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)