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Middle image: "Movie Mistakes: Movie Mistakes: Romeo and Juliet (1968)." Movie Mistakes: Movie Mistakes: Romeo and Juliet (1968). N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Far right image: ""Cupid, He Rules Us All"" Lunch.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 Apr. 2013.
Our 4-Step Approach to Romeo and Juliet
We used the 4-Step Approach to Poetry on Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet.
1. Engage--What were your initial reactions to the play?
2. Describe--What is this play about?
3. Interpret--What is this play really about? What are the themes of the play and how are they still relevant today?
4. Judge--What can we learn from this play and how might we use what we learned?
1. Engage--What were your initial reactions to the play?
2. Describe--What is this play about?
3. Interpret--What is this play really about? What are the themes of the play and how are they still relevant today?
4. Judge--What can we learn from this play and how might we use what we learned?
1. Romeo and Juliet is a famous play using really hard to understand language that we do not use in modern society. Some of the language was weird and funny, which made it harder to take the play seriously. The first time we read the play it was kind of a let down, because it's so famous and supposedly so amazing we expected a lot more out of it. Also, the way that Shakespeare writes sometimes requires the reader to read the passage once or twice to grasp what Shakespeare is trying to say and trying to get the reader to understand. Every time we read the play we find more symbolism and hidden significance in Shakespeare's writing.
2. This play takes place in the fourteenth century in Verona, Italy. It is about two people, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, whose families have a long history of hate and a feud between their families. Romeo meets Juliet at her family's party and they fall in love with each other at first sight. These two forbidden lovers get married by Friar Lawrence in secret, and only the Friar and Juliet's Nurse, who is her mother figure, know about the marriage. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, kills Romeo's friend Mercutio, Romeo is blinded by anger and exacts revenge. Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. Juliet mourns Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment. Then Juliet's father tries to force her to marry Paris against her will. Friar Lawrence devises a plan to avoid the marriage and to bring Romeo and Juliet together. Juliet follows the plan, but the plan has its flaws and goes wrong, perhaps because of fate. Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, and kills himself, causing Juliet to follow him and commit suicide. The play ends with the Capulets and the Montagues realizing what great losses their insignificant feud has caused and the enemies finally make peace.
3. The deeper meaning of the play, what it is truly about, is conflict, feud, revenge, and hate. The Capulet and Montague families have had a long history of hate between, which has some severe repercussions that end up stabbing them in the back. This story shows that revenge is petty, and that you aren't going to get anything out of it. This has been proven true throughout history, and still applies to modern times. Tybalt kills Mercutio, which hurts Romeo and all of Mercutio's friends and family, and then Romeo kills Tybalt. Killing Tybalt didn't solve anything, it just made matters worse because it hurt Juliet and the rest of Tybalt's family and friends, and also gets Romeo exiled. Romeo getting exiled causes a flurry of bad decisions from multiple parties at first, and then ends up causing the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. At the end of the play Capulet and Montague come to the revalation that their fued has been petty and caused much more grief and loss than there needed to be. If they had forgiven each other in the first place, this never would have happened and their children wouldn't have had to die so that they could come to this revelation. This is their revelation at the end of the story-
Montague: There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of faithful Juliet.Capulet: As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie- Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
2. This play takes place in the fourteenth century in Verona, Italy. It is about two people, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, whose families have a long history of hate and a feud between their families. Romeo meets Juliet at her family's party and they fall in love with each other at first sight. These two forbidden lovers get married by Friar Lawrence in secret, and only the Friar and Juliet's Nurse, who is her mother figure, know about the marriage. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, kills Romeo's friend Mercutio, Romeo is blinded by anger and exacts revenge. Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. Juliet mourns Tybalt's death and Romeo's banishment. Then Juliet's father tries to force her to marry Paris against her will. Friar Lawrence devises a plan to avoid the marriage and to bring Romeo and Juliet together. Juliet follows the plan, but the plan has its flaws and goes wrong, perhaps because of fate. Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, and kills himself, causing Juliet to follow him and commit suicide. The play ends with the Capulets and the Montagues realizing what great losses their insignificant feud has caused and the enemies finally make peace.
3. The deeper meaning of the play, what it is truly about, is conflict, feud, revenge, and hate. The Capulet and Montague families have had a long history of hate between, which has some severe repercussions that end up stabbing them in the back. This story shows that revenge is petty, and that you aren't going to get anything out of it. This has been proven true throughout history, and still applies to modern times. Tybalt kills Mercutio, which hurts Romeo and all of Mercutio's friends and family, and then Romeo kills Tybalt. Killing Tybalt didn't solve anything, it just made matters worse because it hurt Juliet and the rest of Tybalt's family and friends, and also gets Romeo exiled. Romeo getting exiled causes a flurry of bad decisions from multiple parties at first, and then ends up causing the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. At the end of the play Capulet and Montague come to the revalation that their fued has been petty and caused much more grief and loss than there needed to be. If they had forgiven each other in the first place, this never would have happened and their children wouldn't have had to die so that they could come to this revelation. This is their revelation at the end of the story-
Montague: There shall no figure at such rate be set as that of faithful Juliet.Capulet: As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie- Poor sacrifices of our enmity!