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Romeo and Juliet - Research Paper

Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet is marred by an excessive will to tragedy. There are too many, not too few, reasons why things go wrong in this play. There is a social setting in hot Verona which emphasizes the intimate relation of sexuality and violence. The lovers are from families long involved in a destructive and seemingly interminable feud. There is, in Romeo's and Juliet's love, an excessive haste, and occasional intimations that something in their love itself makes for its self-destructiveness. Lest we be in any doubt, a Chorus appears at the beginning of the play and, in a manner atypical of Shakespeare, introduces dramatic suspense, expressing a jumble of terms which declare emphatically the ...

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the stars. But, if we look at the plot and action rather than to the words of Romeo and Juliet, we find an accumulation of accidents and lies, all too easily turned away. Mercutio is mortally wounded in the confusion of Romeo's intervention in a brawl. Tybalt returns to the scene of the fight all too conveniently. Romeo could so easily have carried Juliet off with him to the safety of Mantua. Friar John, delayed by the plague, fails to tell Romeo of the faked death of Juliet. Romeo arrives at the tomb, just a few moments too soon. Juliet awakes a few moments too late. The Watch arrives at precisely the wrong moment, causing Friar Lawrence to desert the suicidal Juliet for reasons which aren’t clear.

Yet the play remains a masterpiece in its exploration of the experience and languages of love. Romeo and Juliet involves its audience in a process which effects the revitalization of love's language: the hyperboles and tropes of the lover, exposed as too well-worn clichés at the play's ...

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Added: 3/23/2011 04:42:21 PM
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Category: Shakespeare
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