Shakespeare 4

A detailed Summary of Shakespeare 4

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a play about two

lovers separated by their feuding families. From forth the

fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers

take their life.(Pro.I.6) The two foes Shakespeare speaks of

are the Montagues and the Capulets. Their hate for each

other is great and violent. The hate of the two families is

shown early with a street brawl. The hate causes the lovers

to hide their love from their families until the very end.

after Romeo and Juliet died in the Caplulet tomb the two

families see their hate and reconcile for the love of their

beloved children. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet reviled

love as a war as a religion as a malady and as a cult.

The theme of love, which he explains in other keys in

plays before and after remain central, though now it is to

idealized in all seriousness(Sauffer 29). All through the

play Shakespeare constantly held love as the basis of the

play. The actual ethical energy of the drama resides in its

realization of the purity and intensity of ideal love. Here

there is no swerving(Stauffer 32). Stauffer believes that

Romeo and Juliet's love was pure and intense also it is

constant ever since the they lay eyes on each oth

like mist by morning sunshine and love that embraces Juliet

At the time Romeo meets Juliet, he is infatuated with a

falls in love at first sight with Juliet, of the Capulets,

there are a lot of dirty jokes still out there.

Rosaline must be laughed out of him by his friends Benvolio

even in death the love continues. Romeo finds Juliet's

rather lewd song. Today Mercutio's song would be

and religion; for Mercutio it is sheer lunacy or a brutal

Both Romeo and Juliet were willing to forsake those things

nor of any other cause except love itself, which seeks death

of the love it could have been disaterious.

Approximate Word count = 952
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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