The View Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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.

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.

This world-renowned tragedy is centered on the love between the characters Romeo and Juliet, as the lines above bring out. Although these two teenager's love is the focus of the story, many other views of love are expressed and presented by various characters. Three of these many views include Romeo's love for Rosaline, the Friar Lawrence's view of love, and most significantly, Romeo and Juliet's love for one another.

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A society’s beliefs are often shown through its stories. Beliefs about love are no exception. While not a modern or American tale, William Shakespeare’s play Romeo & Juliet is an outstanding example, as its messages about love are deeply ingrained in both American culture and storytelling. In fact, some have even called it the most iconic love story of all time. But is that a good thing?

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In Romeo and Juliet, it states, “Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. This explains how Romeo’s and Juliet’s families have had an ancient feud and grudge. Therefore, shouldn’t be any peace between the families, especially love. Love is a word that can be portrayed by many

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.

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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 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 .

Doubtlessly, many people do not know the extent of their strengths and weaknesses unless they experience it. In general view, some people say that Man has not the ability to defeat or challenge the nature which represents uncontrollable force. God creates Man within a tremendous power which cannot discover easily unless Man calls it, intentionally, with a dire need to perform unexpected task.

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.

Love is patient, kind, and is willing to wait. In 1 Corinthians 13, it talks about what love was truly created to be. In verse 4, it states that ¨love is patient” (English Standard Version 1 Corinthians 13:4). We were made to show love with patience and wait for God's timing. Romeo and Juliet do not portray patient love. ¨ Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take./ *Kisses her* Thus From my lips, by thine, my sin is purged¨ (1.5.104-105). This quote proves they are both impatient because they kissed each other without knowing each other's names. Patient love does not develop overnight but we must remember to keep our eyes on

Love is one of the only things that nearly every human being is capable of feeling. Like many aspects of human lives, views on love differ from every individual. Nowhere is this more present than in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo, a member of the Montague family, and Juliet, a member of the rivaling Capulet family, find themselves in the circumstances of falling madly in love with each other. Throughout the play and through the different relationships encountered, Shakespeare’s attitude toward love differs between how Romeo is portrayed to love Juliet, how Juliet is displayed to love Romeo, and how Juliet’s nurse is shown to view love on its own.