The Power Of Love In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

do not think this is genuine love to me as he later falls in love with

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.

The power of love can help people get through obstacles that stand in their way and can help one become his or her own individual. In the famous play “Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare, Romeo is willing to do whatever it takes to be with Juliet without even looking back or thinking of the consequences while Juliet struggles with becoming an individual going from someone who shares a mind with her mother to an independent individual choosing to be with Romeo. Shakespeare develops Romeo by his overdramatic choice of words and Juliet by her change in behavior going from obedient and letting others speak for her to rebellious in trying to be independent, which refines the central idea: the power of love against obstacles.

Have you ever felt an extremely strong crush on someone to the point where you think you’re in love… only to fast forward a year you’re wondering what attractive qualities you saw in that person? “Eros” is an ancient Greek word for love at first sight, or love by looks. The famous play Romeo and Juliet goes forward in time by revealing the dangerous issue of “Eros” love that even modern-day teenagers face. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragic story about a young man and woman who fall in love by appearance and eventually commit suicide over each other’s death. The danger of Eros can be seen best through Romeo with what he thinks, says, and does.

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

in the way he mopes over Rosaline. Romeo is in love, or thinks he is

Emotions Through Love The story of two young lovers articulates as they form an alliance through the hatred of their families. In one of Shakespeare's tragedies, Romeo and Juliet fall forsakenly in love. The interminable feud between the Capulets and Montagues cause the relationship of the two lovers to be forbidden. Their love extends as Tybalt dies and Romeo is banished. Through Shakespeare's usage of punctuations and reiteration of sentence phrases in Juliet's speech “Shall I speak ill”, in Act 3 Scene 2, he displays that she is conflicted on whether to be in resentment or to be exuberant.

I think that shakespeare views love as a beautiful thing, but unable to survive in a world of hatred. In Romeo and Juliet they weren’t allowed to be together do to the families that they are in. The reason for that is because Juliet is a capulet and Romeo was a Montague so they were basically enemies.

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

Romeo is a lover. He is easily tricked into thinking attraction is love. He sees a pretty girl and immediately wants to be with her. So when he goes to a girl trying to start a relationship and is denied, he goes around depressed. For example, in Act 1 scene 1, Romeo is talking to Benvolio and his love Rosaline. Benvolio ask him why he is so sad and Romeo responds by saying that Rosaline is “in strong proof of chastity well armed” (Shakespeare pg 23). Rosaline wants to become a nun and has to chaste. Romeo is heartbroken that he can’t be with her and his people around has to cheer him up. He is so depressed that it affects other people.

Love is a fragile emotion that can cause destruction when it is not handled with proper care and rationality. In the Shakespearean play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a feud between two families, the Montagues and Capulets forbids star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, from falling in love. Despite the feud, the two lovers continue their forbidden relationship and with that choice, their love eventually leads to their downfall. The theme of passionate love among couples sometimes serves as a healthy aspect of relationships, but in Romeo and Juliet’s case, it brought out their worst traits. Passionate teenage love is dangerous and destructive because it caused Romeo to acquire immature and fickle traits while Juliet became inconsiderate.

The play, Romeo & Juliet, originally written by Shakespeare, allowed Desert Hot Springs High School to reenact this infamous piece of literature. In this replica of Romeo and Juliet, those who primarily directed the play were Amber Stella (student director) and Ryan Landman (lead director). The major theme is love. Love can overcome any obstacle obstructing the natural order, even if the solution to that may be mutual death; Love prevails over any hindrance. I had the opportunity to behold the play on its opening night, Thursday October .

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.

This passage in Romeo and Juliet details a conversation between lady capulet and Juliet about the death of tybalt. “That same villain, Romeo” although juliet pretends to agree with her mother her true feelings are exposed when she refuses to marry paris, “I will not marry yet and when I do, it shall be romeo”. The true power of love is displayed her as even after Romeo kills a close family member, without even knowing the context of the situation juliet sides with Romeo. This passage truly speaks to the true power and influence of love as it prevail over tragedy and even lead juliet to defy the very name and family that is responsible for everything she has and the life she lives. Shakespeare continues to use this motif throughout the rest of his play it can be seen many times. This motif is illustrated most notably in the main event in the play when both Romeo and Juliet take their lives because their love for each other is simply so immense that they can’t exist without the other. “Here’s to love… Thus with a kiss I die” (Romeo), this truly demonstrates the the power of loves influence as both of the lover take the most extreme action purely driven by love.