says “ hopeful lady of my earth” In this quote Shakespeare shows that Capulet is a loving and protective father because children died easily and the words ‘hopeful lady’ means that Juliet was his only
Premium Romeo and Juliet
Discuss tension how tension is created in Romeo and Juliet. ’Romeo and Juliet’ is a tragic love story between two ’star cross’d’ lovers. One of the most tense and fascinating scenes of the play is where the lovers first meet in Act 1 Scene 5. Shakespeare effectively uses references to the theme of fate in order to keep the tension and anxiety built up in the audience. The lovers’ death commences when Capulet‚ Juliet’s father‚ throws a party to which he invites all his friends. The Montages are not
Premium Romeo and Juliet Characters in Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet. The two teens so desperately in love‚ they were willing to go to the extremist of measures to prove it. It is one of the most influential pieces of work ever written. Themes found in Romeo and Juliet are still widely emphasized in today’s pop culture. Take‚ for example‚ West Side Story. West Side Story takes Romeo and Juliet and puts a modern twist on it. However‚ even though the movie shares multiple themes with the tragic classic‚ there are quite a few variations between the two
Premium Romeo and Juliet Romeo Montague Juliet Capulet