Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, two characters are fated to die because of an ancient grudge between their families. This story is one of star-crossed lovers, a story of love and hate, a story of appearance and reality, a story of faith and disbelief, and tragedy. The city, Verona, has been in the midst of conflict between the Montagues and the Capulets. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean, the two lovers’ (Romeo and Juliet) death are sacrifices that rids Verona of the violence and binds the two opposing families together in harmony. Juliet (Lady Capulet’s daughter) is thrown into the fray between her faith in her husband and faith in her family; a decision which untimely caused her death as well as the death of her lover, Romeo. Juliet, however, in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet matures quickly from a child to adult.

In the exposition of the play, Juliet, an immature child, attracts Count Paris; but her father (Lord Capulet) wisely says that his “child is yet a stranger in the world” (I, ii, 8). He implies that Juliet is too young to be married but he should let “two more summers” (I, ii, 10) pass before Juliet is ready. Lord Capulet protects his daughter from danger therefore loving and treasuring her. Lady Capulet steps in and questions Juliet about the marriage proposal but being naïve, she says “it is an honor that I [Juliet]” (I, iii, 65). In addition, being a dependent child that she is, she implies that she will “look to like, if looking like move/ But no more deep will I [Juliet] mine eye /than your [Lady Capulet] consent gives strength to make it fly” (I, iii, 97-99).

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Juliet meets with Romeo and drives her childhood state to being an adult and a lover. Moreover, becoming rebellious in a sense that she will “deny thy father and refuse thy name” (II, ii, 34) and if Romeo does not “I’ll [Juliet] no longer be a Capulet” (II, ii, 36,). She means that will stop being a Capulet, so that they can be together. As the story goes on, she becomes very passionate, exaggerating that her love is as “boundless as the sea” (II, ii, 133), and her “love as deep; the more I [Juliet] give to thee” (II, ii, 134). Furthermore, saying that Romeo should “swear by thy gracious self, which is the god of my [Juliet] idolatry” (II, ii, 113). She sends her nurse to ask of Romeo, the nurse comes back and says to her “Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence’ cell; there stays a husband [Romeo] to make you a wife” (II, v, 73-74). Juliet, filled with joy, screams “Hie to high fortune! Honest nurse farewell” (II, v, 78). This portrays her as being disobedient because Romeo proposed to her and she accepts it joyfully; whereas her family already arranged a marriage between her and count Paris. This shows us that Juliet’s parents can not make someone love another person and that love “is the star to every wandering bark” (Sonnet 116, line 7).

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. When Juliet matures quickly into and adult and a wife; she is faced with a test of faith and a big decision with consequences. Juliet’s faith goes to Romeo, her husband; because she decides her loyalty for Romeo must be of greatest importance even though he killed her cousin (Tybalt). But she holds on to her husband saying to the nurse to “find him! Give this to my true knight” (III, ii, 142). As things seem to get worse, Romeo is banished from the city of Verona; unable to see her wife. Juliet, upset says that “she has bought the mansion of love, but not possessed it” (III, ii, 26-27). She goes to Friar Lawrence both planned a meeting between Romeo and Juliet but it includes Juliet drinking a potion. She says “Give me, give me, tell me not of fear” (IV, I, 121), and courageous drinks the potion which knocks her unconscious for forty two hours. Her parents thinking that she is dead, buries her in the family tomb. According to plan, the Friar sends a messenger to fetch Romeo and tell her to meet at the tomb. All hell broke loose, as the messenger failed to carry out the message. Romeo, informed of Juliet’s death by a friend, buys poison from the apothecary and runs to the tomb where he finds her, after killing Paris when he interfered. Romeo, with his famous last words “Thus with a kiss I die” (V, iii, 120), drinks the potion by Juliet’s deathbed. Juliet awakens and finds the friar awaiting her. But she glances around and finds the dead bother of Romeo. The Friar abandons her when he hears guards and Juliet is transformed into a suicidal. Grabbing Romeo’s dagger and saying “ This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (V, iii, 170), stabs herself and dies.