The play which is set in Verona is a story about a long feud between the Montague and Capulet families. This feud causes tragic results for the main characters in the play, Romeo and Juliet. The events contrast hatred and revenge with love and a secret marriage, forcing the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly and die tragically in despair. Romeo and Juliet’s deaths could be blamed on three people, Tybalt, Juliet’s Father, and the Friar, because Juliet’s father was pushing an unwanted marriage, and then Tybalt he wanted to fight Romeo and he ended up getting killed, making Juliet’s parents think they
Loyalty plays an important role that is accepted as noble and desirable. Both William Shakespeare’s playwright, Romeo and Juliet and directors Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise’s film, West Side Story deeply explores the concept and progress of loyalty through encounters and experiences throughout. Loyalty is illustrated within each of the families and/or gangs and shows that loyalty comes with a price and ultimately you must be prepared to make a sacrifice for it. Multiple times throughout both texts also makes evident that loyalty make people lose sight of judgement and causes them to confuse the difference of right from wrong. Loyalty is seen as a strong influence upon characters throughout both genres and shows how there is great faithfulness
As mentioned before, the families have had an old grudge for many years and this has caused chaos throughout Verona. The prologue shows that violence has also been involved in this feud. In document A it explains that, “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, / Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean” (Doc A). Since their families don’t get along, Romeo and Juliet believe they cannot tell their parents they want to be together. The Capulets and Montagues are the main reason the two lovers and Friar Lawrence had to be secret about this relationship.
Friar says, "For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households' rancor to pure love." This ended up escalating tensions between the Montagues and Capulets. Friar Lawrence's misguided optimism and failure to anticipate the consequences of their forbidden love highlight his responsibility in the tragedy. The act of seeking marriage foreshadows the potential complications and challenges that Romeo and Juliet will face due to their fighting families. It hints at the struggles they will encounter as they try to navigate their forbidden love and highlights the tragic consequences that will arise throughout.
’s fate. The readers are able to first recognize the notable feud between the Capulet and the Montague household as a fight
In this play we discovered that Lord Capulet had some things to do with the deaths of Romeo and Juliet but it wasn’t just Lord Capulet who had something to do with the deaths but also Friar Lawrence had a lot to do with Juliet 's death like giving her that poison to fake her death. If the Montagues and the Capulets stopped fighting along time before this a lot of people could have not lost their lives because of this. So Friar saw an opportunity to fix this family feud and he married the two thinking it would help but it only made it worse. This is just like wars going on today in the world, we all don 't agree with each other and we fight and kill each other because we think it 's going to help our problems but it 's just going to make it all worse in
To introduce the text of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote a sonnet style, iambic pentameter prologue to tell the readers of the text what they are about to read. This prologue talks about the never ending feud between the two families, Montague and Capulet. It explains that because of these two families feud they each shed blood from one another. It introduces the idea of the fated love between Romeo and Juliet and their inevitable end together. During this prologue Shakespeare writes that because of Romeo and Juliet’s tragic death they ended the hatred between their two families.
The loyalty between family and friends can cause people to do things which can have an minimum or huge impact in their lives. In ‘Romeo and Juliet” by William shakespeare, it had lots of issues with loyalty, in which later in the book had caused the two main characters Romeo and Juliet their lives to change. An individual fails to realize the importance of loyalty their family or friends who made an impact on their life.
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” (2.2.140-142) Throughout the tale of Romeo and Juliet, loyalty is shown in different ways. The theme of remaining loyal when things get tough can be seen throughout Romeo and Juliet, through Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet and remaining loyal to her , Juliet remains loyal to Romeo when she found out that he killed her cousin Tybalt, and Mercutio defending Romeo against the insults of Tybalt .
The Feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet The aim of this essay is to define the nature of the feud in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and to discuss its function in the dramatic development of the play. The conflict between the families of Montagues and Capuletes is presented as the outcome of an ultimate expression of patriarchal society in Verona which promotes virility at any cost and obscene sexual innuendo targeting women. However, the love of Romeo and Juliet comes to prove the young people’s indifference towards the feud but at the same time the patriarchy’s tremendous power over them. Finally, the family’s feud combined with the contribution of fate makes the timing of events such, that a tragic resolution cannot be prevented.
This goes against the family feud as Montagues and Capulets are supposed to hate each other. His love of Rosaline motivates him to trespass on Capulet property where he meets his next love, Juliet Capulet. Even though he is
The play begins in the city of Verona which features a long standing rivalry between two houses: the house of the Montagues and the House of the Capulets. The most prevalent trouble of the houses is the constant fighting
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
Friendships are tested in many ways. Often, close friends, will come to each other with their darkest secrets, secrets that could be harmful to themself or others, for example, an eating disorder. In these times, the recipient of the secret is faced with a dangerous choice- to betray the friends loyalty and trust by seeking help, or stand back and watch the situation unfold, potentially ending in calamity. Oftentimes, teenagers especially feel bound to keep the others secret, no matter what problems arise.
Analytical Essay: Romeo and Juliet We often blame fate for the problems we face in our lives but sometimes events take place because of our own actions. In the tragedy of William Shakespeare, Romeo, and Juliet, two lovers come across each other building conflict which then leads to the death of them both and others. Although they are referred to as “star-crossed lovers”, there are many events that take place that could have been avoided if they had chosen to do so. Conflict in the play has already started before Romeo and Juliet have even met each other.
