Romeo & Juliet Essay Conflict, Suicide, and Love In amongst all of the love in Romeo & Juliet, there are a lot of themes relating Conflict & Suicide. I will be discussing the conflict between the Montagues and Capulets, how Romeo and Juliet committed suicide, their reasoning for it, and the forbidden love between Romeo and Juliet. The Montagues and Capulets are feuding, and everyone one in the family, and their servants are involved in this feud. Even whilst they are in the streets of Verona they keep up this fight. In Act 1, Scene 1, two of the Capulet’s servants are in the streets of Verona, and two of the Montague servants come along.
Sampson, a Capulet Servant, bites his thumb at Abram, a Montague Servant. When they bit their thumb in the Shakespearian time, it was considered a rude gesture. This incident sparked a fight, in which another from each side joined, and fought. Between the two families, there was a lot of hostility, in which most of the people involved really didn’t have to be.
The Capulets later on held a party, in which everyone but Montagues were invited. Romeo & his friends went as gatecrashers to the party, and there he saw Juliet, she is what I like to call, his “forbidden love.” Their parents want all of the children, relatives, and servants to display hatred towards the other families. This must be very hard for Romeo and Juliet, especially since they are in love with each other. In Act 1, Scene 5, Juliet says the following about Romeo;” My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.” Juliet is describing how her love, is from her family’s only hate, the Montagues, and how her love for Romeo was an unusual love to her.
The Essay on Superficial Love Romeo Juliet Person
In William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters are madly infatuated with each other, but they are not truly in love. There are several differences between true love and infatuation. First, true love takes time to develop and cannot happen at "first-sight." People who are truly in love with each other have had time to learn everything about the other person and ...
This love also led Romeo and Juliet to get married. But this marriage was not normal; it was a secret marriage, where only four people knew about it. These four people were Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, and Friar Lawrence. This made it even harder for the both of them, as they loved each other so much, but they weren’t able to express this love around any others. It made it very hard for Juliet when Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt, because all of the Capulets thought that she was depressed because Tybalt was killed, but she was really depressed because of Romeo’s banishment.
It later becomes even worse for Juliet, when County Paris is to marry her. Juliet doesn’t want to marry Paris, because she is already married to Romeo, and this would be against her beliefs. So Juliet had Friar Lawrence come up with an ingenious plan to get her back with Romeo. Juliet took a potion to make her seem dead, and she would wake up after about 48 hours, to see Romeo’s face. Romeo only heard about Juliet dying the next day, but he did not know that she was not really dead, so he went to the Capulet’s tomb, so that he could also kill himself. Romeo’s love for Juliet was so strong, that he did not want to go on living without having her with him.
When Romeo arrives, he sees for himself, Juliet seemed dead, so he took a vile of poison that he had bought, and drank it. When Juliet wakes up, she is to find Romeo’s newly dead body laying on her own, and she takes a dagger, and kills herself. Romeo and Juliet’s suicides would never have happened if the two families had stopped the stupid feud. In conclusion, I believe that the story of Romeo and Juliet is a story of Love, Conflict, and Suicide.
Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other was bigger than their families conflicts, and it ultimately lead to the death of two children, Romeo, and Juliet.
