Different Representations of Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

In the early stages of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare conveys love in many different ways. Love is shown as being imperfect, such as bawdy love, unrequited love and fatherly and maternal love, this contrasts greatly to Romeo and Juliet’s pure, perfect and requited love, and makes it seem all the more true before it is shown to be deadly.

leave each other. "Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death". He was so

entirely in this scene as he stops thinking of love in a bad way as he

In literature duality is anything that has two sides mostly dealing with good and evil. Duality plays an important role in showing who the characters are and how the story occurs in many different books. Books such as Dr. Jekyll and Mrs.Hyde, Romeo and Juliet, and the Bible are books that duality plays a huge role in.

Different Types of Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet, love is an integral theme and there is many representations of love; family love, courtly love, sexual love, and most importantly; the love between Romeo and Juliet. By comparing their love to others, we can see just how committed the star-crossed lovers are. We first see examples of sexual love when Sampson and Gregory are talking at the very beginning of the play.

What is love? Is it an object? Is it a feeling? Is it even attainable? Love is everything, it is an object, it is an emotion, and it cannot be bought, stolen, given. Love can only be found. Love is discovered in the most unthinkable places during the most unimaginable times. It can never be predicted who you fall in love with or when you do but all you do know is that you are in love and you would give anything for that person, and for your love to always stay resilient through all other obstacles and distractions. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Montague’s and Capulet’s are know and expected to hate each other until the miracle of love presented its self. Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet. They both fell in love when

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare opens with two servants of the Capulets explaining their hatred towards the house of Montague, their mortal enemies. A fight between the two houses soon breaks out and the prince must remind them once more that he will not permit more fighting between the two. The story proceeds to pan over to Romeo the lovesick heir of the Montagues. To cheer him up, his friends joke with him and then a golden opportunity arrives. A servant of the Capulet house requires someone to help him read out the list of people he needed to fetch for a grand party at the Capulet household. The servant did not realize it was a Montague whom he allowed to go to the party. Meanwhile, Paris and Lord Capulet are discussing his marriage to Juliet. Even though Lord and Lady Capulet are married, their views on love are complete opposites.

Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is the definition of young love, its the story of two star-crossed lovers who both fall blindly in love. They both come from different families who absolutely loathe each other. Shakespeare’s play is a very specific type of love. Young, irrational, exhilarating and passionate.

In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, the gravitational power of Romeo and Juliet’s love is stronger than any of their families' hatred. This is first shown when Juliet discovers that Romeo is a Montague, revealing that “[her] only love, [is] sprung from [her] only hate” (I.5.147). Juliet knows that this relationship is problematic, but she still pursues Romeo. She is set on being with him, no matter what that relationship may cost. In the end, their relationship costs her something irreplaceable, her life. When Juliet awakes to find Romeo's corpse, she hopes that “some poison [hangs] on [Romeo’s lips],”(V.3.166) so she can join him in death. Juliet does this because for her, there is no life worth living without her Romeo. Their deaths were

Love is considerably one of the most important things in the world, considering that life depends on love. During different periods of time love has changed and stayed the same. Many "rituals" of love are the same and different from when the famous play- Romeo and Juliet- by William Shakespeare. Many form and stages of love exist in our world today such as dating, marriage, etcetera. Dating is a huge part of the twentieth century and it was very popular during the seventeen hundreds also; however dating and love in general is different in many cultures, beliefs, and religions. A huge part is age in love. Some people believe that age does not matter when in love whilst some do. Some people believe that love exists at all ages while other believe in only older or younger love. Many parents also want to be involved in their child's love life. But how do all of these things come into play and interlock in love that we have today and love that was around during the time of Shakespeare?

One of the shakespeare’s most popular plays, Romeo and Juliet center on the love and fate between two star-crossed lover which result in tragedy. In prologue is relling is that the house of Capulet and Montague( two households both alike dignity) have been fighting for years. (from ancient grudge) William shakespeare also use character, conflict and plot to help develop the theme. If there is no love or fate people would be depressing and people would have no feeling even hope would not be existing in this world.

I believed there are a lot of thing between me and Romeo. Not only personilty, but also the attitude to love. Romeo is a great poet and he is royal to his lover. Romeo is a poet, he always have some great metaphor to explain love. “ O brawling love!

Did you know that there are many different forms of love that exist in modern day? There is romantic(deep love for a significant other), narcissism(love of self), familial(love for/ with your family), platonic(friendly love), and unrequited(one-sided love). Even literature shows types of love. We’ll take Romeo and Juliet as an example. Romeo and Juliet also show romantic, narcissism, familial, platonic, and unrequited love. Although they are showed differently when speaking of love in modern day and in Romeo and Juliet. One of the types of love that is most evident in Romeo and Juliet and modern day is familial love.

Is love a special connection or is it something more physical? Throughout many centuries the perspective of love has always revolved around an association that the two people have in common. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, we see how love is diverse; Romeo talked about Rosaline. He mentioned that he was very depressed and even offered her money to marry him. Today, love is a crave, something that people do not take much time to think on.

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, love is exemplified more ways that we can imagine, from the undying love of two people to parental love. Love celebrated by the protagonists with playful sonnets to express their endearment and love for one another. Love that transcends from such powerful gazes and translates into an undying love. Society’s encroachment to a very innate and fundamental aspect of our being is met with violence and death. We must not forget that the very essence of love is that you cannot control love. It is innate, a reflex if you will, and for everyone the Holy Grail of life.