Comparing Love And Death In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Love, Death, and Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Death is something that no one can avoid; eventually everyone must face it. But can it end a memory of a loved one, can it end the feelings held toward them? The majority of people in the world have needed to cope with losing a loved one to death, and that is something that is never simple to cope with, no matter the circumstances. However, people know that death doesn’t make them stop their feelings to those who have passed. Through a modern viewpoint and understanding of the play The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare one can discover that the mere mortality of humans cannot stop the everlasting bond that is love.

Love can cause a person to take actions that he or she would not normally do, some even going as far as suicide and murder. During Act 5, scene 3, after Romeo opens Juliet’s tomb and is saying goodbye to her in preparation to commit suicide, he says that Juliet is his love and that nothing can take away her beauty, even death.

Also, when he encounters Juliet’s to-be husband, Paris, he says that he is a crazed man and that Paris should not fight him. Although Paris does not heed Romeo’s warning. As readers may know, Romeo does kill Paris to see Juliet. His final profession of love before he dies and his willingness to kill Paris just to say goodbye to her shows that even after Juliet’s untimely and unfortunate death, his love for her is still so strong that he would go to great lengths for her. These examples show that their love certainly drove Romeo to do things beyond his normal behavior, and this applies in nearly every situation.
. The natural process of grieving is proof alone that feelings do not simply vanish after the death of a loved one. Almost everyone has either experienced or witnessed the grueling process of grieving after the passing of someone they love. When a loved friend or family member dies, it is nearly impossible not to feel sadness of some kind. For example, some people go into depression after someone in their lives passes on. Or, much more common, go into depression temporarily and cannot leave their bed for days, or cry at the drop of a pen. All of these are very common and normal examples of grief after the death of a loved one. Another example is that after the passing of someone, the natural inclination as humans is to console one another and to be together. The reason people do this is to cheer each other up, to protect others from the sadness they know all too well. The human reaction to death can only caused by one thing, the love of those who pass on. If humans did lose all feelings for someone after their death, then no one would care what happened after their passing, and people would not have so many grieving rituals or sadness after death.
The grieving rituals that are so common in human culture show that people wish to treat their loved ones with respect while also remembering them.

For example, when a loved one dies, his or her family buys them a very expensive casket, and a tombstone to mark their final resting place.. Some may even preserve their dead loved ones so that they may be brought back to life when the technology is capable. Many of these rituals take root in the belief of an afterlife, and taking care to ensure that they prosper in it. Also, after the passing of a loved one, many put on display pictures of their dead loved ones as a reminder of their love for them. In the end of Romeo and Juliet, the families of the two deceased lovers agree to make a golden statue of Juliet, and to bury the couple together so that they may be eternally together. These complex grieving rituals show clearly that it is only because people still care about their loved ones even after they pass

away.
Through the examination of accounts both present and past it is clear that just because someone passes away, humans do not forget their feelings for them, in some cases they may be increased, realizing then what they have lost. This applies in every circumstance, it does not matter the circumstances. All people should remember that even when someone passes away, they should never be forgotten. Take some time to remember those who have passed on every once in awhile, and how they affected the lives of other people.