Thursday, May 16, 2013

Romeo and Juliet (Revised)

                                       
                                       Romeo and Juliet (Revised)

     The Love between Romeo and Juliet is so intense, it has positive and negative consequences. Their lust has changed them to the point where they are all they think about and that has become a horrible factor in this story.
     In  Act 2 scene 6, Romeo and Juliet get married thanks to Friar Lawrence. This shows one of the positives of the love between these two. But she is also disobeying her parents by not marrying her predetermined husband.
     As I stated before, their lust has changed them completely, so in act 3 scene 1 it just proves my point. In that scene, Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are confronted by Tybalt and his men where Tybalt decides to pick a fight with Romeo. But because Romeo is a married man (to Juliet) he decides to back down, which just makes Mercutio want fight Tybalt for Romeo. After Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo has vengeance and kills Tybalt which just makes it even worse for him and he is banished from Verona. Romeo believed that because he is married to Juliet that he shouldn't fight but that just made him lose one of his best friends and kill Juliet's cousin. In Act 5 scene 3, Romeo confronts the unconscious Juliet because he heard about her death. He battles and kills Paris and Romeo finds Juliet thinking that she's dead. He takes the poison and drinks it while Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead from the poison. It's really selfish how Juliet setup this whole faking death plan so Romeo could save her from marrying her predetermined husband, Paris. Their love is extremely dangerous. Also in act 5 scene 3, romeo ends up killing Paris because he desperately wants to see Juliet. Romeo's love causes him to commit violence throughout the story. Love makes you do crazy things.
     Their love for each other is a major event and has caused an uproar in Verona but out of all this craziness, because of Romeo and Juliet's tragic story, the rivalry of the Capulets and Montagues in Verona has ended. In the craziness of act 5 scene 3, the Prince, the Capulets, and the Montagues crowd into the tomb to see the Romeo and Juliet, both dead, lying beside each other. The Prince's guards drag in the Friar, who apparently left Juliet alone in the tomb at some point. He tells the whole story. Lord Capulet and Lord Montague, both grief-stricken, swear to end their feud and to build statues to commemorate each other's child. The Prince says that some of those involved in Romeo and Juliet's death will be pardoned, and some will be punished. "For never was a story of more woe," the Prince says, "Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." Even though this is the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, in some way this can be interpreted as a twisted happy ending.
      The tragedy Romeo and Juliet is a nice and beautiful story but beauty is seen through the eyes. Their young love has not only caused more disturbance between the two families, but also the death of two people who only wanted love each other. In conclusion, these are the positive and negative effects of Romeo and Juliet's love.

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