In the Elizabethan time period people strongly believed in superstition, fate, destiny and the wheel of fortune. People believed they had no influence in their life as everything was already planned out. The Capulets and the Montagues have an ancient feud with each other. ‘From ancient grudge break to new munity’ this causes a big problem as Romeo and Juliet’s love will be forbidden. The words ‘new mutiny’ show that even though the grudge is ancient both families find more ways to be violent.
Romeo and Juliet have a love that is considered powerful. Powerful because many deaths occur without people knowing the love they both share for each other. The death of Romeo and Juliet could have been prevented and there are characters that can be blamed. Deaths don’t just occur out nowhere; they happen for a reason. Romeo and Juliet’s death can be blamed on Friar Laurence because he knew a lot about their relationship.
They contribute largely to the final and most significant part of the play; the death of the ‘star-crossed lovers’. This contribution begins well before the pair was even born, at the true beginning of the story when the Montagues and Capulets developed hate for each other. Hate, a base emotion, is described as an emotion that spreads when Mercutio dies while exclaiming ‘a plague on both your houses!’ Mercutio dies from the hate between the two houses, suggesting that ‘hate’ is like a plague, spreading and bringing forth unfavourable outcomes. This continuous hate is caused by human nature. Humans have a tendency to feel the need to follow in their family’s footsteps, regardless of whether it is illogical or not.
That is, except for the star crossed lovers, Romeo Montague, and Juliet Capulet. This theme of hate in this play written by Shakespeare, encourages us to think about how others hate can come between your own love. Romeo and Juliet took their lives as they could not live without each other. This love that has come to a tragic end has brought the two feuding families to peace. They see that their own hate for one another has ended with the death of the ones they love most, and that they cannot let this continue.
No one to blame but Macbeth Decisions can be impacted by a number of factors; but in the end we have to be the ones to take responsibility for our actions. This is demonstrated when we see Macbeth transform from a brave soldier to a power-hungry murderer, feared by all his subjects. Macbeth is the one to blame for his own descent into cruelty and murder because he let his ambition, arrogance and greed take over his mind. While some may claim that Macbeth is to blame for his actions, others argue that it is the force of the supernatural that leads to his demise. Early on the witches reveal prophecies to Macbeth suggesting his rise to power.
I could just imagine MacDuff coming in demanding to see Macbeth, fierce and angry. The tragic qualities of the play really do contribute to the larger message because it shows how in the end you will only lose if you do not play fair. In the story,
As the title mentioned compendiously, “Scorched Earth” was a insightful novel about love, hatred, influence, hurt, death and healing; all emotions and situations that can be easily found in daily life. Humans were born different races, backgounds and characteristics, but they all meet each other at a resemble point: weakness. From character to character, David Robbins pointed out clearly different aspects which built up a man and were used to judge a man. Human being is composed of conscience and devil, and the boundary between them makes a heroic or an evil figure. Let’s look at Thomas Derby, a character whose actions were the main conflict in the story, and George Talley, who was considered as the county’s hero.
The never-ending brawl between the Montagues and Capulets in due course envelops the lovers into conflict. Describing the initial fight between the two houses, Romeo states, “Heres much to do with hate, but more with love.” (Sc 1, Act 1, 175) Foreshadowing plays a role in providing hints for events to come as well as to present fate and destiny as a major motivation of the actions of characters. This is the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a story demonstrating the uncontrollable feelings of love and hate through foreshadowing and fortune. Love and hate appear as a consistent and major theme presented in Romeo and Juliet. As the play begins, Romeo experiences, what he thinks to be, ‘love’ with Rosaline while Juliet is consented to marry Paris.
The play introduces the primary characters and their ongoing feud with each other, which eventually leads to the fatal death of the two main characters. In addition, the rhyming couplet at the end begs the audience to be patient and to pay attention to the play, because if they don’t understand, the “toil” of the actors will surely clear up any misunderstandings. In Act One Scene One, hate is the strong emotion that emerges before love; Shakespeare introduces the emotion of hatred before love because it lays the foundation and also established the feud between the two houses, so the audience can see how hard Romeo’s love for Juliet is later on in the play. Shakespeare’s ironic use of the sonnet tells the audience that ‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life’; this spoils the ending of the play by subtly saying that both Romeo and Juliet are going to die in the end. During Elizabethan times the stars were thought to control people’s destinies, being ‘star-cross’d’ or against the stars, creates a sense of fate.
It tells us that they have no control over what will happen to them and it will lead to their death. Tybalt's death brings Romeo a moment of clarity as he realizes that he is the helpless victim of fate: "O, I am fortune's fool!" he cries, struck deeply by a sense of anger and injustice. The speed with which Mercutio and Tybalt's deaths occur, together with Romeo's marriage and banishment, all contribute to a sense of certainty - that a chain of events has been set in motion over which Romeo and Juliet have no control. bv In the scene in which Romeo is laying beside a ‘dead’ Juliet, he says: ‘I will stay with thee; And never from this palace of dim light.