William Shakespeare, author of the most well known play, Romeo and Juliet, was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely seen as the greatest writer in the English and the world’s most dominant dramatist. William Shakespeare writes three different types of plays: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, and the play entitled, Romeo and Juliet, is written in the Tragedies category. Romeo and Juliet was first originally published in the year 1597 and is set in the city of Verona; Italy. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two young ‘star-crossed lovers’ that has a forbidden love due to the feud of their two household families, the Capulets and the Montagues. This feud has been long-standing until the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, finally end that
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Originally, Benvolio was chosen to be the least to blame for their deaths, and the reason for that is because he was the one in the play that told Romeo to attend the “Capulet’s feast”. That feast is really their ball, where he eventually met Juliet. On page 23, Benvolio tells Romeo, “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s / Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves / with all the admired beauties of Verona / Go thither, and with unattained eye / compare her face with some that I shall show / and I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” This quote principally translates, briefly, to “The beautiful Rosaline whom you love so much will be at Capulet’s traditional feast, along with every beautiful woman in Verona. Go there and compare her objectively to some other girls I’ll show you. The woman who you think is as beautiful as a swan is going to look as ugly as a crow to you.” This quote has been referenced in this clause because it shows the involvement that Benvolio played a part in their tragic deaths. That involvement includes Benvolio, logically, introducing Romeo and Juliet because of the ball. This is also the reason because if they hadn’t met, then all the tragic events that had happened afterwards would be eliminated. Although, that reason is disregarded, because the title of the play is called Romeo and Juliet, so those characters had to meet at some point, which means that the play would loose the entire purpose if Romeo and Juliet hadn’t met. This justification supports that Benvolio had taken part in a small amount of Romeo and Juliet’s death, and that is because he fairly introduced Romeo and Juliet for suggesting Romeo’s attendance to the
Originally, Benvolio was chosen to be the least to blame for their deaths, and the reason for that is because he was the one in the play that told Romeo to attend the “Capulet’s feast”. That feast is really their ball, where he eventually met Juliet. On page 23, Benvolio tells Romeo, “At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s / Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so loves / with all the admired beauties of Verona / Go thither, and with unattained eye / compare her face with some that I shall show / and I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” This quote principally translates, briefly, to “The beautiful Rosaline whom you love so much will be at Capulet’s traditional feast, along with every beautiful woman in Verona. Go there and compare her objectively to some other girls I’ll show you. The woman who you think is as beautiful as a swan is going to look as ugly as a crow to you.” This quote has been referenced in this clause because it shows the involvement that Benvolio played a part in their tragic deaths. That involvement includes Benvolio, logically, introducing Romeo and Juliet because of the ball. This is also the reason because if they hadn’t met, then all the tragic events that had happened afterwards would be eliminated. Although, that reason is disregarded, because the title of the play is called Romeo and Juliet, so those characters had to meet at some point, which means that the play would loose the entire purpose if Romeo and Juliet hadn’t met. This justification supports that Benvolio had taken part in a small amount of Romeo and Juliet’s death, and that is because he fairly introduced Romeo and Juliet for suggesting Romeo’s attendance to the