The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a play which is one of the best known tragedies of all time but at the same time is referred to as the greatest love story of all time. It is about two ‘Star cross’d lovers’ (Prologue 1.6). In other words‚ Romeo and Juliet are governed by fate‚ a movement often linked with the stars. However it has another theme‚ violence‚ which in a way blocks out the love in the play. It presents love and hate as equally potent forces of nature
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rust‚ and let me die.” Juliet says this when she notices Romeo dead and is preparing to commit suicide. This is one of the many examples of how Romeo and Juliet portrays free will. The play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a great example of how people make their own choices in life and end up paying for them. This is evident when Romeo and Juliet get married‚ when Romeo kills Tybalt and when Romeo and Juliet kill themselves. First is when Romeo and Juliet get married. This marriage
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love story of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare‚ is a story of two families‚ the Montagues and Capulets‚ who have an ancient grudge against each other but their children Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other. Bad blood between Romeo and Juliet’s families gets in the way of their love so‚ Romeo and Juliet reach out to Friar Lawrence for help with their relationship. All of this demonstrates how Romeo and Juliet are victims of love and circumstance. Romeo and Juliet begins with
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Christenson English 9 May 19‚ 2010 The Lesson of Romeo and Juliet What happens when you are in love with an enemy of your family? In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet this is just the case. Romeo and Juliet are two teenagers madly in love with each other‚ yet their families are at war. The two of them take all the risks to be together and deceive their parents time and time again. Many spectators of this play say that the lesson of Romeo and Juliet is that children should not deceive their parents
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of Romeo and Juliet‚ but there is one more responsible than most. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the Montagues and the Capulets hate each other. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet instantly fall in love after meeting at a ball. Romeo gets Friar Laurence to marry them the next day without the knowledge of their families. As the story goes on Romeo and Juliet don’t see each other very often due to fear of getting caught. There is lots of miscommunication‚ and because of it‚ Romeo and Juliet both
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story. In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare uses multiple methods to portray Romeo’s impulsive character. Impulsive is acting or done without forethought. Romeo expresses his impulsiveness through how other characters view him in the play‚ the actions he takes‚ and his thoughts and feelings. Shakespeare commences to show this characteristic through Romeo’s thoughts and feelings. The author begins displaying Romeo’s impulsive character through his thoughts and feelings. At Capulet’s party‚ Romeo sees Juliet
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The feud that takes place between the Montagues and the Capulets seems to be what is responsible for the deaths that take place throughout the play. First off‚ the feud causes Tybalt to lash out at Romeo‚ Benvolio and Mercutio throughout the play‚ which causes Mercutio’s death. Also‚ Romeo and Juliet would not have to hide their love‚ causing the Friar to devise a scheme to keep them together that causes the couple to die. Another theory to prove this statement is that if there were no feud‚ the
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yours. In all the world‚ there is no love for you like mine.” Once a person is mature and old enough they could experience real love. Romeo was awed by beauty and his want for love‚ however some people argue that he really truly loves Juliet. Young people are too immature and inexperienced to know what real love is. At the end of Act I Scene I Benvolio tells Romeo he needs to forget about this girl‚ Rosaline‚ that he is in love with‚ and Benvolio is willing to show him how to forget her. “I’ll
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Dear diary‚ Angry as I am‚ I saw that Romeo‚ from the Montague family‚ in my party‚ and right away‚ I knew my ball would be ruined. I would not enjoy this spectacular party which I have arranged because I had to deal with that BRAT! Who does he think he was to come in my party‚ how daring was it for him to had come here uninvited? So very crude. I heard his voice from afar‚ it irritated me. I immediatley knew I had to do something about it‚ I equiped my sharp blade‚ and once I was about
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the Montagues‚ Romeo is getting banished for killing Tybalt. According to Benvolio the fight started out because of Tybalt aggravating Mercutio. Because Mercutio got mad at Tybalt for making fun of him‚ Mercutio and Tybalt began a duel. During this duel Romeo tried to interfere‚ so they would stop fighting‚ but to no avail they still kept on fighting each other. One of the times Romeo got in between the two he had Mercutio under his arm and while Mercutio was under his arm Tybalt stabbed Mercutio
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