What must be shall be. To answer that, I should confess to you. I will confess to you that I love him. If I do so, it will be of more price, Being spoke behind your back, than to your face. The tears have got small victory by that; For it was bad enough before their spite. What will help Romeo and Juliet overcome their problems? What does Romeo do in order to avoid his friends? What do Benvolio and Mercuito think Romeo is doing? What does Romeo compare Juliet to? What is Juliet’s enemy? Why doesn’t Romeo reveal himself? Why doesn’t Juliet want Romeo to swear by the moon?

Romeo And Julietintensive English 12

• Students will read and perform Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and compare and contrast the ways in which the play treats the subject of fate versus free will. Building on the Bless Me, Ultima and poetry units, students also will consider Shakespeare's use of rhythm, punctuation, and imagery and the ways in which they help convey the motives.
• The story of romeo and juliet is a tragic one,its their fate which plays a main part in this play.making them fall in love at first sight and again separating them.Their families keep on with their long old enemity between them which takes a troll on their children also,thus by killing them in the end.when both the families realize their mistake by losing their children its too late by then.
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Romeo makes his first appearance a few moments after the Prince has ended a fight between Montagues and Capulets. These lines establish that Romeo is tired of the feud between the two families. He compares the families’ hatred to his own love for Rosaline, which establishes the close connection between love and violence running throughout the play.

Romeo agrees to attend the Capulets’ ball, but he fears his decision may set off a chain of events that will end in tragedy. Throughout the play we get a strong sense that Romeo and Juliet cannot escape their fates. When Romeo says that the consequences of his decision are “hanging in the stars,” he reminds the audience that the “star-crossed” lovers of the Prologue are doomed to die.

These lines express Romeo’s first impression of Juliet. In discussing his love for Rosaline, Romeo uses stale clichés drawn from the Petrarchan love poetry that was popular in Shakespeare’s day. As soon as he sees Juliet, Romeo’s language takes on a striking and original quality, which suggests that his passion for her is authentic.

As Romeo approaches Juliet’s bedroom, he describes her in language drawn from astrology, such as suns, moons, and stars. This grandiose imagery suggests that Romeo believes his love for Juliet is not earthbound, but transcendent. Juliet herself is a force as powerful as the sun, the literal center of the universe. However, astrological imagery also reminds the audience that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed”—in other words, fated to die. The following lines read “arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,” suggesting that Romeo’s love for Juliet has supplanted his previous, weaker infatuation with Rosaline.

Juliet asks Romeo how he has managed to reach her bedroom, and this is his reply. These lines show that for Romeo, love is freedom. As a lover, he can ignore the boundaries set by the feud between Montagues and Capulets. Yet Romeo’s words also suggest that he retains a primarily abstract and poetic understanding of love, more fantasy than reality.

Romeo And Julietintensive English 11

When Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo regrets not fighting Tybalt himself. This is a turning point in Romeo’s story. Up until now, Romeo has been trying to free himself from the feud between Montagues and Capulets as well as the masculine code of honor that keeps the feud going. When he blames Juliet for making him “effeminate,” he is embracing the masculine code once more.

This line is the first moment in the play when it seems Romeo and Juliet might have a chance to talk about something besides their love for one another. However, the chance never comes, because Romeo has to escape from Verona. This moment emphasizes that Romeo and Juliet’s love is new and immature. Part of the play’s tragedy is that the lovers will never have the chance to have an adult relationship.

Romeo refuses to accept Juliet’s death. He decides to return to Verona, but his attempt to defy the “stars” only succeeds in bringing about his tragic fate, which emphasizes that the lovers’ destiny is inescapable. Because the Prologue references the lovers’ “star-crossed” fate, every subsequent reference to the stars, or to the heavens in general, reminds the audience of the sad fate awaiting the lovers, and their inability to avoid it, try though they might.

Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideasexplored in a literary work.

The Forcefulness of Love

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous lovestory in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’sdominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romanticlove, specifically the intense passion that springs up at firstsight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, loveis a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all othervalues, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, theyoung lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families(“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thouwilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”);friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast inorder to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Veronafor Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of deathin 2.1.76–78). Love is the overriding themeof the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeareis uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of theemotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetryRomeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo andJuliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individualsand catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.

The powerful nature of love can be seen inthe way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptionsof it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times loveis described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lineswhen Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as asort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (2.Prologue.6).Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo byrefusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess/ I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (3.1.33–34).Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it istoo powerful to be so easily contained or understood.

Modern English Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet does not make a specificmoral statement about the relationships between love and society,religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passionof being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion,and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragicconclusion.

Love as a Cause of Violence

Romeo And Juliet English Translation

The themes of death and violence permeate Romeoand Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whetherthat passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence,and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violencerequires further investigation.

Love, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grandpassion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person aspowerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love betweenRomeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception withdeath: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determinesto kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantlyin love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the loverscloser to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Julietare plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experienceit: in Act 3, scene 3, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’scell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished fromVerona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to takeher own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later.After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says,“If all else fail, myself have power to die” (3.5.242).Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning aftertheir first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,”Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (3.5.55–56). This theme continues untilits inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice isthe highest, most potent expression of love that Romeo and Julietcan make. It is only through death that they can preserve theirlove, and their love is so profound that they are willing to endtheir lives in its defense. In the play, love emerges as an amoralthing, leading as much to destruction as to happiness. But in itsextreme passion, the love that Romeo and Juliet experience alsoappears so exquisitely beautiful that few would want, or be able,to resist its power.

Modern Version Romeo And Juliet

The Individual Versus Society

Much of Romeo and Juliet involvesthe lovers’ struggles against public and social institutions thateither explicitly or implicitly oppose the existence of their love.Such structures range from the concrete to the abstract: familiesand the placement of familial power in the father; law and the desirefor public order; religion; and the social importance placed onmasculine honor. These institutions often come into conflict witheach other. The importance of honor, for example, time and againresults in brawls that disturb the public peace.