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Theme Of Love In Romeo And Juliet

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Classic literature has timeless relevance.
William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet (1599) is a play about star-crossed lovers who eventually are unable to run away and live together and enjoy their marriage. The play explores contrasting themes of several types love and hate, which in a way represents the motif of light versus dark that is presented in the play. These themes rely on each other to exist and lead to so many of the tragic events in the play. Love and hate have always been experienced, which makes them relevant today, and in the future. Love is the most dominant theme in Romeo and Juliet and it’s absolutely crucial to the play’s storyline. People have loved forever and will always love, it’s a natural human feeling. …show more content…

This idea of love being the reason for violence, murder and suicide is still something many people experience today and is something that will always be experienced, whether it’s someone you love who has different feelings, not being able to find love, and in some places in the world, not having a choice on who you marry and that you are supposed to have eternal love for. Hate is the second major theme in Romeo and Juliet and it especially ties in with love that causes violence and deaths. Everyone knows how it feels to hate something or someone and the things it can lead people to do. This has a huge effect on the outcomes of several incidents in the play. Most characters experience feeling hatred in Romeo and Juliet especially Romeo, Juliet, Capulet and Tybalt, but primarily the hatred the Capulet and Montague families have for each other. Juliet probably experiences and has to deal with the majority of the hatred in the play which links directly to her love for Romeo. “From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,” (Prologue.3-6). This is about how the hatred the families have for each other ended the lives of and love shared between Romeo and Juliet. This is a case of hate ending love which is something humankind go through now in the form of families having issues with their children’s love and

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