Impact of family conflict in love affairs through romeo and juliet by William Shakespeare

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW

2-1-Theoretical Framework

The novel Romeo and Juliet published in 1597 has been an important work of William Shakespeare during the sixteenth century. This movement is used to describe how Europeans moved away from the restrictive ideas of the Middle Ages and the ideology that dominated the middle Ages was heavily focused on the absolute power of God and was enforced by the formidable Catholic Church to belief on God existence. In effect, the renaissance movement did not necessarily reject the idea of God, but rather questioned humankind's relationship to God - an idea that caused an unprecedented upheaval in the accepted social hierarchy. It was characterized by the innovations of thing in arts in literature where people were promoting the renewal of Greeks tradition.

Aftermath, during this period, rival nobles houses exited within that frame, and their actions disturbed the local peace in Italy. People were divided, and a lot of jealousy and tyranny existed. In the play culture, rivalry and enmity are all displayed, reflecting this historic frame and conflicts, war between families were pushing people to commit crime by killing their fellow human being. People were also dying from plague and this has led William Shakespeare to emphasize on the relevance of it for his audience by using it in Rome and Juliet to prevent Friar Laurence's message for reaching Romeo. The reading of this novel allowed me to compare the way that love in context of marriage were perceived at that time and today love in context of marriage in order establish the link between the message conveyed by the author since 1597 and 2020's realities.437 years ago that this novel has been written. William Shakespeare in his tragedy, is narrating today realities that happen most of the time between some families by portraying the different conflicts and love lived by the main characters.

In psychoanalysis, love is viewed as utterance of a psychic inflexible and almost impervious to external world. To achieve this work I found necessary to use psychoanalytic theory because it could assist to identify the different kind of love mentioned in the novel and the way that it's manifest through the characters such as: Romeo, Juliet, Friar Laurence and Rosaline. According to some psychologist point of view like Sigmund Freud's, Georges Simmel, Hegel, Nietzsche "people involved in a conflict or living in a conflict within their own their own psychic strong emotion state: anger, frustration, sadness sometimes aggression and violence. While psychic is the study of the mind and human behavior, study of mental and emotional process «It said that in the article of

Dr Seguedeme, H., & Towa-Sello, K. (2017). Machiavelli's in William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Critical Study. IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2455-2526), 6(2), 170-180, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v6.n2.p.Page 3

"Sigmund Freud was the first psychoanalyst and a right innovator in the recognition of the importance of unconscious mental activity. His theories on the inner workings of the human mind, which seemed so revolutionary at the turn of the century, are now widely accepted by most schools of psychological thought. In 1896, Freud coined the term psychoanalysis?, and for the next forty years of his life, he worked on thoroughly developing its main principles, objectives, techniques, and methodology"^3(*)

More importantly, the mind and human behavior theory could help me to illustrate in the novel Romeo and Juliet the different conflicts lived by both Montagues and Capulets family through the behavior of some characters like Tybalt, Mercutio and Juliet and their consequences at the end of the play known as tragedy.

2-2-OTHER SIMILAR LITERATURE WORKS

* ³ Dr Seguedeme, H., & Towa-Sello, K. (2017). Machiavelli's in William Shakespeare's Macbeth: A Critical Study. IRA International Journal of Education and Multidisciplinary Studies (ISSN 2455-2526), 6(2), 170-180, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.21013/jems.v6.n2.p.Page 3