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. ... Another aspect that led Romeo and Juliet to tragedy was fate; I think fate above all, destroyed Romeo and Juliet's relationship. I found a quote talking about how Romeo and Juliet's relationship would end in tragedy "A pair of star-crossed lovers take th...

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However, the over-looked, minor characters play an important role in the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. ... He never allows Juliet to marry Romeo, because Romeo is a Montague. ... "Romeo's a disclout to him" The Nurse quotes. ... Romeo and Juliet also contribute to their own death. Romeo is a lot more to blame than Juliet. ...

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However, the over-looked, minor characters play an important role in the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. ... He never allows Juliet to marry Romeo, because Romeo is a Montague. ... "Romeo's a disclout to him" The Nurse quotes. ... Romeo and Juliet also contribute to their own death. Romeo is a lot more to blame than Juliet. ...

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Romeo and Juliet are doomed to tragedy as soon as the play begins. ... "The fearful passage of their death marked love" (Prologue, line 9) Both of these quotes show us that fate will be the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. ... The fact that Romeo was wearing a mask stopped Juliet from seeing who he was. ... But the most important example of fate in the play is when Juliet takes the poison, but Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo is left unsent. ... However, the death of Romeo and Juliet is what ultimately ends the grudge. ...

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Romeo and Juliet! ... Romeo and Juliet is a well-known Shakespeare in which fate plays an important part. ... Romeo says this whilst in the chapel with Juliet. ... The quote shows that Romeo went into Juliet's garden, which was taking a risk that could have caused death if he had been caught. ... "My life is my foes debt,"" says Romeo Quote one uses repetition to explain how she feels. ...

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This essay will analyze quotes that illustrate the theme of Fate and Destiny, as well as the motif of Nature. Fate and Destiny is an important theme in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. ... An important motif in Romeo and Juliet is nature. ... There are many motifs in Romeo and Juliet but Nature is by far the most important one. As it is the main reason why Romeo and Juliet could be realistic. ...

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Romeo fervently expresses his love for Juliet through the use of metaphors. ... Here, Romeo uses this metaphor to characterize his love for Juliet. ... Romeo uses a comparison between these two things to describe his love for Juliet. In this quote, Romeo compares his love for Juliet to the necessity of books to a schoolboy. ... This quote states that the only man that Juliet ever learned to love was the man she was raised to hate. ...

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The feud between the Montague's and Capulets caused the lovers to rush many important decisions. ... This also causes tragedy as Romeo does suicide to be with Juliet and Juliet follows his footsteps. ... Romeo Montague is responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo rushed important decisions (to love Juliet, to marry her) which shows their impatience. ... In the same quote as above he shows impulsiveness when he says, "Here's to my love [Drinks] O true apothecary! ...

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Romeo and Juliet - The Betrayal of the Adults to Juliet In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet the adults betray Juliet becausethey are unable to understand her. ... The final adult to fail Juliet is Friar Lawrence who does notcomprehend Juliet and Romeo's love for each other. ... He fails tounderstand Romeo and Juliet's love for each other. ... TheFriar believes that Juliet and Romeo's love is temporary and advises Romeo"Wisely and slow. ... Love and Hate in Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote the story of two lover's Romeoand Juliet. ...

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This quote shows how important it was for a man in Verona to hold power over his inferiors, specifically women. ... Patriarchal themes are apparent between Romeo and Juliet as well. ... Like "all the world," Juliet wishes to be included as a worshiper of her fair Romeo. ... Each aspect plays an important part in the tragedy, from the relation between Lord Capulet and the women in his life, to the relationship between Romeo and Juliet themselves. ... Romeo and Juliet's love for one another answers this profound question of right or wrong. ...

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(Romeo and Juliet, Act 1.1). ... (Romeo and Juliet, Act 2.2). ... (Romeo and Juliet, Act 1.3). ... In Romeo and Juliet, the fighting between two characters, such as that between Romeo and Tybalt, can be considered a duel. ... Back in Elizabethan England, honor was a very important concept to most people of a higher social class. ...

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At the start of Romeo & Juliet, we are introduced first to servants of the two feuding houses as they walk down the street of Verona, where the scene is set. ... Mercutio also uses a double entendre for this quote, meaning also that if Romeo is to have sex with the woman that he loves, then he will sink into her and burden her body. ... These words send Tybalt into a rage because he doesn't understand why Romeo is refusing his challenge since no one else knows that Romeo has just married Juliet, Tybalt's cousin. ... His words function as a kind of death knell, predicting the fu...

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This quote describes the thoughts going through Romeo's head with an uncanny similarness. ... In "Romeo and Juliet," William Shakespeare proposes that love and desire control much of human lives. ... Romeo's rapidly degrading judgement is a result of his love for Juliet and Rosaline. Juliet's willingness to kill herself is the last example that Shakespeare uses to explain how love controls many of the important decisions of life. Juliet's willingness to do anything is expressed in the quote: "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris / From off the battlements of yonder towe...

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This meager, seemingly unimportant word plays a significant role in Shakespeare's most well known piece Romeo and Juliet. ... Many of the most well known quotes from Romeo and Juliet involve some aspect of how fate controls their actions. ... Romeo and Juliet are also aware of what role fate plays and mention it quite often. ... If Romeo and Juliet had free will the play would have drastically changed. ... Fate decides our decisions just as it does in Romeo and Juliet. ...

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Thus, deaths in the play Romeo and Juliet and the novel the Story of the Stone are mainly caused by excessive love and impulsive actions. ... These two couples, Romeo and Juliet, Daiyu and Baoyu all have tragic ends. ... Paris doesn't notice that Romeo is willing to suicide because of Juliet's death, he mistakenly assumes that Romeo is going to do something bad. ... Paris' death is mainly caused by miscommunication, he dies because he doesn't understand Romeo's quotes clearly. ... Most importantly, these two characters care too much about family's reputation. ...

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Bad Family The play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet portrays two families that are extraordinarily similar. ... One such important statement is made by Juliet. ... In the preceding quote a hurdle is the sled that prisoners were taken to their executions on. ... Tybalt kills Mercutio while Romeo attempts to stop the fight. ... The two families in the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet are quite similar. ...

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Navety, impracticality, and romance are Romeo Montegue traits in "Romeo and Juliet-. ... Romeo's imagination takes a very important role in the play. ... Romeo's quotes indicate his impracticality by falling in and out of love in about four to six hours. ... Romeo's navety leads to the climax of the story, without Romeo's navety there would be no "Romeo and Juliet-. ... Its Romeo's navety that made Romeo and Juliet fall in love, which created "Romeo and Juliet-. ...

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In the following quote Shakespeare is using rhyming couplets to express the same idea the Romeo is feeling in the previous quote. ... Capulet is saying that Juliet is his last hope. ... In the following quote, Juliet is expressing her confusion, her love and hate for her love, Romeo. ... His medicinal poison, he uses rhyming couplets and one big oxymoron to make the whole soliloquy doubly important. ... Within the medicinal flower lies poison, like he himself is good in measure, but he is also a poison to Romeo and Juliet. ...

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In Baz Luhrman's production of Romeo and Juliet many filming style techniques have been used. ... This is a very important factor. ... Pictures and quotes, that have modernised and turned into newspaper headlines, flash across the screen. ... Sound effects are important because they range from a car revving to a gunshot. ... Franco Zefferelli's production of Romeo and Juliet is both realistic and traditional. ...

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In Romeo and Juliet, and in Walpole's novel, all of the characters suffer the consequences of paternal transgressions, but for Juliet and Matilda, the consequences of their fathers' mistakes are fatal" (15). ... In Romeo and Juliet, dreams and premonitions are also a recurring motif throughout the play. ... When Romeo goes to visit the Friar in Act II, he has been up all night visiting with Juliet and the Friar sees that he is unrested. ... Romeo and Juliet love has also started them on a course where peaceful night time slumber will be a thing of the past. Romeo's second...

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In 1593 Richard III and Romeo and Juliet. ... Undoubtedly the highlight was William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, this play is about two young men who fall in love but it has great obstacle to be together, the enmity between their families. His name is Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet pass it different conflicts to be together. ... Her want a power that sleeps for hours then their parents bury and Romeo to learn first your going to the tomb of Juliet death and seeing that she was dead decides to take a bottle of poison without knowing that Juliet was still alive, when Juliet leaves th...

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Comparison of film to playwright in Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play, Romeo and Juliet, was written in a time period that differs greatly from today. ... Due to the growing mental gap between the youth of today and the Shakespearean dialect, director Baz Luhrmann creates the modern day film version of Romeo and Juliet. ... The textual version of Romeo and Juliet is altered to give a new understanding to the modern world via the film version; mainly in the opening scene through use of modern scenery, language, and armory. ... For an example of slang that Shakespeare uses in the o...

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What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakespeare's works; emotion, family, love and death. ... John used other quotes of Shakespeare through the novel in response to all highly emotional situations, slowly introducing the reader back into the intensity and beauty of classical language after being deprived of it through the duration of the book. John, in response to Lenina, calls upon memories of Romeo and Juliet as well as other plays by Shakespeare. ... When being read Romeo and Julie...

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The narrative starts off with a quote that is utterly contradictory, "I am dead, but it's not so bad". ... The important trifling characters are used to interpret how the protagonist R develops and transforms throughout the novel. Julie is the Juliet to R's Romeo, when R first encounters her he describes her eyes as "classic novels and poetry" (page 18). ... Although I have not read any other novels within this theme, Romeo and Juliet portrays a similar premise throughout the novel Warm Bodies. ...

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We hear this quote all the time when previewing movie trailers. ... Worldwide, viewers rely on death and destruction as a source of entertainment; even love stories end in some way of violence or misery, like Romeo and Juliet, the greatest love story of all time. ... Also crimes done by African Americans have tarnished their image as equals and as an important race. ...

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