Text Response Essay: Romeo and Juliet! | Text Response Essay: Romeo and Juliet!

ROMEO AND JULIET!

LOVE! What is love? Is it that tingly feeling that you get inside, is it a sudden rush of emotions, is it a non drug related high, is it an intimate attraction, is it just a special bond between two, or is it the feeling of happiness and emotion? Whatever love is we knew that Romeo and Juliet's love would end in tears, we knew that this pair star crossed lover's would take their own lives. As I wrote this essay I found myself asking who or what influenced Romeo and Juliet's death; I found that the main characters in the play (especially the Nurse, the Friar, Tybalt, Paris and the parents of each), as well as timing and the feud between the parents were the greatest reasons for their death.

The feud between Montague and Capulet, this was the thing that started everything, the thing that made their relationship impossible from the start. Romeo and Juliet both knew that their parents strictly forbade any conduct between them, thus making their love doomed.

Tybalt's incredible hate for Romeo and the other Montague's was always destined to cause trouble and when he saw Romeo at the party he thought that Romeo was up to something, this made him extremely angry especially at Romeo. Tybalt went out to get revenge on Romeo, but dear Romeo would not draw his sword and fight. This made Tybalt even angrier so he fought the next best thing, Mecrutio. This scene started a whole chain of events going, making Romeo and Juliet's love even trickier.

The nurse; the person that Juliet could always turn to, the one who always understood, the person who always supported her, the one that always helped her through. This is also the person who abandoned her in her greatest time of need leaving her feeling isolated and alone. How could Juliet's greatest friend do such a thing her? Simple, she let her emotions get involved, she didn't think before she spoke or what consequences would come about from what she said, but worst all she didn't believe that Romeo and Juliet's love was strong enough. After supporting and organising the marriage between Romeo and Juliet the nurse left Juliet out in the cold by advising her to forget her love Romeo and marry Paris as her father had organised. This led Juliet to turn to other characters for advice.

The Friar complicated this web of events and situations even more. He did this by not thinking things through and by not allowing room for error. The first mistake the Friar made was encouraging, supporting and performing Romeo and Juliet's marriage without thinking about the consequences of his actions. Then by giving Juliet the poison he left no room for error, which of course was bound to happen.

Romeo was a somewhat impulsive character, but after marrying Juliet he tried very hard to do the right thing and think things through. We see that eventually Romeo would slip up and once again his emotions would take control and this did happen. When Tybalt killed Mecrutio Romeo became angry and upset, he wanted revenge and this he got. Poor Romeo did not think about how killing Tybalt would make his already impossible relationship even harder.

Timing, the whole play had a very tight time limit in which everything that needed to would occur, or else the play would not have the same greatness and idolism. All the events of the play occur in matter of days forcing the play to run to a tight schedule of alternating views of Romeo and Juliet, there families and lives.