Romeo is cancer “Love is heavy and light‚ bright and dark‚ hot and cold‚ sick and healthy‚ asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1‚ scene 1)” says romeo from the play Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. Romeo and juliet is a play about to star crossed lovers that have to fight through their rival families issues and hatred for each other. I argue that romeo is cancer because he is loving and overly emotional when it comes to women. Romeo is loving to his lover Juliet
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of Romeo and Juliet. How did Shakespeare make these characters fit so well? The three characters that Shakespeare used in story to fit so well are Romeo‚ Juliet‚ and Mercutio. These characters started off as something in the beginning and then something different in the end. All three of these characters changed tremendously throughout the story. The First Transformation of The Story begins with Romeo. Romeo transforms almost entirely‚ and in the beginning of the story‚ all Romeo was
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Romeo and Juliet Analysis Shakespeare‚ being the great writer he is‚ molds each character as if he was Michelangelo sculpting the David. The way these characters were brought into the story drastically changes the way the viewer sees their personas. The setting of the story is an older era in Verona‚ Italy around the 1300s. This story includes unique characters varying in ages and mindsets. Some younger characters were put into situations where they are forced to act maturely‚ like they are much
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tragic play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ explores the effects of patriarchal authority exerted over women and how the patriarchal structure left no escape from it‚ save death. Through Juliet‚ Lady Capulet‚ and the Nurse‚ Shakespeare establishes a common understanding of this type of society‚ but illuminates three different reactions to the social oppression by portraying the responses of a passionate lover‚ an idyllic housewife‚ and an attendant. Juliet is introduced into the play in act one scene three‚ as
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sense of security‚ confidence and capability. In Shakespeare’s‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ love‚ in essence Romeo‚ is the guiding force which brings Juliet through these stages of adolescence to the onset of maturity. As she stabs herself with the dagger‚ she has become a self-assured‚ capable and loyal woman; ultimately she has come of age. "What is your will?" Juliet replies to her mother’s call. (18‚ ln 6) Shakespeare first introduces us to Juliet in her most innocent and sheltered form‚ her baby phase. She
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The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a play which is one of the best known tragedies of all time but at the same time is referred to as the greatest love story of all time. It is about two ‘Star cross’d lovers’ (Prologue 1.6). In other words‚ Romeo and Juliet are governed by fate‚ a movement often linked with the stars. However it has another theme‚ violence‚ which in a way blocks out the love in the play. It presents love and hate as equally potent forces of nature
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The classical tale of love filled with emotional deaths and an unsatisfying ending. Romeo and Juliet is a tale of two lovers‚ who were supposedly able to fall in love at first sight. Throughout the story‚ multiple choices are taken that have a larger impact on the overall end and story of the characters. The consequences of these choices tend to be very deadly or heartbreaking for the other characters. The problem is the fact that these choices could have been avoided entirely‚ if the correct choice
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Comparison of Films Related to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet The two movies‚ Romeo and Juliet (Luhrmann 1996) and Gnomeo and Juliet (Asbury 2011) have many differences. The most obvious difference is that the Luhrmann film has human actors and Asbury’s film is animated. The most obvious similarity is both films are spin offs or versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. In being versions of Shakespeare’s well known work‚ the films have major similarities in plot And title
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the feeling that the two teens‚ Romeo and Juliet has. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have a love at first sight moment at a Capulet party. A couple of days later‚ they secretly get married. Later that day‚ Romeo is banished from Verona‚ their hometown because of a murder. Juliet and the friar make a plan for Juliet to live happily ever after with Romeo. This plan goes terribly wrong‚ causing Romeo and Juliet to both commit suicide since
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In the play Romeo and Juliet‚ marriage is an obstacle that young Juliet is trying to evade so she can be with Romeo‚ her true love. Since the play has been written‚ marriage has developed differently over years. By being able to pick whom you want to marry‚ when you want to marry your significant other‚ and why you want to marry them. The play includes many quotes indicating that marriage as being chosen by the parents. More so‚ the father picks who his daughter marries. “But fettle your fine
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