Monday, December 26, 2016
Love and Marriage and Tragedy in Romeo and Juliet
In the Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet different characters attitudes towards love and marriage ceremony are pivotal in contributing towards the accepts tragical events. The chorus opens the act as with a reference to Fate, and describes the buffs as: A pair of star-crossed lovers. This suggests that the goal who determines the characters lives and this sense of pre-determines doom echoes throughout the bunco. Even Romeo and Juliet met each new(prenominal) by a divination of stars and fate. The main protagonists feel the act of Fate behind his or her actions. Romeo fears that fate is working against him, as he goes to the Capulet masquerade costume: I fear to early for my sagacity misgives / Some consequence thus far hanging in the stars / Shall bitter begin his portentous designation. Here Romeo actually believes in Fate and that all that this fearful date is foretold by the stars and predetermined by Fate. The alliterated mind misgives shows that the inhalation has b een brought by Fate hence Shakespeare tries to suggest that but he cannot stop himself from progressing towards his own tragic end and his attendance of the Capulet Masque is the first step towards fulfilling that destiny. \nthither can be no doubt that Romeos inattentiveness and suddenness throughout the play lead to the tragedy at the end. At the start of the play Shakespeare presents Romeo as an Elizabethan lover, as a person who is hotheaded and quick in his passions. His obtain comments on his grief potty son at the initial start of the play: some a morning hath he there be seen / with crying augmenting the fresh mornings dew. His father Montague is worried to the highest degree Romeo and he uses a cancel image to reflect Romeos unnatural and exaggerated feelings towards Rosaline. Romeos attitude reflects that of the courtly lover vainly attempting and ensnare the attentions of an unrealizable lover. However, it is thus the same extremity of behaviour that later defines his race wit...
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