Romeo And Juliet Joy And Pain

If love were ever a person do you think he or she would only be creating joy and pain? Would this person do more than just create these feelings? These are questions to ponder when reading the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Love is heavily involved in the play and the characters of it whether it be directly or indirectly. The theme created in the play Romeo and Juliet is that love is pain, a source of power, a troublemaker, a thief, and a solution. This means that love can hurt like a broken bone, become energy for someone to run, cause problems, steal things, and solve problems. Romeo and Juliet’s feelings of love help convey this theme, for it does all of these things. The first way the theme is shown is when Romeo’s feelings

Because of Romeo’s newly found love for Juliet, it drives him away from his friends and makes him seek out Juliet so he can talk to her passionately. Once Romeo does find Juliet, he talks lovingly with her and explains how he got over the Capulet’s stone wall he was by saying, “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 stop to me (2.2.69)”. This means his infatuation for Juliet was strong enough to motivate him and give him power to climb the Capulet’s stone wall. If Romeo’s infatuation didn’t exist then the possibility of him climbing over that wall would have been zero. Not only does the power of love motivate Romeo, it also motivates Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet decide to get married and their love for each other powers their determination to do so. Juliet help their plan of marriage by sending in a messenger, while Romeo sets up an appointment with Friar Lawrence by begging for it (2.3.57-64). To summarize this, the love that Romeo and Juliet have that gives them motivation to do the things they

Romeo and Juliet’s love is able to steal, but not things like money, but a person’s character. Romeo and Juliet’s love is the sole reason that Friar Lawrence’s character changes. In the introduction to Friar Lawrence, he was seen as a holy man, a never do wrong always do good type of guy, but as he is involved with Romeo and Juliet’s love he is forced to abandon those characteristics. For instance, when the watchmen are coming to investigate the situation at the graveyard, Friar Lawrence and flees from Juliet and the scene to keep himself out of trouble (5.3.151-160). If Friar Lawrence was still that holy man he was when he was introduced, he would have not ran away and accepted punishment for his sins. Along with the the theft of a character’s characteristics, their love took lives too, specifically their own lives. Romeo and Juliet’s love was so strong that they would die for each other if they wanted to, which they do end up doing. An awakening Juliet wakes up to the sight of a dead Romeo that had just drunk a nasty brew. This makes Juliet commit suicide along with him, for she could not bear a life without the only person she truly loved (5.3.161-170). If their love for each other wasn’t as grand as they made it out to be they would have not gone as far as to join one another in the afterlife. This bloody scene turns love into the main culprit