... that included, the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets, the nurse and her betrayal to Juliet, and fate itself. The two young lovers knew that their families despised each other, and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their families would have known about the marriage, they would have banned Romeo and Juliet from being together. Romeo and Juliet both turned to others for help with ... their situation. Juliet turned the Nurse, who was also her friend. The Nurse betrayed Juliet at a very crucial time, telling her that she thought it was best that she married the Coun...

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... , starting a chain of events which ended in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The distant relationship between Juliet and her parents was partly responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Juliet's father never took to the time to understand his daughter and he presumed that she"d always be obedient and respect whatever he had to say. When Juliet did not accept her father's plans to marry Paris, he became ... Romeo was a Montague, which illustrates why the feud was the most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Friar Lawrence's good intentions to make peace, and to use love...

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... . In West Side Story, Toni kills Bernardo, Maria's brother. There was a person in both play's that tried to make peace. These people were the Prince and the Lieutenant. The Prince, from Romeo And Juliet, had told Romeo and Juliet's families that if there was another riot that the heads of each family will be killed. The Lieutenant, from West Side Story, had told the Puerto ... jail. The difference between the two peace-makers is that the Prince has more power than the Lieutenant. In the story of Romeo and Juliet, Paris wants to marry Juliet against her wishes. Her father wants Paris West...

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... known works are A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. In the two stories, there are many paralleled similarities that are very noticeable, and some that aren't as noticeable. First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia, and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia ... love until the love spell with put upon him. In Romeo and Juliet, their two families are ... long time rivals, so naturally they have a problem with them falling in love,...

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... . Since his love for Rosaline was not reciprocated, it affected the way he treated Juliet, because they shared mutual feelings for each other. When he was banished from Verona, he did not dwell on the fact that he had murdered somebody; but his only concern was being apart from Juliet, which demonstrates that love was his first priority. Throughout the play, the impact ... of ideal love matures Romeo as well as Juliet throughout the play. Although the text does not suggest that Paris is ... put him through the emotions one would experience in an entire lifetime. The individuals possesse...

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... life. After Romeo killed Tybalt, Prince banished him from the streets of Verona. From there he moved to Mantua and awaited news from the Friar. When he did not hear anything from Friar he decided to go back into Verona and see his Juliet. On his way there he stops to see an apothecary to get a poison that would kill him. "Hast thou no ... letters to me from the friar? / No matter. Get thee gone/ And hire those horses. I"ll be with thee straight. / Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight." (5,1,31-32 and 34). If he would have thought ... what the consequences would be. Every time som...

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... be my wedding bed" (1.5.148). This means she would sooner die rather than marry anyone else other than him. Later that night in the garden Romeo and Juliet declare their love for each other. Juliet is the one to ask Romeo to marry her even though they have just met a couple of hours before. She says "If that thy bent of ... , send me word to-morrow" (11.2.143). So in spite of their families being enemies they love each other and are determined to be together. Friar Laurence is impetuous at well. He marries Romeo and Juliet, even though they just met and the day before Romeo was in love w...

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... be trust, she runs to Fair Lawrance, the godfather who married them, for help. They make up a risky plan, but unfortunately it fails and both Romeo and Juliet suicide for their love which ends the tragic story. Who or what is responsible for this tragedy? From one point of view, the hatred in human ... indirectly. So they even never think to make their love public and their marriage which is the second obstacle, they can not publicize their love. Romeo and Juliet's love is incompleted. Romeo can not woo Juliet openly as Paris can; they decide to marry in secret on the balcony in a hurry...

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... be trust, she runs to Fair Lawrance, the godfather who married them, for help. They make up a risky plan, but unfortunately it fails and both Romeo and Juliet suicide for their love which ends the tragic story. Who or what is responsible for this tragedy? From one point of view, the hatred in human ... indirectly. So they even never think to make their love public and their marriage which is the second obstacle, they can not publicize their love. Romeo and Juliet's love is incompleted. Romeo can not woo Juliet openly as Paris can; they decide to marry in secret on the balcony in a hurry...

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... reading William Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet, you have a better understanding of the characters then when we are first introduced to them. Juliet Capulet, who is one of the main characters, is placed in a cruel and vicious adult world.   She is under many pressures and demands of her family.  Thus, during the play Juliet becomes an independent, courageous, and heroic young woman. Many times in the play Juliet ... in this scene.   Through language, Shakespeare presents these changes as well as foreshadowing the eventual tragedy Romeo and Juliet's death.   From this point on in the p...

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... and Juliet essay In the play, Romeo and Juliet, Lord Capulet, the father of Juliet was a good citizen and a good husband, but was quite strict. He was a very strict father because he was selfish and wanted Juliet, who was only 13 years of age, to get married with Paris instead of her innate lover, Romeo. Lord Capulet is an austere father, but he is a good citizen and ... a reasonable husband. When lord Capulet says "My child is yet a stranger in the word, She hath not seen the change in fourteen years; Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride." H...

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... . Many people affect the outcome of the two lovers" lives, but no more than Romeo and Juliet themselves. Although fate is at work from beginning to end, Romeo and Juliet determine their own destiny through marriage after on night, deception, and suicide. Because Romeo and Juliet rush into a relationship, they affect their destiny. They know because their families are enemies, their relationship will never work out. ... "My only love sprung from my only hate/ Too early seen unknown and known too late"(I.v.137-138). In ... Romeo ends his life. With no other reason left to live, Juliet als...

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... needed consultation after they discovered their forbidden love for each other. Luckily the Friar Lawrence was a holy and spiritual individual that these two central characters could turn to when they needed guidance and believed he could help. In the end, Romeo and Juliet obviously relied on Friar Lawrence a little too much – the Friar was ultimately the reason for their tragic deaths. Any one ... of the primary characters could be considered a catalyst for the demise of Romeo and Juliet. However, Friar Lawrence is undoubtedly to blame for ... the young lovers' tragic deaths. A serie...

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... we grow older. The older we get, there comes more responsibility to take on. For example, we must be responsible for our actions and how that may affect the lives of others. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet take on a lot of responsibility such as making quick and proper decisions like their plan to marry. There were many factors that lead to ... Romeo and Juliet's death. The three people that should be held responsible for their deaths should ... be Capulet, Friar Laurence and Romeo. Firstly, Capulet's actions and the decisions he made for his ... ...

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... produced a list of quotes some of which we have already recited. These quotes give you an insight to the role Shakespeare wished him to play. On studying his speeches I noticed he gave a lot of good and bad advice to the characters. This advice is mainly about love. I do not however feel that he is qualified to give this advice for one reason ... allowed to marry. This means that he took a vow of celibacy, so how can he give advise on this subject when in truth he knows nothing about it. At one part in the story he quotes to Romeo 'is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste ...

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... not imagine of the tragedies that would have happened. Romeo and Juliet did nothing wrong except fall in love. I think the three most important aspects I thought of in this play that lead them to tragedy and destruction is, the on-going feud between both their families, the nurse helping Juliet and putting ideas into her head, and the most important thing that I would choose is fate. These ... are the three aspects that I have thought of that led both Romeo and Juliet to destruction. The on-going rivalry between their two families Capulet and Montague was one aspect that ... led both R...

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... each other for generations, but little did they know that this hate against each other could result in the deaths of their children. Romeo and Juliet were from two different houses, which were enemies with each other; they fell in love but knew if they told their parents they ... been discussed "who" could be held responsible but not "what". A lot to do to with the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet was based on fate. Them meeting was fate. The servant of the Capulet house running into them asking them to read the guest list was fate, ... and being banished from Verona for murdering Tyba...

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... out harmful. Several characters in the book carried out well intentioned deceptions and kept secrets that all turned out harmful in the end. Even well intended deceptions and secrets can be destructive. When the nurse decided to participate in the deception of keeping Romeo and Juliet's marriage a secret it was well intentioned on her part. The nurse assisted in the marriage because she wanted to ... see Juliet married. The nurse treated Juliet like her own daughter and wanted her to get married without waiting two years. The nurse wasn't thinking logically to support two people ... be...

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... how hasty love could end just as quickly as it emerged. Later on, the marriage provokes a brawl that results in the death of Tybalt and Mercutio and ends with Romeo's banishment. At the beginning, Tybalt challenges Romeo to fight, but as Romeo was now related to Tybalt through his marriage to Juliet, the Montague refused saying: " Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee ... decided to fight on behalf of Romeo, but unfortunately, Romeo interfere the vicious fighters, and Tybalt killed Mercutio under the arms of Romeo. Shortly after realizing that his love for Juliet is making him a c...

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... me! My fingers itch. Wife, we scarce thought us blest but now I see this one is one to much, and that we have a curse in having her. Out on her, hilding! (839) Capulet is very upset that Juliet does not want to marry Paris and is so mad that he threatens that either she marries Paris or she is nothing to him. Another example ... , just learning of Romeo's presence at Lord Capulet's party, is overcome with hatred towards Romeo and is even willing to kill him without restraint. However, later on in the tragedy, when Romeo is now married to Juliet, he realizes the troubles that he has broug...

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... Roseline. She pauses because a black cat is sitting on the sundial and starts saying "Lord, how my head aches ) The cat is representing bad luck thus over shadows the young lovers' wedding. Juliet is unaware of the black cat and get hold of the Nurse's hand, seats her on the bench again while saying her lines. The Nurse and Juliet spends the last part of the scene ... on the bench talking merrily. Both should exit to opposite parts of the stage. The black ... cat should jump off the sundial and exit following Juliet. This part of the play should be staged ... ...

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... Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding, and can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death. Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on ... , love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. 3 Their love ... that the was the primary cause; however Michael Rustin argues that the play is about ...

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... enormous difficulties that face them. The personality of Romeo and Juliet to cope with their passion and the squabbles of the adult world that intervene with their love takes on a big issue. In the play, Romeo and Juliet demonstrate different personality. Of the many contrasting characteristic traits between Romeo and Juliet, their outlook on life figures significantly in the play. Juliet stays optimistic about the whole conflict involving Romeo's banishment ... side of the situation strikes a dire blow to Romeo's apparently pessimistic attitude. Romeo and Juliet's disparate outlook on ...

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... that are also largely to blame. The Friar, Juliet's nurse, and Mr. Capulet can be partly blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because of the many ways they affected the lives and ways of thinking of both Romeo and Juliet. The Nurse caused the deaths by her changing and unfaithful views on what Juliet should do about marriage with Romeo and then Count Paris. "Then hie you hence to ... Friars potion, which ended up killing both Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet did in the end physically kill them selves, but not without the help of others like the Friar, the Nurse, and Mr. Capulet. T...

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... consist of going on dates or participating in other activities than staying in the confines of your own home, this is most certainly a sign that you are not in love. Another aspect of infatuation is the tendency to believe that your partner is perfect and could do nothing wrong. For example, in the movie Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is infatuated with Juliet. Romeo does not ... take the time to get to know Juliet, but in his eyes she still is perfect in every way and will do anything to be with her. Also, infatuation tends to make a person nave to the obvious. For example, if you know for a ...

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