How do the themes of conformity and rebellion play out in Romeo and Juliet?

Introduction

Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. Love is naturally the play's dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet. In Romeo and Juliet, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families (“Deny thy father and refuse thy name,” Juliet asks, “Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I'll no longer be a Capulet”); friends (Romeo abandons Mercutio and Ben olio after the feast in order to go to Juliet's garden); and ruler (Romeo returns to Verona for Juliet's sake after being exiled by the Prince on pain of death in 2.1.76-78). Love is the overriding theme of the play, but a reader should always remember that Shakespeare is uninterested in portraying a prettied-up, dainty version of the emotion, the kind that bad poets write about, and whose bad poetry Romeo reads while pining for Rosaline. Love in Romeo and Juliet is a brutal, powerful emotion that captures individuals and catapults them against their world, and, at times, against themselves (Schoch, Richard, pp. 62-63).

Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family in an impressionistic rush leading to the play's tragic conclusion.

The scene of Romeo and Juliet did not have complications and may even surprise many with its simplicity. The focus on the topic and time result in a structure are not much complicated and are also easy to understand, love scenes look frantic and fast where the author prints vertigo the quick marriage, but there are contrasts as Mercutio's death happens right after the wedding (Holland, Peter, pp. 199-215). The story says:

Introduction, middle and end:

INTRODUCTION:

In the city of Verona, there are two rival families who kept an old grudge involving as many families as outside Paris and Mercutio.

The only two descendants of each family are Romeo and Juliet for the first time in a meeting and fall in love.

The lovers are forced to hide the second time, the third time they marry in secret by Friar Lawrence.

KNOT:

Shortly after the wedding in a clash between Montagues and Capulets kill Romeo's best friend Mercutio. He was killed by the nephew of Capulet, Tybalt. Romeo kills him in revenge for this; the prince condemns Romeo to banishment to Mantua.

The fourth time that lovers are consummate their wedding night, Juliet's father plans her marriage to the gentleman from Paris.

Friar Laurence creates a plan to save the love of Romeo and Juliet. She drinks a potion in a ...