Romeo and Juliet Essay

     How hard would it be to have the only person you love in the whole world be part of an enemy family? The story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is about two people who fall in love but have many complications in loving each other. The biggest problem of all is the fact that they come from enemy families, Juliet being a capulet and Romeo being a Montague. Other complications include the fact that Juliet is set to marry another man, Paris, very shortly. Friar Lawerence (Romeos father) and Lord Capulet (Juliets father) contribute to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by forcing them to act quickly and unorganizedly through their love.
     Lord Capulet contributes to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by forcing Juliet to get married to Paris causing Juliet to rush through her love with Romeo; "'Marry my child early next thursday morn the gallant young and noble gentleman the County Paris at Saint Peter's church shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.' 'Now by Saint Peter's church and Peter too he shall not make me there a joyful bride! I wonder at this haste that i must wed ere he that should be husband comes to woo I pray you tell my lord father madam i will not marry yet and when i do swear it shall be Romeo whom you know i hate rather then Paris. These are news indeed!' 'Here comes your father. tell him yourself and see how he will take it at your hands'" act 3 scene 5 page 165. This quote explains when Juliet is told she will be marrying Paris in a couple of days. The date of the wedding forces Juliet to panic on how little time she has to plan an escape with Romeo. This quote also explains how much Juliet hates Paris and does not wish to marry him. Juliets father contributes to the tragedy by constricting the time that Juliet and Romeo have together.
     Friar Lawerence contributes to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by not making his plans clear to Romeo causing Romeo to believe that Juliet is truly dead. "Hold then go home be merry give consent to marry Paris wednesday is tomorrow tomorrow night look that thou lie alone let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber take thou this vial being in bed and this distilling liquor drink thou off when presently through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor for no pulse shall keep but his native progress but surcrease no warmth no breath shall testify thou livest the roses in thy lips shall fade to paly ashes thy eyes windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life each part deprived of supple government shall stiff stark and cold appear like death and in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death thou shalt continue two and forty hours and then awake as if from a pleasant sleep now when the bridgegroom of the morning comes to rouse thee from thy bed there art thou dead then as the manner of our country is in thy best robes uncovered in bier thou shalt be borne to that some ancient vault where all kindred of the Capulets lie in the meantime against thou shalt awake shall Romeo by my letters know our drift and hither shall he come and he and i will watch thy waking and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua And this shall free thee from this present shame if no inconstant toy nor womanish fear abate thy valor in the acting it." act 4 scene 1 page 183-184. This quote explains Friars's plan to get Romeo and Juliet back together. When they do carry out this plan though word doesnt reach Romeo so he thinks Juliet is truly dead. They should have kept the wedding on thursday so they would have more time to tell Romeo the plan. Friar Lawerence contributes to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by not planning out carefully.
     Both families (Capulets and Montagues) hate each other so Romeo and Juliet had to love secretly making it harder. "Two households both alike in dignity in fair Verona where we lay our scene from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean from forth these fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star crossed lovers take their life whose misadventure piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents strife the fearful passage of their death marked love and the continuance of their parents rage which but their childrens end naught could remove is now the two hours traffic set of our stage the which if you with patient ears attend what here shall miss our toil shall strive to mend" prologue page 7. The prologue shows how the families are alike but how their ancient enemies so if they found out that Romeo and Juliet were in love a bigger fight between the families would occur making it harder for them to love each other.
     Romeo and Juliet relates to the world because of this overall theme of love and the many complications that are also involved.

Romeo and Juliet essay outline

     Thesis: The Friar and Lord Capulet contribute to the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by forcing them to act quickly and unorganizedly through their love

Body one: Lord Capulet wants Juliet to marry very soon even though she doesnt want to
     Evidence: -act 3 scene 5 page 165

Body two: The friar doesnt  make his plan clear to Romeo causing him to think bad things that didnt happen resulting in the death of both Romeo and Juliet
     Evidence: -act 4 scene 1 page 183-184

Body three: Both families hate each other so Romeo and Juliet had to love secretly
     Evidence: -prologue page 7

The Lying Game

     The Lying Game by Sara Shepard is about these twins that were kept a secret from one another. It all started when Emma, who was the twin that was never adopted, got in trouble with her foster care mother. Travis, who also lived in the foster home with her, showed the foster mother a video of someone being fake murdered. The girl being murdered looked exactly like Emma, bit she knew it wasn't her because she doesn't ever remember doing that. Emma digs deep into this girls history through facebook and finds that her name is Sutton Mercer and found that they had the same birthday. What i wonder is why the family that adopted Sutton not want Emma as well? Why were Sutton and Emma kept a secret from one another?

      You would think that maybe the family that adopted Sutton couldn't afford another child or something but they were rich so they could've taken Emma too or at least let each other know that they have  a twin sister, right? why didn't they also take Emma? Did they not know about her or did they just not want her? And it keeps saying that Sutton is dead........ I'm so confused.....