Love: A Blessing and a Curse in Shakespeare´s Romeo and Juliet

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Love: A Blessing and a Curse
“Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins”. I Peter 4:8-9 says that love is essential to life, the same thing Shakespeare believed. The tragedy Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare is a love story in which Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet experience the highs and lows of a relationship in five days. Romeo Montague is son to Lord and Lady Montague. Romeo’s family is feuding with Juliet’s family, specifically her parents Lord and Lady Capulet. County Paris is the man that is chosen by Lord Capulet to marry Juliet. Paris is excited to marry Juliet but does not truly know Juliet for who she truly is. Romeo and Juliet meet at a Capulet party that Romeo crashes. It is love at first sight for these two. Romeo and Juliet continue to see each other without anybody knowing except for Juliet’s nurse and Friar Lawrence, the priest in Verona, Italy. Juliet and Romeo are so in love that they decide to have Friar Lawrence secretly marry them. After a fight in the streets after the secret marriage, Romeo is now forced to flee to Mantua so he does not have to serve his punishment, death, for killing Tybalt. Friar Lawrence devises a plan to fake Juliet’s death by using a sleeping potion so he can then take Juliet to Mantua to be with Romeo. The plan goes askew and Romeo poisons himself after Juliet appears to be dead. Juliet then wakes up and sees that Romeo is dead. She cannot bear the weight of him being gone and stabs herself with his dagger. Within five days, Romeo and Juliet meet each other, marry, and love each other to the point of death. Shakespeare suggests that impulsive love and no love leads to destruction, but patient love and sincere love leads to joy.
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...r ultimately leads to their downfall that in this case is death. They do not understand that a key to a successful relationship is time. If they know that their impulsiveness will lead to their death, they would take the time to get to know each other then decide if the other is their correct match for life.
Shakespeare shows throughout Romeo and Juliet that love is a dangerous feeling. One-sided love or no love makes your relationship unable to stand the weight of the world. However, with an impulsive love, the relationship will go through a high and then destruct. It is a careful balance that is needed. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, readers learn many lessons one being the difficulty and responsibility that comes with a love-filled relationship. When love is sincere and balanced, relationships will be fruitful. Now one question withstands, to love, or not to love.

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