The Representation of Love and Marriage in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Juliet's attitude towards love and marriage changes significantly throughout the play, at first she never even thought about marriage, but then falls deeply in love with Romeo, as a result Juliet decides she can’t live without Romeo and kill’s herself.

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

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

Hatred, resentment, and love are all a form of disaster. When the are mixed together it creates the greatest natural disaster of all time. Romeo is a romantic and heavy hearted. He is exiled because he killed Tybalt. Eventually he decides to go see Juliet, even though he could be killed. Juliet is love struck and a little naive. She wants to marry Romeo, even though he is a Montague and their families hate each other. At the end of Act III, eventually she decides to marry him or end her life because she can not live without him. In the great love story, Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers were doomed from the beginning. The hatred that their parents have for eachother, end up killing both of their children.

tension, the second he lays his eyes on her he says “if I profane with

Within the play titled Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare the character Juliet of the Capulet family changes her attitude toward love and marriage. Shakespeare's play displays that Juliet’s attitude adjusts throughout the play; she goes from being an independent woman who does not seek marriage, to having a cautious love, to eventually hopelessly in love. At the beginning of the play Juliet’s mother speaks with her about marriage, which Juliet answers to her mother "It is an honor I dream not of,” showing that she has no interest in love. Then when the play moves to the balcony scene Juliet shows change of where she feels that Romeo is her first love, yet she still displays no intent to marry. Eventually after Juliet does decide

In the ‘timeless classic’ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author brilliantly utilizes several literary devices to convey the motif that true love cannot be stopped. He does this by using many opposing ideas such as love vs. pain, day vs. night and

In 'Romeo and Juliet', Shakespeare portrays different aspects and types of love in many ways. The obvious love is the fateful love between Romeo and Juliet although the play also displays platonic love, maternal love and aspects of adolescent love.

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

The ones who seem like they may do no harm do. Lady Capulet proclaims that Juliet must get married to Paris. She wants Juliet to get married to only because of his looks and money. We know this because of the information given about the wedding planned when she says "The Country Paris, at Saint Peter's church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.”(3.5.114-115) Juliet does not want to get married to him so she declines and contacts Friar Laurence for help. Friar Laurence comes up with an idea and tries help by saying he could end the marriage resulting in Romeo and Juliet living happily ever after. Of course, because this play is so negative the idea leads to nothing good causing Romeo and Juliet to die. This all happened because of

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

Young marriage is a very controversial topic and individuals can have very different views on the issue. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare both Capulet and Lady Capulet have different perspectives regarding the topic of young marriage. First, Capulet proves himself to be against the idea of his daughter marrying at a young age. When Capulet is talking to Paris he says, “My child is yet a stranger in the world” (I.ii.8). In essence by this he is trying to say that his daughter is still very young and has not yet seen what the world has to offer. However, Lady Capulet has quite the opposite idea about young marriage; she believes Juliet should marry young. Lady Capulet expresses her view on young marriage while talking to the