How Does Shakespeare Portray Love in Romeo and Juliet?

In the play “Romeo & Juliet” shakespeare portrayed all aspects of love throughout different characters. Each character carries its own meaning of love which is what makes this play unique. Romeo,Nurse, and Tybalt all represent divergent love.The word Love can come in all sorts of ways which is why it is such a diverse word. Love is a powerful term that can be portrayed as deep affection, devotion, and even heartbreak.

In the beginning of this play Lady Capulet brings up marriage to Juliet, whom states that she had not even thought of marriage, yet she considers marriage an honor. Juliet wants to follow her parent's wishes and agrees to meet Paris, but she is only willing to see if she likes him. When Romeo appears in the balcony scene, Juliet states that she wants to wait and see if her and Romeo’s feeling’s remain the same overnight since she believes that their feelings may just be the heat of the moment

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.

Romeo’s misinterpretation of what love is shows a lot in this play. He attends the Capulet’s party just so that he could see Rosaline not to see Juliet. Romeo, being so young, automatically falls in love with Juliet. In act 1, scene 5, and page 394, Romeo states, “Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine my sin is purged. Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.’’Romeo doesn't even know a detail about Juliet and is already kissing her and saying that he loves Juliet. Also in act 2, scene 2, page

Romeo and Juliet is not a love play but in fact a play of desperation and obsession. Many times in the play it shows that Romeo is desperate. For instance, when Romeo crashes the party at the Capulet's house to see Rosaline and instantly "falls in love" with her. What we see here is Romeo's desperateness.

Is there more than one type of love? In the popular story The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, there is many examples of love throughout the entire story. However, there is not only one type of love, but three different types: romantic love, friendly love, and compassionate love. In this essay, there will be explanations of all three of these, and how Shakespeare blends them into the story.

Romeo and Juliet were facing many obstacles during the time they first encountered one another. Their, so-called, “love” sprung as they were both trying to escape from their present problems. Romeo was previously in love with a beautiful girl named Rosaline, although she couldn’t love him back and fulfill Romeo’s sexual desires because she was becoming a nun. He was heartbroken when he found out about this, and thus, he was left inconsolable. Once he discovered that Rosaline was attending the Capulet ball, he decided to sneak in. Minutes into the ball, Romeo sees Juliet and immediately professes his love for her. Juliet also had her own dilemmas to deal with. Some of which included being forced into marrying Paris, a man whom she did not love. Therefore, her love for Romeo was influenced by her reluctance to marry Paris. Prior to Romeo and Juliet’s encounter at the Capulet party, Juliet comments on marriage stating, “It is an honor that I dream not of,” (1.3.68). This quote shows that Juliet had no interest in getting married anytime soon, although when she meets

During the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare manages to effectively depict the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. One way he achieves this is by creating sympathy for Romeo and Juliet, which consequently affects the reader and audience of the play. Three ways in which Shakespeare is able to create sympathy for them is through the general setting and plot structure, the language used, and also the characterisation of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo forgets his former infatuation with Rosaline, suggesting he is in love with the idea of love. In the course of the play, Romeo and Juliet take a bold step into adulthood by marrying one another. However, their marriage is rushed and

Before the party which they meet at, Romeo is moping about how is one true love, Rosaline, will never love him back. He goes on and on about how beautiful and perfect she is. But when he gets to Lord Capulet’s party and sees Juliet, he says “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (Act I, Scene V, Line 60). Romeo’s heart make decisions based upon little to no information about the one he loves. His rash decisions come from a place with no regrets. He is too young to see that falling in love with someone he doesn’t know could have disastrous effects. Juliet’s young age also comes with little foresight of what could happen. While she is at the party her father is throwing, she was told to look out for Count Paris, as that is the man her parents want her to marry. Juliet herself agreed that she would meet Paris and if she

Shakespeare makes Romeo describes Juliet in a variety of ways. He forgets all about Rosaline when he asks himself “ did my heart love till now?” He refers Juliet beauty to,” a snow dove in a troop of crows.” He states that since Rosaline didn't love him back “I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” Shakespeare stretches the way Romeo describes Juliet because he does indeed believe in love, and he uses this to make the play seem more dramatic to lead up to their deaths.

This reveals that at this point in the story, Juliet is not interested in being married. This is probably because she hasn’t even turned fourteen yet. However, at the masquerade ball only an hour or so later she states “Go ask if he’s married, I think I’ll die rather than marry anyone else.” She says that she feels this way about Romeo after only a few seconds of talking to him. She shows how she is being impatient in finding someone to marry.

Romeo is whining about love, but really he's just mad that Rosaline won't sleep with him. In my opinion When he meets Juliet, he doesn’t fall instantly in love, he sees someone he thinks he can have sex with. He uses

In the play, Juliet is young, and the first meeting with Romeo is probably her first brush with romance. Romance was not a primary concern in Juliets time at least not until after your parents made a match. In the story Paris is to marry Juliet. Since she is not married yet Juliet has probably not been around this type of affection

Without any doubt, love is definitely seen as the most prevalent theme throughout the entirety of the play. However, the argument that the romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is the only kind of love presented in the play is a stupendous understatement. There are many different forms of love presented in the play, even though the most obvious of those being romantic love between the pair, such as paternal, maternal, unrequited as well as the love between friends. Within the play, love is viewed as a powerful, passionate and violent entity and in doing so Shakespeare vastly explores the forcefulness of love and how love has the ability to overthrow a person’s fidelity, emotions and even their values and cause them to defy the rules imposed upon them. Every single form of love introduced in the play is the driving