The Importance Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

“Love makes you do crazy things, insane things. Things in a million years you never thought you’d see yourself do.”

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

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.

Juliet is to be married as “The valiant Paris seeks [her] for his love”(686) and Romeo feels depressed. Juliet doesn’t truly want to be married to Paris and when Romeo comes along and says he loves her, Juliet uses this as an excuse to be ineligible to Paris. At their young ages of 13 and 16 both, don’t truly know love and can’t effectively associate their feelings. The friar feels that"[Romeo’s] love did read by rote, that could not spell'"(707). Romeo is only repeating what he has heard about love, not genuinely understanding what he is saying. He acts impatient and brash, quickly jumping at any chance to say he is in love thinking it will bring him happiness. Moments before he saw Juliet, Romeo claimed that he was deeply in love with Rosaline, although when presented with someone who he deemed as more beautiful he’s questions if, "[his] heart [did] love till now?...For [he feels he has] ne'er saw true beauty till this night" (pg 692). If he had truly been in love with Rosaline then seeing another girl wouldn't have changed his mind, but as he is so young he isn't able to understand that what he felt for both, Juliet and Rosaline was lust. Teenagers act irrationally, based solely on emotion, Romeo and Juliet are too caught up in their feelings to take a step back and consider their

Shakespeare thus portrays Romeo and his love as an infatuation. This infatuation is evident in how instantaneously Romeo falls out of love with Rosaline and into love with Juliet. At one stage, Rosaline was the “precious treasure of his eyesight”, yet Romeo’s embodiment of perfection was, a few scenes later, his notion of defectiveness. This therefore reveals to the audience the instantaneous and reckless path of the two lovers, as well as the fickleness of adolescent “love”, diminishing at the sight of

The emotion of love is an incredibly complex feeling, as displayed in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Teacher and classmates, A few weeks ago, I questioned Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet wondering why, why is this literature still prominent in today's society? The foreign tongue it is written in, the seemingly basic and boring plot and the lack of action all combined being regarded as one of man’s greatest achievements didn't quite equate. However through my studies of the question, How effectively does Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shape our notion of love, I realised. Throughout the text lies defining moments of romantic, fickle and fraternal love and the complexity of the text allows for both interpretation while maintaining relatability. However our perception of love, the strong feeling of affection, has differed immensely since 1595. Romeo and Juliet, a story over four centuries old is the foundation of love and romance throughout history.

Though some may simply know romantic love as an intense bond between individuals devoted to one another, its effects in reality are not always as beautiful as the concept. Particularly when it is frowned upon by society and the people involved also swim against the current, the consequences of this type of love can be damaging to others outside the romance. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the actions of the young lovers in their desire to be together not only steer the course of their lives, but also those of their friends, families, and other citizens in the city. The unfortunate series of events following Romeo and Juliet’s choice to reach beyond traditional gender roles, a standard courtship, and their established social networks reveal the importance of complying with these norms. By highlighting the chaos in Verona on the path to Romeo and Juliet’s eventual demise, Shakespeare suggests that intense romantic love that threatens relationships and expectations in the established social order leads to tragedy.

Love. In all its facets and colors, love is understood and accepted as a concept by even the most primitive cultures. But what is love? Many writers have debated this subject. Many works have been produced detailing the understanding individuals had of the concept of love.

The beginning of the play presents Romeo, a histrionic teenage boy who laments over the fact that the girl who his infatuation centers on – Rosaline - does not feel the same. When he speaks of her, instead of explaining why he loves her as an unique person, Romeo curses her beauty and his unrequited love: "Show me a mistress that is passing fair, / What doth her beauty serve, but as a note / Where I may read who passed that passing fair?" (1.1.241-244). His description of his love for the girl evinces vague details as he continues to pine over her physical attractiveness. Romeo proclaims that he will never love anyone

Love has a strong power in the brain that makes it as addicting as some drugs. Through studies and research on the brain action we can find how the brain acts towards love. Through numerous scans and studies the people with the longest lasting love/marriage are the people that don't “burn out” their love for each other early and instead take on their love slowly. Studies have found many pieces of new and improved evidence since the early 2000’s and this is one that has changed drastically. Romeo and Juliet starts off with only Romeo and his heartbreak. After his break up, Romeo is really sad and thinks his whole life is over. He goes to a Capulet party looking for the one that broke his heart and quickly gets his mind taken off that with a new girl, Juliet. They go through a lot in the 5 days they have together. The book starts off slightly romantic, but after the famous balcony scene, it quickly escalates into a tragedy. After finishing the romantic tragedy novel of Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare, I have developed one claim in my mind. Juliet was not at an old enough age for her brain to be fully mature enough to make such a life changing decision that she did. She was young; therefore, such an event had a major impact on her brain and life.

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

Picture it: You are a fish in the ocean. The waves and the currents stop. Everything is gone. Would you be able to find your way? Without a guiding figure we would all be lost.

In the beginning of the play, Romeo is in deep sadness over a girl named Rosaline who has decided to become a nun. Because of this, she has professed her love to God only, therefore Romeo cannot necessarily be with her. Romeo is filled with sadness, isolating himself from the company of others and refusing to see the good in anything, despite attempts made by his cousin Benvolio and his friend Mercutio. This example shows how love, or rather an absence of it, neurologically affects the brain causing Romeo to make foolish judgments. In the article “Watching New Love as it Sears the Brain”, the author talks about how people who have faced rejection from a lover, among many other actions, contemplate suicide, become depressed, and feel overwhelmed because in the rejected person’s eyes; he even states that the “the drive for romantic love can be stronger than the will to live.” This explains Romeo’s dejected and melancholy behavior. Romeo’s dialogue suggests that in his mind, there is no way that he will get over Rosaline and there is no way out of his sadness unless he can be with her. Benvolio and Mercutio who are in a more reasonable state reason with him that there are many women out there who would love to be with Romeo. Everytime they suggest something, Romeo begins to reject it. Mercutio and Benvolio believe his behavior is foolish because moments

In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare opens with two servants of the Capulets explaining their hatred towards the house of Montague, their mortal enemies. A fight between the two houses soon breaks out and the prince must remind them once more that he will not permit more fighting between the two. The story proceeds to pan over to Romeo the lovesick heir of the Montagues. To cheer him up, his friends joke with him and then a golden opportunity arrives. A servant of the Capulet house requires someone to help him read out the list of people he needed to fetch for a grand party at the Capulet household. The servant did not realize it was a Montague whom he allowed to go to the party. Meanwhile, Paris and Lord Capulet are discussing his marriage to Juliet. Even though Lord and Lady Capulet are married, their views on love are complete opposites.