Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare about two teenage lovers from two families that hold a deep hatred for eachother. With the help of a local friar, the two are sent through a complex plan to get married and run off together. While the original plan seems to be simple, as it unwinds, it shows it’s many flaws. The two end up both committing suicide because of the miscommunication from everyone involved. All of the characters in the play have a number of motivations and reasons they act as they do.
“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. ”- H. Jackson Brown Jr. This quote is reflecting the main point of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragic story both Romeo and Juliet put themselves before each other and act upon what will not only benefit them but will benefit the significant other even more.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet can be seen as a simple story of star-crossed lovers, but it is clear that every act, scene, line, and word has an intricate meaning. The entire story is laid out for us in the first scene. So, the meaning of the play is not in the plot, but in the words and poetry being utilized. William Shakespeare, writer of Romeo and Juliet, utilized the implications of words being expressed as feelings, in this case violence and pain, the theme of religion and life, and the use of hyperboles to bring the play to life. William Shakespeare used words to convey varying emotions, actions, and themes along with other qualities to make his stories congenial.
Pardon & punished are reoccurring themes within Romeo and Juliet. It is also an obvious recurring theme within Shakespeare’s work. At the end of the play the prince says “Pardon means to be forgiven for an act or mistake that you have done or the act of forgiving someone for something they have done. Punished is when you inflict a penalty or sanction against someone who has wronged. The idea of “punishment & Pardoning” are relevant to the play because they represent the good and bad within the play.
Through the use of foreshadowing, Shakespeare enhances Romeo and Juliet by creating a deeper interest among the audience. In the prologue of act 1, Shakespeare references Romeo and Juliet by the line, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,” (I, Prologue, 9). In this line, the lovers are said to be fated to commit suicide. By revealing the ending of the plot prematurely, Shakespeare creates dramatic irony and entices the audience to view until the end to gain the details leading to their deaths. Later, midway through the play as Mercutio is slain, he repeats a line multiple times, “A plague o’ both your houses!”
Georgia Heseman Mrs. Drozkowski Advanced English I 29 April 2024 Act I Romeo and Juliet Reading Log quotations pg 1 - 1234567 Benvolio: “I will make thee think thy swan a crow” (I. ii. 94). The syllable of the syllable. Romeo: “So shows a snowy dove trooping with doves.” (I. v. 55). In scene one, Benvolio talks to Lord and Lady Montague about why Romeo has been so depressed lately.
In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare tells the story of 2 star-crossed lovers fighting against fate. On this journey, they face deception, disloyalty, and loss. Ultimately their story ends in tragedy, but they got to experience love in its true form. Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet in order to illustrate that both deliberate and unintentional deceit lead to extreme loss and the destruction of relationships. Shakespeare emphasizes how Juliet believed Romeo knew about her plan to fake her death in order to showcase that even unintentional deceit can cause death and devastation.
Shakespeare has many instances of dramatic irony in Romeo and Juliet. He uses it for different purposes, one purpose is to show how, despite the Friar trying to help the situation he worsened it unintentionally. A second purpose is to show how secret Romeo and Juliet were. One example of dramatic irony is the Friar gives Juliet a potion and creates a plan to help Juliet be with Romeo again.
Throughout writers pieces, the diction of each sentence is chosen meticulously and with these choices, the themes of the pieces are secretly introduced. For example, writers have introduced plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and Hamlet just a couple of them. With these plays, many hidden themes are introduced, but to see them you must know how to read between the lines. The main play that will be discussed is Romeo and Juliet. Even though Shakespeare does not make many themes as obvious as others throughout Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare chooses to introduce many universal themes with hidden meanings.
Stop. Think. Rethink Using this simple approach can ultimately save a life. Moving too quickly without thought is a very dangerous game. In almost every scenario and situation, going too quickly through life results negatively because it causes one to act recklessly, make wrong decisions, and end up in situations they never anticipated.
In the introductory, poetic prologue of ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare communicates the distinctive thematic theme of fate. He vividly foreshadows the results of fate in the opening paragraph of the play. In the prologue it states, “A pair of star-crossed lovers […], fearful passage of their death-marked love,”. This opening to the tragic play, already indicates that a death will occur because of the consequences of family and the result of their love towards each other, “continuance of their parent’s rage,”.
Romeo and Juliet have fate against each other. Its said hat their love is “death marked.” Romeo and Juliet can’t control what going to happen as they go alone with this. For starters they’re in different groups, so they don’t know how their groups is going to react. It is their misfortune that leads to a terrible at the end.
A mark of a good story is that the protagonists change from the beginning of the story to the end. Sometimes they can change from a well-respected being to someone who makes terrible decisions, or from a person who makes terrible decisions to a well-respected being. The change in a person usually depends on their environment and the people they choose to socialize with. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, there are particular changes in all of the main characters that can be pointed out by the end of the book. Juliet is the one that changes the most and acts differently towards the end of the play.
The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has toyed with the emotions of its audience members for centuries. The play’s main characters, Romeo and Juliet, love one another in spite of the feud between their families and later on, in the wallows of grief, each take their own life. While the characters both meet their end tragically, it was their choices that realistically led them down that path. The cause of the two “star-crossed lovers” final end is not due to fate or destiny, but by their own foolish hands.
Through the predominant influences of certain characters, inconsistency of decision making, and secretiveness amongst the characters, these events quickly lead to the grievous incident of the play. All the way from past hatred and persuasive friends, to emotionally driven decisions such as Romeo’s desire to be married and his vengeance, the play concluded with potions that provoked counter outcomes. Romeo and Juliet displayed the risks they were willing to take in the name of love, but in the end, poor choices took responsibility for the continuous occurrences that lead to dreadful ends; however, opposed to the idea of fate, or a stronger force guiding the character’s actions. With this, the play closed with the poisonous idea of the love that Romeo and Juliet shared, including all that they would sacrifice to have a chance at a life
