Essay Notes

Describe how a key relationship was driven by conflict in the text.
Key relationship = Romeo and Juliet
Conflict = The families feud // R&J conducted their relationship in secret w/o giving careful thought to their actions.

Examples;
1 – Romeo’s decision to visit Juliet in Capulet gardens
a) Romeo – “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these
walls.”
b) Juliet – “If they do see thee, they will murder thee.”
2 – The decision to get married
a) “If they bent of love be honourable…”
3 – When Romeo is banished and Juliet fakes her death
a) “Come vial. Romeo, this I do drink to thee.”
4 – When Romeo and Juliet commit suicide
a) Romeo – “Arms take your last embrace, and lips, O you
the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss…”
“Thus with a kiss I die.”
b) Juliet – “This is they sheath; there rust, and let me die.”