Romeo risked getting killed by the Capulet’s by visiting Juliet late at night at her balcony. “If they do see thee, they will murder thee.”(ii.ii.74) Juliet was telling Romeo that if the guards saw him they would murder him. Romeo didn’t care, and he took the risk talking to her all night long and getting in trouble. If that’s not love, what is it? A third reason why I think Romeo and Juliet are truly in love is because they got married so they were committed to each other.
In this essay, I will be showing a comparison between ‘Romeo and Juliet’ (Shakespeare), ‘To His Coy Mistress’ (Marvel) and ‘Sonnet 130’ (Also by Shakespeare). The first main comparison between these three texts is that they all show different types of love. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is based on true love as both main characters fall in love with each other at first sight. Shakespeare shows their love by the soliloquy and the sonnet that he added to this text as the words and techniques used in them project a connection between Romeo and Juliet. ‘To His Coy Mistress’ shows an idea of a sexual and lustful love.
Romeo, in an act of revenge, kills Tybalt. The Prince, trying to maintain peace, banished Romeo from Verona. The Nurse brought the news to Juliet “Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished; Romeo that killed him, he is banished” (Romeo and Juliet 2. 2. 69-70 ) This made Juliet miserable over Romeo's banishment, meanwhile her parents thought her unhappiness was over Tybalt's death.
This is similar to Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights. Emily published her novel during the Victorian time where women also married for “higher power, political reasons and wealth “. Both novels Romeo and Juliet are similar due to the fact that their main story lines are based on love and tragedy. However both tales are full of such powerful emotions as well as one of them being love. They both have a lot in common such as the forbidden love between two star- crossed lovers, also most characters from both novels share common roles and similar emotions such as the tragic loss of some of the characters for example when Romeo thinks that he has lost his beloved Juliet or when Heathcliff loses Cathy.
That instant when I’d turn’d into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E’er since pursue me.” (Act 1, Scene 1 – pg. 9) In this quote, it is evident that at the beginning of this play, Orsino is very much in love with Olivia. Since it is a Shakespeare play, this love does not last throughout the rest of the play. Although, for the meantime he wants to get his feelings out to Olivia so he does so through Viola/Cesario. Because of this, they spend time together and Viola quickly falls in love with Orsino.
In the play “Twelfth Night” the topic “love” is widely mentioned through out the play. “Love” can be considered as the most important theme of this play. All of the characters in this play deal with some sort of love. Even though the play “Twelfth Night” has a happy ending, at some parts of the play, some characters do feel that love causes pain. There are three kinds of love that William Shakespeare uses in this play: true love, friendship, and self love.
Romeo and Juliet go through a series of unfortunate events which ultimately leads to their deaths. The bad luck starts off with Romeo killing Tybalt and getting banished from Verona. After Romeo and Juliet tie the knot a fight breaks out between the Montague’s and Tybalt Capulet. Even though Romeo is filled with love and happiness, he is set off when Tybalt kills Mercutio, so Romeo gets even by killing Tybalt. The usual punishment for murder at that time was death, but Romeo was only banished from the Verona walls.
This happiness is sharply contrasted to the sadness and anger that takes over, when Balthasar tells Romeo of Juliet’s death. The true tragedy is that the reader knows Friar Lawrence sent a message to Romeo telling him of Juliet’s fake death and that Romeo had not yet received the news. Balthasar’s news results in Romeo immediately buying poison and rushing to Verona with the intent of dying beside Juliet. “A dram of poison; such soon-speeding gear/As will disperse itself through all the veins/That the life-weary taker may fall dead” (5.1, 63-65). It is through all of these errors and mistakes that the plot of Act 5, Scene 1 helps to make Romeo and Juliet a true tragedy.
Writing task, English literature / Explore the ways in which the difficulties of love are presented in Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and Emily Bronte’s ‘Wuthering heights’. The difficulties of love saturate the pages of Emily Bronte’s deep, dark, gothic novel “Wuthering heights” and Shakespeare’s bright and bold “Romeo and Juliet”. These two tales are undoubtedly, two of the greatest love stories ever to be written and yet the protagonists love causes unprecedented degrees of suffering and trauma. Throughout this essay, I am going to analyse and explore the many similarities and differences that exist between both stories. The time scales detailing the difficulties of love in these two pieces of literature are completely miles apart.
When their parents discover Romeo and Juliet dead in each others' arms, they speak to end the feud between the families. Mortality Mortality is a theme in the story because in the prologue it says that they are subjected to death. This foreshadows the fact that they will both die committing suicide. The forbidden love that was given made them commit suicide. Fate “Romeo and Juliet” the play is telling us that Romeo and Juliet are destined for tragedy, as it says in the Prologue.