Romeo & julieta essay

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Carlos Pirela

Inst. X. Alvarez-Alfonso

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Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two families who are in rivalry for many years, this discord reflects the social demand in the search for power by the two families. In the middle of this figth born the love between the sons os both families, reflected in the individual choice for maintainthat love, this love was imposible to realize for the families hate, concluding the story with tragedy and death including Romeo and Jutiet.Listen

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The fight between Romeo and Juliet to defend their love begins with their meet at Capulet’s house, and follows with the internal fight with two of them to acknowledge their attraction and love for each other, looking for excuses to defendthemselves and seeing the positive side of each other and ignoring the negative, seeing this as a problem between their own families but not between them. The falling in love at first sight at the Capulet’s home is seen in the first act, scene 5, page 5, when Romeo said to Juliet: “ Your hand is like a holy place that my hand is unworthy to visit. If you’re offended by the touch of my hand, mytwo lips are standing here like blushing pilgrims, ready to make things better with a kiss ”, and Juliet respond to Romeo: “ Good pilgrim, you don’t give your hand enough credit. By holding my hand you show polite devotion. After all, pilgrims touch the hands of statues of saints. Holding one palm against another is like a kiss”.

The internal figth between Romeo and Juliet for defend thelove is seen in the same act and scene but in a diferent page when Romeo said: “Yes, but I’m afraid I’m in more trouble than ever”, and in the act two, scene two, page two when Juliet said: “ It’s only your name that’s my enemy. You’d still be yourself even if you stopped being a Montague. What’s a Montague anyway? It isn’t a hand, a foot, an arm, a face, or any other part of a man. Oh, be someother name! What does a name mean? The thing we call a rose would smell just as sweet if we called it by any other name”.

III


Within the work is not explicitly mentioned a special reason why the two families are in conflict, but at the time W. Shakespeare wrote the play “ Romeo and Juliet” was given the importance to social class and power which the noble families had. Montague andthe Capulets are respected families in Verona, the problem lies in the struggle for power within the city, creating an atmosphere of animosity between them. In the conflict of these two families, the servants took part for their masters, which increased rivalry and conflict situations.This disputes not promote harmony between the two families, triggering increasingly worse tragedies, thisdisputes are reflected in the act one, scene one, page two and five, when Gregory who is one’s of the Capulet’s servants said: “The fight is between our masters, and we men who work for them”, and when Tybalt who is the nephew and the only heir from Capulet’s said: “What? You take out your sword and then talk about peace? I hate the word peace like I hate hell, all Montagues, and you. Let’s go at it,coward”. The tragedies are reflected on the act three, scene one, page seven when the at the end of the fight between Mercutio who is Romeo’s best friend fight with Tybalt and at the end result seriously injured and said: “Take me inside some house, Benvolio, or I’ll pass out. May a plague strike both your families! They’ve turned me into food for worms. I’m done for. Curse your families!” and in thesame act, scene and page when Romeo said: “The future will be affected by today’s terrible events. Today is the start of a terror that will end in the days ahead ”.






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This love story ends with the tragic death of the couple, being watched between the death found peace both, and the freedom they would need to stay together, both were already willing to do anything to...