Examples Of An Experience In Romeo And Juliet

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Experiences hold the power they give you good and bad, and they leave you with a film on your world. How we grow up molds us, and the experiences we had with the hands holding the clay. I believe that a particular experience can have a lasting influence on our lives. Experiences such as parenting, and the way you were raised, to love and betrayal. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a great example of this with his character's life being affected by an experience.
Romeo is one of the main characters in Romeo and Juliet. He is a Montague, a long-time rival of the Capulet family. Romeo is finally happy he is married and his life seems to be good. After he got married he met up with his friends, one of them being Mercutio. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, joins the scene, starts a fight, and kills Mercutio. In an angry pit of rage over his friend, Romeo kills Tybalt, earning him banishment as it is illegal to duel in public let alone kill someone. This one experience changes Romeo's life. He can no longer reside in his county, see his friends or be with his wife. He lost the future he so …show more content…

She is the daughter of the head of the Capulet house. She marries Romeo despite the fact that he is a Montague and she truly loves him. Her father arranges her marriage unknowing to the fact she is already married, and to escape this she poisons herself to look dead. The plan was for her to fall asleep for two days and not marry Paris while Romeo came and swept her away. Her experience is when word does not reach Romeo in time and he thinks her dead. When Juleitt awakes she finds her love dead. ”A cup closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end” Juliet spoke in line 167 Act 5 Scene 3. Her world flips from this, the man she poured her soul to, the one she said that if he was already married she would have to die. Her experience changed her and compelled her to kill herself changing the directory of her