By: Fatima Saleh Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”, a play of two young lovers from opposing families is mainly based on the theme of love and hate. Love is presented right from the start. Shakespeare used the characters and imagery to portray infatuation love, shallow love, dutiful love, parental love and romantic love or young love. This is arguable one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This […]

Romeo and Juliet Essay No matter how in love two people are, there will always be death, sooner or later. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two young teens fall in love just in one night, quickly ending in a deep tragedy. Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann are both directors that made two different Romeo and Juliet movies. The Romeo and Juliet movies have […]

“The love that lasts the longest is the love that can never be… ” What type of lovers are Romeo and Juliet? The Taxonomy of love is a theory in which it say there is five types of love: Eros, Ludus, Storge Mania, and Pragma. Romeo is an Eros lover and young Juliet is a Mania lover, this essay will explain why they are that […]

What drives Romeo and his actions? Emotions can take over both your mind and your heart. For some, they tend to let their feelings get the best of them, therefore causing someone to do things because of how they feel. There are many examples for this in Romeo and Juliet but one stands out more than others, the character of Romeo. “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art […]

William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, is a play that reveals Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible for their own demise. The tragic death of Romeo and Juliet ultimately leads to the reconciliation of their feuding families. The responsibility is displayed by many themes and characters throughout the play. Set in the sixteenth century Verona, Italy, this allows the playwright to indirectly critique the Elizabethan […]

Fate and its inherent inevitability have constantly found it’s way into Shakespeare’s work and the work influenced by him, a prime example of this is found within the very prologue of one of his largest pieces of work; Romeo and Juliet. Within the prologue Shakespeare uses many literary techniques such as notions of foreshadowing and dramatic irony that occur throughout the play, some more evident […]

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, both Romeo and Paris love Juliet however, they are very different. Paris and Romeo both have qualities that the other doesn’t and they have things that are alike. Paris is a suitor in Verona is also a kinsman of the Prince. Romeo is a Montague and his family are enemies of the Capulets. Although Romeo and Paris have many things […]

“What similarities and differences do you find in the ways the problems of characters in love are presented In Romeo and Juliet and a section of poems you have studied? ” One problem we see with Romeo and Gullet’s love Is that It Is quite shallow. This Is evident when Romeo saw Juliet. He says: “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! ” […]

Page one Why the Deaths of Romeo and Juliet should not be a Surprise Romeo and Juliet both end up dying in Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet. Readers of Shake spears Romeo and Juliet should not be surprised by the deaths of the title characters because they both make prophetic statements throughout the play. The sentences that they say are as follows; `my life were better […]

Shakespeare’s way of writing stunned many people for decades and still to this day; we haven’t fully grasped how powerful and how significant his writing style is. Many directors have pounced upon Shakespeare’s plays to convert his excellence into a visual perspective that abuses all techniques conjured by the great man himself. The hall is full of people in their costumes, sipping their drinks intently […]