Romeo and Juliet Extended Response Prompt 2 Throughout Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare shows many examples of the main theme‚ forbidden love. In this story two feuding families‚ the Montagues and Capulets‚ each have a child who falls in love with the other. The young Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague meet and fall in love at first sight. They know they cannot be together because of their names‚ and that is how the main theme‚ forbidden love‚ comes about. Act 1 scene 5 of Romeo and Juliet is right
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Juliet For the majority of act 5‚ Juliet is in a deep sleep‚ while Romeo believes she is dead. He travels to Verona after hearing the news of her “death‚” as he plans on killing himself. When she wakes up in scene 3‚ she finds Romeo dead by her side. At this point she changes from being happy and hopeful that her and Romeo were going to be together‚ to completely miserable and heart broken. While feeling this extreme amount of pain‚ she makes the decision to kill herself. This was not out of feminine
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Mercutio is a close friend of Romeo and Benvolio. He is also a relative to Prince Escalus and Count Paris. Thus‚ he is neither a Montague nor a Capulet. He has the freedom from the conflict between the two houses. When he is at Capulet’s party‚ Mercutio states that he has a brother named Valentine. He is described as a fun-loving and witty. However‚ his sense of humour sometimes makes others annoyed. Along with this‚ he is moody and loses his temper easily. Mercutio is Romeo’s friends. Mercutio
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Act 1 Scene 3 depicts the conversation between Lady Capulet‚ Juliet’s mother‚ Juliet and the Nurse discussing about Juliet’s marriage to Count Paris. Juliet’s obedient‚ submissive and respectful character is clearly evident through her actions and words. Juliet’s submissive and respectful behaviour is clearly evident in Scene 1 Act 3 when Lady Capulet‚ Juliet’s mother‚ brought up the topic of her marriage with Paris. Juliet not only did not object to her mother’s decision‚ she respected her mother’s
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The theme of Romeo and Juliet is about a consuming love. It is a play filled with hatred overcome by love. Old hate versus young love‚ who take no thought for the past or future. With this love ending by “love-devouring death.” The hatred overcame the young love and left the two in love desperate‚ thinking death was the only way to be together. If love caused death‚ would you feel taken over by love and in a positive or negative way? This could be shown either way and i’ve chosen to show you both
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The character I have chosen is Friar Laurence he influences Romeo and Juliet by telling them the upcoming events in the near future.He has also married Romeo and Juliet despite Laurence being shocked by Romeo’s mishap with rosaline which did not give Romeo any affection‚ it also was an attempt to try to stop the civil Feud between the capulets and the Montagues. Friar also helps them both when Romeo is banished for killing Tybalt and as he runs to mantua Laurence helps Romeo and Juliet by making
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In Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’‚ two star-crossed lovers were brought together‚ married‚ but instead of a life of happiness and glamour‚ their story is one of great tragedy. The title of the book is Romeo and Juliet‚ but a large amount of this story has to do with numerous other characters who influence their untimely deaths. There are three characters in particular that had a large influence on the story of which are Friar Lawrence‚ Tybalt‚ and Mercutio. It is because of these three’s arrogance
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Haste is displayed throughout the whole book as most of the characters are in a hurry. If the characters had spent time thinking through their decisions and understand what could possibly happen as a result of their actions‚ many of the tragedies in the play wouldn’t have happened. By not making wise decisions Friar‚ Romeo and the Juliet‚ were not only acting impulsively‚ but also continued to play into fates hands. Romeo and Juliet’s reason for haste were family pressure‚ young energy‚ as
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The opinion of others‚ no matter how strong‚ should never affect your own decisions or the path you want to take. Adults and children in today’s society as well centuries ago‚ have to choose their desires and life paths without the influence of others. Romeo and Juliet‚ Pyramus and Thisbe‚ and Bosko and Admira‚ all followed their own destinies to be together. They disregarded the fact that there were relatives out there that didn’t approve of their relationship‚ but stayed together to the end no matter
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Elizabethan times. More than 500 years later people are still reading‚ analyzing‚ and discussing his works such as‚ Macbeth‚ Hamlet and his hundreds of Sonnets. He is known for having very depressing and morbid works including‚ his very famous story‚ Romeo and Juliet. The works being depressing and morbid is one of the many reasons William Shakespeare is so loved and why others aren’t fond of his works. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-on-Anon‚ Warwickshire. The date of his birth is uncertain‚
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