In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates how human lives can be the puppets of a greater outside force. The play, set in Verona, focuses on the intertwined lives of two star-crossed lovers from enemy families; after meeting at a party, they decide to get married together. After that, their lives take a turn downwards because Romeo is banished from Verona and leaves to Mantua; and Juliet, who is in love with Romeo, is forced by her family to marry Paris, a nobleman. She defies their wishes and takes a potion, making her appear dead so she does not have to go through with the marriage. Hearing that Juliet is dead, Romeo returns to Verona and poisons himself, so when Juliet awakens, she kills herself too. Throughout the plot, Shakespeare
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At the beginning of the story, Romeo is distraught because his feelings for Rosaline are unrequited. When his friends hear about the party, they decide to take him along so he may see other women and may forget about Rosaline. Romeo, however, had a dream telling him to not go to the celebration: “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / … / By some vile forfeit of untimely death. / But he that hath the steerage of my course / Direct my sail” (citation needed). While Romeo is uncertain of his fate, the reader can deduce that he will have a punishment for going to the party; that outcome is going to be death. At the party, he dances with Juliet, not knowing that she is indeed of an opposing family. When the party is over, Juliet asks her Nurse who this person she danced with is and makes a comment that “[her] grave is like to be [her] wedding bed” (citation needed). Little does she know, that in the end of the play, she will die so soon after she is married, that her wedding bed will be her …show more content…
When Romeo is sent to Mantua for killing Tybalt, Juliet says during her farewells, “Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale” (citation needed). Although Romeo has not died yet, Juliet hints to the reader that his death is inevitable and it is on the horizon. As soon as Romeo leaves, she becomes very reclusive and morose; her parents believe that this is because of Tybalt’s death because they do not know of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage. To solve the problem, they decide to marry Juliet to Paris two days from then. Complaining about how unfair that is, Juliet asks her mother if she can be married in a grave: “Delay this marriage for a month, a week; / Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.” (citation needed). Similarly to before, Juliet does not know fate has decided that she will die so soon after being married. Instead of sticking with her parent’s plan to have her married, she asks a Friar for help; he gives her a potion to make her appear dead for forty-two hours. When she is about to take the substance, she feels “a faint cold fear thrills through [her] veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life” (citation needed). Later, the potion causes her to appear dead, which ultimately
At the beginning of the story, Romeo is distraught because his feelings for Rosaline are unrequited. When his friends hear about the party, they decide to take him along so he may see other women and may forget about Rosaline. Romeo, however, had a dream telling him to not go to the celebration: “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / … / By some vile forfeit of untimely death. / But he that hath the steerage of my course / Direct my sail” (citation needed). While Romeo is uncertain of his fate, the reader can deduce that he will have a punishment for going to the party; that outcome is going to be death. At the party, he dances with Juliet, not knowing that she is indeed of an opposing family. When the party is over, Juliet asks her Nurse who this person she danced with is and makes a comment that “[her] grave is like to be [her] wedding bed” (citation needed). Little does she know, that in the end of the play, she will die so soon after she is married, that her wedding bed will be her …show more content…
When Romeo is sent to Mantua for killing Tybalt, Juliet says during her farewells, “Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb: / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale” (citation needed). Although Romeo has not died yet, Juliet hints to the reader that his death is inevitable and it is on the horizon. As soon as Romeo leaves, she becomes very reclusive and morose; her parents believe that this is because of Tybalt’s death because they do not know of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage. To solve the problem, they decide to marry Juliet to Paris two days from then. Complaining about how unfair that is, Juliet asks her mother if she can be married in a grave: “Delay this marriage for a month, a week; / Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.” (citation needed). Similarly to before, Juliet does not know fate has decided that she will die so soon after being married. Instead of sticking with her parent’s plan to have her married, she asks a Friar for help; he gives her a potion to make her appear dead for forty-two hours. When she is about to take the substance, she feels “a faint cold fear thrills through [her] veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life” (citation needed). Later, the potion causes her to appear dead, which ultimately