The Love Between Romeo And Juliet

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two

Romeo and Juliet is a classic play composed by William Shakespeare in the 1500’s. This tale is about two star-crossed lovers whose love was forbidden by their feuding families. Through the story, Shakespeare educates us on his opinion about the society of Verona, Italy and the societal expectations, beliefs, values and gender standards, behaviors for both men and women.

Romeo and Juliet, one of William’s Shakespeare most famous classic works, is a heart-wrenching tale which is composed of passionate love and anger. It is a timeless piece of literature that has lasted to this century. The beautiful story is set in the remote town of Verona. This play recounts a tale of two star-crossed lovers, forbidden to pursue their inescapable love due to the long history of a violent family feud. Passion is strongly represented in Romeo and Juliet’s undying romance. As the story continues, passionate and uncontrolled anger is clearly expressed, fuelled by the noxious hatred of the family’s feud, intensifying as the plot progresses.

“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite”. Good morning Class, today I will be exploring the human relationship of love in modern interpretations of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ written by William Shakespeare. Shakespearean time was between the middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution and it was branded by religious changes. William Shakespeare is widely known as the greatest dramatist of all time. Born April 1564, Shakespeare’s play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is no doubt one of his most famous pieces. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ was first published in 1597 and its tragic story of banned love still captures the creativity of its audience today. ‘Romeo and Juliet’, although not confined to, is an illustration of three aspects of human relationships; family, love and conflict. These features are still relevant in our modern lives because they are so relatable and the majority of individuals experience them. While Shakespeare dealt with these characteristics of human relationships modern transformations of Romeo and Juliet have recontextualized the play into the Twenty First Century. In 1995 the Australian director Baz Luhrmann transformed love in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to a modern version while keeping the dialogue the same. Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ has inspired many interpretations of the play as it contains the human relationships of love, conflict and family that can be understood by different audience.

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a well-known tragedy about two teenagers in the 1300’s. During the play, Romeo and Juliet meet and quickly grow fond of each other. They begin to believe that they are truly in love, however, they are mistaken. In reality, Romeo and Juliet are infatuated with each other because of their immaturity. Their immaturity, sprouted from their impulsiveness, naiveness, and greed, leads directly to their demise.

The word love can mean many things. Love can be an object, emotion, and a life. However, love could lead to a loss of power, prosperity, and status. In the literary work “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare, the readers are introduced to a tragic love story. In this play, readers are also shown the different perspectives of love and the many downfalls it could lead to. The central theme of this work is the recklessness of love. The theme is significant because it is shown throughout the whole story and it’s a strong force that takes place of all the other emotions and values. In this play, Shakespeare uses characters to present different aspects of love. In addition, Nurse, Mercutio, and Romeo completely show what actual love is and what it is like to lose it due to their experiences.

John Madden’s interpretation of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare in Love pushes the boundaries of William Shakespeare’s stigma of gender roles, especially those of the main characters; Will Shakespeare and Viola De Lesseps. Throughout the entire movie Madden had put an interesting subtext to how it chooses to approach gender. Putting this twist on traditional masculine/feminine roles is executed through a great deal of line rearranging, reorganising and rewording. By allowing Will to speak lines reserved in Shakespeare’s play for Juliet brings a whole new meaning to the saying ‘gender is but a performance’. Retelling a story created five hundred years ago and adapting it to suit a modern era and audience can be challenging, but Madden’s clever use of imagery and staging supports the sub textual gender issues making the story more believable and relatable to a

Juliet’s lust for power ( That's a very interesting idea. I only thought she had the boy-girl kind of lust. ) was destined to destroy her relations with Romeo.  Capulet forces (betroths) Juliet to marry Count Paris, a man she does not love.  When she refuses to marry him, Capulet threatens his daughter and says, “…get thee to church o' Thursday, or never after look me in the face”. This causes Juliet to take her own actions against his (her?)  father’s will. She does not want to marry Paris and so she begins to manipulate those close to her in order to get what she wants. To Friar Lawrence she says to him, “I long to die if what thous speakest speak not of remedy”. However by doing so she

Although formally defined as “a strong feeling of affection” by the Oxford Dictionaries, love is rather considered a broad and equivocal subject to many. Perception of affection may differ for anyone, especially for those who had lived in Shakespeare’s time, roughly equivalent to the 1500’s. “Romeo and Juliet”, the novel which Shakespeare had published in 1597, reflects various themes of love to the readers. The tragedy presents several different aspects of love such as love at first sight, the commitment and devotion for love, and teenage love.

♥ On the Romantic Representation of Romeo ♥ (An examination of the accuracy of Shakespeare’s portrayal of a teenage boy in love) Shakespeare was renowned for his works concerning love. Many of his illustrious sonnets were centered around this romantic theme, including the prominent oeuvres Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130. The former described love as an idyllic and blithe sentiment, altogether ostensible. The latter showed the author’s ingenuity, as it was a clear satire on the typical love affair of the period.

Romeo's love for Juliet is exactly the same as his love was for Rosaline. Although Romeo's relationship, or should I say lack of relationship, with Rosaline was not as intense as his relationship with Juliet, he talks about his love for each of them in the same way. In Romeo's eyes his love for each of the women is true, but in fact he only loves their looks. While going on and on about Rosaline, Romeo talks about how she is "rich in beauty." (1.1.208) Similarly, Romeo says that Juliet's beauty is "too rich for use, for earth to dear." (1.5.45) Unfortunately, this is as deep as his monologues get for the women, he vomits beautiful words about beauty and love, but the words have no actual meaning. I have no doubt that if Rosaline were interested

In the play Romeo and Juliet, two young people fall in love, however they are from rival families and are supposed to hate each other. They go on nevertheless with the help of the local priest, Friar Lawrence, hatching plans to get married in secret and be together, even when Romeo gets banished from their home city of Verona. They try to get back together, but it leads to both of their suicides. The theme of this play is the instability of love and that it is sometimes perilous to get caught up in obsessing about love. The author of this play shows this through figurative language like foreshadowing, metaphors, hyperbole, and personification.

When confronted with “Love”, most people’s minds immediately jump to a happily married couple, or a pair of young lovers. While this is the most obvious conclusion, love extends its reaches into other aspects of relationships as well, beyond saying, “I love you,” on the way out the door. Famous playwright, William Shakespeare, was a master at capturing these many different essences of love. The two specific plays that will be examined for love themes in this paper are Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest. He did this so successfully that these works have endured the test of time, where they are enjoyed and analyzed centuries later.

Romeo and Juliet is a heart-breaking tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare telling us the story of two teenage ‘star-cross’d lovers’ whose unfortunate deaths ultimately unite the dispute between their two families. Despite the perils involved, they fall in love and marry with the help of two characters, Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Throughout the play, Shakespeare portrays a range of different kinds of love through the central female characters. Maternal love is offered to Juliet by the Nurse and Juliet’s own reckless and impetuous love brought about by inexperience, which results in a doomed love. Lady Capulet shows business and more of an economic view on love. While these types of love are being shown,

In many of Shakespeare’s sonnets, he emphasizes the subjective experience of love; however, he never wallows in his feelings to a conceited extent. Actually, he labels narcissism as incompatible with real love in some of his other sonnets and in his comedy Twelfth Night. Although his narcissistic characters, especially Malvolio, Orsino, Olivia (from his comedy), and the Young Man (from his sonnets), believe themselves to be experiencing passion, their foolish self-indulgence inhibits them from finding true love, as it causes them to act contrary to nature, misinterpret others’ intentions, and misplace certain desires. Conversely, other characters not blocked by self-love, particularly Viola and the Speaker of the Sonnets, can find actual love, since they correctly understand others and themselves.