“Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.” (Barry). Like Lynda Barry said love is like a ticking time bomb just waiting for the right time to blow someone’s face off. For example, in both William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride there are many similarities between protagonists, antagonists, and their love. Many people are dead in these two stories now because of their harmful love. Love drives these stories and pushes people to the point of suicide.
In Romeo and Juliet the two lovebirds sadly fell to the disease of love. Romeo and Juliet were so much in love that they were both willing to die for each other. Juliet wasn’t going to marry the Count Paris so she went into a deep sleep almost similar to a coma. As a result, Romeo thought that Juliet was dead because the news did not get to Romeo so he poisoned himself next to Juliet. When Juliet arose, she found Romeo dead next to her coffin.
Much like Romeo and Juliet, The Princess Bride characters were prisoners of love. Westley and Buttercup were in great love but had to separate when Westley left for the Americas to start a better life and then go back to Florin to marry Buttercup. However, as Westley was supposedly killed by the Dread Pirate Roberts, Buttercup was forced to marry Prince Humperdinck. The Prince hired three men to murder the princess and try to start a war with Guilder. Prince Humperdinck’s plans were ruined when Westley snuck up on the three men
In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet two lovers are not meant to be together resulting in the tragic death of both Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers meet at a ball and fall in love at once, but they do not know until the end of the night that they are each from different feuding houses. They decide to marry in secret the next day. However, on that same day Romeo gets banished from Verona for killing Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and Juliet is being forced to marry County Paris in the next three days. Friar Lawrence, give Juliet a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead for three day. But when Romeo arrives to see her dead, he kills himself leaving Juliet to wake up and seeing him
Romeo and Juliet’s excessive love and blind love are the most powerful ingredients to their self-destruction. The young lovers, Romeo and Juliet’s idolatry for each other symbolizes excessive love by them willing to go against their families and committing suicide at the
Romeo and Juliet both suicide after seeing each other dead. After Romeo hears about Juliet’s death, he goes to her tomb to see her one last time and kiss her before he suicides. “Here’s to my love. O true apothecary,/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die”(V.iii.119-120). Romeo should have overlooked his quick thoughts of suicide, and should have realized how much he still had to live for. The aftermath of this action was that both Romeo and Juliet both end up dead in the final tragedy. After Juliet sees Romeo dead, she decides to kill herself with a dagger. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger,/This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die”(V.iii.174-175). This evidence is an example of the consequences that can occur after a hasty, sad-driven decision. If Romeo did not suicide while under the influence of his emotions, both Romeo and Juliet would have lived, and the ultimate, final tragedy of the play would have been avoided, but instead, Romeo’s emotions misguided him to choose the awful decision of suicide. These actions reveal how quickly sadness leads to horrendous repercussions due to the actions that it
The Opposing Themes of Love and Hate in the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet is conflict and love. Conflict and love are both shown through characterization in all of the characters. In the beginning, we see Juliet 's character as a little young child who obeys her family duties. When she meets, Romeo, her character is taken on a rollercoaster of emotions. Juliet 's character is the source of conflict and we see this through her developing actions. Romeo creates Juliet into this powerful young women. Romeo is so important to Juliet that she does not want to loose him. Conflict begins to arise when things actually take off. Once they are together on the balcony, is when they both realize that they are meant for each other. That true love is true and that they are destined for the stars. True love is
The suicide committed by both Juliet and Romeo demonstrates their blinding love and how they would rather love each other or not live at all. For example Romeo says,”Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe. That unsubstantial death is amorous, And that the lean abhorrèd monster keep. Thee here in dark to be his paramour? For fear of that, I still will stay with thee.” Romeo says that we would rather die with Juliet than live without her. This is a very powerful moment in the play, because it resembles that love is a poison that can kill. In reality, it is very unlikely to be able declare your love for someone only after three days. Truthfully, I believe that Romeo and Juliet didn’t love each other but fell in the love with the idea of each other, making both of them make ignorant decisions. Romeo and Juliet die because their young foolish love possessed them to do rash unintelligent things. In addition, this is another scene that demonstrates love's
In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet take their own lives believing that the other had died. While Romeo and Juliet are ultimately to blame for their deaths, they may have had some help along the way. Romeo and Juliet killed themselves because they believed they could not go on living without having the other in their life. Had characters such as Lord Capulet, Friar Lawrence, and the nurse made smarter decisions in certain situations, the two lovers could have lived to see another day.
Early in the play, Romeo and Juliet meet and instantly fall in love. In the infamous balcony scene, they clearly express their love and decide to get married. Juliet says, “Three words, dear Romeo, and good night indeed. If that thy bend of love be honorable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world,” (2.2.149-155). Juliet has confirmed that she wants to marry Romeo the next day so long as he gives her a notice the next day. Romeo and Juliet are so in love that they are willing to rush into this marriage, not truly thinking of what is about to come next. They don’t stop to think about what this marriage will mean for the rivalry between the families and they don’t understand that maybe it isn’t a good idea. If Romeo and Juliet had considered the trouble that this marriage would cause, perhaps they would not have gotten married so quickly. Later, once Romeo has been banished to Mantua and Juliet is told she must marry another guy named Paris, she is distraught and runs to Friar Lawrence. Once there, Friar tells Juliet of a plan that involves her faking her death using a concoction that will make her appear dead. Romeo will then find her and they will be reunited and live their lives together away from their feuding
Juliet took a Potion that put her into a deep sleep, which in result made her family think she was dead. Also making Romeo think the same thing, he went to her grave site to take his own life, there he had an encounter with her fiancé, Paris, and they engaged in a fight and shortly after killing Paris Romeo took his own life. A short time after Juliet awoke from her deep sleep she discovered that her husband and fiancé were dead and took her own
Romeo and Juliet explores the tragic outcome of ‘true love’. In Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters (Romeo and Juliet) die because of their love for each other. What happens in Romeo and Juliet is that Juliet is meant to marry Paris but she doesn’t want to so she drinks a poison that is meant to show all of the signs of death for a certain amount of time and then she would
Relationship is described as an emotional or other connection between people. The book Of Mice and Men and “Romeo and Juliet” both have similar relationships. These relationships are built around different circumstances and situations. George and Lennie only have each other which creates a better relationship. Romeo and Juliet had large families to support and love them. They grew up surrounded by strong families. When they met violence between the families forced them to choose family or each other. How does one have a strong enough bond after two days to turn away from a family whose has been supporting them throughout their lives? A solid relationship is not created in two days, but built through good and bad life experiences. Even though Romeo and Juliet have a relationship of love and forgiveness, George and Lennie still have the stronger
Love is spoken about a lot in all of these stories, one thing that these stories talk about is love can come with a cost. As you will see in these stories ( Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, and Duty) there will be death due to love.
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet loved each other, but they knew that it wouldn't be possible to have a relationship because of their feuding families. Their deaths were tragic, as it was mainly the people around them that made them so unhappy. They were so in love with each other that they took risks to be together, which lead to their unfortunate deaths. Romeo is a Montague. He falls in love with Juliet the moment he sees her at a Capulet ball.
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
Cleopatra and Mark Antony, Lancelot and Guinevere, and Paris and Helena are some of the best and most know love stories of all time. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare stands far above all of these, and is definitely the greatest love story ever written. This play is renowned for its passion and is one of the most viewed plays ever, being republished twice in Shakespeare's lifetime. This story also contains several different kinds of love.