Romeo && Juliet

The summary of the play

Two prominent families (the Montages and the Capulets) from the city of Verona are at war with each other. These families have battled against each other for quiet some time, but things have recently become even worth. From this household, two people (Romeo and Juliet) fall in love, but their "star-crossed" relationship will end in death. Once these two people die, the families will finally end their bitter feud.

Social classes

At the start of the play and indeed through out the play you can immediately gather that there is social classes, In Shakespearian time there was a high class, middle and lower class. I believe that the Montages where in the middle class and the Capulets where in the higher class. Each class didn't speak to each other, it wasn't a great Idea to do so because they all thought they was better or lower then every once else. But this wasn't the case for the Montages and the Capulets although it may have contributed to it.

Why did Romeo and Juliet get married in secret?

Romeo and Juliet get married in secret reason being is because they loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of their life together, so they thought the only way they could show this was to get married. But they had to get married without there families permission because they both knew their families would disagree with their decision because they wasn't even allowed to see each other so marriage to them was out of the question.

Would the pair have lasted a lifetime of happiness?

I believe that Romeo and Juliet could have lasted a life time of happiness if they truly loved each other (which they did), they show this by Juliet declaring her love for Romeo to her nurse for example " My only love sprung from my only hate") this tell you that the person she loved was the person she was meant to hate.

But there is also the fact that there families wouldn't of let them live happily because once again they both had issues with each other, so this effected the relationship between these to lovers and basically became impossible for them to live a life time of happiness.

Shakespeare's use of langue

The plays written in Shakespearian times where written in the form of old English this langue was an elegant and a much more formal and complicated, (wasn't complicated in the Shakespearian time because that's all the people knew) for example "For what, I prey thee?" this means he is saying what should he prey for his done nothing wrong.

Where plays written today are written in modern English, which is much easier to understand and not as complicated, although this langue isn't as elegant as Shakespearian times.