When true love happens people will go to the ends of the Earth to be together. Fate plays a major role in Romeo and Juliet in numerous ways. They would do anything for one another and throughout the play the reader is able to tell they are defiantly meant for one another. In our society today, it is hard to find a love like that of Romeo and Juliet but anything is possible with fate. Two star-crossed lovers go against their parent’s will since Juliet’s cousin is now dead and Romeo dreams that he should not go to the party, with that he ends up taking his own life.
Later in the day, the Capulet’s hold a party where Romeo sneaks in. During the party he meets Juliet where soon, they fall in love and marry the next day. The next day, there is a fight between the Montagues and Capulet’s and Romeo kills Juliet’s cousin Tybalt and fled the scene. The prince orders that Romeo is banished from Verona. Most of Romeo’s actions in the play shows Romeo act in madness because he marries Juliet, kills Tybalt and commits suicide.
They decided to get married after their “love fest” in the garden, and this is where their adventure began. The first archetype I have chosen for Romeo was a rebel. Romeo fits this archetype because he is inclined to resist authority and the authority that he is going against is his families’ laws. Romeo is courting Juliet discreetly behind their families back. Romeo is not supposed to have any dealings with her, yet he still fights for love.
Fate is commonly overlooked as being the sole cause of their deaths, but in my opinion it is what brought the two lovers to their end. Throughout the play it reveals that their lives will end by their influences and actions, "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life". This unavoidable aspect may have made Romeo and Juliet fall in love just to end the feud between the two houses. An important act of fate to consider would be the masquerade ball, if Romeo wasn’t wearing a mask Juliet would have realised who he was and may have not fallen in love with him. Romeo was too young to realise that he should have waited until he got over Rosaline before he became involved with Juliet.
Romeo has no control over the bad event that is to occur, it is his fate. Romeo says that the misfortunate event will lead to his death. “But he that hath the steerage of my course direct my sail” (1012). A metaphor is being used in this passage because Shakespeare compares Romeo’s life to a course. The he referred to in the passage is fate.
ROMEO AND JULIET Good vs. Evil Discuss how the motif is seen throughout Romeo and Juliet. There are many motifs in Romeo and Juliet but one of the most influencial and reoccuring ones is "Good vs. Evil." "Part fools-Benvolio" "Turn thee, Benvolio; look upon thy death-Tybalt"(1.1) These quotes show that Benvolio,good, is trying to keep the peace but the fiery Tybalt,evil, is just starting up the fight again.
|Romeo and Juliet Journal Entries | |Thursday, March 17, 2011 | W hy art love so cruel? Why shall’t my love, love me back. I have profound my love for her many times and I have showed my affection towards her and yet thou lady shows no love to me. Why has love been so treacherous and rude to my heart, I hide in thy day and seek thru thy nights searching and praying that thou’st me lady lovest me back. But surely as I return to my dwellings it comes that there has apparently been another brawl between two families, mine and our forever enemy the Capulets.
Also in the play Tybalt was basically asking to be killed because he started with them for no reason. Before Romeo killed Tybalt Lord Capulet actually liked Romeo and Tybalt wanted him to not make him like him anymore and it worked. And now Juliet has to lie to her father about everything and how she wants to marry Paris but she really wants to marry Romeo. So Tybalt basically ruined everything that Juliet wanted. Yes, Romeo does help us see them as complex human beings because it puts together how Tybalt and everyone else in the story and how they are all connected and how they all are different in the
Romeo and Juliet Who is to Blame? Romeo and Juliet is play written by Shakespeare in 1595 about two “star crossed lovers” from two waring families (Montague’s and Capulet’s). They fall in love almost immediately and decide to get married along the way there a many people who could contribute to the unfortunate death of these two people. Tybalt is to blame for the death of Romeo and Juliet, as he escalated an argument at the start to a fight; that introduced the death penalty, He then noticed them at the party Killed Mercutio. One of many reasons Tybalt is responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet is that he escalates a fight which then leads to the punishment of death for the next person spill blood.
But the word had much different connotations in Shakespeare's time: a "prodigy" was someone or something abnormal, a monstrosity. Prodigies were taken to be omens of a family's bad fortune; this idea was thus naturally linked to the idea of birth, an event surrounded with a vast structure of superstition. While the word "prodigious"—of sixteenth century origin—was often applied to newborns or children, "prodigious birth" seems to be Shakespeare's coinage. When Juliet refers to the "prodigious birth" of her love, her imagination runs through the horrors such an omen portends; with deadly dramatic irony, she foresees that her grave will in fact prove her marriage bed. In a play contemporaneous with Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare has a fairy-king bless the marriage beds of three newly-wed couples.