Examples Of Divisive Love In Romeo And Juliet

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Divisive Love: Exploring Love’s Complexities in Romeo and Juliet “But love, love will tear us apart” is a quote from an 80s band, Joy Division, which encapsulates the theme of love in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Although the play is typically referred to as a unifying love story, Shakespeare emphasises the two sided nature of love through Tybalt, Capulet, and skillful imagery, he portrays love as both a unifying and divisive force, illustrating the complexities of love. Romeo and Juliet show many different kinds of love–platonic, romantic and familial– all of which can turn into chaos and end up breaking people apart. For instance, Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other brings them together, while Capulet’s love for his family and Juliet ends up breaking them apart because he wants to marry Juliet to cheer her and their …show more content…

He shows his love for Juliet through this, and he believes that he’s doing the right thing for her by marrying her to Paris. For Juliet, it just seems cruel. Capulet says to Juliet after she says she doesn’t want to marry Paris, “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 honourable parts,” (3, 5, 179-182). He is outraged that he spent so much time looking for a perfect husband for Juliet, and she doesn’t want to marry him. Despite the fact that Capulet tries to marry Juliet because he loves her and wants her to be happy, it still ends up dividing them more because this is what causes Juliet to fake her own death to be with Romeo, which ruins her family. Tybalt is generally thought of as a brash and impulsive character that perpetuated the feud, but in reality, he is just as much driven by love as all the other characters. For instance, Tybalt feels like he needs to protect his family from the

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