Romeo And Juliet Conflict Essay
The theme of love does play a pivotal role within the play “Romeo and Juliet, although the conflict also drives much of the action that occurs. The love of revenge and love between Romeo and Juliet are both evident throughout the play. If not for the conflict, this classic novel would be no more than a tedious love story. This love as a cause of conflict, is almost directly responsible for the tragic outcome that happens to the star-crossed lovers. The two themes, love and conflict all have their share of importance within the plays structure, and eventual tragedy.
The love or desire to avenge in the play is displayed early in the novel, as a result of the feud between the heads of families, and carried on by the successors. Shakespeare alludes …show more content…
In the Prologue, once again, Shakespeare tells the audience what will occur in the novel in a form of a sonnet. He states that “A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life”, which is deliberately employed to make the audience more intrigued to find out how, and why the deaths occurred. By doing this, he cast the viewers’ attention towards the unfortunate circumstances that led to their death of Romeo and Juliet. The hastily marriage of the pair was both an unfortunate circumstance and a lack of thinking. For example, the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence exclaims, “Wisely and slow, those stumble that run fast.” This quotation reflects the consequences of a hasty marriage but despite this, the Friar still agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet so early. The marriage was indeed partly the Friar’s fault because he was already aware of the rashness of love (especially that of Romeo and Rosaline). “Is Rosaline, that thou’st did love so dear so soon forsaken? Then young men’s love lies not in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Nevertheless, as a holy man, Friar Lawrence agrees and attempts to make the marriage create peace over rancor for the Capulet and Montague families. This event was not pre-determined by fate, but surely if the following or preceding events that were attributed to fate didn’t happen then early marriage would not have been a problem. It is only because of the
The love or desire to avenge in the play is displayed early in the novel, as a result of the feud between the heads of families, and carried on by the successors. Shakespeare alludes …show more content…
In the Prologue, once again, Shakespeare tells the audience what will occur in the novel in a form of a sonnet. He states that “A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life”, which is deliberately employed to make the audience more intrigued to find out how, and why the deaths occurred. By doing this, he cast the viewers’ attention towards the unfortunate circumstances that led to their death of Romeo and Juliet. The hastily marriage of the pair was both an unfortunate circumstance and a lack of thinking. For example, the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence exclaims, “Wisely and slow, those stumble that run fast.” This quotation reflects the consequences of a hasty marriage but despite this, the Friar still agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet so early. The marriage was indeed partly the Friar’s fault because he was already aware of the rashness of love (especially that of Romeo and Rosaline). “Is Rosaline, that thou’st did love so dear so soon forsaken? Then young men’s love lies not in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Nevertheless, as a holy man, Friar Lawrence agrees and attempts to make the marriage create peace over rancor for the Capulet and Montague families. This event was not pre-determined by fate, but surely if the following or preceding events that were attributed to fate didn’t happen then early marriage would not have been a problem. It is only because of the