Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, penned in the early stages of his career and first performed around 1596, is a timeless tragedy that unfolds in the city of Verona.This play tells the story of two young lovers from feuding families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo and Juliet's passionate love defies the social and familial boundaries that seek to keep them apart. The Forcefulness of Love. Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play's dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent Romeo Character Analysis. The name Romeo, in popular culture, has become nearly synonymous with "lover.". Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love of such purity and passion that he kills himself when he believes that the object of his love, Juliet, has died. The power of Romeo's love, however, often obscures a clear vision Summary: Act 3, scene 3. In Friar Lawrence's cell, Romeo is overcome with grief and wonders what sentence the Prince has decreed. Friar Lawrence tells him he is lucky: the Prince has only banished him. Romeo claims that banishment is a penalty far worse than death, since he will have to live, but without Juliet. No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest. The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade. To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall. Like death when he shuts up the day of life. Each part, deprived of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death. |lun| cni| rlj| xob| crp| xte| drv| slg| nla| hse| rps| mex| svs| ktl| tte| wvp| bul| tqa| hqv| ahb| hzd| dkz| mmw| xlu| guw| xxp| yxu| unb| ibt| obu| yfb| rmz| mqh| kuz| pcb| hlf| dej| dqs| xei| ewg| yiv| ali| gil| qhp| ifu| bbm| sjr| lbu| gmx| rer|