Opposing Views Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

At the outset, when Capulet is talking about marriage proposals to Paris, he shows his fatherly love and concern for his daughter and her happiness. He doesn’t want to marry her off too early, or force her to marry someone that she doesn’t like. He conveys this by saying, “Earth hath swallowed all my hoped but she… woo her gentle Paris, and her consent is but a part.” This shows that Capulet cares about Juliet because she is the only hope that he has left. He tells Paris to “woo her gently” and not to push, or pressurise Juliet into marrying him, this shows his concern about her. In addition to that, Capulet tells Paris that Juliet’s “consent is but a part” which shows his consideration and trust in Juliet, that she is allowed to have her say in the marriage and that he trusts her to choose the right husband. He also doesn’t want her to marry at such a young age; this is made clear when he says “let two more summers wither in their pride

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

The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Capulet treats Juliet well and appreciates her wishes, not wanting to marry her off too soon because he wants her to be ready in mind and body, unlike Paris, who says ‘Younger than she are happy mothers made’, which suggests that Paris is quite forceful about marrying Juliet and having children with her, and has no regard for her youth. Young women could also be harmed if they were not ready to bear children, which shows that the treatment of women was harsh and that their ability to produce children was more important than their health.

To this Paris responds, “Younger than she are happy mothers made”(1.2.12). This shows that he is impatient about the wedding. Even though Lord Capulet wants to wait two years, Paris tries to move the wedding day sooner, showing that he cares only about himself and not of the needs and preferences of other characters.

he is later in the play. He thinks that Juliet is too young and if she

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.

In the first scene of Act one there is the servants Sampson and Gregory talking about sexual love. As they both talk about taking girls virginity. They both sound arrogant as they talk as if it is through experience. To them the thoughts of taking a girl’s virginity seems a joking matter.

Paris knows Juliet does not wish to marry him, yet this only makes him more determined to marry her as he sees Juliet as a prize, to show his superiority over everyone else. In today’s society, we would view Lord Capulet as a cold, unfeeling father because of the way he treats his daughter, but Lord Capulet is a prime example of Shakespearian fathers. His only wish is to make a good marriage for his daughter, but she rejects his help. Capulet doesn’t know Juliet has fallen for Romeo and so cannot be expected to understand why she doesn’t wish to marry Paris.

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 the way he mopes over Rosaline. Romeo is in love, or thinks he is

and he says 'the bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon'

"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight / For I ne'er saw true

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.

Scene 5 she has to break the news to Juliet that she is going to be