Loyalty, A Double-Edged Sword What is loyalty? Loyalty is often telling a person whatever they want to hear, and sometimes loyalty can kill. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence tries to stop the feud between Montagues and Capulets by using their only children. After he tries to help he continues his loyalty to Romeo and Juliet. He tries to help them run away together.
Alice Coachman Davis is the first African American woman to win a gold medal. Growing up in the south, she didn't have many opportunities to peruse what she loved. But after years of training and hard work, which involved running barefoot in the gravel, and moving from school to school across the south, she finally qualified for the Olympics in 1948, and in the end she received a gold medal in high jump. Like Alice, Shakespeare believes that when someone follows their heart’s desires, although it may not be the easiest path, its the path that will make the most sense in the end. He shows this through the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and the relationship in between Juliet and her parents.
Masking Identity On the internet, there is an obsession with being anonymous. A priority of many who log onto their computers or phones wants to keep what they do a secret from the outside world. But how do people stay hidden if you take away the screen? During Shakespeare’s time, people would wear masks at parties, performances, or for pernicious behavior.
Shakespeare uses both romantic and identity crushes to show that parents should take teenage crushes seriously by providing examples of stories and lessons he put together into his plays. For example, One of his many famous plays he has created that is a great example of both romantic and identity crushes is Romeo and Juliet. A romantic crushes is formed by finding someone whom they find powerfully attractive; moreover, someone who they feel excited to be around, and with whom they want to spend a lot of time. Parents most often know not to take these romantic crushes serious because they know sooner or later their children will outgrow these crushes and move onto the next crush: “Most romantic crushes don’t last very long because once the
Why is someone’s identity important? Perhaps because who someone is can help determine his or her destiny. People with different characteristics, actions, and backgrounds often have different futures. Consider Romeo Montague, for instance. Romeo is one of the protagonists in the well-known tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
The idea of identity is prominent throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Their identities in family affiliation, age, and social class play large roles in the lives of the star-crossed lovers, and their story as a whole. Family affiliation is the most important identifying factor in the lives of Romeo and Juliet. The prologue states, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny/Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.” The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets led to both families finding the blood of many on their hands (Tybalt, Mercutio, Romeo, Juliet).
Early in the second act of this play, Romeo meets Juliet by accidentally ending up in her backyard. They are so suddenly smitten with each other that they decide to get married the next day. Romeo and Juliet’s families, the Montagues and the Capulets, hate each other and have had a bloody family rivalry. The young new lovers think they can avoid the huge dilemma of the family rivalry by risking their lives and keeping their relationship secret. Juliet is slightly apprehensive of this arrangement; “I have no joy of this contract tonight: it is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden, too like lightning, which doth cease to be ere one can say ‘It lightens.’”
Identity is a central theme in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, as it shapes the actions and decisions of the characters and ultimately leads to the tragic outcome of the play. The concept of identity can be seen in various forms, including family affiliation, gender, social class and age. Firstly, family affiliation plays a significant role in the story of Romeo and Juliet. The Montague and Capulet families are locked in a longstanding feud, and the characters' identities are deeply tied to their family name.
In William Shakespeare’s famous Romeo and Juliet identity plays a large role in the progression of the play and how the characters are treated. Pieces of identity such as family name, gender, and social class are the basis of how characters interact within this play. Family names are the main cause of issue in this play, being one of the most important parts of identity. Gender identity majorly affects women in this play, while social class affects servants. One major example of how identity affects the characters in this play is family affiliation.
Characters in Shakespeare 's play Romeo and Juliet are coerced to obtain certain roles depending on social class, gender, and age solely because of the severances caused between the Montagues and the Capulets families. One’s identity in Verona is defined by belonging to either one of the two quarrelling families, the Montagues or the Capulets; this leads to discrepancies between Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. Love powers the two forbidden lovers to go against their identities, and through much struggle and many hardships, Romeo and Juliet finally create their own identities, only to be rewarded with their own deaths. Although the two families play a major role of the identity of an individual in Verona, there are several other factors as well.
Juliet’s soliloquy is significant in this scene because that is where, Shakespeare breaks the tradition for soliloquies, which are usually speeches where a character shares their inner thoughts only with the audience. However, Romeo overhears Juliet's soliloquy, making an invasion, on one hand, but it also serves as a reminder of their intimacy, because Juliet both allows and cherishes Romeo's interruption, reminding the audience how honest and open the two are with each other, and how if they can trust anyone, then it would be each other. That holds the audience’s attention because their love is not traditional, where they would take a while to get used to each other, but instead they truly listen and understand each
Romeo and Juliet represents two families of similar social economic status and wealth but are in an interpersonal conflict between a flourishing love and a gory family feud. Juliet immensely changes during the course of the movie from a young girl to a mature young lady because she must deal with a forced marriage, abusive parents, and the banishment of Romeo. However, Romeo is a flat character focusing more on love than understanding the seriousness of the feud. When the two beloved children die, the dynamic changes as both families have empathy towards each other, therefore peace emerges from the tragic loss. Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers are very relatable and that is why we still read and watch his play four-hundred years
Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name;” This conveys the thesis because Juliet is telling Romeo to go against his family and lose his name so they can be together. She is also telling him to take her last
Love Can Not Shed Identity “It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love” Mary J. Blige In the play Romeo and Juliet identity is a timeless theme that is related to a family name and the wealth of the family and the social status of the family. Even during our present-day, family status in Canadian society is quite important especially if you are from a very) wealthy family, the last name of that family is a very powerful contributing factor to a person's identity and who the person affiliates themselves with as friends and family associates, where individuals attend college and even careers one achieves and succeeds in. The problem with these two young love birds, Romeo and Juliet, their
The prologue of the play explains how two star crossed lovers torn apart by the conflicts of their families. The emotion of love is what caused them all to pay the price of death. They loved each other to the point where one of them commits suicide after another because one thinks the other is dead. When Romeo thinks Juliet is dead so he commits suicide in front of her lifeless” body. When she wakes up and sees that Romeo is actually dead, she commits suicide too.
