Examples Of Sacrifice In Romeo And Juliet

Love is a Powerful Thing

Everywhere you go, there is love. Whether it’s someone loving their cat, or someone loving another person; it can even be someone loving life in general. When you feel love you make sacrifices for the thing that you love because it is special to you. You feel like you only need that one thing in your life and you’ll be content. If you love that thing very much and that thing just disappears one day then you may feel as if you cannot go on without it. All of these feelings are expressed throughout the novel, Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare. Love is a powerful emotion that can make people do crazy things in life.

When people are truly in love, they make sacrifices. In Act II, Romeo made the sacrifice to go see Juliet on her balcony. He knew he could’ve been caught but he did not care he

needed to see her. He listened to her talking about him and finally stepped out of the darkness. Romeo says, “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out:, And what love can do, that dares love attempt; Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.” He is saying that he has wings and floated over the wall to come see her. After Romeo and Juliet have conversed for a while they have agreed to get married. They are both going against their families in order to be with each other. They are truly sacrificing everything for their love.
Juliet will only be with Romeo. She has decided that Romeo is the only one she will ever be with, if she is not with him she will not have a life purpose. Juliet’s parents planned for Juliet to marry Paris Thursday. Romeo was supposed to come back to save her before Thursday. However, Paris moved the wedding to Wednesday and Romeo wouldn’t be able to get her. In result of this Juliet is going to fake her death so she will not have to marry Paris. Juliet says, “What if the poison, which the friar, Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead.” She is worrying that Friar is going to kill her while she is under this potion. She ends up taking the potion and waiting for her true love to rescue her.
In Act V, Balthasar comes to see Romeo and informs him that Juliet is dead.

Romeo says that he is now going to defy fate and he is going to commit suicide. He has said many times that he cannot go on without Juliet. Now that the time has come and she has died, so he believes, he has made plans to leave tonight and to see Juliet one last time and then kill himself. Romeo says, “Is it e’en so? Then I defy you stars!, Thou know’st my lodging: get me ink and paper, And hire post-horses; I will hence tonight” This just proves that love is a very powerful emotion that drives people to take actions that we would not normally do.

There are so many books and movies about love and what it drives people to do. An example of a book that relates to Romeo and Juliet is Twilight. Twilight is a love story where Edward believes that Bella is dead. He feels he cannot go on without her so he goes to the Volturi so that they will kill him. This is just like Romeo and Juliet because he has made sacrifices, he only wants her, and he feels he cannot go on without her. The moral of the story is that love is a crazy complicated thing that can control your

actions.