
Theme
While exploring the theme in Romeo and Juliet, we must ask questions. Here are some main point questions with questions as answers. Really analyze these questions and think.
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What questions arise about human nature? How can he just know that he wants to marry her just by looking at her? What makes her think he does love her? How can she make the discussion to marry him over night when they have only just meet?
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What do characters do that helps illustrate this idea? They sacrificed their lives for each other. They got married even though their families hate each other.
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What do characters say that helps to illustrate this idea? Romeo says that he loves her when they haven’t even known each other for 24 hours yet. Romeo wants to marry her even though they just meet. Juliet agrees to marry him even though their family have a strong hate for each other.
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What events take place in the work that help to illustrate this idea? They get married like the day after they meet each other. They die for each other. They get married even though their families have a strong hate for each other.
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Are there any recurrent images or clusters of images? Do these images support the idea or theme that you find in the work? Romeo and Juliet meeting. Romeo and Juliet getting married, and then them dying.
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What does the narrator say that helps to illustrate this idea? Romeo kills Tybalt and when Romeo get banished Juliet realizes that she is going to have to marry Paris. Juliet ask the Friar what to do and he comes up with a plan for her and Romeo to run away together. In order to do this Juliet must fake her death. The plan backfires and Romeo doesn’t get the letter telling him about the plan. Romeo is told that Juliet is dead so he goes to see her in the tomb. He finds Paris in there and then he kills Paris after he blames him for her death. Romeo then takes his life. Juliet then wakes up to find her love dead. She can’t stand to live without him so she kills herself so she can be with him.