The play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, enthralls the reader in a historic love story by using unique and vivid diction as well as purposeful character designs. This is primarily shown by Shakespeare sculpting Romeo as a hopeless romantic type and constructing the other character's personalities to stabilize Romeo and create a support web for the story. This fact is highlighted by the character Benvolio, his charisma and loyalty to Romeo allows the story to progress as it was him who allowed Romeo to go to the ball and inevitably meet Juliet. And the character Tybalt purposefully contrasting so heavily with Benvolio with his short-temperedness emphasizes the division between the two houses and assists in establishing the scene of
Chloe Perfect Mrs. Hetzel 1/2 4/12/24 Response to Literature Quiz: Romeo and Juliet: Act 1 In the play, “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare, two families, the Montagues and Capulets, have strong hatred for each other, so strong that they try to kill each other, even getting citizens to join the fight. The son of the Montagues, Romeo Montague, and the daughter of the Capulets, Juliet Capulet, fall in love with each other. Later on they both committed suicide and their deaths finally put an end to the Montagues and Capulets fighting. At the beginning of the play, we meet Romeo’s cousin Benvolio. An archetype that best exemplifies Benvolio is as a sidekick archetype because he helped comfort Romeo when he felt sadness over Rosaline's rejection.
Arguably William Shakespeare’s most famous play, Romeo and Juliet follows two star-crossed lovers who struggle to hide their love from their feuding families. Much like how Shakespeare explores both the differences and the relationship between the Capulets and the Montagues, the play highlights the correspondence of opposing themes through three characters named Mercutio, Benvolio, and Tybalt, Romeo’s two friends and sworn enemy. Shakespeare includes Romeo’s counterparts to distinguish his unique personality and to emphasize relationships between major contrasting subjects in the play: comedy and tragedy, peace and conflict, and love and anger. Mercutio acts as both Romeo’s foil and the donor of much light-hearted humor within the play, which contrasts the tragic events that inevitably occur.
Gillian Robinson Ms.Stafford English 9 5/13/2024 Romeo and Juliet Essay Final Draft Dramatic foils help enhance stories, that's what is going on in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare develops dramatic foils between the characters Benvolio and Mercutio through what they say and how they contrast with each other. For some background, both are in the house of Montague and are related to Romeo, but they have extremely different opinions.
As suggested by the play’s name, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare features two lovers named Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Although they are considered the protagonists of the story, it is apparent that they do not, in fact, drive the plot. Romeo first met Juliet at the Capulet’s masquerade, an occasion that he was not invited to nor interested in. The love sparked at the couples’ first sight ignited the rest of the story; however, it was clear that it was not Romeo’s intention to attend the Montague family’s ball.
The famous Chinese philosophy of yin and yang is known for representing light and darkness. Yin and yang are opposite forces that are intertwined in organisms as well as life in general. Within Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Juliet’s father, Capulet, expresses a yin and yang dynamic throughout the play. In the beginning, he predominantly shows his loving and compassionate side for his daughter, but later on, he begins to show his short tempered more selfish side. Both of his opposing sides end up having a large impact on various important plot points.
Benvolio waits for Romeo and they have a conversation together. Romeo says to Benvolio that he has fallen in love with but she doesn't like him back and Romeo is depressed about that. Benvolio tries to make him forget about it but he can’t. Romeo also finds out about the fight and he gets really upset and angry because he also doesn’t want this fight.
In contrast, both Benvolio and Mercutio are Romeo’s friends, but when Romeo gets hurt from Rosaline, they choose two opposite ways to advise Romeo. Benvolio is maturer and more positive than Romeo, he suggests Romeo to find the right woman for him through comparison. He knows the meaning of life, the hurt of lovelorn can be reduced by finding another person. Love maybe important but there are still some things that more important than love, like family.
Similar to a parasite, Juliet, the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, is a character who is very dependent and doesn’t formulate her own opinion. So, throughout the course of the story, Juliet develops her own thoughts and continuously becomes more independent according to the experiences she faces, consisting of disobeying her parents, falling deeply in love with Romeo and finally accomplishing her liberty. William Shakespeare has created Juliet by interpreting her as a character who has transferred from a dependent person to an independent person. For instance, while Juliet was asking the nurse about the fight between Romeo and Tybalt, Juliet says, “What storm is this that blows so contrary? / Is Romeo slaughtered and is Tybalt dead?”(3.2.70-71).
The most true love stories that humans read, always end in a happy endings, but in the “Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet,” by the famous writer William Shakespeare and in the “Pyramus and Thisbe,” by the classic author Edith Hamilton. Both stories end in anything but a happily ever after. The lovers of these passages risk many things, and turns them to there future of death. These events that occur to the main characters lead to love, bad consequences, and no more life. The decisions made by the dramatic characters have a greater impact on the characters in these texts, leading to their death.
The Maturities of Romeo and Juliet It is a controversial topic whether youth is capable of handling a mature love. Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare by 1595, epitomizes this common topic. The main characters of the play are two teenagers who fall in love at the first sight, however, the hatred between the families of the two leads to their death in the end. In the adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo and Juliet in 1996, Romeo and Juliet are portrayed more mature than in that of Baz Luhrmann in 1968.
The Character Development of Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a story that only spams the course of four days, however the protagonist Juliet goes through so much change. In this essay I’ll be focusing on how her character develops during the pay. When we are first introduced to Juliet she is quiet, obedient, innocent and deferent. In act 1 scene 3, her mother questions her about her view on marriage, she answers, “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move.” This suggests that she is immature because she had a childish conception of love (one can’t simply try to love).
In reference to the bold statements of the younglings throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet, it could be said that they were willing to ‘risk it all’, despite the circumstances they were under. These two lovers, being described as “star-crossed”, propelled the storyline in a way that was facile for conflicts to form, all of which were a result of their forbidden love (Prologue 5). Over the short course of time during the period in which their story had taken place, Shakespeare asserted the impression that all these conflicts were caused by a cruel overwhelming fate, sheer accident, and by their own willfulness. All these facets of the plot coalesced and attributed to the bringing about of Romeo and Juliet’s untimely and unfortunate death.
Character and Setting Making a decision among the young is very critical and hazardous task. It is during youth that most actions are done hastily and aggressively especially those who are not exposed to various experiences. This lesson will show you how a young man who grows in the rural area who has not seen the hardship of life makes a hasty decision that gives him a great lesson in life. You will also find out how it feels to stay in the barrio with less exposure to the adversities of life.
While only being “role” characters they find themselves being a huge part of the success of the story’s plot. Benvolio is a unsuccessful peace maker that relentlessly tries to inflict his moralistic diplomacy on the other characters, just to be ignored. While his counterpart, Tybalt is the complete opposite of him and tends to be the problem starter, and tries to manipulate the other character in to doing what he thinks is correct. I believe they are in this story to show the internal conflict that every man/woman is dealt with on a regular day basis. As a majority, we tend to go with our irrational side (Tybalt) then to go to our rational side (Benvolio) when put in a circumstance.
