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Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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One of the most well known stories of all time is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It tells the story of the forbidden love between two people from rival families. The poems explore many parts of the human heart. The world reveres it as the greatest love story of all time. However, there is a difference between earthly love and God’s love, and Romeo and Juliet’s love was earthly.
Merriam Webster dictionary defines love as “an intense feeling of deep affection” for another person or thing. Many people love for the sensation and pleasure they feel. Love for them is a hole that needs to be filled. Vlad Moss explains worldly love in his book Orthodoxy and Falling in Love.
“For instinctual feelings are “blind”; they do not relate to objects so much as devour them. And it goes without saying that they cannot form the basis of inter-personal communion, although they obviously “colour” that communion. …show more content…

It is fleeting and selfish, and it passes quickly, leaving the lover empty and hungry for more.
The Greco-Christians defined God’s love, also called agape, as “the action of perfect goodness for the sake of the other.” God shows this to humanity, and when humans truly love each other and God, they do everything in their power for the well-being of the other. God’s view on love as a communion relationship is also different as explained by Vlad Moss. “It is as if the two are like two mirrors placed opposite each other. What is reflected in mirror A is immediately reflected in mirror B, and vice-versa, in an indefinite reciprocal regression. The knowledge each has of the other is therefore objective and subjective at the same time; in fact, the objectivity and subjectivity of the vision or visions are logically and chronologically inseparable: “My awareness of myself is in part constituted by my awareness of me, and my awareness of him is in part constituted by my awareness of his awareness of

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