Romeo and Juliette?

Question

what happened?

Answer 1

Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet Capulet. Their families are feuding. His best friend gets killed by her cousin, an angry Romeo kills him; then when she takes a fake poison, at a friar's advice, so she can later run off with him and no one the wiser, he hears she's died, takes poison and when she awakes and finds he's dead, she decides to die too. Depressing story; but well written. I've read it, acted in it and heard it in the theater--it's a Medieval tragedy of "fate". And it doesn't work that well for modern audiences in many parts, by my judgment.

Answer 2

Two kids who were far too young & impetuous fell madly in love. Their families hated each other. Their love was forbidden but they were drawn to each other & could not resist. They fall in love at first sight and get married secretly behind their parents' backs. Romeo gets involved in a fight with one of Juliet's cousins (because the Capulets & Montagues fight like cats & dogs) and ends up killing her cousin. So Romeo is banished. Meanwhile Juliet is supposed to be marrying some drip named Paris that her parents picked out for her. She wants to die.

In desperation Juliet turns to the friar for help. He mixes around with strange concoctions & makes a potion that will make her seem dead (basically put her in a coma for 24 hours). Once she's in a tomb then Romeo will come get her & they will sneak away & live happily ever after. Unfortunately, the letter that would have told him about the plot never makes it to Romeo. He hears that Juliet is dead & rushes to her tomb. Finding her (apparently) dead, he poisons himself. If he'd waited a couple of minutes she would have awakened...When she wakes up & finds him dead, she stabs herself. The whole tragedy could have been avoided.

People blame the hatred of the two families for killing them but the truth is that they both die of impatience. Literally. If they had waited & thought things through they would have had a chance to have a life together. But they couldn't wait.

Apparently it was based on a real story of two young lovers. Teenagers shouldn't be allowed to marry. They are far too emotional. They are incapable of being rational. Everything is so intense, so dramatic.

Still, it is a very romantic tragedy & always brought me to tears...

Answer 3

Romeo did not take the comparable potion as Juliette. She drank the snoozing potion which made her look ineffective. He took a poison that killed him. while Juliette awakened, Romeo had purely taken the potion.

Answer 4

romeo is like 20 juliet 15, fall in love but family has a fued...both die

Answer 5

They Both die Romeo kills himself then Juliet killed herself when she saw him dead

"Two households, both alike in dignity/In fair Verona (where we lay our scene/From ancient grudge break new mutiny,/Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean/From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lives."

Answer 6

A tragic love story. Family feud, forbidden love, murder, secret marriage, poison, and blade. Both died in the end.

Answer 7

they were two young teenagers from 2 rival familys, they fell in love and wanted to spend their life together, when they couldnt be together she faked her death so that they could run away together but he didnt get the msg in time saw her dead ( but not really) and killed himself. so she killed herself to. look it up, its a greats tory watch the show if you dont want to read.

Answer 8

First of all, let's establish that it's Juliet. Secondly what happened is they died. Pax - C.

Answer 9

to make a very long story short...they were in love, their families were rivals, they sneak around to see each other, they think they can get away with it, their families and friends find out, everyone fights, he thinks she's dead, he kills herself, she is actually not dead, finds him, then kills herself...but you should read it...it is a very good story!

Answer 10

to sum it up short
Montegues hate the capulets
Rosmary dumped Romeo
Romeo was Sad
Juliet's parents want her to marry Paris
mercutio forces romeo to go to juliet's family's (capulet) party
Romeo meets juliet
They deicede that they love each other
They find out that she's a capulet and he's a monatague
They plan to get married anyway
They get married
Tybalt, juliet's coiosun kills merceitio
Romeo killls tybalt
Romeo is exiled
Juliet is sad
Juliet's father makes her to marry paris
Juliet takes a potion to make her seem dead
Romeo hears about juliet being dead
Romeo buys posion
romeo goes to juliet's tomb
Romeo kills paris
Romeo drinks poision, dies
Juliet wakes up, sees romeo
She kills herself
They are found by their parents
no more feuding

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And so begins my third blog. I have decieded to start a series of blogs called random conimplations. These blogs will be about random subjects irrealevant to most of the population's lives.

Random comtempations on Romeo and Juliet

We had to read this play in Language arts last year. At that time I did like the play, even though I did not understand all of it, which is the same today. Shakespeare must of been the J.K. Rowling of his time, but currently the language of his works are not easily desenable to the modern day reader.

When I first read it I believed that the love tale of Romeo and Juliet was a tradegy and a sad twist of fate, as it appears on the outside. But now, the only thing that apaers to be a tradgedy is the intelligence of Romeo and Juliet, and the fact that they were so easily infulenced by each other. When they first meet Romeo is going to the party because his cousin foces him to in a vague attempt to get him to get over Rosemary. He only goes because he knows that Rosemary is there. Juliet has just been told that Paris wants to marry her. In medeviel society that means that more than likely she is goin to get married to him, whether she likes it or not. She is searching for a way out. So then, the two, one in love with, not Rosemary nor Juliet, but love itself, and one seeking someone to take her away from Paris meetand just at the first sight they are convinced that they are met for each other. Juliet even says (to paraphase) that she wants him or death. How can one be abouslulte over someone that they haven't even met, someone that they have been predijced their whole life to hate. I think that Juliet is just using Romeo to get back at her father and Romeo is using Juliet as a beauty to love.

And then, after they are married, Mercutio fights with Tybalt, and thanks to Romeo's stupid intertusion a fight that was nothing more than a farce was turned into a fatality. Even though he knew going into fighting with Tybalt that if he losed he was dead, if he won he was going to die, and if it was a draw both him and Tybalt were going to die, he calls out Tybalt to fight. This is his wife's cousin. By even starting to fight him he erases any possiblity of living peacefuly with Juliet. Isn't peace and life a better cause than honor and vengence? Or was his hatred so much that he could contain himself.

After Romeo is exiled Juliet comes up with a stupid idea to fake dead to get out of marrying Paris. Her father is mad at her when she refuses to mary Paris, but would he be any madder if she had told him she was already married before? Why didn't Romeo take Juliet with him? She leaves a note that night and then goes with Romeo. They don't have to live in Verona to live happily ever after.

So, in Marta where Romeo is he buys a posion when he hears Juliet is dead. He goes to die in her tomb with her. He drinks the posion after killing Paris and dies. Then Juliet wakes up, sees that he is dead, and kills herself with the dagger. Haven't these two ever seen Titanic? When Jack dies Rose is devastated, but she lives on. To me the suicide does not seem very right. They could have lived on. But of course, that is the twist of fate. If Romeo would have waited, or been held up longer they might have lived happily ever after. But I guess that there is a happy ending. The long feud is over, and the families have reconciled. That's Shakespeare for ya.

And so ends my first Random Comtimplations myspace blog. Peace out.

Jessica

"Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye/ Than twenty of their swords! Look thou but sweet/ and I am proof against their eminty"

- Romeo



From the yet to be published book Fuchsia Blooming by J. R. Lastnamewithheld (AKA - Me)-

"Did you not hear what I said? It is not your fault. You didn't kill anyone- the Karbleoans did. It isn't right to take the blame for something you didn't do. Besides, on a night with a comet, four Kabrleoans chasing you, my family being ripped apart by the seams, and the one person maybe in this whole world able to save by magic happening to be here-," she sighed and then looked at him straight into his eyes, "this can only be the work of the gods' cursed meddeling"