Romeo And Juliet Relationships

Just about everybody in the nation and maybe even the world has at least heard of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Being known as one of the most romantic plays and saddest tragedies, it’s probably one of the most well known pieces Shakespeare has ever produced. What people don’t seem to acknowledge, however, is the struggle the main characters face as their love is blocked by their families’ grudge between each other. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows the main characters of the same name denying their family name in order to be together, marrying to show how strong and serious their love truly is, and even contemplate killing themselves rather than accept their families’ beliefs and orders. The play shows just how much humans will fight

Of course, their acts of love didn’t last long, as they soon found out from Nurse that they are from opposite sides of two families that hold a strong grudge. But even though their love is forbidden, the two still wish to see each other. In the second act, Juliet talks to herself as if she were with Romeo, asking him to deny his lineage and her to do the same so they may be together. She says, “Tis but thy name that is thy enemy./ Thou art thyself, though not a Montague./ […] So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,/ Retain that dear perfection which he owes/ Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,/ And, for thy name, which is no part to thee,/ Take all myself./” (2.2.41-52). This is the first big example of how Juliet rebels against her parents’ wishes when her beliefs differ from theirs, even if it’s done secretly. And the rebellion doesn’t stop there. Further down the play, Romeo and Juliet’s actions get even more

It’s a small taste of how far they’re willing to go to show their love, and it only gets more extreme.

A couple acts after the first two examples, Juliet is trying to find a way out of her arranged marriage with Paris. She asks Nurse for advice, goes to Friar Lawrence for a solution, and even debates on killing herself if it comes down to it. She tells Friar Lawrence, “Tell me not, Friar, that thou hearest of this,/ Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it./ If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,/ Do thou call my resolution wise,/ And with this knife I’ll help it presently,” and proceeds to show him her knife. (4.1.51-55). This action is probably the best at showing the characters’ battle against the Capulets and the Montagues and what lengths they are willing to go to express their beliefs. Rather than accepting her fate and letting go her love for Romeo, Juliet finds it much better to kill herself, which is huge, let alone her quick refusal for the marriage. Although the characters never publicly show their love and the measures they’ll take to keep it, apart from Friar Lawrence, their secret actions still show how humans will fight