As Shakespeare stated in his play Merchant of Venice, “Love is blind, and lovers cannot see, The pretty follies that themselves commit.” Love makes one imperceptive to the imperfections or faults of loved ones. Playwright, William Shakespeare, in his play, Romeo and Juliet, tells a tale of two star-crossed lovers from opposing families with indistinguishable stature. Shakespeare’s purpose is to convey the idea that, a strong emotional force such as love, can be displayed through Eros, Storge, and Tragedy along with other texts. One type of love identified in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet was Eros. Eros is when an individual ponders with the possibility and ideal aspects of love and often viewed their beloved as an impeccable …show more content…
Storge is natural, familial love such as the love between a parent and a child, a unique love that is not like others. Shakespeare acknowledges that, “God’s bread! It makes me mad. Day, night, hour, tide, time, work, play, alone, in company, still my care hath been to have her matched. And having now provided a gentleman of noble parentage, of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly trained, stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts” (Shakespeare 3.5.176-182). Readers can convey that Lord Capulet finally found a suitable bridegroom for Juliet, but Juliet abides for that she is already married to Romeo which aggravates him. It is evident to the text that Lord Capulet only wants what is best for Juliet’s wellbeing. Furthermore, “Turns out this product of my genes and loving care, the boy-man I had swaddled, coddled, cooed at, and then pushed and pulled to the brink of manhood, had been flying down the highway at 113 miles an hour” (Dobbs 3-5). Readers can reinforce the idea that this mother that cared for her child through thick or thin is worried how her son is out there risking his life driving down the highway at 113 miles per hour due to onset of adolescent. It demonstrates how this mother observed the dramatic change in behavior as her son grew. Therefore, readers can identify the responsibility, the parental role, parents have to care, protect their child and …show more content…
Tragedy is a series of unfortunate events in which the main characters is brought to several misfortunes, which culminate into a disaster of ‘epic proportions’. Shakespeare has once mentioned in Romeo and Juliet, ”Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust and let me die” (Shakespeare 5.3.169-170). The readers can understand that after Juliet found out that Romeo killed himself, she want to kill herself to be with him even in death. For this reason, Juliet is willing to kill herself to be with him in eternity, holding another meaning to the phrase, “until death do us apart.” Moreover, “And when he had found the bloodstained shawl, he cried: ‘Now this same night will see two lovers lose their lives: she was the one more worthy of long life: it’s I who bear the guilt for this’…..he wept and cried out as he held that dear shawl fast: ‘Now drink from my blood, too!’ And then he drew his dagger from his belt and thrust it hard into his guts. And as he died, he wrenched the dagger from his gushing wound” (Ovid 77-97). Readers can determine that Pyramus killed himself thinking that he is to blame for Thisbe’s “death”, seeing the shawl of his beloved stained with blood. It is important in a sense that Pyramus killed himself assuming that a wild beast killed Thisbe. In brief, lovers are willing to sacrifice themselves just
“ A pair of two star crossed lovers take their life.” This quote is made in prologue 7 and spoiled what will happen to the reader, but the reason why or who is at fault is never spoken of. Juliet Capulet, daughter of Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet is a thirteen year old girl who is obedient and wants to do the best on behalf of the family. Throughout the play the reader is given many instances were Juliet’s parents feel obligated to love her. At first they threatened to throw her out onto the streets as in Act three Scene 5 Capulet says to Juliet “Thursday is near lay hand on heart and you be mine, Ill give you to my friend, and you to be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets.”. Even though she obeyed her parents they had high expectations of her to do what was beneficial
In Act I of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates different forms of love that characters face. From the beginning, Romeo struggles to find true love and what love really is. As for Juliet, she also struggles on what love is, but also finding her own voice. And when finally finding true love they discover that they have fallen in love their own enemy. They both realize that the idea of love can be amazing, but also a painful experience. Shakespeare demonstrates love versus evil and the forms love takes that is acknowledged as an universal issue that connects different types of audiences. Audiences are captured by relating on love and the emotions that are displayed. From Romeo and Rosaline’s unrequited love, Paris and Juliet’s false love, and Romeo and Juliet’s ill-fated love, create the forms of love that establishes love as a leading theme in Act I.
play is also about hate as well as love. We are always reminded of the
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the views of love held by the character Romeo contrast sharply with the views of Mercutio. Romeo's character seems to suffer from a type of manic depression. He is in love with his sadness, quickly enraptured and easily crushed again on a passionate roller coaster of emotion. Mercutio, by contrast is much more practical and level headed. His perceptions are clear and quick, characterized by precise thought and careful evaluation. Romeo, true to his character begins his appearance in the play by wallowing in his depression over Rosaline who does not return his love:
Playwright, William Shakespeare, conveys the different forms of love between characters in his drama, Romeo and Juliet. In the small town of Verona the different types of love are highlighted, through character actions and speech. Unrequited love is seen in Romeo and Juliet through Romeo 's 'love ' for Rosaline in Act one, while the forbidden love at first sight, also known as romantic love is seen between Romeo and Juliet. Furthermore, the motherly love/ familial love, Juliet and the Nurse share is also explored.
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 characters who, throughout history, have been heralded as the world’s greatest lovers and who have been set up as yardsticks against which future lovers must be measured. The tragic courtship between Romeo and Juliet has become so idealized and revered that even the Oxford English Dictionary lists this definition under the word ‘Romeo’:
In one of Romeo's last lines he talks about death and he says, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!” This quote shows imagery by describing a piece of bark smashing against rocks. This is important because in this quote Romeo is the piece of bark, the rocks are death, and the sea is love. This quote shows that love is what drove romeo to death. This is Shakespeare’s way of subtly showing that love can be, and is dangerous. Near the end of the play, after Romeo's death, Juliet wakes up and sees his body and says, “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” This quote shows imagery by describing how Juliet killed herself. This is important because just like Romeo, Juliet killed herself for love. This is Shakespeare's way of doubling down on the idea that love leads to death which is one of the reasons love is dangerous. Both of these quotes connect to the topic sentence because they both show how love caused a character to kill his or herself, and they both emphasize that love is
Love is ironic. It can take you anywhere in the world unexpectedly, and turn you into a person that you never were. However, love is also two-faced, having both a negative and positive view. It is what drives you to the point where you do not know who you are anymore. In Shakespeare's story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare perceives love with the personalities and actions of the characters, Romeo and Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet are characterized as immature and irrational due to their "love." In addition, both characters fail to realize the reality of life and go towards the path of adolescence. Even though Romeo and Juliet are doomed at the end of the journey of "love," their demise was caused by their rash and silly decisions because their belief of everlasting love blinds them from reality and shapes their lives into an unstoppable time bomb.
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
Romeo, O, Romeo. Romeo and Juliet, a drama play by William Shakespeare, tells the tale of two star crossed lovers. In the city of Verona 1590, two love-stricken teenagers, are predestined to meet. They are forbidden to be with one another, for a feud by their progenitors has doomed them with a forever lasting hatred for one another. Defying those rules, the two decide to keep their love a secret, ending their lives in a way no one would have imagined.
As with life, tragedy always strikes with the unknown possibilities. Within William Shakespeare’s tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, impossibilities come fatefully true. Born in 1564, Shakespeare’s work is considered the greatest English written works of all time, and the performances in the Globe Theater were no exception to his spectacular work of literature-based art. The wide variety of Shakespeare’s work continue to fascinate audiences to this very, present, day. Throughout the tragic play of Romeo and Juliet, literary devices aid to portray characters’ attitude towards love and how it reveals the meaning behind their interactions with other characters within the play.
Romeo is desperate to be in love, and is in fact in love with the idea
Have you ever been in love before? Many would say that love is hard to come by, and even harder to maintain, while some would say the opposite. In Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, he explores similar concepts related to love and infatuation. Although the reader never directly hears from Shakespeare, one could infer that his own thoughts are similarly mirrored in his characters, with the play serving as a warning tale of sorts, and the various roles echoing different dangers when it comes to love, which there are many. More specifically, Romeo Montague and his actions in the play are very intentional, as they help explain Shakespeare’s intentions and his own personal thoughts on the topic of love and its hazards, as well as its ups, too, which there are many.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a Renaissance poet and playwright who wrote and published the original versions of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language, and often called England’s national poet. Several of his works became extremely well known, thoroughly studied, and enjoyed all over the world. One of Shakespeare’s most prominent plays is titled The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. In this tragedy, the concept that is discussed and portrayed through the characters is love, as they are recognized as being “in love”. The general umbrella of love encompasses various kinds of love such as romantic love, the love of a parent for a child, love of one’s country, and several others. What is common to all love is this: Your own well-being is tied up with that of someone (or something) you love… When love is not present, changes in other people’s well being do not, in general, change your own… Being ‘in love’ infatuation is an intense state that displays similar features: … and finding everyone charming and nice, and thinking they all must sense one’s happiness. At first glance it seems as though Shakespeare advocates the hasty, hormone-driven passion portrayed by the protagonists, Romeo and Juliet; however, when viewed from a more modern, North-American perspective, it seems as though Shakespeare was not in fact endorsing it, but mocking the public’s superficial perception of love. Shakespeare’s criticism of the teens’ young and hasty love is portrayed in various instances of the play, including Romeo’s shallow, flip-flop love for Rosaline then Juliet, and his fights with Juliet’s family. Also, the conseque...
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.