Romeo and Juliet: Is love a cause of violence? Is love a cause of violence? is the theme introduced in the play Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star crossed lovers whose devotion is so intense it causes violence. Love is always considered the opposite of violence, but in this tale of Romeo and Juliet, they are one in the same. Without violence in this tragic love story, the emotion and will cannot be as strongly expressed. Is love a cause of disorder, The first example from the play Romeo and Juliet to support my theme is quoted from Act 5 scene 3 lines 72-73,” Oh I am slain if thou lay me with Juliet.” This is the scene where Paris was slain by Romeo to get to Juliet. These are his last words as he wishes to be laid …show more content…
You desperate pilots, let's crash this sea weary ship into the rocks! Here's to my love.” Act 5 scene 3, This quote refers to Romeo taking poison that kills him right beside Juliet. The reason behind this scene is Romeo thought Juliet was dead. This shows another act of violence or self-violence because of love, devotion and affection. Love is a cause of violence “Oh noise then I'll be quick oh good a knife my body will be your sheath, Rust inside my body and let me die.” (Juliet stabs herself) Act 5 scene 3 line 170, This example refers to juliet killing herself with Romeo's dagger because he is dead beside her This shows how they will harm themselves for their love. This is what Shakespeare shows through love in this story. My last example of showing love as a cause of violence in this play is quoted from Act 2 Scene 6 by Friar Lawrence. This quote from Friar Lawrence tells Romeo their love is nothing but a light that will burn them and then it will die out there love will cause them and others harm. Love as a cause of violence in the famous play Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare is a major and recurring theme in this story. Romeo and Juliet's love is based on this from the start, when the audience is told they will die in the
Romeo and Juliet show very vividly that love can be a dangerous influence. Romeo and Juliet are from rival families and have found love. They had put aside their families ancient hatred and fell in love in secrecy which obviously came with consequence. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author communicates the message that love causes humans to make irrational decisions. We know this because of their decision to get married, Juliet's decision to fake her death, and Romeo and Juliets to end their lives,
Romeo- Love causes Romeo to act impulsively and put himself in dangerous situations. For example, in act two scene two, Romeo sneaks into the Capulet grounds due to his love for Juliet. He loves her so much that he was willing to risk being caught by Juliet’s kinsman. If he was caught, a fight could have broken out, which would put Romeo’s life in danger. Also, he would lose his life due to the prince’s penalty. However, due to his intrusion of the Capulet party in act one scene five, it is Tybalt’s rage that jeopardizes Romeo’s well-being. This shows the intensity of Romeo’s love for Juliet, and how he cares more about seeing her than his own safety. For example, in act five scene three, Romeo kills himself because he believes that Juliet
Many people claim that love and hate are the same thing, while others say that the two emotions are complete opposites. William Shakespeare explored the two emotions in his play Romeo and Juliet. In the play, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are teens who grew up in families that have been feuding longer than either family can remember. However, the two meet out of unforeseen circumstances, and fall irrevocably in “love”. They woo, and within twenty-four hours they are married. Things seem to be going well until Romeo is provoked into killing Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt, and gets himself banished. Juliet is also promised to marry Paris, an eligible bachelor, while she is still mourning Romeo’s banishment. She decides to see one of the two people who know of her and Romeo’s marriage, Friar Laurence, to whom she says that if she cannot find a way out of being alone she will kill herself. The Friar gives her a potion to sleep for forty-two hours and appear dead to help her. The plan is that Romeo is supposed to be there when she wakes up, but Romeo hears that she is dead and kills himself at her feet. She then awakes and kills herself as well, ending the whole brutal affair. The reader is then left to wonder if what they have just experienced is a tragedy of young love or a lesson on the power of hate, a question for which Shakespeare leaves a blurry but definite answer. After a deeper look into the text, it becomes clearly evident that hate has far more power over the characters than their “love” ever could.
How are modern day gangs compared to Shakespeare’s book, “Romeo and Juliet?” Romeo and Juliet is based on a play and gang violence can be based on a play, a real life story, or reality. Today, I will be comparing modern day gang violence in California to the family feud in Romeo and Juliet. The purpose for writing this essay is to inform readers on how family issues can be considered as gang related issues.
Love is a wonderful curse that forces us to do unexplainable things. Romeo and Juliet is a famous play written by William Shakespeare, who does an exceptional job in showing the readers what hate, mercy, death, courage, and most importantly what love looks like. This play is about two star-crossed lovers who are both willing to sacrifice their lives just to be with one another. Unfortunately tragedy falls upon the unconditional love Romeo and Juliet have for each other, but along the way they experience immeasurable forgiveness and extraordinary braveness just to be with one another. Sadly enough, love is a cause of violence in the end. Even though the pair spends less time together, it is enough for them to fall in love. It is clearly true
Lao Tzu, a philosopher from China once said, “Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself” (Lao Tzu 1). This directly relates to the many acts of violence that Romeo, a Montague, is apart of. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet have to deal with hatred between their families and what occurs because of it. Many people die and the lives of Romeo and Juliet comes to an end. While some may believe otherwise, violence cannot solve problems.
...knife I’ll help it presently. God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands.”(IV.i.53-56) Friar Lawrence’s advice to Juliet, and Juliet’s reaction enunciate the theme love as a cause of violence because her love for Romeo, and the fact that the Friar can’t stop her from marrying Paris, will lead her to the violent act of killing herself.
A young girl, like Juliet can be mesmerized by the idea of love and have the thought in her head that love is all that matters. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing. Juliet goes through physical pain stabbing herself so she could be with Romeo after his death. Juliet looks at death as a positive thing because it allows her to be with Romeo again. Before she kills herself she says, “O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die” (Shakespeare V.iii.174-175). In most romantic tales, violence is the last thing you would think of when it comes to love, but it would be different in this play. In both of these texts we see love destroy people mentally and physically; instead of bring happiness to their lives. When Juliet notices that Romeo drank poison and had killed himself, she was not only upset about his death but also seemed more upset that he “left no friendly drop to help me after! I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them” (Shakespeare V.iii.168-170). This bond that seems to be unbreakable between them causes more harm than it would have if they were not together like society would want them to be. During this time period in the 16th century, the parents usually arranged marriages, so this goes completely against societal
Throughout the film, it is clearly shown that the feud is deadly, referring to Mercutio and Tybalt’s death. Although poison has a literal purpose in the play, it also serves as a symbol of hatred between the two families. Friar Laurence uses a simile to apprise the belief that people are a lot like flowers—full of both “loveliness” and “rude-will,” even humans have the capability to be good or deadly. He mentions that it all depends on whether the “rude-will” takes over, which refers directly to how Romeo and Juliet’s love turns deadly when it is poisoned by the family’s vile feud. Due to the feud, the family would never allow the two lovers to be together which is the sole reason Juliet faked her own death and was brought to the Capulet tomb. When Romeo finds Juliet ‘dead’ in the Capulet tomb he can’t bear to live without her love, and he consumes poison which kills him. After Juliet regains consciousness and finds that her love is lifeless, she kills herself using Romeo’s dagger to be with him. This symbol displays that Juliet is happy to die as she describes the item that kills her with a positive connotation using the word ‘happy’. The star-crossed lovers can not cope life without one another. After their relationship was indisposed from the atrocious feud the lovers viewed no other choice representing
Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love tales, but what if the play is not actually a tale of love, but of total obsession and infatuation. Romeo has an immature concept of love and is rather obsessive. Romeo is not the only person in the play who is obsessed though. Many people throughout the play notice his immaturities about love. Very rarely was true love actually shown in the play. attention. Romeo childishly cries to his friend, Benvolio because Rosaline will not love him back and says " She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow/ Do I live dead that live to tell it now" (I i 219-220). Romeo is stating that he's ready to die for loving Rosaline. This is exactly the same attitude Romeo had towards Juliet a little later in the play. During Scene I, Act ii, Romeo's friend, Benvolio tries to get him to go to the Capulet's party to help him get over Rosaline and meet other women Romeo gets very angry and emotional when he suggests this. “Now Romeo is beloved and loves again, / Alike bewitched by the charm of looks” (II 5-6). The chorus expresses Romeo’s juvenile way...
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The Murder of Love Famous French novelist Milan Kundera once wrote, “At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love". This is relatively true of Romeo and Juliet’s love story. The two star-crossed lovers in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet go through many obstacles to try to make their love work out. Sadly it does not, and they both take their own lives due to their misfortune, their deaths affecting the many people of Verona. Although everyone has a portion of accountability for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, miscommunication is most to blame for their tragic ends, as shown by Juliet and Paris, Juliet’s staged death, and the death of Tybalt.
For a love story, Romeo and Juliet has more violence and bloodshed than most TV mini-series. The play begins with a riot, ends with a double suicide, and in between has three murders. And all this takes place in the span of four short days. Of course, when you're dealing with love and passion, you're operating on an elemental level. The funny thing is that they have their roots in the same soil. It is common for love to turn to hate - in the blink of an eye.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in the time of Elizabeth I. Romeo & Juliet is one of his most famous plays and has always been extremely popular in mainstream and in contemporary media, mainly because the ideals and issues brought up in the play are still very valid in modern times. The play revolves around the, aptly named, Romeo & Juliet and their forbidden love and their struggle to love one another with each others families, Capulets and Montagues, feuding with each other, underneath the romanticism it is a story of a plan going wrong. I am going to analyse and interpret how two very contrasting things; love and violence relate to each other in the play, the effect they have on the characters and the events that unfold.
In Shakespeare´s play love is the most important theme. Often at times Shakespeare made love seem as a force that puts individuals against their own world, values, loyalties, and emotions. Since the extreme passion between Romeo and Juliet is very powerful it tends to be blinding through out the play, causing hate, violence and even death. Or in the words of Romeo: “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers'