Good or Evil… You Tell Me In many ways, Friar Laurence and the nurse have been both good and bad for Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the story, both Friar Laurence and the nurse made choices that changed the course of Romeo and Juliet’s lives. Some of these were positive changes and others would later be greatly regretted. In the story, Friar Laurence, was at some moments good for Juliet and at others very bad. For example, the fact that he didn’t fulfill the plan he told Juliet of how she could escape from her second marriage, could very well be blamed for her death.
Had the nurse not betrayed Juliet, Juliet would have been able to make those important decisions with advice from her nurse rather than by herself. Despite the fact that his intentions were kind. Friar lawrence is also very liable for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence ordained Romeo and Juliet’s wedding with the intention of bringing the family
He realises this and sees how he can relate to the patients and accepts who they are. The play go’s ahead and is a great success. Lewis learns that even though the mental patients are mad, they are people who he admires and takes a genuine interest in their views. Lewis becomes happy with who he is and learns that even though the play was a success it won’t be the difference in the patients going from being “mad” to being “normal”. Louis Nowra uses alliteration in the last line of the play “time to turn out the lights”, a nice way to end Lewis’
Doug’s response to setting his mother’s cats on fire was ‘It was the fault of the psychiatrist...he told me I had an unresolved problem with my mother... and I better fix it’. Julie’s brief monologue in Act One also helps the audience to better understand her character and why she came to be in the institution; ‘twelve hours later that woman was still there, minus a few curls, if that. She hadn’t moved. Too scared I was going to snip everything except her hair’. The final monologue (spoken by Lewis) at the end of the play summarises the future of the patients, Nowra is able to comment on how bad things happen to good people simply because they are given the title of being ‘mad’.
The protagonist in the short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman has entirely no responsibility for the predicament she faces. The protagonist is affected by the environment that she is in as well as by what she is forced to do with her time while having the psychological disorder that she has. The combination of the disorder, her disliked surroundings, and being forced to do what she does not want to are what in the end, causes her to be at such a terrible state. Unable to control any of these things, she is ultimately not responsible for what happens. Gilman’s main character can do nothing about the psychological disorder that she has.
Emma Cutroni Romeo and Juliet Essay Rules were made to prevent bad things from happening. But are all rules really necessary? Sometimes people have to break the rules in order to accomplish tasks. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Romeo gets news of the Capulet party he crashes it knowing his household isn’t allowed but enters anyway to see Rosaline. Upon arrival he spots Juliet from across the room and asks himself, “Did my heart love till now?” When they first met it was as if the stars aligned and everything was perfect until they realized what household each other were from.
Now an adult Kevin had completed medical school and returned to his childhood home to commit suicide in almost the same manner as his mother did. Kevin was certain he was ready to die until he crossed paths with Olive Kitteridge and Patty Howe. In "Incoming Tide" it may appear as though it is Olive who saves Kevin from committing suicide; however, a closer examination will find that it is Patty Howe who truly saves Kevin. In "Incoming Tide" it appears as though it is Olive who saved Kevin from committing suicide, but in reality, she only gives him back the hope he needs to second guess himself. When Olive saw Kevin back in town, she invited herself into the passenger seat of his car where she sensed something was wrong.
al 33). He believed that marrying Romeo and Juliet would bring the two families together, and the families would no longer remain enemies. The decision to marry the couple proved tragic for Friar Lawrence. Their marriage was a disaster waiting to happen. Marrying Romeo and Juliet allowed the couple to continue seeing one another and further their relationship.
From the start of John and Kathy’s relationship, Kathy is a main contributor to the communication issues the couple has throughout their marriage. Even though Kathy knows about his horrifying past, she never does anything to help John cope with his issues, but instead makes them worse during their life together. In John and Kathy’s marriage, they do not talk about the issues they are having, nor do they put any effort in to try and fix it. When John is in Vietnam, their relationship only starts to fail even more than it already has. John attempts to communicate with Kathy while he is away, but Kathy for the most part lets him down through some of her degrading letters.
After she decides to end her life, she leaves a beautifully written letter to her husband expressing the way she felt about him. “I owe all the happiness of my life to you….I don’t think two people could have been happier than we have been.” (Cunningham 7) For her to make sure that her husband is well aware that it is not his fault she committed suicide demonstrates how much love they truly have for one another. Virginia felt trapped and felt her only choice was to kill herself. However, it was not society or her husband she felt she needed to get away from but herself. Writing was her passion, writing was her life, and if she could no longer write she didn’t have a reason or desire to continue living.