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In this paragraph, Juliet is oxymoronic and uses paradoxes to give expression and to show that she is conflicted. The first line, “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!” is revealing that Juliet is not very forgiving towards Romeo for killing her cousin and thinks that his bad character got masked by his good looks and charm. This first line doesn’t have an oxymoron in it however the point of it is to show the audience that Juliet’s first reaction towards the incident is not good. Lines two and four are where she begins to use oxymora and it states, “Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
“Learn to appreciate what you have before time forces you to appreciate what you had” (Unknown). In Act Three, Scene Three of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence expresses his distress towards Romeo’s recent behavior. In this monologue, the Friar believes Romeo should be thinking rationally to be appreciative of what he has. The use of figurative language in this outburst reveals how foolish and ungrateful Romeo has been.
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera is a captivating story that follows a young Latina lesbian’s journey of self-discovery and acceptance. While Juliet grows to find comfort in her cultural identity and sexual orientation, Harlowe contradicts Juliet's image during her book reading by reducing Juliet to a stereotype. Following this racially aggressive moment, Maxine, another person of color, calls out Juliet for walking away and not standing up for herself in Chapter 25. Through the intersectional identities and stress response of flight, I seek to examine how Rivera explores the notion of blame and ownership through Maxine’s conversation with Juliet about Harlowe’s reading.
I have chosen one of the key people in this book that led to the deaths of Romeo and Juliette is Friar Laurence. I am choosing to punish the Friar because in act 2 Romeo went to his church and told him they would like to get married. Even after the Friar said that this was not true love, the only reason was that she was a pretty girl and that “man's heart lives in man's eye.” He still agreed to marry them. This shows that he didn’t care if they loved each other and was more concerned about the ongoing fight between the families.
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet Juliet when juliet is told that Romeo killed Tybalt she uses a hateful attitude toward Romeo using diction to help create her attitude in the passage. In act III scene ii after the nurse tells Juliet Romeo has killed Tybalt her attitude changes toward Romeo from being in love with him to a hateful tone. For example she states ”Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical (3.2.81).” This shows Juliet attitude by when she says fiend angelical she compares Romeo to pretty much a devilish angel. When she refers to him as a devilish angel Juliet is saying how Romeo has a bad side like the devil where it’s evil and has soul but,then refers to as a angel where it’s nice kind person.
The Conflicted Heart Juliet reveals that she is guilty about Tybalt’s death yet more devastated about Romeo’s banishment, evidentially taking Romeo’s side. Juliet’s husband, Romeo, kills her cousin, Tybalt. This act results in the banishment of Romeo which makes it impossible for him to come and see her. After hearing the dreadful news, Juliet begins to ponder whose side to take in this situation, her husband’s or her family’s. Midway through her dialog, she convinces herself that she should not cry because Tybalt would have killed her husband.
William Shakespeare, renowned author and poet, whose work has remained a prime example of quality material for centuries, began writing in the 1500s. His arguably most famous and renowned work, Romeo and Juliet, detested at its time, due to the tragic deaths of the main characters. Two young teenagers, star crossed lovers who are hopelessly lusting for one another. Their deaths were of their own accord, and yet there were many factors that played a role in influencing the rash decision that both teenagers decided to make. For centuries, people have argued which factor is most to blame, and yet there is still no definite answer.
George Washington once said, “Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.” In Act 4, Scene 3 of his play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare proves this point. By showing Juliet in a manic, anxiety ridden state, while in the midst of a life or death situation brought on by her own actions, Shakespeare provides evidence for Washington’s claim. By showcasing Juliet’s panicked mind, through his use of imagery and repetition of rhetorical questions, Shakespeare characterizes Juliet as being anxious and paranoid.
By: Elijah and Zoe. The conclusions reached in the article “Teens’ Brains” affirm the actions and thoughts of both Romeo and Juliet. Romeo affirms the conclusion that experts’ can talk about how “juveniles on average are more: impulsive, aggressive, emotionally volatile, likely to take risks, reactive to stress, vulnerable to peer pressure, prone to focus on short-term payoff and underplay longer term consequences of what they do” “when they are confronted with stressful or emotional decisions” (qtd in “Teens’ Brains”). Meaning that teens don’t look for any alternate solutions to the problems they may face and are greatly affected by their emotions which Romeo does after Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo overtaken by grief and wanting to fight Tybalt saying, “And
William sShakespeare, the author of “The tTragedy of Romeo and Juliet,”, explains love and the dangers it provides. In the play, two teens fall in love. They have some bumps in the road when there hormones tend to take over. Hormones play a specific role in a teens life. It tends to take over the emotions and physical activity of teens.
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself; in appropriate and pleasurable language;... in a dramatic rather than narrative form; with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish a catharsis of these emotions.” Even before Aristotle had created this definition for tragedy, people had been drawn to them and still are. Why watching characters experience such horrid pain appeals to people is difficult to answer, though Aristotle described it well; tragedies lead to a catharsis, or release of painful repressed emotions, in this case through the characters’ experience of these emotions. From watching Hamlet go insane after his father’s death, to Leonardo DiCaprio dying
Romeos and Juliets Death Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about two love-struck teens that eventually falls in love. They have to face obstacles just to find a way to be together and eventually have to secrednize their marriage. The characters Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Lord, Lady Capulet are primarily responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. They all have things they did that leads to Romeo and Juliet’s departness. Also, the decisions they made and the problems they caused such as ruining true love.
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, he tells the story of two people who fall in love, Romeo, a Montague, and Juliet, a Capulet. Their families have been feuding for as long as they can remember, making their love for one another very dangerous. The two go to extreme lengths to be with each other, but this eventually results in both of them losing their lives. Throughout this story, Shakespeare conveys through his use of syntax and diction with wrathful tone that hatred can make people act irrationally loyal, and this hatred can cloud one’s morals. We first see Shakespeare demonstrate the dangers that come from fighting without proper reason in the very beginning between the characters Tybalt and Benvolio.
In direct contrast to Smith’s positive view of inequality, Rousseau believes unchecked inequality leads to the downfall of the lower classes. As inequality grows through the specialization of labor, man’s egocentrism, or amour propre, leads to jealousy and conflict between those who have accumulated wealth and capital. To counteract this under the pretense of protecting all peoples, the wealthy unite and create a society of rule “which gave new fetters to the weak and new forces to the rich, irretrievably destroyed natural liberty, established forever the law of property and of inequality, changed adroit usurpation into an irrevocable right, and for the profit of a few ambitious men henceforth subjected the entire human race to labor, servitude,
In his work, The Poetics Aristotle reflects on the role of pity and fear in tragedy, stating, “Tragedy is essentially an imitation not of persons but of action and of life; of happiness and misery. Add human happiness or misery takes the form of action… Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions that we are happy or the reverse… The tragic pleasure is that of pity and fear” (Aristotle, The Poetics). Aristotle is probing one to conclude that tragedy is characterized by the pity and fear one evokes when individuals go against their presumed character and commit detrimental acts. Throughout his play Macbeth, Shakespeare, reminisces on the actions that gravitate an audience to render both fear and pity, which characterize a tragedy.
