ultrafezz
06-14-2011, 04:02 AM
Heyy guys.
my first post, so ill just say a little bit about my self.
my name is zac, i live in australia and im in year 9 this year.
i have a characterisation assignment due tomorrow and im not a very good writer.
so i was just checking if anyone would be kind enough to just read through my writing and maybe re-write any bits that sound wrong or inproper.
ok thanks heaps guyss
The name Romeo now our days, has become to mean almost the same as “lover”. This is because the character Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love so pure and powerful that he actually kills himself when he believes that his love, Juliet has died. However Romeos character is actually a lot more complex then just being an extremely strong Lover. Through out the play he is shown to experience many intense feelings of all kinds (not just love), which make him do very stupid things ultimately being his fatal flaw. We are also shown small glimpses of his social persona throughout the play, we see that he is intelligent, quick-witted and loyal. We also see that his feelings of love do change as his feelings switch from Rosaline to Juliet.
Romeo’s character in general is quite complicated, even Romeo’s relation to love is not so simple. At the beginning of the play, Romeo longs for Rosaline, stating her ‘the paragon of women’ and despairing at her indifference toward him. Making it seem like Romeo’s ‘Rosaline-induced’ love is rather juvenile. Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and the portrayal of his love for Rosaline suggests he is trying to re-create the feelings that he has read about. After first kissing Juliet, she tells him “you kiss by th’ book,” meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality. In reference to Rosaline, it seems, Romeo loves by the book. Rosaline, of course, slips from Romeo’s mind at first sight of Juliet. But Juliet is no mere replacement. The love she has with Romeo is much deeper, more faithful and powerful than the childish love Romeo felt for Rosaline. Romeo’s love intensifies over the course of the play from the trivial desire to be in love to an intense and deep passion.
Yet Romeo’s deep capacity for love is merely a part of his larger capacity for intense feeling of all kinds. Intense feelings of love make him sneak into the garden of his enemy’s daughter, risking death simply to catch a glimpse of her. Intense feelings of anger make him kill his wife’s cousin in a reckless duel to avenge the death of his friend. Intense feelings of despair make him suicide upon hearing of Juliet’s death. Such extreme behaviour dominates Romeo’s character throughout the play and contributes to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Had Romeo held in his anger and stopped himself from killing Tybalt, or waited even one day before killing himself after hearing the news of Juliet’s death, matters might have ended happily. Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the first place.
my first post, so ill just say a little bit about my self.
my name is zac, i live in australia and im in year 9 this year.
i have a characterisation assignment due tomorrow and im not a very good writer.
so i was just checking if anyone would be kind enough to just read through my writing and maybe re-write any bits that sound wrong or inproper.
ok thanks heaps guyss
The name Romeo now our days, has become to mean almost the same as “lover”. This is because the character Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, does indeed experience a love so pure and powerful that he actually kills himself when he believes that his love, Juliet has died. However Romeos character is actually a lot more complex then just being an extremely strong Lover. Through out the play he is shown to experience many intense feelings of all kinds (not just love), which make him do very stupid things ultimately being his fatal flaw. We are also shown small glimpses of his social persona throughout the play, we see that he is intelligent, quick-witted and loyal. We also see that his feelings of love do change as his feelings switch from Rosaline to Juliet.
Romeo’s character in general is quite complicated, even Romeo’s relation to love is not so simple. At the beginning of the play, Romeo longs for Rosaline, stating her ‘the paragon of women’ and despairing at her indifference toward him. Making it seem like Romeo’s ‘Rosaline-induced’ love is rather juvenile. Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and the portrayal of his love for Rosaline suggests he is trying to re-create the feelings that he has read about. After first kissing Juliet, she tells him “you kiss by th’ book,” meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality. In reference to Rosaline, it seems, Romeo loves by the book. Rosaline, of course, slips from Romeo’s mind at first sight of Juliet. But Juliet is no mere replacement. The love she has with Romeo is much deeper, more faithful and powerful than the childish love Romeo felt for Rosaline. Romeo’s love intensifies over the course of the play from the trivial desire to be in love to an intense and deep passion.
Yet Romeo’s deep capacity for love is merely a part of his larger capacity for intense feeling of all kinds. Intense feelings of love make him sneak into the garden of his enemy’s daughter, risking death simply to catch a glimpse of her. Intense feelings of anger make him kill his wife’s cousin in a reckless duel to avenge the death of his friend. Intense feelings of despair make him suicide upon hearing of Juliet’s death. Such extreme behaviour dominates Romeo’s character throughout the play and contributes to the ultimate tragedy that befalls the lovers. Had Romeo held in his anger and stopped himself from killing Tybalt, or waited even one day before killing himself after hearing the news of Juliet’s death, matters might have ended happily. Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the first place.