ANALYSIS ROMEO AND JULIET'S PLAYS

BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
IN THE FORM JOURNAL
Aprinola Sitanggang, Dicky Pratama, Fatmawaty
Soniara Saragih

UNIVERSITAS PRIMA INDONESIA

SEMESTER II

Abstract
The writting of this Jurnal to intend develop a personality development module for
students and to become more familiar with existing literary works. As for the
background of this writting because describe and appreciation Literary works (1)
General Meaning ,(2) Detailed Meaning, (3) Characters, (4)Plot, (5) Conflict, (6)
Setting, (7) Theme, (8) as well as the educational values contained in the drama
Romeo and Juliet.
This method uses descriptive qualitative analysis. Collecting data through observation
and in the form of sentences in the form of expressions. This research is based on the
assumption that literary works are formed by extrinsist and intrinsic elements which
constitute the existence of literary works and plot is one of intrinsic elements.The
benefits of this research serve as a tool for understanding literary works.
Conclusion (1) General Meaning Romeo and Juliet were originally a tragic romance
in ancient times. The story Romeo and Juliet is bassed on a story in italy which was
transformed into a poem in the Tragical History of Romeus. (2) Detailed Meaning this
tragedy tells the story of a young bridge who fell in love,but was hindered because
their two families were hostile to each other. Romeo and juliet have been adapted
many times for the stage,film,music, and opera venue. The drama which took place in
Verona Italy.(3) Chracters contains relatively different characters. In addition to
eponymous protagonist,Romeo montaguedan and Juliet capulet the play contains roles
for family members and households respectively ,Prince escalus, ruler of the city and
his brother Prince of Paris. In addition the play contains two ghost Characters and
invisible characters.(4) Plot the plot is chronological plot,(5) Conflict the enmity of
the Montague and Capulet families,Romeo and Juliet secret marriage,and murders
commited Romeo.(6)Setting the story set in Verona (7) Theme major themes include
the discovery by characters that humans are not entirely good orcompletely evil but
are more or less the same.(8) Educational values Children in a respectable
environment are taught politeness and wisdom. In the Quote Rosalina also came from
a respectable enviroment was treated with the teachings of virtue.

Key words : Describe and appreciation Literary works.

INTRODUCTION STATEMENTS OF THE
Literary works have been created long PROBLEMS
before people think about the nature of
literature and what the values and 1. What the synopis of RomeoJuliet's
meanings contained in literature. drama ?
Literature as an expression of what 2. What kind of General Meaning ,
people have witnessed in life, what Detailed Meaning, Characters,
people experience about life, what Plot,Conflict, Setting,Theme, Romeo
people have contemplated and felt Juliet' drama ?
about aspects of life that attract direct 3.What are the aspects of literary
interest. Basically literary works are critisim contained in Romeo Juliet's
expressions of life throught the form of drama ?
language. Literature cannot be
separated from the social and cultural
life of the people. Through literature
can be seen the views of a society, THE PURPOSE OF THE
literature also represents life in the PROBLEM
sense of social reality in connection
with this view the relationship between 1. To find out the synopsis of Romeo
literature and society is, in fact, the
Juliet's drama
basis for the emergence of the problem
2. To find out the General Meaning ,
of literary appreciation.
Detailed Meaning,
Research also includes examining
Characters,Plot,Conflict,
literature from the cultural aspect
Setting,Theme, Romeo Juliet' drama
without forgetting its social aspects.
3. To find out aspects of literary
Drama which is a literary work that
criticism contained in Romeo Juliet's
depicts various social ,political,
drama
economic and cultural lives of course
there must be form of appreciation
from the community for literary works
METHOD
produced by writters. One of them is
drama Romeo and Juliet by William This research method uses quantitative
Shakespeare. Drama that tells the love descriptive method which is defined as
tragedy between Romeo and Juliet in solving the problem investigated by
the midst of a dispute between their describing the occurence of an object.
parents. In the drama there are various Research with the aim of explaining in
values, artistic values sociocultural detail the Romeo Juliet drama and also
values, moral values, religius values in order to better understand literary
and paractical values. works in indonesia.
DISCUSSION RESULT Romeo hopes to see his beloved
Rosaline at the party. Instead, while
Romeo and Juliet Summary there, he meets Juliet and falls instantly
An age-old vendetta between two in love with her. Juliet's cousin Tybalt
powerful families erupts into recognises the Montague boys and
bloodshed. A group of masked forces them to leave just as Romeo and
Montagues risk further conflict by Juliet discover one another.
gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young
lovesick Romeo Montague falls Act II
instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, Romeo lingers near the Capulet house
who is due to marry her father’s choice, to talk with Juliet when she appears in
the County Paris. With the help of her window. The pair declare their love
Juliet’s nurse, the women arrange for for one another and intend to marry the
the couple to marry the next day, but next day. With the help of Juliet's
Romeo’s attempt to halt a street fight Nurse, the lovers arrange to marry
leads to the death of Juliet’s own when Juliet goes for confession at the
cousin, Tybalt, for which Romeo is cell of Friar Laurence. There, they are
banished. In a desperate attempt to be secretly married (talk about a short
reunited with Romeo, Juliet follows the engagement).
Friar’s plot and fakes her own death.
The message fails to reach Romeo, and Act III
believing Juliet dead, he takes his life Following the secret marriage, Juliet's
in her tomb. Juliet wakes to find cousin Tybalt sends a challenge to
Romeo’s corpse beside her and kills Romeo. Romeo refuses to fight, which
herself. The grieving family agree to angers his friend Mercutio who then
end their feud. fights with Tybalt. Mercutio is
accidentally killed as Romeo intervenes
Act I to stop the fight. In anger, Romeo
Romeo and Juliet begins as the Chorus pursues Tybalt, kills him, and is
introduces two feuding families of banished by the Prince.
Verona: the Capulets and the Juliet is anxious when Romeo is late to
Montagues. On a hot summer's day, the meet her and learns of the brawl,
young men of each faction fight until Tybalt's death, and Romeo's
the Prince of Verona intercedes and banishment. Friar Laurence arranges
threatens to banish them. Soon after, for Romeo to spend the night with
the head of the Capulet family plans a Juliet before he leaves for Mantua.
feast. His goal is to introduce his Meanwhile, the Capulet family grieves
daughter Juliet to a Count named Paris for Tybalt, so Lord Capulet moves
who seeks to marry Juliet. Juliet's marriage to Paris to the next
Montague's son Romeo and his friends day. Juliet’s parents are angry when
(Benvolio and Mercutio) hear of the Juliet doesn't want to marry Paris, but
party and resolve to go in disguise. they don't know about her secret
marriage to Romeo. Romeo and Juliet is the most famous
love story in the English literary
Act IV tradition. Love is naturally the play’s
Friar Laurence helps Juliet by dominant and most important theme.
providing a sleeping draught that will The play focuses on romantic love,
make her seem dead. When the specifically the intense passion that
wedding party arrives to greet Juliet the springs up at first sight between Romeo
next day, they believe she is dead. The and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is
Friar sends a messenger to warn a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force
Romeo of Juliet's plan and bids him to that supersedes all other values,
come to the Capulet family monument loyalties, and emotions. In the course
to rescue his sleeping wife. of the play, the young lovers are driven
to defy their entire social world:
Act V families (“Deny thy father and refuse
The vital message to Romeo doesn't thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt
arrive in time because the plague is in not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no
town (so the messenger cannot leave longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo
Verona). Hearing from his servant that abandons Mercutio and Benvolio after
Juliet is dead, Romeo buys poison from the feast in order to go to Juliet’s
an Apothecary in Mantua. He returns to garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to
Verona and goes to the tomb where he Verona for Juliet’s sake after being
surprises and kills the mourning Paris. exiled by the Prince on pain of death in
Romeo takes his poison and dies, while 2.1.76–78). Love is the overriding
Juliet awakens from her drugged coma. theme of the play, but a reader should
She learns what has happened from always remember that Shakespeare is
Friar Laurence, but she refuses to leave uninterested in portraying a prettied-up,
the tomb and stabs herself. The Friar dainty version of the emotion, the kind
returns with the Prince, the Capulets, that bad poets write about, and whose
and Romeo's lately widowed father. bad poetry Romeo reads while pining
The deaths of their children lead the for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet
families to make peace, and they is a brutal, powerful emotion that
promise to erect a monument in Romeo captures individuals and catapults them
and Juliet's memory. against their world, and, at times,
against themselves.
The powerful nature of love can be
INTRINSIC ELEMENT seen in the way it is described, or, more
accurately, the way descriptions of it so
1. Theme : Romance
consistently fail to capture its entirety.
At times love is described in the terms
Themes are the fundamental and often of religion,as in the fourteen lines when
universal ideas explored in a literary Romeo and Juliet first meet. At others
work.The Forcefulness of Love it is described as a sort of magic:
“Alike bewitchèd by the charm of his relative Benvolio,Mercutio and
looks”.Juliet, perhaps, most perfectly Friar Lawrence.
describes her love for Romeo by 2. Juliet characters
refusing to describe it: “But my true Juliet is portrayed as a beautiful
love is grown to such excess / I cannot woman, gentle, of royal descent,
sum up some of half my wealth” . mature, polite, loyal, respectful to
Love, in other words, resists any single parents,and admired by men of
metaphor because it is too powerful to aristocracy or most men
be so easily contained or understood.
Romeo and Juliet does not make a 3. Father Laurance characters
specific moral statement about the He was a wise, wise, and kind pastor.
relationships between love and society,
religion, and family; rather, it portrays 4. Tybalt characters
the chaos and passion of being in love, He comes from a royal line, is brave,
combining images of love, violence, well-built and stocky. The following is
death, religion, and family in an aquote.Mr.Capulet with a temperament.
impressionistic rush leading to the
play’s tragic conclusion. 5. Capulet
The patriarcho f the Capulet family
,father of Juliet ,husband of Lady
2. Character Capulet, and enemy, for unexplained
reasons, of Montague. He truly loves
1. Romeo
his daughter, though he is not well
The son and heir of Montague and
acquainted with Juliet’s thoughts or
Lady Montague. A young man of about
feelings, and seems to think that what
sixteen, Romeo is handsome,
is best for her is a “good” match with
intelligent, and sensitive. Though
Paris. Often prudent, he commands
impulsive and immature, his idealism
respect and propriety, but he is liable to
and passion make him an extremely
fly into a rage when either is lacking.
likable character. He lives in the middle
of a violent feud between his family
6. Lady Capulet
and the Capulets, but he is not at all
Juliet’s mother, Capulet’s wife. A
interested in violence. His only interest
woman who herself married young (by
is love. At the beginning of the play he
her own estimation she gave birth to
is madly in love with a woman named
Juliet at close to the age of fourteen),
Rosaline, but the instant he lays eyes
she is eager to see her daughter marry
on Juliet, he falls in love with her and
Paris. She is an ineffectual mother,
forgets Rosaline. He secretly marries
relying on the Nurse for moral and
Juliet, the daughter of his father's worst
pragmatic support.
enemy, he happily takes abuse from
Tybalt and he would rather die than
7. Montague
live without his beloved. Romeo is also
Romeo’s father, the patriarch of the
an effectionate and devoted friend to
Montague clan and bitter enemy of never reaches Romeo.
Capulet. At the beginning of the play,
he is chiefly concerned about Romeo’s 13. Balthasar
melancholy. Romeo’s dedicated servant, who brings
Romeo the news of Juliet’s death,
8. Lady Montague unaware that her death is a ruse.
Romeo’s mother, Montague’s wife.
She dies of grief after Romeo is exiled 14. Sampson & Gregory
from Verona. Two servants of the house of Capulet,
who, like their master, hate the
9.Paris Montagues. At the outset of the play,
A kinsman of the Prince, and the suitor they successfully provoke some
of Juliet most preferred by Capulet. Montague men into a fight.
Once Capulet has promised him he can
marry Juliet, he behaves very 15. Abram
presumptuous toward her, acting as if Montague’s servant, who fights with
they are already married. Sampson and Gregory in the first scene
of the play.
10.Benvolio
Montague’s nephew, Romeo’s cousin 16. The Apothecary
and thoughtful friend, he makes a An apothecary in Mantua. Had he been
genuine effort to defuse violent scenes wealthier, he might have been able to
in public places, though Mercutio afford to value his morals more than
accuses him of having a nasty temper money, and refused to sell poison to
in private. He spends most of the play Romeo.
trying to help Romeo get his mind off
Rosaline, even after Romeo has fallen 17. Peter
in love with Juliet. A Capulet servant who invites guests to
Capulet’s feast and escorts the Nurse to
11. Prince Escalus meet with Romeo. He is illiterate, and a
The Prince of Verona. A kinsman of bad singer.
Mercutio and Paris. As the seat of
political power in Verona, he is 18. Rosaline
concerned about maintaining the public The woman with whom Romeo is
peace at all costs. infatuated at the beginning of the play.
Rosaline never appears onstage, but it
12. Friar John is said by other characters that she is
A Franciscan friar charged by Friar very beautiful and has sworn to live a
Lawrence with taking the news of life of chastity.
Juliet’s false death to Romeo in
Mantua. Friar John is held up in a 19. The Chorus
quarantined house, and the message The Chorus is a single character who,
as developed in Greek drama, functions have already seen a lot of sexual
as a narrator offering commentary on passion by now but the violence we
the play’s plot and themes. now see is the dramatic device that puts
the tragedy into top gear. The Italian
3. PLOT setting perfectly suits the action.
In this drama uses a forward The map below shows all the
groove. settings of Romeo and Juliet that
Shakespeare used. You can zoom in on
Juliet's parents are forcing her to marry
the map for a more detailed view of an
Paris. The families of Romeo and Juliet
area, and click the icons on the map for
have been feuding for years. Romeo
more information. Text in quotation
loves Rosaline who loves Paris who
marks are the specific locations
loves Juliet.
Shakespeare references in his Romeo
The major conflict in Romeo and Juliet
and Juliet text.
is not between the two main characters,
but between their families, the
Montagues and the Capulets. All of the 5. STYLE OF LANGUAGE
other problems in the plot stem from hakespeare’s writing style in Romeo
this feud, and the two lovers must keep and Juliet is passionate, poetic and
their love a secret and go to great epic.
lengths to fight the greater forces The Prologue serves as an antithesis by
against them. In the end, the families predicting and telling the audience
are able to make peace, but it came at a what is going to happen in the play,
great price. following the structure of a typical
Greek tragedy.
4. SETTING Moreover, his language, from the start,
seems grandiose. Notice his use of
phrases such as “ancient grudge,” “civil
Shakespeare set Romeo and Juliet in
blood,” and “star-crossed lovers,” that
two different Italian locations. Most of
continues throughout the play, and also
the action takes place in Verona and a
parallels the “epic” nature of the plot.
small portion in Mantua.
This is also emphasized by the
Elizabethan and Jacobean audiences
passionate exchanges that are
had special prejudices about Italy, so
represented by Romeo and Juliet’s
when a dramatist of the time set a play
romantic moments, Mercutio’s
in Italy it was a kind of shorthand that
repetition of “A plague a’both your
said, ‘this play is about blood feuds,
houses!” and “Ah, what an unkind
sexual passion and violence.’ The
hour.” This is also important to the play
audiences attending Romeo and Juliet
in order to reflect the serious and tragic
were not disappointed. It is set in
nature of the plot.
Verona, Italy, which is unbearably hot
Shakespeare also accentuates the
in summer. It is at midday on a very
poetic nature of his language with his
hot day that the central action, the
iambic pentameter and the poetic verse
death of Mercutio, takes place. We
that the play is written in. He uses they eye
language that is rich in imagery as well.
For example, “That which we call a 6. POINT OF VIEW
rose by any other word would smell as The point of view of the Romeo
sweet.” He makes the lines more Juliet drama is a third-party point of
interesting so that we can imagine what view, which is seen from the author
it would look like. He uses the using the word. “he or he” and calls his
antitheses in his play such as when name of the character as a pronoun
Romeo says “Feather of lead, bright
smoke, cold fire, sick health” show 7.MANDATE
strong conflicts in the minds of the A dispute will not solve the
characters. problems, it will even lead to new
All these elements combine together problems. Therefore , solve the
to make the story more dramatic and problem with a cool head. As humans
tragic. He uses Antithesis, imagery and in living our life we must first think of
language effectively to create a play the actions that we will do so what later
that is interesting to read since there is can be useful for ourselves and others.
always more than what meets the eye
when you read the text, such as the
foreshadowing throughout the play, EKSTRINSIK ELEMENT
such as when Benvolio advises Romeo
“Take thou some new infection to thy 1. GENERAL MEANING
eye, And the rank poison of the old will Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy writtwn
die.” This makes the play more by William Shakespeare early in his
interesting, and during the times when career about two young star-crossed
it was performed, well worth it’s lovers whose deaths ultimately
money. reconcile their feuding families. It was
What might not be worth it’s money, among Shakespeare most popular plays
This made the epic and poetic language during his lifetime and along with
of Shakespeare’s play seem very Hamlet , is one of his most frequently
anachronistic in the movie because of performed plays. Today ,the title
the setting, the characters and the props characters are regarded as archetypal
used in the movie (such as a gun young lovers.
instead of a sword).. This, therefore,
downplayed the epic nature of the play 2.DETAIL MEANING
and made it seem more satirical when Romeo and Juliet belongs to a
the cast used Shakespearean English in tradition of tragic romances stretching
a modern setting. However, it was still back to antiquity. The plot is based on
an interesting movie and made the play an Italian tale translated into verse as
more understandable, which again The Tragical History of Romeus and
shows how there is more to Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and
Shakespeare’s play than what meets retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by
William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare Elizabethan costumes and staging to
borrowed heavily from both but enhance the drama. In the 20th and into
expanded the plot by developing a the 21st century, the play has been
number of supporting characters, adapted in versions as diverse as
particularly Mercutio and Paris. George Cukor's 1936 film Romeo and
Believed to have been written between Juliet, Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version
1591 and 1595, the play was first Romeo and Juliet, and Baz Luhrmann's
published in a quarto version in 1597. 1996 MTV-inspired
The text of the first quarto version was
of poor quality, however, and later 3.MORAL VALUE
editions corrected the text to conform
more closely with Shakespeare's 1. Social Value: Please help though
original. different beliefs (religion)
Shakespeare's use of his poetic 2. Cultural Value: Wearing mourning
dramatic structure (especially effects clothes when there is dying,
such as switching between comedy and behaving politely in guest guest
tragedy to heighten tension, his guests are done as good as possible
expansion of minor characters, and his 3. Religious Value: Ta'are on God,
use of sub-plots to embellish the story) respect for pastor, every event is
has been praised as an early sign of his always remembering God. 4. moral
dramatic skill. The play ascribes value: to get what is needed to
different poetic forms to different sacrifice and struggle.
characters, sometimes changing the
form as the character develops. Romeo,
for example, grows more adept at the 4. OPINION OF AUTHOR
sonnet over the course of the play.
Romeo and Juliet has been adapted
In the opinion of the author to this
numerous times for stage, film,
drama is because of the many great
musical, and opera venues. During the
dialogue to quoted. Regardless of all
English Restoration, it was revived and
quotes or iconic scenes in Roman
heavily revised by William Davenant.
Romeo and Juliet, the Shakespears
David Garrick's 18th-century version
masterpiece does contain high literary
also modified several scenes, removing
values let alone about poetry. There are
material then considered indecent, and
some great characters and beautiful
Georg Benda's Romeo und Julie
poems, Inget when Romeo and Juliet
omitted much of the action and added a
just met, the dialogue is a perfect
happy ending. Performances in the 19th
Soneta.
century, including Charlotte
Cushman's, restored the original text
and focused on greater realism. John
CONCLUSION
Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close
From the above discussion, in
to Shakespeare's text and used
general the novel Romeo Juliet works
William Shakespeare reflects a real
life. The story that is told in the novel
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element can make a story of an
Romeo and Juliet's plays. Journal
unpontimity. The elements in question analysis. 1-10.
are intrinsic elements and extrinsic
elements. The values contained in the
Romeo Juliet novel include hedonic
values, artistic values, sociocultural
values, ethical values, morals,
religious, and practical values. Every
literary works must be able to give a
positive effect to the reader.

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