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I could not catch what he whispered in his valet’s ear, but I did not have to wait very long to learn why was so cagey. Suddenly, raising his arms, in a high gesture, meant to get everyone’s attention, the Baron called on us to keep quiet, while he’d make an announcement. He waited, then, stubbornly, for his captive audience to remain silent, to finally speak.
“Star cross’d lovers” are doomed lovers, just like Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare, two lovers take their lives to be with each other. At the end of the play, The Prince of Verona wants to know who’s to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Although both families are to blame and Friar Lawrence, the real culprit is fate itself. One of the reasons why Romeo and Juliet are dead is because of their family feud, Romeo is a Montague and Juliet a Capulet.
ho’s to Blame? Who’s to blame of the tragedy of Romeo's and Juliet's death? In the story Romeo and Juliet, there were many things that caused Romeo and Juliet’s death. Juliet’s parents are one to blame, but there were a few other things that played a part in their deaths, i.e. fate and Friar Lawrence, and finally themselves.
A tragedy most full of woe, the deaths of poor Juliet and Romeo. But who should be punished and who should be spared from the blame of this most unruly affair? This question was raised by Prince Escalus in the last line of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, “Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” In this story Romeo and Juliet are two doomed lovers coming from two feuding families and in an effort to stay loyal to one another they end up committing suicide for eachother. The question of who’s to blame for their deaths is puzzling as there are a multitude of reasons that lead to their end.
The narrative voices in songs and literature, occasionally show male characters expressing their emotions enthusiastically towards a female character. Sir Paul McCartney wrote a song titled "Michelle" about a boy trying to profess his love the best way he can to a girl who only speaks french. Lines 44-53 of Romeo and Juliet is an excerpt of a play written by William Shakespeare. In Act 1, Scene 5, Romeo is trying to describe the love he feels for Juliet after seeing her for the first time. In both pieces, it is shown that men should know what love feels like as soon as they think they have fallen in love, even if they can’t describe their emotions properly and feel like they should verbally explain it to those around them.
One of the most famous love stories, Romeo and Juliet, set during the Elizabethan era, is the story of two star-crossed lovers and the great lengths that they go through to show their love for their each other. Contrary to Romeo and Juliet, love emerges in a different way during modern times. Due to evolving times, love is much different today than during the Elizabethan era. Couples today are happier, because couples truly know each other and there are other options if a relationship does not work out.
Shakespeare uses three poetic devices throughout his Romeo and Juliet play, and he uses them more than once. For example in act two scene three Friar Lawrence states to Romeo “if e’er wast thyself and these woes thine, thou and these woes were all for Rosaline”. That right there was an example of alliteration because of the sound “w’ and “th” create. Juliet gives another example of a alliteration when in the beginning of act four she says “I have faint cold fear thrills through my veins, that almost freezes up the heat of life.” That quote uses “f” sound three times consistently throughout it.
She swears she 's over him, but there will always be a part of her that trusts you will come back. Maybe in five months, a decade later, or in another universe from now; when the both of you are wiser, suffered different heartbreaks, and dream different dreams. We will come together again. We 'll end up meeting at a local downtown coffee shop; maybe you 'll notice that my hair is shorter, my laugh is a bit lower pitched, and my clothes have lost colour. Your eyes may be dimmer, your face may be wrinkled, but your hands, the touch I 've been trying to mask with other people all this time, will feel the same, and it will hit me in the same way my dark black coffee hits me.
If her family sees him, they could get in trouble. They get married immediately, without anyone really knowing, maybe because once they’re in it, no one can take them out of it. Also, they may have been trying to fix their families, by bringing them together. This sort of relates to the movie Alpha and Omega, when Humphrey and Kate unite the alphas and omegas, and Lilly and Garth unite the packs. Humphrey was an omega, and Kate was an alpha.
“O happy dagger, this is thy sheath: there rust, and let me die” (Shakespeare 799) This quote is an excerpt from Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. This quote is explaining how Juliet Capulet, a young girl who is in love with Romeo Montague, says she wants to die because of her lover’s death. It shows the dramatic effect of the play, and how it portrays catharsis, the most important literary device in the play.
What the two families just care about are their social identity and the name of the family, so they refuse the love affair between Romeo and Juliet because they think about how the society will view them. Although Juliet falls in love with Romeo without knowing his real identity, Juliet's love for Romeo recalls her family’s hatred for the Montague name. In this sense, Juliet's love works against her because the feud could not just die
Act 2 scene 3 sets off by introducing Jessica, who is Shylock’s daughter, she is taking advantage of Launcelot, who is employed as a servant of Bassiano to deliver a letter to Lorenzo ,who is the acquaintance of Bassanio and the lover of Jessica. “And Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see Lorenzo, who is thy new master’s guest. Give him this letter. Do it secretly.” Lancelot hands the letter to Gratiano, and advises to open the letter, so he could appreciate of what is in the drafted, “ an it shall please you to break up this, it shall seem to signify”, thereafter Launcelot leaves to invite his former master Shylock , “ By your leave, sir.
1. The fight scene allows Shakespeare to reveal many things about the story, such as the fact that the families are in a feud and that these fights have a significant effect on the rest of the town. Using a street brawl, Shakespeare can reveal these things while still sticking to his style of playwriting focused around dialogue. 2. Sampson: [Aside to Gregory.]
To consider the balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet in Act II, Scene 2, the message is the decisions people make when they are in love and believe the world is against them. In Romeo and Juliet, Act II Scene 2, William Shakespeare reveals to the readers how two lovers act. In this scene of Romeo and Juliet Romeo goes into Capulet territory and he and Juliet talk about marriage. When the odds are against two lovers it makes them rebel and behave recklessly. In (Romeo and Juliet 2.2.35) Juliet exclaims, “O Romeo, Romeo!
Miscommunication in Romeo and Juliet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society” (The Best Quotes About Lies and Lying). People in this world lie all the time because they think that they are helping instead of telling the truth. When the truth comes out in the society people are more hurt than if a person just told the truth instead of lying. In William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet die from miscommunication between the characters, not fate.
