Head Versus Heart In Nick Cassavetes movie, "The Notebook," Allie and Noah exemplify the theme of head versus heart when two people fall in love but are tragically ripped apart by their families. Years later Allie is engaged with another man but falls in love with Noah again. Ultimately, they disobey what their head deems correct, and wind up choosing what their hearts desire. Similarly, Shakespeare uses the same theme of head versus heart in his book, “Romeo and Juliet,” exemplifying how the heart overruled the head. In this book, Shakespeare personifies the balance of head versus heart with Juliet and personifies the heart with Romeo. Due to lack of balance, and nature, the heart takes the victory over the head. This shows how passion …show more content…
Romeo sees what he thinks is Juliet lifless and cold. He professes his love for her and kisses her. Romeo says, "Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!/ Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love (drinking)/ Oh true apothecary/ Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die." Romeo physically can't bear life without his one true love and only she can fulfill him, he says, "Thy drugs are quick," saying how he takes the illegal drugs that will soon terminate his existence. He got them from a doctor, or pharmacist saying, "Oh true apothecary," thanking the peasent for the illegal elixir. Finally, he kisses her for the last time before he enters his eternal slumber. Romeo makes this decision with his heart affirming that the heart rules over the head. Furthermore, Juliet soon wakes up and realizes that Romeo is dead. Juliet takes his dagger and kills herself, the after-effects of the previous foreshadow when she showed Friar Lawrence her dagger. Juliet says, "Yea noise? Then I'll be brief. O, happy dagger,/ This is thy sheath. Their rust, and let me die. (She takes Romeo's dagger, stabs herself, and dies)." Shakespeare uses the pun, "rust," to show how Juliet is killing herself with an iron dagger. Juliet says, “oh happy …show more content…
Combined, Romeo and Juliet risk getting killed, commit suicide, and Juliet even fakes her own death so that her and Romeo could be together. They truley prove and exemplify the argument that the heart overrules the head because they ultimately take their lives for one another. These arguments substantiate the theme of choosing what your heart desires over anything else in the world, even your own life. Nowadays, this can be paralleled to walkouts, peaceful protests and other forms of passion-driven expression. This can also be parallel to the everyday acts of courage, that pushes one person to stand up for another. I personally think that it is human nature to choose passion over sensibility, for this was how our world and society was created. If we had not made these big movements with our passion driving us, like women's rights, gun violence, and equality we would not be as progressive as we are today. I believe that we must be liberated from fear, denying it the ability to influence our decisions that we make, and Romeo and Juliet truly personify this. Presently, we see teens as young as Romeo and Juliet, walking out to represent all those killed by erratic gun violence. These massive issues need to be spoken out upon with passion and if we always followed what we deemed
Then, Juliet woke up from the potion, saw Romeo dead, then kissed him, hoping there was poison still on his lips. There wasn’t, so instead, she saw his dagger, took it, and stabbed herself with it. Which killed her moments after
The underlying theme of the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare was the clash between the company pursuing their personal desires or deciding to conform to what is socially expected. The circumstances of this affray were on display when Romeo presented his plot of marrying Juliet to Friar Laurence. The consequences of Romeo deciding to pursue personal desire were also on display when displayed his disapproval to his punishment for extirpating Tybalt. These instances culminate Shakespeare's idea of that the pursuit of personal desire not always rewarding the aspirant. The asininity of carelessly pursuing your personal desires and not thinking about the ramifications was on display when Romeo presented his notion of espousing Juliet.
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Shakespeare V.III. 119-120). Romeo is blind to everything else when it comes to Juliet.
Romeo states, “Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here’s to my love. O true, apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (5.3.117-120). Romeo drinks the poison, and kisses Juliet for the final time.
Juliet, A Younger Lord Capulet? Does a parent's personality affect their child's personality? Some children act exactly like their parents while some act completely differently. In Shakespeare’s most well-known play Romeo and Juliet, Juliet makes many confusing choices during the duration of the play. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet is influenced by Lord Capulet which plays a dramatic role in the play Juliet and Lord Capulet both have very explosive personalities when it comes to love and marriage.
In “Romeo and Juliet” a play written by William Shakespeare the characters show constant actions of impulsiveness throughout the story. Romeo and Juliet constantly fight for their hopeless love in the story and this creates many problems in the story causing the characters to lose the lives of their loved ones and themselves. These quick, rapid decisions don’t go well for them and affect them in many ways. In the beginning of the story, Romeo goes to the Capulet party in hopes to see his first love known as Rosaline but he looks deeper into the crowd and he falls in love with Juliet in first sight.
William Shakespeare's “Romeo and Juliet” is about, two young people falling in love two different rivaling households. Having faced the utmost odds, Romeo and Juliet fall in love upon first sight, and pursue each other. However, while trying to be together, they make some unfortunate decisions that ultimately lead to the tragic end. In the story
Thy drug is quick. Thus with a kiss, I die and when Juliet wakes up from the potion and finds Romeo dead, she says her last words before she joins him to ‘’This is sheath; there, rust, and let me die. It is evident from this scene that hate is shown to be stronger than love because hate is the reason Romeo and Juliet died. The hate that their families had agencies each other was the cause of their death. If hate wasn’t stronger than love Romeo and Juliet wouldn’t have died.
These two themes kspecifically of Romeo, Tybalt and Juliet. Their defiance of society’s standards, their own family and authority is what leads to their
In Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare in 1595, has a common theme of Free Will vs. Fate throughout the play. We see it in Act I, III, and IV of the play. It doesn’t just happen between the two main characters of Romeo and Juliet; but also Paris, the man intended to marry Juliet, Lord and Lady Capulet, and Friar Lawrence. The first clear portrayal of this theme is in Act I Scene II, when Lord Capulet is talking to Paris of marrying Juliet. This is the first time we hear of Juliet losing her free will.
The Immaturity of Romeo and Juliet Immaturity can spread throughout things and people creating problems for the present and future. Similarly, Romeo and Juliet not only shows the development of love, but the loss of maturity that leads to tragedy. People develop maturity, but the amount of immaturity makes the process go backwards. From Romeo and Juliet’s fast evolving relationship to the hate between the two families, and the lack of thought in different characters is recurrent throughout the story. Therefore,the theme of Romeo and Juliet evolves around the idea of immaturity.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a perfect example of how poor choices don’t only affect one’s own futures but also those of their communities. Romeo and Juliet fall in love despite their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, being enemies. The two marry in secret and plan to live a happy life together before a deadly fight breaks out between the Montagues and the Capulets and the lovers are separated. The heartbreaking story consists of risky decisions and bad timing. Romeo’s own impulsive nature, demonstrated when he kills Juliet’s kinsman, breaks Verona’s law of banishment, and suicidal act, all contribute to the tragic end of Romeo and Juliet.
“Romeo is banned from Verona, which leads to him to seek out some pretty bad advice and guidance from Friar Laurence.” (Shmoop.com). The news Romeo receives is that Juliet is dead and in the Capulet's tomb Romeo does not know abou the fact he is supposed to be at Juliet's side when she wakes. Romeo is not aware of Juliet and Friar Lawrence's plan with the potion so in turn he takes his own life thinking Juliet is really dead. When Juliet wakes she finds Romeo dead next to her, she takes Romeo's dagger and stabbed it into her chest killing herself.
Think Think Think William Shakespeare wrote in one of his other works,”Go wisely and slow. Those who rush stumble and fall,” This theme of thinking before you act and before you speak are both revalent themes in Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare, the characters of Romeo and Juliet teach the readers three important lessons in their tragic love story. These characters show the importance to communicate effectively, thinking before an action, and understanding that all actions have consequences.
Each and every day, people make sacrifices for their loved ones. Maybe they choose to get up earlier in order to do chores or miss an important meeting so that they would have time for each other. There is no greater example of sacrifices for loved ones than in Romeo and Juliet however, where Shakespeare explores two star-crossed lovers, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, who come from two families that have a deep hatred towards each other. The pair meet each other, secretly wed, and then in order to stay together, commit suicide out of despair and distress. Through Romeo and Juliet’s acts of defiance and sacrifice, Shakespeare proves that while hate has the power to destroy and kill, love is even more powerful as it has the power to transform.