in romeo and juliet, why are friar laurence and the nurse positive parental figures to romeo and juliet?
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The friar thinks about juliet's feelings and how to better everyone. He was not selfish and unwilling to marry the two. He also hid romeo so he could say good bye to juliet.\n\nThe nurse was always helping her until the end. But she helped to plan the wedding and tell romeo. But she did change her mind at the end and therefor was more realistic to the situation.
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*conflict- many instances of conflicts in this play. Montagues vs. capulets, mercutio vs. tybalt, romeo vs. paris and many more!!!!!\n     *climax- the point of the story where everything is exciting, everything is glorious, great, or magnificent! everything goes downhill from there. i think theclimax is either in the balcony scene or the party.\n     *falling action- secret wedding and after.\n     *resolution- either romeo and juliet's death, romeo's banishment, when romeo buys the poison (?), or when Juliet makes plans with friar lawerence (?)\n     *i know this isn't muc, but it's a starting point!!!!! my class just finished the romeo and juliet unit, so this stuff is fresh in my mind. i'm REALLY sry that i can't figure out the resolution, but if you've read the play thru, you should be able to choose one of these answers!!!!! good luck with your project and grades!!!!!
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Until now? Are you saying it's no longer going to be popular? Well anyway, the answer is simple, everyone girl loves a love story, every guy loves action, like sword fights, and everyone loves drama! So Romeo and Juliet will always be popular because it's relatable to a point, because it's the kind of story that can happen to a point in real life. I.E. families fighting, but the children fall in love with each other but can't be together, I'm sure it isn't as extreme, but it happens. Plus this story was definately ahead of it's time, always will be. Sorry for the long response.
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In the play it refers to Mercutio as a kinsmen to Romeo.  I think they were supposed to be cousins.
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The Forcefulness of Love \n\nRomeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after the feast in order to go to Juliet’s garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet’s sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in II.i.76–78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves.\nThe powerful nature of love can be seen in the way it is described, or, more accurately, the way descriptions of it so consistently fail to capture its entirety. At times love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others it is described as a sort of magic: “Alike bewitchèd by the charm of looks” (II.Prologue.6). Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly describes her love for Romeo by refusing to describe it: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth” (III.i.33–34). Love, in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or understood.\nRomeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play’s tragic conclusion.\n\n\n\n\nLove as a Cause of Violence\n \nThe themes of death and violence permeate Romeo and Juliet, and they are always connected to passion, whether that passion is love or hate. The connection between hate, violence, and death seems obvious. But the connection between love and violence requires further investigation.\nLove, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding; it can overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death: Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it: in Act III, scene iii, Romeo brandishes a knife in Friar Lawrence’s cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and his love. Juliet also pulls a knife in order to take her own life in Friar Lawrence’s presence just three scenes later. After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet says, “If all else fail, myself have power to die” (III.v.242). Finally, each imagines that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience (“Methinks I see thee,” Juliet says, “. . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” (III.v.242; III.v.55–56). This theme continues until its inevitable conclusion: double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most potent expression of
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The feud goes back Centuries. It is a Territorial dispute. (You may want to reference the Hatfields and the McCoys in the United States.) Blood was shed between the two families during their dispute, ever deepening their division. This was indeed one of the central points of contention in the play Romeo and Juliet. Remember also during the play, when the differences between the families are discussed, the line: "What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". (I may not have that exactly right, but I think it's close). Good luck.
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ohhhh a romeo and juliet.... wat i think is that parents like special talents from a kid. u could try telling the person u love him try dating a couple times and get to know him. if u know the piano or any classical instruments they may like u!
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Juliet is in the story Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare.
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BOTH ARE ABOUT LOVE BUT ORTHELLO IS MATRIARCH LOVE AND ROMEO AND JULIET IS LOVE BETWEEN A GIRL AND A BOY WITH NO BLOOD TIES
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http://www.shakespeare-online.com\nhttp://members.aol.com/liadona2/shakespeare.html?f=fs\n\n\nThere are many factors causing the tragedy in Romeo and Juliet. The following areas may help you:\n\n    * The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets – we learn that this is an "ancient grudge". Tybalt acts because he says that "the honour of my kin" has been insulted. Romeo acts on the death of Mercutio according to the traditional revenge code.\n    * Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another – their passion means that they are only prepared to meet in death. Some argue that their youth makes them foolish and hasty in their actions.\n    * Does fate play a part? There are many references to the stars and fate in the play.\n    * Secrecy – the friar marries the pair in secret leading to dire consequences.\n    * Family will – Capulet wants Juliet to marry Paris "or else". He says:\n\n        …go with Paris to Saint Peter’s church\n        Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither\n\n \n\nIt is not possible to give one character responsibility for the tragedy alone.\n\nthis link will be useful... has a lot of points \nhttp://search.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=romeo+and+juliet&x=35&y=8&scope=ksenglish\n\nit depends on what your teacher wants ultimately... \n\nhttp://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Classroom/3085/romandjul.html\nanother nice page that might be useful :)\ngood luck with your power point presentation :) cheers :)
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Like a lot of modern parents, I think they fail to see their kids' feelings as being real to them.  Thus, you go around forbidding who they can and can't talk to, arranging relationships, putting unreasonable restrictions on them etc.  If you operate on the assumption that kids only have "puppy" love and that somehow their emotional life is more diminutive and less important than that of adults, then Romeo and Juliet happens.
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the shakespeare play "romeo and juliet" was based on love, which can be linked to the heart, which is sometimes thought of as the "love muscle"
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That stuff about the Great Mother is bull... it's not possible that every goddess originates from the Great Mother, which is what every scholar wants to argue.\n\nAnyway, the reason the virgin is connected to childbirth is that, according to the legend, she helped her mother give birth to her twin, Apollo.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_justice ? I'm not sure if there IS poetic justice in Romeo and Juliet, but then I've not read it for ages.
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They are the "builders" of the zodiac. Some may say materialistic, because they do think that what they own accounts for the success they have had in life, I believe to them it's just tangible proof they are successful. Home and family are very important to them but not in the same way as Cancer. Taurus works hard to provide for family whether it be monetary or domestically. Stubborn to a fault, never try to move a bull from where s/he stands, except with time and patience. Difficult to express emotional attachments, but they tend to have beautiful voices, speaking and singing. They love beautiful things as they are ruled by Venus but love comfort even more. Steadfast, loyal and true.
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They end up dead.\n\nOkay, seriously, Juliet goes from being a meek submissive girl who is afraid of her mother and her nurse to a strong-willed girl who fakes her own death, deals with the death of her cousin and manages to go behind her parents back to get the man she loves.\n\nTrue, an accident botches it all, but Juliet matures immensely throughout the course of the play.
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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