The ultimate fate and destiny of Romeo and Juliet who would do anything to be together but the tragedy of death cannot be avoided because of their own actions,; young immature love and the barriers of a long standing family feud. Romeo and Juliet’s fate is caused by their poor decision making and immaturity. At the beginning of the play Romeo is madly in love with Rosaline, but when Romeo lays eyes on Juliet from afar he forgets Rosaline instantly and he falls in love with Juliet. Romeo’s love for Juliet is immediate and spontaneous, love at first sight. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright.
In Romeo and Juliet, love and hate share the same feature in that they are both senseless and mysterious. While at some points love may be the passion used to drive Romeo head over heels for Juliet, at other times hate may be the same passion used to drive Tybalt into murderous fury. Both love and hate can be at times blinding and become as compelling as an influence that everything else is of low significance. Consequences may be ignored and lives may be lost in the process. The never-ending brawl between the Montagues and Capulets in due course envelops the lovers into conflict.
In the movie, you will see a scene with Romeo and Juliet enjoying their love together, but then immediately flash to fights between the two families. The anger between the two families is what forces the two lovers to keep their relationship a secret and later leads to the ultimate act of love – death for one another. Romeo and Juliet’s determination to continue their love for each other is inspiring and tells of great honor from the both of them. While pursuing their love, Romeo and Juliet stumble upon many hardships that attempt to deteriorate their love. First, the fact that Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo is a Montague instantly forbids their love and creates the first of many obstacles for the teenage lovers.
Romeo and Juliet frequently notice signs, such as when Romeo believes that Juliet is dead, he cried, ‘then I defy you, stars,’ (Act V, Scene I, Line 24) confirming the idea that Romeo and Juliet’s love, was not a part of their fate. The mechanism of destiny is clear in all areas involving the lovers: the feud between their families, the disasters that ruin Friar Lawrence’s plans and the tragic timing of Romeo’s suicide and Juliet’s awakening. These are not simple coincidences, but a manifestation of destiny, which causes the unavoidable deaths of Romeo and Juliet. “If only...” If only the letter was delivered to Romeo, if only Juliet had woken up sooner, if only fate was on their side. Against all odds, Romeo and Juliet did not give up their love for each other, right to the very end.
Lord Capulet essentially endorsed Juliet’s relationship with Romeo without even knowing it. The quarrel between the families caused them to lose their progenies. The deaths of beloved Romeo and Juliet were due to the, “Capulet[‘s and] Montague[‘s], [...] hate, that Heaven [found] means to kill [their] joys with love!” (V.3.315-317) The dispute between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s made Romeo and Juliet’s love less achievable; their love was quite tenacious that they killed themselves to be together. In an acute argument between Juliet and her father, Lord Capulet demanded that she was to, “go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church or [he would] drag [Juliet] on a hurdle thither” (III.5.173-174). Lord Capulet was in dismay when Juliet repudiated marrying Paris, that she only longed for true love.
It has a powerful focus on the intense passion between the character of Romeo and Juliet first sight of each other. At that moment both characters fall victim to this force of illusionary love. By falling victim to it, they allow it to take force of their character. They begin to act strangely and make rash decisions. These actions could have been avoided if Romeo and Juliet had not let illusionary love take a hold of them.
How love is presented in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and a selection of poetry by Philip Larkin Many people consider Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ a stereotypical romantic love story. In some ways, it does meet these expectations. The archetypal lovers are brought up in ‘fair Verona’ by grand families ‘alike in dignity’. Because of the families' on-going conflict, the two 'star-crossed lovers' find themselves hurtling towards an ill-fated end. 'Violent passions lead to violent ends', therefore the romance becomes a tragedy.
In the story there is constant conflict between love and hate which creates drama; for example the play opens with a fight between the Montagues and the Capulets. Shakespeares ‘Romeo and Juliet’ explores many different kinds of love. For example in loco parentis this means in place of the parents. The nurse is in loco parentis for Juliet she is more like a mother to Juliet than Lady Capulet. She always wants the best for Juliet that’s why she agrees to arrange the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet because she wants to make Juliet happy.
One would think this puts him relatively outside the family feud, but we learn that Mercutio is only all to willing to play along with this adversary, and ultimately his quick and volatile nature lead to his untimely death. Mercutio as a masculine character but full of sense of humor through him constantly puns, jokes, and teases—sometimes in fun, sometimes with bitterness. Shakespeare introduces Mercutio in the very first scene was to contract with the romance theme; his point of view towards the love is completely overturns the idea that the story of Romeo and Juliet is an example of perfect romantic love as well as a blind-self-love. Mercutio is an anti-romantic character who regards love as an exclusively physical pursuit this is shown when Romeo complains about the heartache of his unrequited love for Rosaline, Mercutio tells him to get over it “If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.” The word “beat” emphasize the view of Mercutio towards the woman is like an enemy; he believed the honor of the man should not be knocked down by anyone. This is reflected to the historical background of the play; during the Elizabeth Age, man’s honor regarded as the first place.
Love, death, rivalry, rebellion... all of it still goes on today. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The hopeless love of Romeo and Juliet happens to everyone, whether its "My family is in a feud with his, so they won't let us be together" or "That cute guy doesn't know I exist”, everyone at some point feels this way. There are three different types of love explored in this text, romantic, unrequited and lust. “Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!