Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

What is love? It is a wonderful feeling that warms one’s heart, gives butterflies in one’s face, puts a smile on one’s face, it is the feeling one gets when they come home to see their loved ones and it is knowing that one is never truly alone in the presence of their loved ones. Love is what one feels towards the people they care, towards the people they trust and towards the people they cherish. Some even go as far as claiming it is the best feeling in the entire world. The classic literature piece, Romeo and Juliet conveys the undying love between Romeo and Juliet. They loved each other so much that they were willing to die for one another. Many think this was an act of true love, some still ‘coo’ and ‘awh’ when they hear the story of Romeo and Juliet. However, when taking a closer look at the story, it was a series of foolish decisions, naïve actions and selfishness that led to Juliet’s

Shakespeare shows us, as the readers, that love comes in many different forms whether it is true love, love between your friends, love between your family or unrequited love but that every love has both positives and negatives. In the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ by William Shakespeare. Love is a key value shown throughout the play.

Love is something everyone feels, and is different for everyone. It can make people do things that they could never see themselves doing. It impacts everyone in their day to day lives. In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, love is shown in a variety of ways and can make people do crazy things. Love can be friendly, forced, or romantic.

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

When I read the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, I thought that it had quite the dark ending. However, I also thought that we could learn from this extreme case of what grudges do to people. It hardens their hearts and makes them think that “This will hurt them,” even though that it really hurts themselves in the process. Since the Capulets (Juliet’s family) and the Montagues (Romeo’s family) had both taken part of an ancient feud against each other, Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other is not at all accepted by their families, which causes problems with their marriage. If The Capulets and Montagues put their differences aside, the entire book would have been totally different. In many areas we can learn so much from Romeo and Juliet, as well as the other characters in the book, especially with how many of them seem to not think through most of their choices before committing or going through with something. My ultimate goal in this essay is showing how being a teenager can be a difficult journey, but thinking through things and not letting your emotions get the best of you can and will greatly help your life. To achieve my goal, I have properly organized my paper into four sections going over three topics. In my first topic I will go over Romeo and Juliet’s mutual love and immediate marriage, and what went wrong, why it was wrong, and how it could have been prevented. In the following section, I discuss the topic of Romeo’s violent tendencies and why it was wrong; along with

Love in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet "Romeo and Juliet" is a love tragedy based on different kinds of loves. Romeo and Juliet become married in a forbidden relationship over the high tension brawl between their rival families which Shakespeare clearly shows in the play. Despite the family brawls, the pair decides to let their "perfect" love defeat all. Peoples ideas have changed in the space of 400 years, for example back then some loves featured in this play would produce different reactions to the audience, than today. Shakespeare opens the play with the chorus who speaks a sonnet, where love imagery is found; "Two Star-crossed lovers" =

In this report, I will be analyzing how affection is shown towards Juliet in the capulet home. I feel this is an important topic because it show literary elements such as mood, tone, etc.

Love found in the play Romeo and Juliet first meet at Capulets feast. Romeo Chases.

In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet’s inexperience(s) lead them to confuse physical and true love, ultimately leading to their demise.

Love is one of the only things that nearly every human being is capable of feeling. Like many aspects of human lives, views on love differ from every individual. Nowhere is this more present than in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo, a member of the Montague family, and Juliet, a member of the rivaling Capulet family, find themselves in the circumstances of falling madly in love with each other. Throughout the play and through the different relationships encountered, Shakespeare’s attitude toward love differs between how Romeo is portrayed to love Juliet, how Juliet is displayed to love Romeo, and how Juliet’s nurse is shown to view love on its own.

Infatuation is often blind. When you fall head over heels in love with someone, you do not realize some bad choices you make until it is too late. In Verona, Italy, two kids named Romeo and Juliet fall deeply in love. Their parents feud restricted their love therefore, Romeo and Juliet could not be together. They were already foolishly in love and that led to their rash decisions. William Shakespeare wrote this story of something that was much more than love. Pyramus and Thisbe tell a story of a forbidden love that ends in death because of what they do not know. “The Story of Layla and Majnun” also displays forbidden love that ended in death. Since Layla could not be with her love, she died of a broken heart. As a result Majnun

Love is powerful, and the passion that comes from it can lead to actions made rashly. Such love is exemplified in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare uses the idea of love to exemplify how one can be blinded by love, the dangers that come with love and the realization that love doesn’t necessarily always lead to happiness.

Most if not all of the information we as the people have today is an extension of past inventions, creations, and ideas. Art dates as far back to the stone ages and has continued to be a huge factor throughout. Literature is one of the foundations of art and the person who has had a huge influence on it even until today is the famous William Shakespeare. “ Shakespeare was known as the greatest dramatist and finest poet who has written in the English language.” Dating back to 1592 where records show Shakespeare featured on the London stage was around the same time he started his writing career. After many successes Shakespeare and his group were wealthy enough to buy there own theater called the “Globe”, which was where most of his plays took place. Romeo and Juliet was one of Shakespeare's best plays and poems and the morel of that piece is used in today's songs,movies,plays, poems and any piece of entertainment pertaining to love. It is not just famous because Shakespeare wrote it but because of the major themes underlying messages and the feeling you get when you engage yourself into it.

Shakespeare is famous for many things. One of those things, is that his name was an alias. There are many accounts of his life, that do not quite fit in that people are baffled about. He also was a play writer. One play that was well marveled over back then, and still today marveled, is called Romeo and Juliet. As you read, you wonder, why is it that two families are fighting? So, you continue to read to the end of the play, were still, you find no facts about why they fight. What you can do though, is see what they desire, how they repress those desires, and how they and others interact to try and keep bad things from happening.

was arranged by various practitioners in the community after wide consultation with the couple’s family. In regards to nobility, the couples were expected to consult the parents and relatives of their preferred suitor, especially those who were destined to inherit some property or title. In a majority of cases, the noblemen and women were expected to marry a partner of the same royal status to maintain the noble status of the two families. In this case, individuals belonging to the low class in the society had greater freedom in choosing their partners as they were not restricted on whom to marry (Sprecher 645). Evidently, different issues were considered in deciding whether partners were compatible or not. As a group, the ancient moralist recommended that couples were to match in terms of age, financial background, and religious beliefs. Nonetheless, until today the proposal that romantic love was a major deciding factor in traditional marriages attracts different debates among historians. In this case, the paper examines the various elements that characterized love in Early Modern England as displayed in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet.