ROMEO AND JULIET BOOK CHARACTERS REVIEWED

 ROMEO AND JULIET BOOK CHARACTERS REVIEWED

[A TRAGEDY PENNED BY SHAKESPEARE- 1595-96]

Shakespeare is expansively known as the sorest[The oldest name of the word GREATEST] writer in the history of English Literature. King of tragedy storylines is remembered even today for the volume of works that every book lover would never forget the lines written by Shakespeare. ‘Men in English Literature’ is a known fact. Whenever we talk about English or English Literature, it’s mostly about Shakespeare or Robert Frost Lee, or W.B Yeats. These men subsidized most of their works in the field of English Literature that made many young writers follow in their footsteps. Whenever someone talks about romance, it’s “Romeo and Juliet”. It’s now a “tour de force” that created history in the world of words Romeo and Juliet is one such tragedy book amongst a few other plays like Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear, and so on. As a reader and an author I always express as Shakespeare’s books never die. His words will be appearing or his visions might be imprinting somewhere in a book.

ROMEO AND JULIET’S CHARACTERS REVIEWED

 Romeo and Juliet is a fictional character inscribed by Shakespeare to express the art of love between two characters.

It’s a story between two families that takes the lives of two young adulthood. A vendetta between two powerful families bursts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues attracts further conflict by trespassing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris. With the help of Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for the couple to marry the next day, but Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight leads to the death of Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is expatriated. In a desperate attempt to be reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the Friar’s plot and fakes her death. The message fails to reach Romeo, and believing Juliet dead, he takes his life in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills herself. The grief stricken family agrees to end their feud. The storyline is purely based on love and what happens when two lives love each other so strongly out of consciousness, and madness. 

    Romeo and Juliet - Wikipedia

Let’s move on to the character analysis 

Romeo Montague 

‘ROSES, UNIVERSAL SIGN OF LOVE REPRESENTS ROMEO”

The character is well known to everybody from the famous Book called “conceited Tragedic Love story of Romeo and Juliet” written by Shakespeare. Romeo is the protagonist, a young youthful, and cheerful adulthood boy who is from a Montague family supposed to be the only son of Lord Montague and Lady Montague. Although the tale is said to having a resemblance to “Xenophon of Ephesus”. The character Romeo is similar to that of Pyramus In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, A young adulthood boy who is unable to meet the object of his affection due to a long history of the family quarrel and ends up killing himself after falsely knowing the death of his loved one. But apart from being synced, Romeo the only son of lord and Lady Montague is a cheerful youth. A 16-year-old youth and his youthfulness lead to the tragedy death as he never is able to accept Juliet as his wife in front of the whole world due to their long quarrel history between Montagues and Capulets. In the beginning, Romeo is menacing over his unrequited love for Rosaline. During the course of the story, Romeo Starts getting matured. But his impatience, youthfulness, and his overly dramatic love for Juliet make him take unstable choices in life by marrying Juliet or even killing Tybalt and killing himself which is set to be the drawbacks of Romeo. From the beginning when the reader starts reading the story gets to analyze that Romeo was an inexperienced lover. His way of expressing or the way of admiring is detailed to be a young and untried lover. He is just a blind lover. He has no clarity stick onto. At the foundation of the story, he would be looking for Rosaline. Again here it shows his immaturity and not knowing what to look up to when falling in love with someone. This is also considered to be an immediate decision. He is a man who expresses through poems and sonnets, but deep inside he never expresses it frankly and outspokenly. He is a child inside. when he learns of his banishment, he lies on the floor wailing and crying over his fate. He has a friendship quality that has been executed when Tybalt kills his friend Mercutio he avenges Tybalt to shows his loyalty and a great friendship act. From the beginning, Romeo is called an emotional soul. He has emotions and he accepts and expresses them. Romeo is the representation of every adulthood boy who takes a decision without knowing the pros and cons of the situation and the future depended on that decision.

GREAT QUALITIES OF ROMEO

 The idealism that makes everybody love him and get attracted to him. 

 A loyal friend everybody deserves. The story showcases the friendship qualities too that make Romeo stand outside the crowd. 

He falls in love quickly but yet showcased as a sign of immaturity to fall in love within fractions. A poetic way of expressing that makes him be unique and loved by everyone.

DRAWBACKS 

• Patience is the key, but he had lost the key to unlocking the door of success. 
• His impatience led him to kill Tybalt and become a murderer, his impatience led him to marry Juliet in secret which eventually did not enjoy being a husband to a resplendent wife, and his impatience led him to take poison and kill himself without waiting for a minute or two. 
• A vengeful soul. Went on to showcase his loyalty and became a murderer.
•  At an immature age taking the decision of getting married made him take decisions based on that in the wrong and troublesome ways. 

JULIET

 Juliet is known to be another name for ‘PROMISE’ in the world of love.

Juliet Capulet is a female protagonist, daughter of Lord Capulet and Lady Capulet and sister of Tybalt Capulet as well as Rosaline Capulet. Romeo enters the party to express his love to Rosaline Capulet and Thus falls in love with Juliet that takes a lot of turns through the valley of love. Juliet, a strong passionate, and headstrong girl, who is innocent and attractive. A Beauty with the brain. ‘I gave thee mine before thou didst request it’ Romeo requests that Juliet declares her love for him and Juliet simply replies that she has already done so. This shows her passion for love. Before all this, Lady Capulet would have expressed that Paris wants to marry Juliet. Juliet agrees and says 

‘WILL TRY TO SEE IF SHE CAN LOVE HIM”. 

This looks a little childish but yet a strong hidden feeling of a person when asked to get married to someone who is not familiar to the heart. When we look at the story, Juliet has no friend of her age to talk about anything and everything. She fails in communicating about intimacy which shows the sign of not being so interested in love at that age. She is decisive. She tries to fake her death thinking about getting along with Romeo by listening to a plan made by Friar Laurence.

  ‘Love give me strength, and strength shall help afford”

This shows the decisive nature of Juliet. she instantly agrees to this plan without knowing what could happen in the future. She was passionate about love, which made her fake her death resulting in Romeo dying. Never got a chance to at least see him and wait for a minute before taking this decision. Juliet is also considered to be a flirting person, as she sees Romeo and when he arrives and starts the conversation she falls for him instantly and takes it to another level of conversation which makes their connection stronger and resulting in a tragedy end. A teenager when falls in love and her decisions stand at a crossroads what will she do? Juliet is the representation of every thirteen-year-old girl who loves to be loved without knowing the meaning of love and commits herself to someone and to some situation that eventually goes in the wrong direction.

Great qualities of Juliet 

A strong Girl. A Passionate girl. A loyal Girl. An independent girl. Her respectful nature makes her too much attractive. Several examples define her strength and make her be lovable. 

Every guy who reads this story thinks of having a strong and passionate lover like Juliet.

A changing face and young blissful soul who loves to be loved and commits to a person showcases her sorest quality. She is soft-spoken, yet makes an impression. Her sorest strength is commitment. She could have let Romeo die, but yet she commits herself to die with Romeo.

Drawbacks

•  Eventually, she fell in love too quickly. But the age figures out the eagerness to love someone and to be with someone. 
• Her stubbornness made the entire story move in a different way ending tragically. 
•  Her quick judgments and decisions took her life away. Immaturity and impracticality led both lives to lose their lives.

Tybalt Capulet

 A young, argumentized cousin of Juliet who is short-tempered and who had decided to hate Montagues until he dies. He is strong-willed, argumentative, passionate, and loyal. All of these characteristics are demonstrated when he finds out that Romeo has gate-crashed a Capulet party, knowing that the Montagues are not welcome. Tybalt reacts badly, almost causing a fight at the Capulet household. Lord Capulet quickly intervenes and tells Tybalt not to fight Romeo and Tybalt reluctantly obeys. Tybalt seeks his revenge by fighting with Romeo, but when Romeo refuses to fight he kills Romeo's best friend, Mercutio, instead. This causes Romeo to avenge his best friend's death. “It fits when such a villain is a guest: "I'll not endure him"

This indicates that Tybalt is stubborn and insistent, saying that Romeo's presence would have been excusable if he had been invited, but he was there without invitation and had to be dealt with. Lord Capulet clearly knows that Tybalt is of a choleric disposition, meaning that he has a quick temper. Tybalt, throughout the story, is shown as an aggressive man and strong manhood person who hates Montagues just like his previous generations. But at the same time, he is also a LOYAL person Why, uncle, 'Its a shame." This expression of his shows loyalty and obeying the orders of the elders. The sentence won't show as Tybalt actually agreeing, but since he has loyalty towards Lord Capulet, he is obeying the order.

CONCLUSION 

When FRIAR LAURENCE says “these violent delights have violent ends” expresses that the Story gonna end tragically. Analyzing the characteristics and The characters both Romeo and Juliet still remain as sorest enthusiasts in history. Both the characters are young and Still enjoying the youthfulness, falling in love and taking wrong decisions at the wrong time makes them take away their lives. The characters define a strong passion for love but forget to think when being in love. 

Loving is not just about being with someone, instead, understanding them and living the moments that make them happier, which makes life better. Romeo and Juliet forget to stand for love instead fails in enjoying those moments of getting accepted by their families. 

The story holds a strong moral line. Taking revenge is not the ultimate aim of a person, being loved is the ultimate. The story also showcases, A great friend like Mercutio needs to be around to maintain peace. The family rivalries should not last long, but love and peace should last long are the moral of this story with a great message to mankind. Furthermore, when we start reading, at the beginning the emotions and the expressions of these two families make the reader know-how bad the relationship between Montagues and Capulets is moving ahead from time to time. 

The passion and chaos in love last long. These moments won't come back again for you to love, but you can hate someone every minute but you cannot love someone every minute if you start hating them every minute.

 

Why do Romeo and Juliet stand as the greatest tragic story? 

The story is not just completely based on love but has moral lines that give or take, ‘do not take decisions when you are sad’. Do act immaturely until you know the value of maturity. Do not fall in love quickly without knowing what love is as well as without thinking of living the moments. But the story remains in the hearts forever for a reason, and that is ‘LOVE’. It is considered the most beautiful thing when you feel that you are matured enough to accept reality. Everybody loves to be loved, everybody has different ways of loving someone, such as Romeo and Juliet. When we take the positive side of it, how could the family war ended without the lives getting sacrificed? Either people from Montagues would have died or Capulets crew would have died. How the family rivalries would have ended? There was no other way other than this. But yet, young lives sacrificed too much than the old and knowledgeable people......

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