英语论文罗密欧与朱丽叶

Analyze the Character of Romeo—Romeo and Juliet

Class 1, English Education,2008

Department of Foreign Studies

Junior

2010年11月6日

Abstract

The famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet show me the purest and the deepest love in the world . I was happy for their happiness ,sad for their sadness. The novel leads me to a new world with the Middle Ages’ opulent and delicate. All in all ,I ‘m totally moved by this romantic love story .

From "Poetics" which was written by Aristotle tell a more complete theory of tragedy, he thought that tragedy can be divided into three categories, namely, the fate of the tragedy, character, tragedy and social tragedies. Obviously, Romeo is character tragedy.

Key words: perplexed; contradicted; emotional ;fervent

Content:

Verona, Italy, two famous households , theCaplet and the Montague. A clash between two families let a shadow over the city. They have bitter and deep-seated hatred. One day, Romeo ,the only son of Montague , join in a party which held by Caplet ‘s family. In the ball, Juliet Caplet met Romeo, they are falling love at the first sight. At the end of the ball, Romeo can not stop thinking of Juliet, so he slip into the backyard . He heard the thoughts of Juliet occasionally, so he talk with Juliet. They are into a deep love and can not be separated. With the help of the priests,the young couple married. Father hope to eliminate the long-standing hatred between the two families. But Juliet's cousin, Tybalt want to have a fight with Romeo, he reject Romeo's peace hope and killing the man which named Mercutio. Romeo crazy to beat Tybalt and kill him. And then,by the judgement of prince,Romeo was punished by expulsion. Juliet is so sad for the news that Romeo is expulsion, but her father think she is sad for her cousin’s death,so he let Juliet get marry with Paris she doesn’t love immediately. Juliet have to drink the poison which can let she sleep three days as dead .Meanwhile,priest send a letter to Romeo, but the priest's letter did not reach the hands of Romeo. Romeo heard Juliet was dead and then arrived at the church, drink the poison and dead before Juliet wake up .when Juliet wake up ,she saw her love dead and then kill herself. The deep-seated hatred between two families that led to a younger generation of romantic tragedy.

About William Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His plays have been translated into every language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London .He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later.

Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1589 and 1613.[5][d] His early plays were mainly comedies and histories. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances.

About background:

1590 to 1600, the British are at the peak of the rule of Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare in the real world with confidence to achieve humanist ideals, works filled with optimism bright colors. The basic theme is the play of love, marriage and friendship, the performance of Shakespeare's humanist ideals in life. He wrote "Romeo and Juliet" (1595), although there are works of sad side, but the basic spirit and the same comedy.

Another way of saying, Romeo and Juliet, English formerly known as The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, abbreviated as Romeo and Juliet, is not Shakespeare's original, but adapted from Arthur Blue (Arthur Broke) 1562 years of the novel "Romeo and Juliet's tragic history" .

About Romeo’s character:

The famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet show me the purest and the deepest love in the world . I was happy for their happiness ,sad for their sadness.The novel lead me to a new world with the Middle Ages’ opulent and delicate.All in all ,I ‘m totally moved by this romantic love story .

Here ,I want to analayse the character of Romeo . From "Poetics" which was written by Aristotle tell a more complete theory of tragedy, he thought that tragedy can be divided into three categories, namely, the fate of the tragedy, character, tragedy and social tragedies. Obviously, Romeo is character tragedy. His character is too complex to analysis,So I will analyzed by chapter.

In the Act One,it show the confusion of Romeo before he meet Juliet , From the sentence “O brawling love ! O loving hate ! O heavy lightness! O serious vanity….”Romeo is really in a deep perplexed and contradicted feeling . He lost himself in the way of love and can not distinguish between reality and imagination,such a poor kid!For the frist time to taste the bitter of love ,He even hard to control himself to think ,to speak.But is after he met Juliet ,he felt the destiny bring the girl to him and he also found the love before not real at all .We can get the point from the words “Did my heart love till now ? forwear it ,sight !” Ang then ,he use all

fantastic and fambulars words to describe his love “She cloth teach the torches to burn bright,It seems she hangs up on the cheek of night ,Like a rich jewel in an Eth iope’s ear: Beauty too rich for use ,for earth too dear!”His love is same as the fire and burn everything .From this we can see Romeo is really emotional and fervent.He felt he is a blushing pilgrims in front of Juliet.In love,he is the man of low origin ,lowly and humblely.

In the Act Two ,they talk with each other and falling in love immediately.From this Act,let’s overlook the beautiful rhetoric.I only want to say their love is so fast, just talk the affection for each other and then they both know the other is the ture love .They even do not know each other very well!So although I really adore the rhetoric of William Shakespeare,I can not agree the speed of the love .And from this Act,they get married by the help of father .This maybe the happiest time in their love .

Romeo kill the Tybalt in Act Three which show he is kind- hearted and emotional ,

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