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Romeo and Juliet begin the play trapped by their social roles. Romeo is a young man who is expected to chase women, but he has chosen Rosaline, who has sworn to remain a virgin. The way Romeo speaks about Rosaline suggests he is playing a role rather than feeling true, overpowering emotion.
Mar 28, 2007 · Besides being presented seriously it has been parodied and burlesqued; there are several full-scale nineteenth-century travesties of Shakespeare’s play, and its balcony scene in particular has often formed the basis for comic sketches.
- Stanley Wells
- 1996
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As they walk in the street under the boiling sun, Benvolio suggests to Mercutio that they go indoors, fearing that a brawl will be unavoidable should they encounter Capulet men. Mercutio replies that Benvolio has as quick a temper as any man in Italy, and should not criticize others for their short fuses. Tybalt enters with a group of cronies. He a...
The sudden, fatal violence in the first scene of Act 3, as well as the buildup to the fighting, serves as a reminder that, for all its emphasis on love, beauty, and romance, Romeo and Juliet still takes place in a masculine world in which notions of honor, pride, and status are prone to erupt in a fury of conflict. The viciousness and dangers of th...
Romeos cry, O, I am fortunes fool! refers specifically to his unluckiness in being forced to kill his new wifes cousin, thereby getting himself banished (3.1.131). It also recalls the sense of fate that hangs over the play. Mercutios response to his fate, however, is notable in the ways it diverges from Romeos response. Romeo blames fate, or fortun...
The main characters in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet face numerous obstacles, including their families' longstanding feud, societal expectations, miscommunication, and fate. These barriers...
Jun 4, 2020 · However, the play has become so embedded in the popular psyche that Shakespeare’s considerably more complex play has been reduced to a few key aspects: ‘star-cross’d lovers’, a teenage love story, and the suicide of the two protagonists. In the summary and analysis that follow, we realise that Romeo and Juliet is much more than a tragic love story.
This system is challenged in the play. Romeo and Juliet break the Great Chain of Being when they fall in love and marry, choosing love over duty. Juliet, having been instructed by her father to marry Paris, contradicts her obligation as a daughter to obey her father’s wishes when she refuses.
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The plot tells of two young lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who belong to feuding families. A theme of a play is a central idea that the writer intends the audience to engage deeply with. Key themes in 'Romeo and Juliet' are love, chance, conflict, youth and death.
