What are the flaws in  Romeo and Juliet?
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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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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
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Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.elook.org/literature/shakespeare/romeo-and-juliet/\n\nI have found 12 summaries for you to look at, click the link below. I have included a short extract to give you a taste of what the reviews have to offer and they’re FREE..!!!\n\nhttp://summarycentral.tripod.com/romeoandjuliet.htm\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=363\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Romeo+And+Juliet+\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Romeo\n\nhttp://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/RomJul/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.clicknotes.com/\n\nAn analysis of the play by Shakespeare\n\nhttp://www.theatrehistory.com/british/romeoandjuliet001.html\n\nhttp://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xRomeoJul.html#Characters\n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barrons/romeojl11.asp\n\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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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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boy and girl from opposing families fall in love. family feud breaks out and Juliets cousin tybalt dies. Romeo is forced further away from Juliet as he hides from the law. in their wish to see each other Juliet plans to fake death so involves the friar. She taked a medic which simulates the symptoms of death. unfortunately poor Romeo does not recieve the message of her plan and upon see her 'dead' body attempts death. He succeeds in drinking poison and dies at her grave. Upon his death she wakes. Realising the circumstances she tragically stabs herself and they are both dead but together forever. Therefore utimately acheiving their aim. 'Star crossed lovers' that shall meet in the 'star crossed' skys i.e. heaven.
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LOVE\nBETRAYAL\nFAMILY \nRELIGION\nSACRIFICE\n\nHE LOVED EVEN WHEN IT WAS FORBIDDEN.\nHE BETRAYED HIS FAMILY AND FRIENDS TO LOVE JULIET\nHE WAS WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIS LIFE TO BE WITH THE PERSON HE LOVED.
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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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Romeo and Juliet was published in two distinct quarto editions prior to the publication of the First Folio of 1623. These are referred to as Q1 and Q2.\n\nQ1 was published in 1597. Because its text contains numerous differences from the later editions, it is labelled a 'Bad Quarto' composited from actors' memories of their lines, rather than on Shakespeare's manuscript or theatre text. It may have been put together by the actors who had played the roles of Romeo and Paris, since their lines are reasonably complete and uncorrupted in comparison to the rest of the play. Modern people would consider this a "pirate" edition, but the practice was far from unusual at the time.\n\nQ2, a much more complete and reliable text, was first published in 1599, and reprinted in 1609, 1623 and 1637. Its title page describes it as "Newly corrected, augmented and amended". Scholars believe that this text was based on Shakespeare's pre-performance draft, since there are textual oddities such as variable tags for characters and "false starts" for speeches that were presumably struck through by the author but erroneously preserved by the typesetter.\n\nThe First Folio text of 1623 seems to be based primarily on the 1609 reprint of Q2, with some clarifications and corrections possibly coming from a theatrical promptbook.
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Maybe the fact that he has no patience. If he was not so quick to act, Juliet would have woke up before he stabbed himself and she never would have drank the poison.
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>Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare at a relatively early juncture in his literary career, most probably in 1594 or 1595.\nhttp://www.enotes.com/romeo/\n\n>Shakespeare wrote his works between 1588 and 1616, although the exact dates and chronology of the plays attributed to him are often uncertain. His prolific output is especially impressive in light of the fact that he lived only 52 years.\n\n>The story originates from a 1476 story of Mariotto and Gianozza by Masuccio Salernitano, in Il Novelino. Luigi da Porto's Istoria novellamente ritrovata di due Nobili Amanti gave the story much of its modern form, renaming the lovers to Romeus and Giulietta and shifting the action from Siena to Verona. Da Porto's story was taken up and included by Matteo Bandello in his Novelle of 1554, and versified by Arthur Brooke, whose narrative poem "Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet", written in 1562, was the source for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare enriched its texture through his vivid characterizations of both major and minor characters, in particular the Nurse and Mercutio.
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1) Romeo and Juliet is set in Italy in the 17th century, WSS is set in new York City in the 20th century;\n2) The two lovers (Romeo & Juliet) both die; in WSS, Maria survives to accuse society (providing a neat sum-up for the audience);\n3) In WSS, there's a lot more singing and dancing;\n4) The function of Friar Lawrence from R&J is fulfilled in WSS by Doc, the drugstore owner, except that he doesn't marry the lovers, and he provides no theatrically-convenient "sleeping potion."\nThe mechanics of the stories (as well as the theme of the pointlessness of feuds) are essentially the same.
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I think the way that society has portrayed it is completely stupid. Romeo and Juliet were young kids but everyone seems to think that they were grown.
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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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Go to sparknotes.com.\n\nRomeo is dumped...He meets Juliet...Mercucio dies...R & J are married...Romeo is banished...Juliet fakes her death...Romeo doesn't get the message and poisons himself...Juliet wakes up and stabs herself.
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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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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet\n\nhttp://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/
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That they have flaws. Or things about them that aren't perfect. We are all flawed.