The Different Types of Love Presented in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

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.

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

Romeo is shown to be poetic and romantic. He and his friends are on their way to the Capulet party when his friends encourage him to dance, but he refuses. He is still sad about Rosaline, the woman he loves. She doesn’t love him back as she has plans to become a nun. Romeo says, “Is love really

entirely in this scene as he stops thinking of love in a bad way as he

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

Romeo seems to be miserable as he is in love with Rosaline yet Rosaline is not in love with him. Once Romeo learns that the Capulet’s are holding a party at which Rosaline is attending he risks his life just to be with the one he loves. Romeo is passionate for love.

The first kind of love shown in the play is teenage love through Romeo. Montague tells us that "Many a morning hath he (Romeo) been seen... adding to the clouds more clouds with his deep sighs." Romeo is often seen sighing showing that he is either depressed or in love. Romeo is both. He says he is "out of her favour where I am in love". He is "in love" with Rosaline but she has sworn herself to a life of chastity and does not return Romeo's love. Shakespeare mocks Romeo's infatuation with the

assumed to be outright in love with Juliet, but the truth is his first love was Rosaline.

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.

Rosaline is aware of Romeos ‘feelings’ towards her and spurns his advances, yet Romeo takes this rejection as encouragement and continues to attempt to woo her. These are strong features of courtly love. Paris treats his ‘love’ in a different manner, but the same features are there. He goes to meet Lord Capulet and arranges to marry Juliet, although he has never met her.

Love, the intense feeling of deep affection. Throughout the Shakespeare play of Romeo and Juliet this set of characters show their intense emotion and compassion they obtain for one another. The lovers of this play show their deep affection, not just internally, but as well as externally. If it is either the sacrificial ways or commitment they demonstrate, this love they have can be easily accounted for and seen well round.

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

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

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