ANALYSIS OF ROMEO AND JULIET

Romeo and Juliet depicts a love that’s forbidden. Forbidden because 2 families were in a feud with
one another. The Montague-Capulet feud was just too immense and strong that Romeo and Juliet
cannot overcome it. It’s unresorvable. However, the feud between two families were resolved but at
the cost of the lives of the two lovers.

Romeo and Juliet began having feelings with one another when Romeo attended the Capulet’s ball
wherein he saw Juliet which he fell in love at first sight. Being a Montague, their love was just
ultimately forbidden. But that didn’t stop the two of them.

After the party, Romeo returns to find Juliet. Their love gives both lovers a sense of freedom. Romeo
and Juliet come up with a cunning plan to get married under their parents noses. It seems that the
feud between their families might end.

Tybalt provokes Mercutio and Mercutio challenges him. They fight and Mercutio dies. Now romeo’s
duty to his new in-laws, the Capulets, comes in conflict with his duty to avenge his friends death.
Romeo is banished from Verona. Before he leaves, he and Juliet spend the first-and-last night
together.

In the final scenes, Romeo and Juliet are more trapped than ever. Neither character can go back to
who they were before they met, but the possibility of them being together is very slim. The two
lover’s seperate fates close in to them. In a desperate attempt to escape her marriage to Paris. Juliet
fakes her own death by using the sleeping potion given by her Friar Lawrence. Romeo rushes to
Juliet’s tomb from getting the news that juliet’s only asleep. He confront Paris, he kills Paris then
enter juliet’s tomb and killed himself.

When Juliet finds romeo dead, she stabs herself with his dagger. By killing themselves, the lovers
accept that they are trapped by their fate. At the same time, they escape from the world that has
kept them apart.