Thursday, October 18, 2007
Deception and its Consequences
Deception and trickery play integral roles in Romeo and Juliet. Not only do our protagonists deceive others, but Romeo and Juliet themselves are deceived as well. How does deception impact the lives of multiple characters in the play? Have you experienced deception in your life that has lead to drastic consequences? Do your experiences and those of our characters correlate in anyway?
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Deception plays its part on every character. Since Juliet isnt telling her family that she is in love with Romeo they have no knowledge of their relationship. This deception, I think, effects Tybalt's actions a lot. If Tybalt had known that Juliet was married to Romeo he wouldn't have gone looking for him. Tybalt then kills Mercutio in the process of trying to kill Romeo, and Romeo then kills Tybalt. If Tybalt had been set on the path of knowing, the death of Mercutio and himself could have never happened.
Personally I have never been decieved as greatly as the characters in Romeo and Juliet. Just small tricks within the family that never have a major impact later on. It is not a good thing to decieve, so my family and friends do not do it to eachother unless it is for a good thing.
In Romeo and Juliet, the lovers were deceived, and they deceived others. Deceiption plays a huge role in the story, as well as in life. Romeo and juliet deceive their famlies by running off and getting married without parental permission. This causes Friar Laurence to deceive the Montegues and the Capulets by keeping the marriage secret. The secret marriage brought trouble for everyone, because then the marriage caused the conflict between Romeo and Tybalt. If Romeo and Juliet had not deceived their families and were open about the marriage, Mercutio and Tybalt might not have been dead, and Romeo might not have been banashed. At the end of Romeo and Juliet, Friar Laurence deceives Romeo by giving Juliet a potion to make her seem dead, but Romeo really believes she is dead. This deception leads to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet.
Deception can be a good thing in some cases, as Iris said, but in other cases like Romeo and Juliet, the ending is not so happily ever after. I have not been deceived to an extent where it ended badly, but only little jokes. On april fools day last year, my sister but a bucket of water over my door and when i woke up,it spilled on me. This was a harmless little joke and we laughed about it. Deception is something that cna be good, you just have to think about what you are doing before you do it.
Deception has a lot to do with the story of Romeo and Juliet. Many of the characters in the play have either been the victims of deception or have deceived another person. Juliet deceives her family when she lies about where she is most of the time and her relationship with Romeo. Juliet does not tell her parents that she is married and what is really going on because she knows that they will not recognize how she feels and what she wants. Whenever a person deceives another, they do it because they know that the other person will not understand and they have a feeling that it is not the best thing but they do it anyway. Many people look back at what they have done and think about what triggered them to do such a thing and realize that their actions were not the smartest. In Juliet’s case, she is thirteen or fourteen and is already in love and she believes that her feelings will never change so she considers her decision to be a wise one. Romeo is also lying to his parents about his whereabouts. Since Juliet’s family and Romeo’s family are in a feud, he cannot tell his parents that he is married to their family’s enemy. He is in the same situation as Juliet and they are too young to know what is right and wrong so they go with their gut feeling and will do anything, even lie to their parent’s to follow it.
I have never been in a situation as severe as Romeo and Juliet’s but I have been deceived before. The feeling of finding out that a person has lied to you after you believed them really hurts you inside and can pull you away from them for a very long time. I agree with Helen with the statement, Deception is something that can be good; you just have to think about what you are doing before you do it.
The foundation of Romeo and Juliet is partly based on the deception of the two lovers and how it mangles their lives and eventually leads to their deaths. When Romeo and Juliet decieve everyone in hiding their love and secretly getting married, this leads to a chain of lies which creates conflict throughout the play. Deception leads to the lovers' deaths when Juliet fakes her death thus Romeo believes her to be dead and takes his own life rather than live without her. The consequences of deception are extremely severe in Romeo and Juliet's case. Virtually each charater in the play is decieved at one point creating turmoil between the Capulets and Montagues.
Deception can sometimes be playful and full of trickery but it is always important to think of the possible consequences to deception. What may seem trivial at first, can sometimes result in dire consequences.
Personally, I have experienced deception which has greatly impacted my life. My parents are now divorced, but while they were married, one of them was cheating on the other. This deception between my parents eventually led to their divorce which changed my life in numerous ways.
Deception is a gray zone topic. to decieve is wrong, but if it is done with good intentions, then is it good. Romeo and Juliet both decieved and was decieved. Romeo lied to himself in saying he was in love, when a few seconds before he was drooling over Rosolin. Then He was decieved when Juliet was in the tomb. Juliet tried to make herself look dead to her parents, but instead it made the one person she was trying to help get hurt. If Juliet had just flat out told her father that she loved Romeo and that she had already married him, she would have been discarded. But she would still be with Romeo. And if you go still farther back, if she had told her parents that she had planned to marry Romeo, the Capulets would have prevented it and after time, the lovers would soon forget each other. All in all, Deception hurts, and when done for selfish reasons can lead to an ending like Romeo and Juliet.
I agree with Starlite that deception is a grey area. However, I also believe that deception is an essential part of life. It has caused some of the the greatest twists in history, such as the murder of kings, the conquering of cities, and many mysteries of life. Without deception, human life would be tedious and boring. Even though we don't realize it, we are always looking to spot deception.
In Romeo and Juliet, the title characters might not have even met if Romeo hadn't crashed the Capulets' party in disguise. Also, if Juliet hadn't deceived Romeo by faking her death, they two would have run of together and probably gotten sick of each other.
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