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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Miscommunication in "Romeo And Juliet"


         People often use words that are spelled exactly the same, however the words also have several different meanings and this is the number one reason why miscommunication occurs from communication. Romeo and Juliet? Who doesn't know about this famous tragedy love story..which was written by Williams Shakespeare, which was later made into a modern film in 1996. Following this further, two young people are madly in love with each other after meeting for the first time at a ball which took place in the Capulets house, Romeo instantly fell in love with Juliet from the moment he laid his eyes on her, it was love at first sight, and nothing can separate them from being a part.
       In addition, the Montegue's (Romeo's family)  do no get along with the Capulets(Juliet's family), meaning that the two families are known by the city of Verona to be enemies, this obviously sets fire to the lives of Romeo and Juliet because they have to hide their relationship from their families because their families would simply not accept the fact that they are madly in love with each other. The last name Montegue meant love to Juliet, whereas Juliet's family( Capulets)  thought of the last name Montegue as "enemy". Juliet had a different meaning for the last name Montegue which was obviously, nothing but love.  Furthermore, the love birds continue to hide their relationship and meet up with each other, however Juliet's father wants Juliet to get married soon to a boy named Paris, Juliet obviously loves Romeo. Instead of Juliet admitting to her mother that she  does not agree to marry Paris, Juliet portrays miscommunication to her mother by demanding the marriage to be postponed  or delayed, when she actually meant "No I do not want to marry Paris, I love Romeo" but her mother rejects Juliet's demand. Juliet was using dialog-ism over here because she was the only person who understood what she actually meant to say, whereas Juliet's mom obviously has no idea about what Juliet is talking about but she took Juliet's words the wrong way, when in reality it is what Juliet  meant to say but Juliet was just trying to hide the fact that she did not want to marry Paris because of her love for Romeo. In other words, Juliet was expressing her feelings by using  her "inside words" and in Juliet's mother's "inside word" language it meant something completely different and Juliet's mother was obviously annoyed by Juliet's use of the word "delayed" because in Juliet's mom's "inside word" language, delayed must of meant "Never".Thus, words have power and they will always have power.
       Another example of miscommunication in Shakespear's tragic story Romeo And Juliet, would have to be the the part where all the craziness takes place at the very end in this inseparable love story, where Juliet decides to take drugs so her Capulet family would think that she was dead, but Juliet was put to asleep for 48 hours. In other words, Romeo was informed  by his servant shortly after about Juliet being dead when she was just asleep. Juliet wakes up to find Romeo being dead and this all leads to miscommunication because the messenger did not reach Romeo on time to inform him about Juliet's plan about pretending to be dead therefore Romeo was informed by his servant thinking that Juliet was actually dead, and shortly after that Juliet kills herself. At this level, miscommunication caused the death of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a dramatic, tragical, love story which sadly does not have a happy ending.


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