Themes

FAMILY	Do parents always know best?
LOVE	Is first love real love?
REVANGE	Which is the purpose of the revenge?
MARRIAGE	Do people always marry for love?
HATE	Does hatred exist in history?
JUSTICE	Is justice always fair?
FAULT	What type of things are possible to do for fault?

Guess the characters

Nanny
She tries to help Juliet to be happy. But she stops because she can't see how to proceed. She's hysterical.

Fray Lorenzo
He tries to help Romeo but in horror his plans fail.

Duke of Verona
He does what he can to stop the fights.

Quotes

“My only love sprung from my only hate.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The character was a very emotive person , and he liked love , this quote was said by Romeo.

“Alas, that love, so gentle in his view,

Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!

It’s sad. Love looks like a nice thing, but it’s actually very rough when you experience it.” 

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Juliet was really in love but she had suffered because of that, so she thought love is a bad things.

Juliet's description

At the beginning of the story we saw that Juliet is very obedient because she accepted everything that her parents said but then she revealed and broke all the rules for love.  She is anxious, passionate and determined.

Romeo's description

He is a romantic man, also he is very pacific man because he treated stop the fight between Teodobaldo and Mercutio. In the course of the story we saw that is a man who does anything for love.

Paris’ proposal

Lady Capulet questions Juliet regarding her feelings about marriage and then informs Juliet of Paris' proposal. When her mother mentions that Paris will attend the feast that evening, Juliet reacts with dutiful reserve, whereas her nurse, recalling incidents from Juliet's childhood, volunteers a bawdier response. Juliet's response to her mother's wish for her to agree to the marriage is clever and evasive.

The Friar’s dream of peace

Friar Laurence is presented as a holy man who is trusted and respected by the other characters. The Friar's role as the friend and advisor to Romeo and Juliet highlights the conflict between parents and their children within the play. The centrality of the Friar's role suggests a notable failure of parental love. Romeo and Juliet can't tell their parents of their love because of the quarrel between the two families.

 In their isolation, Romeo and Juliet turn to the Friar who can offer neutral advice. At first, the Friar can't believe how quickly Romeo has abandoned Rosaline and fallen in love with Juliet, so he reminds Romeo of the suddenness of his decisions. The Friar uses the formal language of rhyme and proverbs to stress the need for caution to Romeo. However, he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet in the hope that their marriage will heal the rift between the Montagues and the Capulets. His decision to marry the lovers is well-meaning but indicates that he has been naive in his assessment of the feud and hasn't reflected on the implications of Romeo and Juliet's clandestine marriage.

The conflict between youth and old age also manifests itself in the Friar's relationship with Romeo and Juliet. When Friar Laurence tries to soothe Romeo's grief at the news of his banishment with rational argument, Romeo quickly responds that if the Friar were young and in love, he wouldn't accept such advice any better.

The Friar's knowledge of plants — especially their dual qualities to heal and hurt — play an important role in the action that follows. His attempts to heal the feud by reversing nature — causing Juliet's "death" in order to bring about acceptance of her life with Romeo is notably unnatural. The Friar must extricate Juliet from the tomb in order to save her life — another reversal of nature. This use of nature for unnatural purposes precipitates many of the consequences leading to the tragic conclusion of the play. Ultimately, the Friar acts distinctly human — he flees the tomb and abandons Juliet.

The feud

In Romeo and Juliet, two noble families are at war: The Montague-Capulet feud is established in the very first scene when a fight breaks out between Montague’s and Capulet’s serving men. From that moment on, the Montague-Capulet subplot pervades the entire play and helps drive the plot to its tragic ending.

After the tragic death of their children at the end of the play, both families agree to bury their grievances and acknowledge their losses. Potentially, Romeo and Juliet resolve the long standing conflict between their respective families, but unfortunately do not live to enjoy the peace.

But who’s who in the Montague-Capulet feud? The following list divides the play’s characters by family:

The House of Montague

Lord and Lady Montague

Romeo Montague

Benvolio - Montague’s nephew and Romeo’s cousin

Balthasar - Romeo’s serving man

Abraham - Montague’s serving man

Our House of Montague page contains full character profiles for each of the above.

The House of Capulet

Lord and Lady Capulet

Juliet Capulet

Juliet’s Nurse

Tybalt – Lady Capulet’s Nephew and Juliet’s cousin

Samson, Gregory and Peter - Serving men for the Capulet

Our House of Capulet page contains full character profiles for each of the above.

First part

Gallery in the Palace of Capuleto, a noble of Verona, celebrates with a masked ball the presentation of his daughter Juliet, who expires fifteen years of age. Romeo and several masked friends come to the palace of his traditional enemies and from an angle of the lounge they prepare to observe the magnificent holiday. Suddenly Romeo sees Juliet feeling in his heart the LOVE. Romeo ignoring that the girl is a Capuleto (their families were apart). Teobaldo approaches. Rapidly Romeo places the mask, but it has been recognized by the young person Capuleto, who remembers the abyss that it separates to both families. The revelation disconcerts the lovers who ignore his respective identities that it them returns enemies. But they was so loving that killed Teobaldo because they thought that he will said something and they got back to the party.

Second part

Romeo and Juliet met in the garden’s house of Juliet… Romeo wasn’t afraid of the hatred of his enemies and with the hope to saw his dear one he song at the foot of his balcony. Juliet appeared and both young persons kissed with the complicity of the moon that lights scarcely this picture of two you are that they forgot the hatred of his families that hovered over his heads. Juliet alerted Romeo of whom someone approaches. The young person rapidly hid himself between the trees of the garden. But a vigilant found him and took him to Juliet’s Father.

Third part

I fit First: Cloister in a monastery Romeo visits Monk Lorenzo in the convent. Also Juliet accompanied by his wetnurse, comes up to the religious one, who is thinking about seeing in the meeting of both lovers a sign of the sky, the hope to put end to the fight between both enemy houses and to bless secretly the marriage of the pair. Finished the ceremony, Juliet returns again to his house. The Second picture: later Forehead of the palace of Capuleto Esteban, the page boy of Romeo, he sings an offensive song opposite to Capuleto's house. Gregorio goes out to re-light the insolent one, but on it having recognized like one of the companions of Romeo, prepares to punish it severely. The quarrel develops at once adding to her Mercucio and Teobaldo. There comes Romeo who tries to avoid the fight, since it does not want to fight against the relatives of his wife. His intentions are useless since the hatred of both decrees is major for any reflection. The contest is resumed. Teobaldo hurts with his sword Mercucio. Romeo on having seen it to fall down, cannot dominate the fatal inheritance of revenge and clutching his weapon it fights with Teobaldo, giving him finally death. Teobaldo asks the father of Juliet not to be late in avenging it. Unexpectedly there comes the duke of Verona, who condemns Romeo to be exiled by the death that it has just committed. But Romeo knew Verona’s duke so he gave him a silver sum and the duke gave him freedom.

Quarter part

Room of Juliet Romeo, who must leave Verona, has managed to get in Capuleto's house to say goodbye of Juliet and to obtain his pardon for Teobaldo's death. After this fleeting night of love the farewell re-dresses sad contours for the cruel separation that imposes them. There appear Capuleto and Monk Lorenzo. Capuleto reports to the young woman who has solved his marriage with the count Paris, which has to carry out without loss of time. Juliet demonstrates his desperation since it is afraid to contradict his father, but on the other hand she is the wife of Romeo. When Capuleto moves back, Monk Lorenzo comforts the young woman and delivers him a drug, which will have to take moments before the ceremony. The drink will give him the appearance of death for forty eight hours; then it will be able to flee with Romeo. Juliet takes the posion and falls down seemingly died before the consternation and amazement of his relatives. After that her parents take her to the cemetery and bury her in the cemetery mas expensivly of Verona.

Fifth part

Juliet was in his dead bed. Romeo had not received the Monk's message Lorenzo, then he believes that julieta was dead. It comes embraces her with immense pain and takes a poison to commit suicide. When it starts feeling his effects, Juliet wakes up. But it is too much late. To die with Romeo, Juliet I look for the flask of the poison but he finds it empty. Then a dagger goes in, and this way they remained embraced up to dying. But their love was the strongest feeling in the world so theirs survive.

KEY EVENTS IN THE STORY

Romeo Montesco and Juliet Capuleto were two young women that there belong to two families rivals, that they hated and lived in constant conflict.

Romeo and his kinsman were invited to the Capulet party.

Romeo met Juliet for the first time at the party.

Romeo went to saw Friar Lawrence the next day to ask him to marry him and Juliet. 

Lady Capulet the mother of Juliet wanted marry her daughter with a man who lived in Paris.

Juliet drank a passion to pretend she was dead for 48 hours and send a letter that noticed Romeo.

Romeo thought that Juliet was dead, so he killed himself.

Juliet wake up and saw that Romeo was dead so she killed herself with a dagger.

Romeo and Juliet's characters

Romeo - The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. A young man of about sixteen, Romeo is handsome, intelligent, and sensitive. He has a friend call Mercurio and is in love with Juliet.

Juliet - The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. A beautiful thirteen-year-old girl. She is in love with Romeo.

Friar Lawrence -  A Franciscan friar, friend to both Romeo and Juliet. He is also an expert in the use of seemingly mystical potions and herbs.

Mercutio -  A kinsman to the Prince, and Romeo’s close friend.

Lady Capulet - Juliet’s mother, Capulet’s wife. A woman who herself married young, she is eager to see her daughter marry Paris

Lady Montague -  Romeo’s mother, Montague’s wife. She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled from Verona.

Teodobaldo Capuleto- Nephew Capuleto hated to the family motesco and always towards clashes armed in the square

Shakespeare's life

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised) – 23 April 1616)[nb 1] was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.[1] He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".[2][nb 2] His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays,[nb 3] 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.[3]

Shakespeare was born and brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613 at age 49, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others.[4]

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[5][nb 4] His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the 16th century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest works in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights.

Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. In 1623, two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's.

Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry".[6] In the 20th century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.

Willam Shakespeare

Born:  Baptised 26 April 1564 (birth date unknown) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,England

Died: 23 April 1616 (aged 52) Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,England

Ocupattion: Playwright, poet, actor

Nacionality: English

Wife: Anne Hathaway (m. 1582–1616)

Children: Susanna Hall, Hamnet Shakespeare, Judiet quiney

Relative: John Shakespeare (father), Mary Shakespeare (mother)