Most people think that true romantic love is only found in Disney movies or in fairytales. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, real romantic love is shown when two characters with feuding families fall in love. The readers find out that Romeo and Juliet have to make sacrifices for each other to keep their love a secret. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shows that romantic love can be found but not at first sight, and that people in love will do anything for each other. The first example of romantic love is when Romeo and Juliet first meet and instantly think they’re in love. Romeo and Juliet fall in love at the ball for Juliet. Romeo originally goes to the ball to see the one he loves, Rosaline but ends up falling in with Juliet. We find this out when he says, “For I ne’er saw true beauty until this night,” (Shakespeare 1.5.60). This shows how Romeo says he never saw beauty until he met Juliet, but he originally went to see how beautiful Rosaline was on this night. Another example of this would be when Romeo and Juliet thought they fell in love at first sight was when, Romeo and Juliet decide they’ll do anything to be with each other and took things way too fast. They kissed when they first met, got married right away and Romeo ends …show more content…
Romeo is banished from Verona after killing Tybalt, Romeo decides he would rather be dead then far away from Juliet. He shows this when he says, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say ‘death’” (Shakespeare 3.3.14). Another example is when Romeo saw Juliet ‘dead’ he decided to kill himself to be with her in heaven. Right before Romeo kills himself he says, “Here’s to my love o true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die,” (Shakespeare 3.3.119-120). Romeo and Juliet would do anything for each other even die for each other which is another way of romantic love being
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.
The play Romeo and Juliet has been considered to be the most touching love story of all time, but when you look closer and past all the initial “fantasies”, you see the truth. Romeo and Juliet believed that they were in love because of the mere idea of it, however based on their actions and the short amount of time that the stages of their “love” progressed in, it soon became clear that what they were actually feeling was infatuation.
Passion. Something that many think they have, when in reality do not. Best described as an incontrollable emotion, passion is often seen as taking a huge role in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Although characters show the qualities associated with being passionate, their true attitudes can be summed up by a different word: obsessive. In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare develops the idea that trying to force passion can lead to obsession. In other words, when people deceive themselves into thinking they have passion, they can become obsessive. This is shown repeatedly in Romeo’s character. First through his immediate change of love from Rosaline to Juliet; secondly when he tries to kill
Romeo and Tybalt fight each other and they exchange a conversation in which they say,” Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again that late thou gavest me; for Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company: either thou, or I, or both, must go with him. Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here, shalt with him hence. This shall determine that. [They fight; Tybalt falls]” (Shakespeare, III.i.46). When Mercutio was slain by Tybalt, Romeo chose to stay and try to get revenge for Mercutio’s death. At the time, Romeo was already Tybalt’s kinsman because he and Juliet were already married, and Romeo could have left the scene and let the law do it’s job with Tybalt. However, Romeo was only infatuated with Juliet, and as a result, only realized the impact of his actions after he had killed Tybalt. In addition, Juliet decides to follow Friar Laurence’s plan, in which he tells her to “for no pulse shall keep his native progress, but surcease: no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest; … Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift; and hither shall he come” and he and I will watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua” (Shakespeare, IV.ii.70). Friar Laurence instructs Juliet to take this vial that will fake her death, while he sends a letter to Romeo telling him of this,
Midterm Extended Response Question How does Shakespeare use both romantic and identity crushes to show that parents should take teenage crushes seriously? Use text evidence from both sources to answer the question. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare used many examples of romantic crushes and identity crushes. One of the things that he showed while using these were that all types of teenage crushes need to be taken seriously by the parents, and that teenagers need to tell the parents about them, otherwise it may not end up well as seen in Romeo and Juliet.
The love they express towards each other shows how inseparable they are. Romeo and Juliet show they are truly in love by self-sacrifice and the affection they show each other. Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is evidenced by the affection they illustrate to one another. The star-crossed lovers not only show love through their actions, but they voice how they feel about each other. The words they exchange have so much meaning and are rich in love.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is possibly the most famous love story of all time, but there’s just one problem. Romeo and Juliet is an unrealistic example of true love. Romeo takes advantage of Juliet, and their forced and lustful marriage ultimately cost both of their lives. Romeo rushes into new love without thinking. Initially, Romeo unsuccessfully tries to woo Rosaline, and suffers from unrequited love (1.1.201-209).
There are multiple types of love shown in the play. One type of love presented in Romeo and Juliet is unrequited love. One example of this is when Romeo expresses his love for Rosaline and she denies him. “Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything, of nothing first create! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms.
Once love is found, any obstacle presented will neither diminish nor terminate that love, even when tragedy strikes with the loss of a loved one. Tybalt, the cousin of Juliet is one of the Capulet’s that despises the Montague’s and he will do anything in his power to kill them all, and once he confronted Romeo, he met his fate and died by Romeo’s sword. The Prince arrived to the scene and said “Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio” (III.i.181), him referring to Tybalt, and once realized, he banished Romeo out of the city. Once Juliet discovered the truth about Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment she said in grief “Romeo is banished- to speak that word is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all slain, all dead- Romeo is banished” (III.ii.122-124). Her heartache for Romeo’s banishment more than her cousin Tybalt’s death shows that he is her life, her world, and her breath, and without him she would be nothing and life as she knows is would end, even through tragedy and anguish.
Love at first sight does not exist. Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that starts with love at first sight. Shakespeare developed two ignorant, naïve, stubborn, narrow-minded, teenaged characters that ended up taking their own lives because they were led into temptation. A few examples of the temptation in which they were led were when Romeo was persuaded to go to a party without an invitation. That and they decided to get married without telling their parents the day after they met, and Juliet was basically engaged to Paris with a wedding date mere weeks from the day they got married.
Love makes people behave in strange ways. It can cause one to betray their morals, make hasty decisions, and act in wild, rash ways. Often, it is also difficult to tell the difference between love and infatuation at first. This can cause one to act in ways that they normally would not and the choices that they make usually do not reflect their best interests. In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the protagonist, Juliet, initially is an innocent young girl who would not even dream of marriage or even romance.
‘Romeo and Juliet’, a play by William Shakespeare is one of the most famous love stories of all time and, while most people think that it focuses on just romantic love, it also includes many other types of love such as courtly love, friendly love, parental love and sexual love.
Some may say love is a curse while some may say love is a blessing, because of the actions it makes one take. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet illustrates the actions and feats of what true love is capable of achieving. Romeo and Juliet’s life revolves around their family having a feud with one another, and that the father of the house chooses whom the child marries. However, the children of the two houses love each other. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, it shows the two main character’s experiences illustrates that true love is powerful and capable of conquering reason, family, and hate.
The stereotyped love at first sight of Romeo and Juliet is not authentic and possible. Passionate love is something a couple builds upon, strengthening as time endures. The intimacy between Romeo and Juliet is not real love, the two juveniles are facing struggles in their love lives, and are utilizing their time together to mend their sporadic feelings. Before meeting Juliet, Romeo had gone through a recent heartbreak and is seeking anyone to repair his broken heart, while Juliet is struggling with her parents who have proposed an arranged marriage with a suitor who Juliet is skeptical about. Because both children are so young, and both in a state of individual crisis they cannot organize thorough feelings and opinions at the time. The pair
Love is a very special thing to humans. Everyone has loved or has been loved, and love plays a very large part in the actions we perform everyday. Love can be between family members, or between two lovers. William Shakespeare’s famous play Romeo and Juliet tells the tragic story of two “star-crossed lovers” who reveal to the reader the powerful and many-sided nature of love. The protagonist Romeo is the youngest son of the wealthy Montague family, who has a historic grudge against another wealthy family, the Capulets.