Essay On The Importance Of Communication In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Communication requires motive. Without the desire to interact, the two houses of Verona, the Capulets and the Montagues, continued their mysterious feud, devoid of a reason as to why it even started. The ongoing altercation between these two houses is introduced in the prologue, but never addressed or talked about by either side, and causes many instances of fighting and violence. From these two houses emerge Romeo and Juliet, forbidden to see each other due to their opposing factions. Capulet, Juliet’s father, is over-zealous about her arranged marriage to the wealthy kinsman of the Prince, Paris. Juliet however, because of her passionate romance with Romeo, tells her father that she does not want to marry Paris, which leads Capulet to an immature decision for his beliefs of Juliet’s well-being, rather than asserting maturity for Juliet’s own wants. The

The prologue prefaces, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,/ Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/ Doth with their death bury their parents' strife (Prologue.6-8). Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet, fall in love, and because of their differing houses, are forced to commit suicide because they would rather die than live without being able to see each other. After Friar Lawrence, one of the only people who knew about this secluded romance, informed the town about the secretive love after the deaths, Capulet and Montague finally resolved the feud. It took multiple deaths, including Tybalt, Mercutio, and Paris along with the misfortunate pair, for the two houses to finally address their trivial rivalry. If the two sides had actually communicated about their strife, they could have demonstrated maturity and prevented the deaths of many important family