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ROMEO AND JULIET PLAY
Eman Sulaiman
Contents: Significance of the titleSetting Character analysis Plot structure Theme Symbolism Comic and tragic elements Romeo as a tragic hero Christian and Islamic perspective
The Significance of the Title
author : William Shakespearetype of work : Play
genre : Tragic drama
time and place written : London, mid-1590s
date of first publication : 1597)
climax : The death of Romeo and Juliet in the Capulet tomb
protagonists : Romeo; Juliet
antagonists · The feuding Montagues, Capulets and Tybalt.
SETTING
Place:
* Verona* Mantua
Time:Sunday – Act One
Monday – Act Two
Tuesday – Act Three
Wednesday – Act Four
Thursday – Act Five
Character Analysis
Romeo &
Juliet
Summary for the play:fighting
Romeo is thinking about Rosaline
Going to the party
The party and meeting with JULIET
Expressing his love to Juliet
Deciding to get married secretly
Fighting and punishment
Spending night with Juliet
Discovering the secret relationship between Romeo and Juliet
Juliet drinks potion
Romeo drinks poison
Juliet dies too
THEMES
loveFateHate
Theme of Love
1- ROMEO
“ Out of her favor, where I am in love.”
2- “Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
3- “With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls; For stony limits cannot hold love out, And what love can do, that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me”
4- Juliet
5- PARIS 24 Do not deny to him that you love me. JULIET 25 I will confess to you that I love him. PARIS 26 So will ye, I am sure, that you love me.
Symbols and Motifs
•Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts.
1- Light and darkness
FlowersA- RomeoB- ParisC- RomeoD- Juliet
nighttime
a- the Capulet's feast
b-The balcony c- their marriage d-the tomb
4- Poison
Comedy and TragedyRomeo and Juliet begins as a comedy but ends as a tragedy Elements of a
comedy
.A struggle of young lovers to overcome difficulty that is often presented by elders
• Heightened tensions, often within a family
Elements of a tragedy
.It has a tragic hero/heroine
•Ends in the death of many of the main characters
ROMEO AS A TRAGIC HERO: His traits of loving easily and believing in
fate. In the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with a girl named Rosaline. His friends, Bevolio and Mercutio, tease him because he always falls in love. After they go to a party in the beginning of the play, Romeo falls for a different girl besides Rosaline.
Romeo certainly is a character with high social standing because his father is a Lord, which is a noble title.
He has a fatal flaw that allows himself to be governed by his rash, passionate emotions rather than by his rational mind.
he lost his temper and killed his wife's cousin - which is depicted as a failure.
He also had a downfall just like any other hero, that is when he married too early in his life.
CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE OF LOVE AND FATE
Christian Perspective : About fate:1. Man was created with the ability to make
moral choices and that he is responsible for those choices.
2. people sin because they choose it.3. Fighting against the plan of God is
pointless.
Islamic perspective: 1. Believing in Allah2. Allah had a plan for you before you were
born, and He still has a plan for you.
LOVE IN CHRISTIAN love is considered a pleasant
sensation, a matter of chance or luck, not something that requires effort or knowledge.
Free relationship between woman and man is acceptable.
LOVE IN ISLAM love between man and woman is
acceptable as long as it is within the framework of marriage and this is encouraged in a number of verses in the Noble Qur'an,
"And one of His signs is that He created mates for you from yourselves that you may find rest in them, and He put between you love and compassion; most surely there are signs in this for a people who reflect." (Noble Qur'an, 30:21)