Essay on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is a beautiful story by William Shakespeare in which the reader observes the bold and rash character of Romeo. He falls in love at the first sight with his wife, Juliet. Their families have been feuding for generations; therefore, they make a plan to run away and live a life of joy. However, this plan falls through and many are killed throughout this dangerous journey including both lives of the lovers. Because he does not think before acting, Romeo is brought into dangerous and avoidable situations. His biggest flaw of being rash and rushing things affects himself and the people around him physically, mentally, and emotionally.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet focus on the two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love and die within a span of three days. Romeo and Juliet illustrate how the love brings them together to over power the control of their relationship. The moment that Romeo and Juliet declare their love for one another, they try to keep their love a secret since they are the children of the feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Initially their families would be outraged against their relationship that Romeo and Juliet propose to hide the truth of their love. Once Romeo and Juliet reveal to the Nurse and Friar Lawrence their plans to marry, their relationship is nothing but a risk of problems. Romeo is unafraid to show his love that he teases Tybalt teasing him about falling in love with Juliet, although not explicitly. However, the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, occur when Romeo and Juliet take actions to protect themselves, but they are not however, protected. Juliet protects her relationship by committing a false death only for Romeo to believe it as true. As a result, the act to protect Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret are examples of the failed actions both Romeo and Juliet try to prevent; however, it is not ‘fate’ that control their lives and deaths.

Romeo and Juliet are both in their teenage years. Just like teenagers in other cultures, they are impulsive and have high hormones due to human nature. Romeo has proven that he experiences these things through his past love for Rosaline and how upset he got over her. Juliet has also shown these things while on the balcony expressing her love for Romeo. Their teenage side effects play into the quickness and extremity of their love through marriage and suicide at such a young age. Due to their impulsivity, they didn’t think ahead they just thought about what they were currently in need of and wanting.

The deaths of Romeo and Juliet were caused by their impulsiveness and poor decisions. An example of this is how fast after meeting each other that they married; “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden” (Shakespeare 407). They fell in love at first sight, having spoken just a few words before agreeing to get married. Their marriage in secret led to their families fighting, as well as Mercutio’s and Tybalt's deaths. It led to this because while Romeo wanted peace, Tybalt wanted to kill

Then Juliet’s father enters and he is furious that Juliet is refusing to marry Paris. Shakespeare shows this by using rhetorical questions, by using rhetorical questions this shows that Lord Capulet is not willing to give Juliet a chance to speak or answer any of his questions. Lord Capulet’s anger results in him threatening Juliet. He uses the phrase “My fingers itch.” This means he wants to hit Juliet because she has refused to marry Paris.

Created in 1595, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about two star-crossed lovers from opposing families who hold an ancient grudge. The theme is about love and hate throughout the play.

Shakespeare’s book the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, is primarily a book about love, but the love people have for each other turns out to create conflict between every one of them. Romeo falls in love with Rosaline at the beginning of the book, but then falls in love with Juliet the moment he lays eyes on her. The major problem is that Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague, those two families have been in conflict for generations. Paris is in love with Juliet at the beginning of the play and Juliet is getting forced to marry Paris, but she refuses to. Just to know that after knowing each other not even a full day Romeo and Juliet start planning on getting married, that is definitely considered love. If you could actually take a

Place to go- needs to travel to the underworld to meet his mother who is being held captive

In “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, what may seem to be the tragic destiny of two star-crossed lovers, is actually the result of impulsiveness and the disregard for any consequences that can occur. “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, repeatedly, expresses the ideas of fate controlling one's destiny, however, fate is not responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. In the city of Verona, Romeo and Juliet stand as heirs to feuding households, the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other, despite what their families might do if they were to find out. This ongoing recklessness throughout the story places both of them in jeopardy, and it, eventually, leads to their own demise.

they were to them. For a long time in the story Romeo and Juliet kept

On the other hand Romeo and Juliet are willing to make a bold action too. They defied their parent’s command and got married despite their wishes. Even though all these characters have similarities in the way of being cautious. There’s still a risk that they have to make even if they’re

Both protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, each have a set of tragic flaws. Romeo’s tragic flaw is his impetuous nature. His impetuosity can be expressed in many occasions when he makes rash decisions. The first example of this nature is his hasty desicion to quickly change the girl he loves in a few seconds. We start out the play with Romeo in love with Rosaline, a girl who will soon be joining the convent. As soon as Romeo lays eyes on fair, beautiful, adolescent Juliet, Rosaline is a story of the past. Another example of his impulsiveness is his rushing into marriage with Juliet. They had only met less than twenty four hours before they pledge love to one another before God. One conclusive example of Romeo’s hastyness is his ability to kill himself in a flash. After hearing from Balthasar that his fair Juliet was dead, he bought poison and rode off to see her. As soon as he sees her, he notices how she looks so alive, so much like she did a few days before. Romeo never put the two and two together. Quickly, he drinks the poison only to have Juliet awaken a few seconds later. Romeo’s rash descisions ended up killing him. Juliet also had a tragic flaw, loyalty. Juliet’s unwavering loyalty to Romeo, led to her tragic end. One example of this loyalty to Romeo is set throughout the entire play. Romeo was a Montague sworn enemy to Juliet’s family the Capulets. Juliet didn’t see Romeo as a Montague

scene in the play. Act 3 scenes 1 happens in the middle of the play,

In one of the most famous lines of the play, Juliet proclaims, “O Romeo, Romeo, /wherefore art thou Romeo? /Deny thy father and refuse thy name, /Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, /And I’ll no longer be a Capulet,” (2.1.74-78). What Juliet says in those lines is incredibly outrageous for the time period she is in. She is willing to give up her entire family and status to be with a man that she just recently met. Because of “their destructive passion, their youthful, idealistic, impatient love” the love story of Romeo and Juliet turned tragic rather than beautiful (Tragedy). Her willingness to do whatever it takes, without really thinking through the consequences, is what leads to her demise.

When Romeo meets Juliet, we think things are originally going to go smoothly for these lovers. Unfortunately, they’re not able to escape the curse of the family feud. Romeo fights with Tybalt, resulting in Tybalt’s death, which leads him into banishment. Romeo and Juliet secretly marries one another knowing that they have one night together before Romeo has to leave town. But Romeo says he would rather die than leave his precious Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are prepared to break any rule to be able to be with each other. They are even prepared to die for each other. Which is exactly what they did. In order for Juliet to avoid marrying Paris, she drank a potion that made her sleep for 42 hours, but when Romeo saw Juliet asleep, he right away thought she was dead, and so he killed himself by drinking poison he purchased. And when Juliet awakens and sees her lover lying dead next to her, she kills herself by using Romeos sword. Which just proves that rushing love and making hasty decisions, especially when you’re young can have major