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Romeo & Juliet Socratic Seminar Written Response
Annie Kang 5) Turn one of the following topics (fate, family ties, friendship, or love) into a universal theme and analyze how it develops throughout the play. Love is so strong that it can never be broken. In
Romeo & Juliet
, their love is one that progresses very quickly, leading to the two getting married recklessly. Romeo is someone who falls in love easily, and when he sees Juliet, he immediately falls in love with her, despite being madly in love with a girl named Rosaline just a few days earlier. Upon first seeing Juliet, he asks to a Servingman, “What lady’s that, which doth enrich / the hand / Of yonder knight?”
(II, v, 3840). Romeo immediately spots Juliet across the dance floor and is mesmerized by her beauty. Juliet is young and naive, so when Juliet meets the very attractive Romeo, she too, falls in love with him at first sight. After having not met each other for not even a full day, they essentially decide to get married, despite knowing the identities of each other and the feuds that occur between their two families.
In
Romeo & Juliet
, love is an overpowering force that prevails over all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Romeo and Juliet are starcrossed lovers and this is a fact that can never be changed fate controls them forever. When Juliet hears about Romeo's’ banishment from Verona, she does not even care that this was because he killed her own cousin Tybalt she is just glad that Romeo is still alive. Upon hearing of her arranged marriage with Paris by her parents, she’d rather commit suicide than be with him because she is already married to her love, Romeo. She does not even take into consideration her parents’ wishes for her wellbeing that they have her marry Paris, all because of her unbreakable love with Romeo.
When Romeo hears news of Juliet’s death, he acts in haste because his beloved Juliet is no longer with him in this world. He says,
Annie Kang 5) Turn one of the following topics (fate, family ties, friendship, or love) into a universal theme and analyze how it develops throughout the play. Love is so strong that it can never be broken. In
Romeo & Juliet
, their love is one that progresses very quickly, leading to the two getting married recklessly. Romeo is someone who falls in love easily, and when he sees Juliet, he immediately falls in love with her, despite being madly in love with a girl named Rosaline just a few days earlier. Upon first seeing Juliet, he asks to a Servingman, “What lady’s that, which doth enrich / the hand / Of yonder knight?”
(II, v, 3840). Romeo immediately spots Juliet across the dance floor and is mesmerized by her beauty. Juliet is young and naive, so when Juliet meets the very attractive Romeo, she too, falls in love with him at first sight. After having not met each other for not even a full day, they essentially decide to get married, despite knowing the identities of each other and the feuds that occur between their two families.
In
Romeo & Juliet
, love is an overpowering force that prevails over all other values, loyalties, and emotions. Romeo and Juliet are starcrossed lovers and this is a fact that can never be changed fate controls them forever. When Juliet hears about Romeo's’ banishment from Verona, she does not even care that this was because he killed her own cousin Tybalt she is just glad that Romeo is still alive. Upon hearing of her arranged marriage with Paris by her parents, she’d rather commit suicide than be with him because she is already married to her love, Romeo. She does not even take into consideration her parents’ wishes for her wellbeing that they have her marry Paris, all because of her unbreakable love with Romeo.
When Romeo hears news of Juliet’s death, he acts in haste because his beloved Juliet is no longer with him in this world. He says,