Romeo And Juliet Literary Analysis Essay

Gavyn Viars

Literary Analysis Essay

Love is a very strong word. It plays a very significant role in a person’s life. When you fall in love with somebody, you want to be there for them at all times. Perhaps you were torn apart from your loved one, would you still love them for eternity even if you never saw them again? Like they say, love is unbreakable. That being said, I’m going to compare and contrast the love between Romeo and Juliet, to our average teen love today. In Romeo and Juliet, there is a feud between their two families. Romeo is a Montague, and Juliet is a Capulet. Their families have never got along, but that’s not going to prevent Romeo from being with Juliet. In the play, their love is violent, ecstatic, overpowering against all other values. Compared to Romeo and Juliet, it would be crazy if a teenager were to kill somebody over his love with someone. In the years of the teen, it’s a time of exploration. As I mentioned in my last paragraph, the teen years are a time of exploration. To me, love is not a good thing at the teenage level. Teens just simply are not mature enough to handle the pressure, especially compared to Romeo and Juliet. Think about it,

You could be secretly kin, it could be some sort of religious factor, or maybe even a racial factor depending on the society you live in. To begin with, being secretly kin would be very odd even after you fell in love. Second, say we were in Nazi Germany, I was a Nazi, and my lover was a Jew. I would be forbidden by the Nazis to be with her. On top of that, the Jews would forbid it even if I didn’t believe in the Nazis methods. Can’t say I would blame them. Lastly, lets go back to the civil war. Say I was African American, and my lover was white. The slave owners would forbid it. Either I would get beaten to death or sent to the hot box for a couple of days if I tried to share love with a white