Romeo and Juliet Essays

9th Grade

Romeo and Juliet

As French writer Luc de Clapiers said, “The art of pleasing is the art of deception.” William Shakespeare, an artist of words, employed deceit and trickery in his stories to make them complex and engrossing. Deceit is a subject not often spoken...

College

Romeo and Juliet

Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, the 1996 cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, is imbued with religious imagery. The feuding families display such images on everything from their cars, to their clothes, to their guns. In addition, a statue of...

9th Grade

Romeo and Juliet

The social construct of gender has been challenged more than ever in the recent century, but long before this age of partial freedom, Shakespeare was placing ideas of rebellion from it into the minds of his consumers. The rigid ideas of the time...

10th Grade

Romeo and Juliet

One way that Shakespeare uses structure to present the character of Juliet in Act 3 Scene 2 is by dedicating most of the lines in the scene to Juliet. In pervious scenes with just Juliet and the Nurse, Juliet has had less lines and has listened...

10th Grade

Romeo and Juliet

Tension between characters is a key feature of many plays. “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare contains many scenes in which there is tension, but 3.1 – the turning point of the play – is tensest of all. The scene is pivotal in the story of...