Romeo and Juliet, one of the world’s most popular love stories and for over 400 years spectators and students have enjoyed this story based on passion, true love, hate, sorrow, and most of all, tragedy. Tragedy is defined as a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man or a misfortune. What are the factors responsible for the deaths of […]

Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most well known plays and loved by many. It is a tragedy, where two feuding family’s conflict is reconciled with the loss of their children, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, the “two star crossed lovers” that take their lives. In this essay I will analyze the given passage in Act 5 Scene 3 (143) relating my discussion […]

The differences and similarities between parental love and romantic love are parental love you are born into it, parental love is never ending and romantic love may end and you are attracted into this type of love. Similarities between the two are, both have life lessons and you have a strong aspect of protection. I chose these because the two loves have very strong similarities. […]

The renowned love story of Romeo and Juliet, originally composed by William Shakespeare in 1597, has been transformed into a modern-day story to shed a contemporary perspective on the universal themes of love and hatred, two prominent themes that are seen in the original play. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet (1996) is a transformation of the original play to a film with a modern context […]

The Deaths of Romeo And Juliet December 1st , 2010 The Deaths of Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare was the spectacular playwright who wrote Romeo and Juliet. The play is about “Two star-crossed lovers”, Romeo and Juliet, and how they keep their love a secret because their families are enemies. The forbidden lovers must go through obstacles to be together, and go as far as […]

William Shakespeare once said, “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves” and that “essentially every single decision one makes , no matter how minuscule, will always have an impact in one’s life. Fate isn’t real; Fate is a term commonly used by those that refuse to accept that they control their own future” (“How Poor Decisions Brought Misfortune in […]

Deaths The Shakespearian play Romeo and Juliet is a well known story about star-crossed lovers whose fates end in tragedy. The deaths of these two lovers can be held responsible on two main characters, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse yet out of the two, who is more liable? Friar Lawrence is a priest who marries the two lovers, gives Juliet a fake potion to prevent […]

Love, fate, loyalty and conflict. These words represent key themes in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet and are closely associated with its most interesting character, Romeo Montague. Shakespeare’s memorable characters are created with the purpose of providing a breadth of knowledge into the key and complex concepts in life. Romeo is of this purposeful characterisation. And although he begins as an impulsive and immature man, […]

Romeo and Juliet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It’s about two teenagers that fall in love. But in the end there love for each other ends in the tragic death of the both of them. The star-crossed lovers took their life in order to be together, because they felt they could not live without each other. They felt they had to hide their […]

In the days of old, a friar was a man to be respected and revered for his relationship with God. However there was the occasional servant of the Lord that would abuse this massive amount of respect and use it to obtain his wishes. A main character presented in Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence, is one of these untrustworthy Friars. He […]