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Teamwork In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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This year in Mrs.Yus class I have learned new skills and accomplished so much. Furthermore, this year I have accomplished teamwork because I was in a Shakespearean group for a video project. Also, I learned how to communicate effectively to each one of my group members and how to work together as a team. Then, I found that we had some difficulties with the amount of time give for our group project, but all of this was overcome by hard work and team work. In addition, I had to develop and use reading skills to break down the confusing words that Shakespeare had written very complexly. Afterwards, this seven month Shakespeare project helped me read at a quicker pace, improve my reading comprehension, and help me write more complexly. Anyhow, …show more content…

Then, these backgrounds, all have something they can’t change, this is called their fate. In Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet they both have multiple fates that is similar and different. In Romeo and Juliet both of the characters fate, that they can’t change, was that someone from the Capulet and Montague families was going to be together and these people were star crossed lovers and these two people happened to be Romeo and Juliet. This is shown in the Prologue “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”(Rom. Prologue vers.5 ). Also, Hamlet's fate was very different then Romeo and Juliet’s fate, Hamlet's fate was to never have a star crossed lover it was to kill his Uncle no matter the circumstances and at the end of the book it was fulfilled. This part was shown when Hamlet says “Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane, Drink of this potion off this potion. Is thy union here? Follow my mother”(Ham. 5.2 326-328). In life people have to make decisions that come down to the smallest decisions then the biggest ones. In addition, these decisions are called your destiny. Then, in all of the plays the decisions made in the plays really affect the way the resolution of the story turns out. In the play Hamlet, Hamlet decides to obey the Ghost of his father this quest was to kill the new king, King Claudius, “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder”(Ham. 1.5 25). Furthermore, Romeo in self defense killed Tybalt this is a very different than what Hamlet did because Hamlet had a goad to kill King Claudius “I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, but rejoice in the splendor of mine own” (Rom. 1.2

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