Essays on Romeo and Juliet

“God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people”- Francis Collins. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written by Shakespeare, that follows the lives of two star-crossed lovers. Romeo and Juliet are set...

In William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare tells a story of two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who come from opposing families that experience love at first glance and by the end, take their own lives because they are unable to be together. Juliet...

People’s actions are orchestrated by their traits and their feelings, which can sometimes create extreme results of a conflict. In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, many characters have conflicts driven by their personality traits. Tybalt is one character that follows this pattern....

‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare, is a play around two teenaged darlings, whose affection was normal for pulverization from the earliest starting point due to the contempt between the two families, Montagues and Capulets. The subjects of adoration and loathe are significant in the...

Romeo and Juliet, famous as a classical tragedy, but nobody knows its really a comedy. Willam Shakespeare is known for adding humorous effects, and deeper meanings to his literature through puns, especially in Romeo and Juliet. The story of Romeo and Juliet is about two...

 ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’ or in other words, is it better for Shakespeare to just die or live on? In case if you didn’t know, 400 years later, Shakespeare is still relevant In our lives today through the various...

As the audience, we all perceive the Cinderella movie as a perfect love story that ends happily ever after but the truth is that the movie has created an overview of The Cinderella Complex.  Dowling describes the complex as the deep wish to be taken...

Dance of the Knights is one of the most recognizable pieces in Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. The storyline really drives this scene and the music as during this part in the ballet we see the Capulets and Montagues are locked in conflict. This hostility and...

Contextual issues in the 20th century such as Stalin and McCarthyism impacted music immensely. 20th century music was a time where music branched from baroque and romantic to a ‘new classical’ being neoclassical and for many composers it would be difficult to have a particular...

West Side Story, written by Arthur Laurents, composed by Leonard Bernstein with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is a gargantuan work within the world of musical theatre. Drawing inspiration from one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, this comes as little surprise. But which elements of West...