IMPOSSIBLE LOVE : ROMEO AND JULIET

This week, our topic was Romeo and Juliet which was written by William Shakespeare. It is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies. The author wrote this play in 1591. Story is love of children of two enemy families. Main characters of this play are Romeo and Juliet. Other characters are Lord Capulet who is Juliet’s father, Lady Capulet who is Juliet’s mother, Tybalt who is Juliet’s cousin, Lord Montague who is Romeo’s father, Lady Montague who is Romeo’s mother, Benvolio who is Romeo’s best friend, Laurence who is priest, Balthasar, Rosaline, Peter, Prince, Paris, Mercutio and Nurse.

A brief story of Romeo and Juliet: Montegue family and Capulet family are enemy each other. Romeo is son of Montegues, Juliet is daughter of Capulets. They fall in love each other at prom night. They learn children of two enemy families but this state cannot be obstacle to love. They begin to meet in secret. Finally, they decide to get married. They want to help from Priest Laurence and nurse. They accept helping and Laurence marries them in secret manner. And, one day Tybalt meets Romeo and his friend Mercutio. Tybalt begins to tease them. Mercutio can’t be calm and he attacks Tybalt. While they are fighting, Thbalt kills Mercutio. Romeo cannot stand when he sees this and he kills Tybalt. Therefore, Romeo is banished. He is sent to away from Juliet. The while, Juliet’s father Lord Capulet wants to be Juliet’s marriage with Paris. So, Juliet and Laurence make a plan. Laurence gives a potion to Juliet. This potion will allow two days to be as still dead. Thanks to it, Juliet will be able to go to Romeo. Without knowing this state, Romeo comes to his country; he sees that Juliet was dead. He poisons near the Juliet’s grave and he dies. Juliet wakes up two-day sleep. She sees that Romeo was dead. So, she takes Romeo’s dagger and she kills herself.

As usual, great loves end with separation. We can say this: IMPOSSIBLE LOVE...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ( 2 Aralık Pazartesi )

This week, we talked about William Shakespeare who is playwright and poet. My teacher said general information which we need to know about him and his works in the lesson. Such as, He was born in 1564 and he died in 1616, he wrote a lot of poem and plays. Some of them are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. He affected to English Literature in all respects etc. Therefore, I want to touch on unknown things about him now.

Firstly, he was married with a woman who was 8 years older than him while he was 18 years old. They had 5 children. Both of children were twin. One was Hamlet who died at the age of 17, the other was Judıth. Shakespeare wrote some works inspired by the twin because he was very upset to leave children because of death.

Secondly, after his death one woman who was named as Delia Bacon claimed that works of Shakespeare weren’t written by him. She wanted to open his grave to find clue but she didn’t managed to open. Because, when she went to Shakespeare’s grave, there was quite creepy. She preferred to flee from there immediately.

As a result, he was very interesting men and still his works are quite important for human and literature. I want to give more unknown information but unfortunately I didn’t found anything on the Internet. So, I am sorry…