Romeo e Juliet by Lucia Kausek

Theme

27lkausek — 2024-05-15 14:11:42 UTC

Acting impulsive and irrational gets people killed

27lkausek — 2024-05-17 14:26:48 UTC

27lkausek — 2024-05-17 14:37:32 UTC

Dear Reader,

This multi-genre project reflects an important theme in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". This project will have several subgenres dedicated to building more into the world of Verona, and showing the main flaw with many, if not all of the characters. The main theme to take away from this play is that "behaving impulsively and irrationally is dangerous, and can get people hurt and killed".

The subgenres in this project will demonstrate this theme by directly or indirectly portraying characters such as Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio, and Tybalt as irrational and not thinking through their actions and words. Each genre will be from the perspective of a different character, showing how impulsive a character thinks or how outsiders view their doomed stupidity.

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:27:33 UTC

This image is a text exchange between the character's Benvolio and Mercutio. Their conversation focuses on a fight Mercutio engaged in, since he's shown to be a very impulsive character who doesn't think of the long term effects of doing dangerous things to defend people's honor, such as engaging in duels. This also is meant to show how Benvolio of one of, in not the most rational character, knowing that doing things like engaging in duels isn't safe or helpful. The line I chose from the text was "Either withdraw unto some private place...or else depart. Here all eyes lay upon us." This line highlights how Benvolio is not impulsive or irrational, instead having awareness of his surroundings and understanding time and place. Also, Mercutio responds saying that he doesn't care, showing his lack of self awareness that leads to his death

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:36:42 UTC

This document is from the perspective of an outside person in relation to everything going on in regards to the Capulet and Montague rivalry. In the text, the therapist makes notes of what Romeo is telling her during his first appointment and her reactions. The most important thing to note in this is how many times the therapist mentions wanting to talk at a later date about Romeo's impulsivity when it comes to big decisions in love. She specifically worries about how quickly he was married, and how willing her was to die for his love. Obviously, this is meant to reflect and foreshadow that Romeo will react very badly on news that Juliet is dead, and goes to kill himself as well. My quote is from Romeo: "[bad thoughts] are swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men" and symbolized how Romeo was aware of how impulsive he was, but did not care.

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:42:22 UTC

This podcast, "The Friar Podcast" (hopefully the video will be linked) you can see a further perspective from Friar John, the man who failed to deliver a letter to Romeo due to bringing a friend who had been staying around the sick with him on his journey. You can see how neither friar thinks through their actions, as an argument breaks out and Friar Laurence impulsively storms out without really hearing his friend out, resulting in a kind-of "break up", which could reflect in real life when couples break up impulsively without hearing the other side out when something goes wrong.

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:47:45 UTC

Quote: "If...thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then it is likely wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away this shame" (act 4 scene 1 lines 71-74)

This line highlights how rash Juliet is, but also Friar Laurence, since he is the one who proposes the foolish plan that is almost guaranteed to fail

A song to Describe Romeo and Juliet realistically

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:55:58 UTC

Romeo and Juliet are both irrational and impulsive throughout the play, with how they wallow over their love and are willing to die if anything doesn't go their way. That being said, it has to be remembered that both characters are in their early teens, with Juliet being almost 14 and Romeo likely being around 16. This song, I feel, relates to them a lot, especially the line "We're both just young, dumb, broke high school kids" since Romeo and Juliet would be around high school age in a modern world. Many modern day teens also struggle with making good decisions, because their brains aren't fully developed and they're just starting their transition into adulthood, meaning it's not the best time to be secretly married. Maybe the play could have been different if Romeo and Juliet were older and had more life experience.

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 01:59:31 UTC

Quote: "Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is disgrace to them, if they bear it. (Act 1 scene 1 lines 36-37)

This has nothing to do with the song but this line shows how irrational all characters in Romeo and Juliet are, with a servant making rude gestures at other servants to rile them up and get both houses in trouble with the prince.

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 13:05:50 UTC

Romeo and Juliet died very young, and it is shown that through their deaths, the Capulet and Montague families are quite quick to decide to forever put aside all those years of grievances against each other. This is likely due to no one from either family having much thoughts about long term effects, only ever really living in the moment. I personally think that they would have lots of obituaries around Verona almost immediately, displaying the death of their children of the building of statues for all to see. My specific quote was "And the continuance of their parent's rage, which, but their children's end, naught could remove".

27lkausek — 2024-05-20 13:16:54 UTC