As is true for most things in life, true love comes in many shapes and sizes. Love does not always present itself in the same way, and it can be found in unexpected places. This is the case in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet come from feuding families. Juliet is from the Capulet family, whereas Romeo is a Montague. Romeo and Juliet should be enemies, but they end up falling in love. However, not all love is true love. True love occurs when each party is accepting of the other no matter what, they are deeply affected by the other’s emotions, and each person cannot imagine their life without the other person. Romeo and Juliet’s relationship represents true love because they accept each other through everything, their emotions deeply affect the other, and once they meet they cannot imagine their lives apart from each other. Throughout Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, they accept each other’s flaws and faults which shows their true love. Juliet shows this accepting nature from the beginning of their relationship. She says to herself about Romeo, “Tis but thy name that is my enemy./ Thou art thyself, though not a Montague./….So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,/ Retain that dear perfection which he owes/ Without that title” (Shakespeare II.ii.38-39,44-47). Juliet is saying that she is only enemies with Romeo’s name, but not with him as a person. She says that if he were to lose his name, he would still be perfect, which implies that Juliet accepts and loves Romeo for himself, and does not judge him because of his name. She loves Romeo even though she should hate him, according to family history. Juliet knows that their love could be dangerous, yet she still accepts him. They are both blind to each other’s name, for it does not matter to them because they are in love. Also, both of them put aside an ages-long grudge between their families. Another true sign of acceptance and love is when Romeo kills Tybalt, Juliet’s beloved cousin, and she says, “Mine [tears] shall be spent/ When theirs [her family’s] are dry, for Romeo’s banishment” (Shakespeare III.ii.131-132). Romeo is banished for murder against Tybalt. While the Capulets are mourning Tybalt, Juliet is grieving about Romeo’s
Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet – popularly considered by many to be the quintessential love story of all time – is a play that we are all familiar with in one way or another. Whether it be through the plethora of portrayals, adaptations and performances that exist or through your own reading of the play, chances are you have been acquainted with this tale of “tragic love” at some point in your life. Through this universal familiarity an odd occurrence can be noted, one of almost canonical reverence for the themes commonly believed to be central to the plot. The most widely believed theme of Romeo and Juliet is that of the ideal love unable to exist under the harsh social and political strains of this world. Out of this idea emerge two
If you have ever fallen in love then you must know what Romeo and Juliet felt, right? Well according to the definition of true love your do not relate to Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet come from similar families that are mortal enemies, but despite that, they fall in love for each other. Romeo went from loving Rosaline to Juliet very quickly and Juliet was already going to marry Paris. True affection involves: your sense of self has grown through knowing this person, You’re addicted to the person, you celebrate this person’s triumphs, you really miss this person when you are apart. Romeo and Juliet may have thought they were in love, but falling in love with someone cannot happen in an instant.
Romeo and Juliet have a love for each other, unlike any other love story. They sacrifice plenty of things for eachother. Even if it’s from hiding things that could get them killed to actually dying for eachother. There is nothing that can compare to the love Romeo and Juliet have for eachother. Ultimately, because Romeo and Juliet and willing to make sacrifices for one another, their love does qualify as true love. In Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet are always there for eachother, and sacrificing things. In this essay, you will learn about now Romeo and Juliet love is real, and not just lust. They go places, lose their lives, sacrifice things, and more for each other.
Love, in 'Romeo and Juliet' has its own importance in the theme of inner struggle between the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is torn between staying loyal to her family and therefore obeying her parents to marry Paris or staying married to an enemy, Romeo, “My husband lives, that Tybalt has slain; / And Tybalt's dad, that would have slain my husband: / All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then?” (3:2). On the other hand, Romeo has his struggles too. He juggles between the idea of banishment from Verona and not being able to see his beloved Juliet again and that of death, “Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say 'death'.” (3:3). The secret marriage between Romeo and Juliet is also one of the outcomes due to love. It is because of love that Juliet risked her parents' disapproval to not marry Paris and Romeo risked the danger of being killed by Capulet's kinsmen to go to see her. Yet again, this shows the inner struggle of Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet care for each other and would risk anything for each other. But they barely met each other and they both love one another because of their facial features. Romeo and Juliet are two protagonists who feel they have “true” love, but neither character knows what “true” love is.
Romeo and Juliet go through a lot since meeting each other. They are considered one of literature’s most exciting couples because they do whatever they can to be with each other. They also share a love that is one of the finest in all of history. Romeo and Juliet are truly in love with each other because they value their time together, they have constant thoughts about each other, and they are willing to sacrifice what either of them has to be together.
Romeo and Juliet both denounce the feud between their families soon after they fall for each other. As Romeo listens to Juliet on the balcony, he realizes that his name is an issue. So he replies, “I take thee at thy word. Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized. Henceforth I never will be Romeo.” (2.2.49-51) Later Juliet also denounces her family to be with the one she loves. After Tybalt is killed, she has a conversation about her cousin’s death. She says, “Villain and he be many miles asunder. / God pardon him! I do, with all my heart, / And yet no man like he doth grieve my heart.” (3.5.81-83) This ability to denounce your own flesh and blood, shows just how much Romeo and Juliet are blinded by lust.
William Shakespeare was a playwright and author in the 16th and 17th centuries, with at least 37 plays and 154 sonnets to his name. His many works span in genre and form, from the tragedy of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to the poem of a father’s unconditional love and eventual acceptance of a loved one’s death. Through a vast variety of linguistic and structural techniques, he is able to promote, develop and explain his personal ideology of love. Evidence of this is seen through the character of ‘Romeo’ in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and the narrative voice in a selection of sonnets.
True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice. This is the dominant theme in Shakespeare 's The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, a play is about two rival noble families from Verona, the Capulets and Montagues. Indeed, the two families have such an ongoing hatred for each other that they are constantly feuding violently without end. Having had enough, Prince Escalus, the Prince of Verona, one day decrees the penalty of death to be upon the person who disrupts the peace again. It is against this vicious backdrop that Shakespeare by contrast, accentuates love in Romeo and Juliet. Three different types of love are depicted: the infatuation of Romeo, the son and heir of Montague, with a woman named Rosaline; the arranged love between Juliet, the daughter of Capulet, and Paris, a kinsman of Prince Escalus, whom Juliet’s parents have chosen to be her suitor; and ultimately, the true love between Romeo and Juliet, whose families are each other’s worst and greatest enemies.
Romeo and Juliet do not know what true love is even though they believe that they have found it.The affections they have for one another do not come from love but rather from lust. They declared that they were in love with each other without truly getting to know one another only looking on appearance which is what separates love from lust.Romeo and Juliet do not feel true love, what they are feeling is lust for each other
Romeo and Juliet, one of William’s Shakespeare most famous classic works, is a heart-wrenching tale which is composed of passionate love and anger. It is a timeless piece of literature that has lasted to this century. The beautiful story is set in the remote town of Verona. This play recounts a tale of two star-crossed lovers, forbidden to pursue their inescapable love due to the long history of a violent family feud. Passion is strongly represented in Romeo and Juliet’s undying romance. As the story continues, passionate and uncontrolled anger is clearly expressed, fuelled by the noxious hatred of the family’s feud, intensifying as the plot progresses.
The emotion of love is an incredibly complex feeling, as displayed in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.
The love that Romeo and Juliet had was very intense they weren’t supposed to be together because of family feud. The capulets and montagues are two different families that have different things that aren 't common on each other. Due to this Romeo and Juliet are conscious that what they have can 't happen but true love can cause people to take many risk. For example Romeo and Juliet can’t be together but they can decide to be together without there parents knowing that they feel in love and that they are planning to get married without their parents permission because their love is more important than what their families think about the difference and
Once love is found, any obstacle presented will neither diminish nor terminate that love, even when tragedy strikes with the loss of a loved one. Tybalt, the cousin of Juliet is one of the Capulet’s that despises the Montague’s and he will do anything in his power to kill them all, and once he confronted Romeo, he met his fate and died by Romeo’s sword. The Prince arrived to the scene and said “Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio” (III.i.181), him referring to Tybalt, and once realized, he banished Romeo out of the city. Once Juliet discovered the truth about Tybalt’s death and Romeo’s banishment she said in grief “Romeo is banished- to speak that word is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, all slain, all dead- Romeo is banished” (III.ii.122-124). Her heartache for Romeo’s banishment more than her cousin Tybalt’s death shows that he is her life, her world, and her breath, and without him she would be nothing and life as she knows is would end, even through tragedy and anguish.
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