Romeo And Juliet's Marriage

How strong can a marriage be? What is essential for a successful marriage? The scene is in Italy in the 1590’s where women are bound for an arranged marriage. Although there wasn’t a say in the marriage, not all of them were successful. This could have been due to the emotional or mental qualities of the married women. In Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew, Katherine the female protagonist married Petruchio, the male protagonist. Their outcome of their marriage depends on Katherine’s attitude towards it. In another one of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet, Juliet was bound to marry the most loved man in Verona, Italy, Paris. She refused and went behind the arrangement and married Romeo. Unfortunately this resulted in tragedy with

What is the difference through scenario? Romeo and Juliet’s love would be straightforward passionate as they would do anything for each other, even die as they did. Romeo’s last words to as he thought was dead Juliet were, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide./ Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ The dashing rocks they seasick, weary bark./ Here’s to my love! (drinks the poison) O true/ apothecary,/ Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (Romeo and Juliet 5.3.5). Their love is in no doubt passionate, maybe too passionate. Katherine and Petruchio’s love would be dynamic, going through constant change. As it starts Petruchio has to win Katherine’s love before marrying her as a deal with her father. “Ay, when the special thing is well obtained,/ That is, her love, for that is all in all” (The Taming of the Shrew 2.1.6). As is already known, Katherine refused to love Petruchio at first. But once being shown how she’s treated everyone through Petruchio’s plans and other women’s loyalty to their husbands, she realizes her mistake and says, “Than vail your stomachs, for it is no boot,/ And place your hands below your husband’s foot:/ In token of which duty, if he please,/ My hand is ready, may it do him ease” (The Taming of the Shrew 5.2.10). Romeo and Juliet’s love and marriage were strong enough it lead to death while Petruchio and Katherine’s love and marriage were strong enough to stay