Malaya Greaux Mrs. Oliver Freshman Language Arts 18 March 2014 Romeo and Juliet Don’t fall in love as a teen; you might end up killing yourself. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare showed that being in love has its ups and downs. Shakespeare‚ also‚ in my opinion‚ created a self-destructive tendency connected with love. Although this play was a tragedy‚ there were some bright sides. Romeo and Juliet were in love‚ and generally‚ being in love gives one feelings of joy and
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet with Alternate Endings Romeo and Juliet‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ is the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers that results in great tragedy. One may ask‚ “Why would Shakespeare choose such a tragic ending for his heroes?” Hopefully this essay will answer that very question for you. Over the years‚ Romeo and Juliet has remained one of the most popular and most studied literary works of all time. With this amount of popularity‚ hundreds‚ even thousands
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scenarios throughout his play‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Two teenagers‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ discover themselves to be inseparable due to the power of love. This love eventually leads to the demise of these innocent lovers. Even though all readers accuse multiple individuals of being the cause of Romeo and Juliet’s death‚ Friar Lawrence is the true culprit. He expresses his lack of decision-making skills and supposed self-sufficiency‚ leading to the death of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly‚ Friar Lawrence
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In William Shakespeare’s well-received play‚ The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ two star-crossed lovers unite resulting in a fatal ending. Juliet‚ coming from the house of the Capulets‚ was only a young girl who was promised to a lord in two summers if she liked him back. This was a strict agreement with the family because it would have given them the power of the town because of his lordship. But when Juliet met Romeo‚ she became infatuated with him which triggered her immaturity to interfere with
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"A plague on both your houses. I am sped"(III.i.90). For as long as William Shakespeare’s play "Romeo and Juliet">Montague and Capulet families at the time of his death‚ his curse does no real harm. On the other hand‚ his actions before he is killed have a profound effect on those close to him and those effects ripple out to those even further away. Mercutio is Romeo’s best friend and not a member of either of the feuding families. An examination of Mercutio’s hatred for the sacrament of marriage
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Romeo & Juliet: Final Assessment- Who’s Most Responsible? In the tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ there are a lot of key events and misfortunes that occur and change the course of the play. However‚ although some might say that Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet‚ it is‚ in reality‚ because of Romeo’s impulsive‚ rash‚ and poor decision-making for why he is the most responsible for the tragedy. Throughout the whole story‚ Friar Lawrence holds some responsibility
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faulty of the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet? Many chapters throughout the play had a part in the fate of the love birds.Friar has the most blame‚ but the Nurse could have changed just as much. Nurse Capulet knew about the marriage and went through with it even though she knew it wasn’t right. Likewise with the Friar. Friar Lawrence and the nurse‚ they both had options to change the fate but they didn’t. In this play the character Friar Lawrence is the many reason why Romeo and Juliet killed themselves
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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet In Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ two main characters from very different family’s meet and fall in love at first sight; their names were Romeo and Juliet. After Romeo is banned from Verona by prince Escalus‚ Juliet tries to fake her death so she can be snuck out of Verona to be with Romeo. When Romeo finds Juliet asleep without knowledge of her plan he assumes she is dead and ends up killing himself by consuming a deadly potion. When Juliet
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The story of Romeo and Juliet is certainly a tragedy‚ one of the best tragedies that ever was written. The reason that this story is a tragedy is because our two main characters both kill themselves out of love for the other and for the fact that they cannot be together. However‚ there is a question to be posed. Who is to blame for those tragic deaths? The answer is not a “who” but a “who all”. Multiple people are responsible for the death of the two; people from both families. It seems terrible
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Colby James Mrs. Bates English May 2015 Romeo & Juliet Essay The cause of Romeo and Juliet’s morbid demise in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a combination of a few different things. Maybe if it had been only one thing working against them‚ they would have survived. But alas‚ they ended up dying next to each other. Ultimately‚ Romeo and Juliet’s deaths were their own fault. The deaths of Romeo and Juliet in this tragic play truly do pluck at the strings of the heart. As
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