Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
By: Jayme Ferguson
Forbidden Love
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Romeo is a young 16 year old boy who is the son of
Montague and Lady Montague. He is seen to be
intelligent, warm-hearted, and very handsome. He lives
in the middle of a violent feud between his family and
the Capulets, but his interest doesn’t rely on violence.
At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a
woman named Rosaline, but immediately as he lays
eyes on Juliet, he falls in love with her and forgets he
ever had a past with Rosaline. Romeo goes to the
extreme to show his compassionate and seriousness of
his feeling by secretly marrying Juliet.
A beautiful thirteen year old girl who is the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet.
Juliet begins the play as a naïve child who has thought little about love and
marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her
family’s great enemy. Juliet is a part of an Aristocratic family, meaning she doesn’t
have the privileges that Romeo does.
(some of those privileges include: roaming the City, climbing over walls, and
swordfights)
Juliet’s nurse, the woman who breast-fed her when she was a baby and has
cared for Juliet her entire life plays an important role in Juliet’s life, but that soon
comes to an end when the Nurse tells Juliet she doesn’t like Romeo and doesn’t
feel that she should love him. Juliet, going with her heart, chooses Romeo over
the Nurse.
Loving Words from Romeo….
“But soft, what light through yonder window
breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . .
The brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars
As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not
night.”
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Loving response from Juliet....
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I'll no longer be a Capulet."
This quote is basically saying that Juliet does not care that she is a
Capulet and their two families are fighting. She wants to be with
Romeo no matter what, and so with Romeo she will be.
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“Parting is such sweet
sorrow that I shall say
goodnight till it be
morrow…”
Location: Masquerade Ball
On normal circumstances, the two love companions must plan strategically how to meet
and see each other on a day to day basis without one another’s parents finding out.
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About Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet have a strong compassionate love for one another
• They are not allowed to see each other on their parents behalf
• The two must do everything they can to keep in touch and see each other
• The Capulets and the Montagues are enemies and forbid their children to
see one another because of the grudge the two families have been
holding
• The Friar gives Juliet medicine/potion to help her fall asleep and pass out
for a while. Romeo soon returns and finds her lying there.
• Romeo then believes she is dead, and she feels that he cannot go on
without Juliet
• Romeo drinks actual poison and dies immediately
• After Juliet's potion wares off, she sees Romeo truly dead and decides
she cannot live without him either, so in result, she stabs herself.
Love- Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no
unifying theme, but many agree on young love. By using
metaphors of saints and sins, Romeo was able to test Juliet's
feelings for him in a non-threatening way. In the later balcony
scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy from
atop the balcony.
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“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. . . .
O, I am fortune’s fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars.”
This quote explains how one of the themes in this play is Fate. Fate often refer to
the description of the lovers as "star-cross'd".
“O, I am fortune’s fool!” illustrates the fact that Romeo sees himself as
subject to the ideas of fate. When he cries out “Then I defy you, stars,”
after learning of Juliet’s death, he declares himself openly opposed to the
destiny that continues to grieve him
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Works Cited
"SparkNotes: Romeo and Juliet." SparkNotes: Today's Most Popular
Study Guides. 27 May 2009
<http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/>.
"Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss."
The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays
& Summaries. 27 May 2009 <http://www.onlineliterature.com/shakespeare/romeo_and_juliet/>.