William Shakespeare s Romeo And Juliet - 1341 Words

As Shakespeare composes this tragic love story â€Å"Violent delights have violent ends / And in their triumph die, like fire and power, / Which as they kiss consume† (2.6.9). In the play Romeo and Juliet an enchanted love leads to violent ends and consumes two people’s lives until their powerful death. When Romeo first lays eyes on the gorgeous Juliet it is love at first sight. Though their love is authentic and empowering, it is also entirely banned. William Shakespeare writes this masterpiece with much delight but also great sorrow. Romeo and Juliet is the most abiding love story of all time. Shakespeare uses many literary devices in his works. Throughout this story the character Juliet changes remarkably. Shakespeare provides evidence for†¦show more content†¦Come, what says Romeo?†(2.5). Juliet is completely obsessed with her love, so obsessed that her love overpowers her, in a dangerous and controlling way. This of course does happen near the end o f the play she takes a dangerous potion tricking her family into thinking that she is dead. This ables Juliet into hopefully running away to her love who has been banished from Verona. Though scarred she drinks the potion in hope of living happily ever after with Romeo: â€Å"Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all?... What if it be a poison which the friar / Subtilly hath minist’red to have me dead†¦ I fear it is†¦ There’s a fearful point! Shall I not then be stifled in the vault†¦ and there die strangled†(4.2) yet she still drinks the potion for love: â€Å"Romeo, I come! This do I drink to thee.†(4.2). Her love consumes her especially after Romeo’s death: â€Å" Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! (Snatches Romeo’s dagger.) This is thy sheath; there rest, and let me die (she stabs herself and falls on Romeo’s body.)†(5.3). Just like that she ends her life because of her obsession over Romeo and their love. This is a huge change of her character, she goes from being just a child who â€Å"hath not seen the change of fourteen years†(1.2) to a woman who ends her life for love. This shows how much Juliet’s perspective on love and life has changed through foreshadowing. There are a lot of periphrasis in Shakespeare s play some which reveal a