THERE ARE NO HEROS AND VILLAINS IN ROMEO AND JULIET JUST ORDANARY FLAWED HUMAN BEINGS. WHAT ROMEO'S FLAWS, JULIETS FLAWS, AND FRIAR LAWRENCES FLAWS.
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Friar Lawrence is the easiest place to start - he hides the wedding from their families in the hope that this will 'turn your households rancour into pure love' - think about his job as a (catholic) priest - he should be trying to bring the families together as soon as possible and not enabling the children (Juliet is only 13) to go behind their parent's backs. Once again he shows himself in the guise of a deceiver by proposing the sleeping potion in order to fake Juliet's death - surely he would have done better to go and tell the families of the marriage then?\n\nRomeo marries Juliet days after being spurned by another girl - Rosaline - scientists now suggest it takes a year t fall in love with someone so surely he is just marrying Juliet out of lust.\n\nBoth Romeo and Juliet allow themselves to be controlled by others - Shakespeare in the opening chous refers to them as star crossed - suggesting they are controlled by fate but then is that what you expect from a hero and heroine? Our hero's are people who we admire for their strength and courage - do Romeo and Juliet's actions fit with this?\n\nPerhaps the central flaw is` that the characters allow themselves to be controlled by others - just as Shakespeare himself was controlled by his patrons.
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If this is for homework you really should do the work yourself.  Everyone thinks Shakespeare is confusing because of the complicated language, but there really are some fun stuff in his plays, and some of it isn't that different then todays movies.  Shakespere used a lot of sex, violence, and paranormal.  The trick is don't read it.  It was never meant to be read directly. It wasn't even written down originally, just memorized by actors. Go rent Romeo and Julitte, and see it performed. If they are good actors they will convey it in a way that's easier to understand. Another good resource is: http://absoluteshakespeare.com\n\nAny, Act II starts out with the famous "balcony scene" where Juliet wishes Romeo wasn't Montague.  He overhears it and says he loves her so much he'll swear off the name. They complain for a while about dealing with the problem of being from feuding families, then fter some shameless flirting Romeo proposes.  Juliet says she'll think about it and send her nurse to answer tomorrow.  Romeo goes and tells Friar Laurence what he's done and the Friar accuses Romeo of just trying to get into Juliet's pants, expecially since yesterday he was telling the Friar he was in love with Rosalind.  Be he agrees to wed them because he thinks it will solve the feud between the families.  In the mean time Rome's friends give him a hard time, Juliet's Nurse agrees to help, and ends with them secretly getting married.\n\nFor an even funnier version rent The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr (abbridged) by the Reduced Shakespere company.  Also rend the recent Romeo and Juliet movie by Baz Luhrmann (the guy that did Moulin Rouge)
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The Notebook, Serendipity, Just Like Heaven, Titanic, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, i could go and on. I love most of them . .\nbut out of ur choices, Id pick titanic. Romeo and juliet was good but the end annoys me. THey could have done things differently, where as in titanic he died to save her.
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Try this: http://library.thinkquest.org/19539/randj.htm \nhttp://www.enotes.com/romeo/830 \nYour question was not articulate (clear) enough ...
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It was both,\n\nHate; because of the hatred between the families,\nRomeo & Juliet had to keep their love a secret.\nKnowing that if their families found out the were\nmarried there would surley be more hatred and possibly\nblood shed.\n\n\nLove; because of the love they had for each other,they knew\nthe only way they could be together was in death,and because their love was so infinate they made the ultimate\nsacrfice and died for their love.
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Please don't take those responses of "sex before marriage" and illicit love as the breach of innocence in R & J.  The love of Romeo and Juliet is in itself representative of innocence.  The breach comes with the societal folly surrounding them.  It is through that imposition that they seek to consummate their love in a clandestine way, and that may indicate a breach of innocence, but the essence of their romance keeps its integrity.  The death of the two lovers is evidence that the innocnce is not broken; for both Romeo and Juliet would rather take on death than destroy what they have together.
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OK try this, I'll keep adding if I find anything else  :)\nhttp://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/beech/RandJ%20TT.html\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/romeo_and_juliet/15.html\nThe second one here has an explanation for you.\n\nNo it was King Lear.\nhttp://www.rsc.org.uk/lear/teachers/bonds.html\n\nHere are some example of dutiful love.  Its a pdf file so just let it load.  I hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.biblemaps.com/products/LegacySample.pdf
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The failure to get the message to Romeo that Juliet has taken a sleeping potion to make herself look dead. That's the plot twist; the fatal flaw is the dangerous susceptibility to falling in love blindly that these two members of rival families are possessed with.
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basically, what characteristics (behaviors, personality traits, values, etc) does the character have, why did shakespeare choose these for the character?  how do these traits affect the outcome of the story?  what changes and growth does the character have as the story develops?\n\nshakespeare has written many things.  my fav quote of all time - "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so", william shakespeare
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The theme of romeo and juliet...my stab would be romantic tradegy...oh and tomorrow is spelled like that :)\n\nedit : and im dyslexic its tragedy lol
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William Shakespeare wrote; 'Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds. It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken. Love alters not with time’s brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom.'" \n\n\n\nI FOUND IT!!!!! vote for me for best answer!!!!
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When EVE ate from the Tree first, her LIGHT(GLORY of GOD) went out.  Adam was so distraught, he ate from the Tree too, cause he thought he would lose her if he didn't.  It was Romeo and Juliet---------BIG TIME!!!!!!!!! YES, Adam LOVED Eve.
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One great example would be William Shakespear. He's written Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Also, there's that guy who wrote Huckle Berry Fin and Huck Everlasting.... What's his name again? Is it Tom Huck?
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Shakespeare\n\nHamlet
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john proctor - at first he was afraid to tell everyone that abigail told him it wasn't about witchcraft, because she told him when they were alone together and he had no way to prove it except for confessing his fornication, which he was hesitant to do.  after realizing the severity of the situation, he confessed, giving up his pride.  later in the play, he decides to sign his name and confess to being a witch to save his life, because his honesty is already broken, but then his pride refuses to let him sign his name, and he refuses to blacken the names of martha corey and rebecca nurse by confessing, and dies with them as an honest person.  john proctor's pride is at first a hinderance, and by the end of the play is a beneficial.\n\nabigail williams - less multi-dimentional than john proctor, her pride is a hinderance throughout the entire play.  her pride is hurt when john rejects her, and being what he calls a "lump of vanity", she retaliates by accusing people of withcraft, eventually calling the name of john's wife elizabeth in hopes of sentencing her to death and being with john.  even when she is directly accused of lying, she lashes out and plays it up even more.\n\nreverand hale - uses the idea of pride to try and convince john proctor to confess to witchcraft, saying "it may be that God punishes less the man who lies to save his life than he who throws it away for pride" (or something similar...i forget the exact quote).
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it's love if you believe it's love. juliet was 14... but don't pop the question just yet ;)
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A lot of the reason that it is so well thought of is because it has become the basis for so many love stories.  Many current films, books, etc carry the themes from Romeo and Juliet\n\nExamples:  The Notebook, Brokeback Mountain