Do you agree or disagree, why or why not?

Question

From the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare has expressed a theme throughout the play as the following:" Human beings, even parents, are falliable." Do you agree with this theme? Why or why not?

From the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare has expressed a theme throughout the play as the following:" Human beings, even parents, are fallible." Do you agree with this theme? Why or why not?

Answer 1

The theme is outlined in plain English at the every beginning: star-crossed lovers. The theme is forbidden love, not the fallibility of people, although the latter plays a major role in the forbidden love angle.

If you wanted to be incredibly broad, you could say that the theme is human frailty, but the more accurate theme would be forbidden love (you could even go further with love forbidden by the inherent stupidity of pride and human nature to show how the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues personifies human fault).

Answer 2

Well, I don't agree with your spelling of fallible, but I get what you're asking. I have to agree that your statement is true, all humans are fallible, that's why they call them humans. To err is human, to really screw things up you need a computer. Okay, seriously, the statement does injustice to the ideas that Shakespeare presents with this play. West Side Story, a modern version of this tragedy, clearly points out the theme of this love story: Humans are prejudiced and biased, and their prejudice and bias blinds them to such beauty as true love. That's a theme that can be associated with Romeo and Juliet. Your theme can be associated to anything. It's too "vanilla."

Answer 3

I think you have a point about the parents, so I agree, the parents didn't know how to let bygones be bygones. Or expressed another way, let the past stay in the past. When people remember past wrongs forever and never forgive and forget you get places like Northern Ireland. Meanwhile Protestant and Catholics have had the excact same history in other countries, the same list of wrongs experienced by both sides, but the parents of both religions made the decision to let the past stay in the past and did not make a concerted effort to keep the hatred alive generation after generation. Instead in other countries they eventually learned how to peacefully co-exist with each other.

I think if the Capulets or Montagues had let the hatred die between their two families they wouldn't have lost their two children. You notice at the end of the play two sets of parents start to realize that their failure to forgive started the series of events that led to their children's death.

Answer 4

I agree completely with the theme.

Now-- are you trying to get us to write your paper for you? :-) I'll offer some comments, but I won't do it all like pull out quotes. :-D

I think you'd be able to proove your thesis if you examined a few things.

Primarily, what key factors contributed to the ultimate demise of Romeo and Juliet? The overarching answer is- their parents. But, specifically, you'll have to mention things like the fued, the extended families (Mercutio, Tibalt, etc), the 'forbidden love' etc.

Comment on how it was 'better' in the minds of the children for them to be united in death rather than live while warring for 'approved love' from their parents.

The key factor is that the parent's made SELFISH decisions and created SELFISH rules that adversely effected the lives (and ultimate deaths) of their children. Had the parents kept their wars to themselves, the children would have lived long lives (in theory.)

So yes, parents make mistakes based on prejudice, selfishness, etc. And those mistakes, by definition, make them fallable.

Answer 5

Doesn't seem like much of a question to me...your teacher ought to have worked harder on this one.

Of course human beings are fallible, so, technically, you could apply the same analysis to ANY play, Shakespeare or otherwise.

I'm not sure that it gets you very far.

Answer 6

Yes, you get that from the death total at the end of the play. The two families and also the Prince lost thee family members each which is symbolic of the fact that they are all equally to blame.

Answer 7

Of course I agree with this...everyone, regardless as to whether they are parents or not are faulty at some point. We are all human and sometimes parents are the ones who make the most mistakes.