Family issues in Shakespeare's plays

2.2. An interpretation of family problems in "Rameo and Julietta''
Romeo and Juliet is a romantic work that tells about the love of two young hearts. Their tragedy was a quarrel and a long-term enmity not only of their parents, but of several generations. It was written by Shakespeare in 1594 and 1595. The play was published two years later. The plot used by the writer has already been used in literature. There is little exact information about the creation of the work. Perhaps this story could be in life and is now passed on as a legend. One thing can be said with sovereignty that readers like this story. Romantic love, passion, intrigue. All this keeps the reader in good shape. Only five days, and how many events happened. The plot develops in the spirit of that time. For Shakespeare's contemporaries, this was not surprising, but for us everything is so exciting and exciting. Because we cannot imagine that there can be such enmity and such love. Using the example of the main characters, Shakespeare shows us what human relationships can lead to. The meaning of the work is that true love can overcome obstacles and is not afraid of death. The problem lies not only in the hostility of the clans, but also in the unwillingness to go for reconciliation, even for the sake of their own children. On the contrary, it inflames anger even more. The most comical thing is that neither the Montagues nor the Capulets remember the reasons for the quarrel, but continue to maintain the old enmity.
At the beginning of the work there are feuds, duels, undisguised hostility, then at the end there is a truce. The feelings that arose between young people can be said that both Romeo and Juliet are still children. Feelings are strong and deep, which any adult can envy. How much courage and willpower lovers have. Not everyone dares to go against their parents. Leave home, well-established way of life. Due to their youth and their passionate desire to be together, young people decide to run away, to get married without a blessing. Fate is evil. Romeo Juliet must part. Servants help them with everything. Beloved away Juliet is in a desperate situation. Even children, they do desperate things for the sake of love. So Juliet decides to drink a potion that will help simulate death. It's not scary, but the fact that Romeo returned earlier, and no one could warn him, he takes real poison. Here Juliet had a choice; she could cry, sigh and continue to live when she saw the dead beloved. She makes a choice in favor of love. She is not afraid of death. She is afraid to live without a loved one. Juliet simply cannot imagine how she will meet the dawn and while away the long nights. The death of these two lovers served to reconcile the two families. Now only everyone is beginning to understand that the old enmity had a tragic effect on their destinies. “Romeo and Juliet is rightfully a masterpiece of world literature. The play, written back in 1595, does not lose its relevance among our contemporaries. Even those who have never held a volume of Shakespeare's plays in their hands know the essence of the work.
Starting the analysis of the play, it should be said about the genre of the work. The play is written in the genre of tragedy. Consequently, the end of the work is tragic in nature, at the end of the main characters death awaits. The composition of the play is based on a parallel confrontation between two warring families. At the beginning, we can observe the clash between the servants of the Montagues and the Capulets, so we can judge that the confrontation between the clans is serious. In each of the five acts, members of the warring clans face off in a fight, and by no means for life. Several of the most expressive moments can be distinguished in the play: this is the beginning of the relationship between Romeo and Juliet, the marriage of lovers, the duel between the enamored Romeo and Tybalt, the exile of Romeo, the death of the couple in love, and the most emotional and tragic scene in the crypt, which is the culmination of the play. The conflict of warring families is over. Families realize the grief their enmity has caused them. William Shakespeare showed the reader the whole essence of the tragedy through the thread of a bright feeling of love, which is saturated with the whole play. The theme of love develops like the opening of a flower bud. Gently waking up in the early morning, like the heroes at the beginning of the play, it blooms with a bright color and dies by night. Love is sung in this work like nothing else. This is clearly felt in the monologues of Romeo and Juliet. Of course, the theme of love plays a major role, but Shakespeare also demonstrates the morals of the youth of the renaissance, the values ​​​​of which differ from the then prevailing principles. The main characters are not afraid of the foundations of medieval society, or of their parents, or even of death. Romeo is the young offspring of the Montecchi family. In the heir of an eminent family, an impeccable education and strict upbringing are immediately visible. But at the same time, he is a young man whose heart yearns for love and romance. Juliet is the daughter of the noble Capulet family. At the beginning of the work, she is submissive to her parents. But having felt a sincere feeling of love for Romeo, he demonstrates his true strong-willed disposition. Young, but passionate nature. Playfulness and coquetry, she prefers to surrender to the whole feeling.
"Romeo and Juliet" - a work that served as the basis for many such stories. The story of this Shakespearean couple serves as an example of fidelity to the tender feeling of love and the steadfastness of the spirit in the face of obstacles, no matter how terrible they may be. This story about the relationship between a girl and a boy was invented and written long before Shakespeare. In the first century, the master of the word Ovid wrote the poem "Metamorphoses" in which he told about the death of two lovers in the name of love. In this poem, too, conflicting families, and children who loved each other. Shakespeare certainly knew this story, as evidenced by the scene in the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", in which people rehearse a play about dead children. This poem was remade several times in Italy, and only then the brilliant Shakespeare took up this idea. And only thanks to the style of the master - this work became popular.
Genre is tragedy.
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic poem that ends sadly, Beloved perish. There are five short acts in the work, at the beginning of the play there is a prologue, which briefly tells about the plot. The main characters are Romeo and Juliet. Mercutzo, Romeo's friend. Paris, a relative of the Prince of Verona. Lorenzo, a priest with great authority over Juliet and Romeo. Tybalt, relative of Juliet. There is a great deal of animosity between the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo of the Montecchi family loves Rosalida, Juliet's confidante. Mercutio, Romeo's friend and Benvolio's brother, is trying in every possible way to cheer up the young man. At the same time, preparations are underway in the Capulet family for the celebration. Guests are invited, influential people of Verona. At this celebration, Juliet's acquaintance with the future betrothed Paris should take place. Romeo and his friends come to the solemn event at the Capulet house. The young man dreams of meeting Rosalind, who is a relative of the host of the festive celebration. So that the young men are not recognized, the guys put on masks, but the intention of the friends is exposed by Juliet's brother, Tybalt. Romeo involuntarily makes eye contact with Juliet's eyes, a spark flares up between them, but enmity between families is in the way of a bright feeling. Romeo and Juliet still want to get married, assuming that this will reconcile the warring houses and peace and harmony will come in families. Some time after the wedding, Romeo watches Tybalt take the life of Mercutio's best friend, Romeo takes revenge on Tybalt by killing him in a rage. The Duke expels Romeo from Verona. Monk Lorenzo suggests hiding and waiting for time in Mantua. At the same time, the parents inform Juliet about the decision to marry the girl to Paris. Juliet turns to Lorenzo for help, the priest offers to drink sleeping pills to simulate death. Romeo does not know about this, and when he sees Juliet, he thinks that the girl is dead, the young man kills Paris in a rage and drinks the poison himself. After a dream, Juliet wakes up and, having learned what happened, stabs herself with a knife out of grief. And only the death of children ends the long-term feud between families. The poem "Romeo and Juliet" shows the spiritual values ​​of mankind, which can destroy even family traditions. For the love of young people, nothing can become an obstacle, and they go to the end. Young people for their happiness to be together go against the foundations of society. The love of Romeo and Juliet is not afraid of anything.
On a hot morning, a fight between young servants of the Capulet and Montagu families is stopped by the prince, who tells them that the next person to break the peace will be punished by death. Capulet plans a feast to present his daughter Juliet, almost fourteen, to Count Paris, who would like to marry her. By mistake of Peter's illiterate servant, Montagu's son Romeo and his friends Benvolio and cousin Prince Mercutio hear about the party and decide to go in disguise. Romeo hopes to see his adored Rosalyn, but instead he meets and falls in love with Juliet. Romeo lingers outside the Capulet's house and is talking to Juliet when she appears on her balcony. With the help of Juliet's nurse, the lovers agree to meet the next day in the cell of the monk Lawrence, when Juliet goes to confession, and he crowns them. Tybalt picks a fight with Mercutio and his friends, and Mercutio is accidentally killed when Romeo steps in to try and break up the fight. Romeo pursues Tybalt in anger, kills him and is banished by the prince for what he has done. Juliet worries that Romeo is late to meet her and learns about the fight from her nurse. With the help of Friar Lawrence, Romeo arranges to spend the night with Juliet before taking refuge in Mantua. To assuage the family's grief over Tybalt's death, the day of Juliet's wedding to Paris is pushed forward. Capulet and his wife are angry that Juliet does not want to marry Paris, not knowing about her secret contract with Romeo. Monk Lawrence helps Juliet by providing a sleeping potion that will make everyone think she is dead. Then Romeo will come to her grave and take her away. When the wedding party arrives to welcome Juliet the next day, they think she is dead. The friar sends a colleague to warn Romeo to come to the Capulet family monument to save his sleeping wife, but the message doesn't go through and Romeo, hearing that Juliet is dead instead, buys poison from Mantua. He returns to Verona and goes to the grave, where he surprises and kills the grieving Paris. Romeo takes the poison and dies just as Juliet wakes up from her drugged sleep. She learns what happened from Friar Lawrence, but refuses to leave the tomb and stabs herself to death when the Monk returns with the Prince, Capulet, and Father Romeo. The death of their children forces the families to make peace, promising to erect a monument in their memory.