Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

Romeo and Juliet, often called the greatest love story of all times, has a clear distinction from other of Shakespeare´s tragedies. The classical tale is about the forbidden love and passion shared between the star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet. The love they had for each other is a fervent response to the unjust world they lived in and the authorities in it. Nevertheless they were unwilling to abandon their authorities: themselves, their families, their faith, their state, their prince. To live the lives they desire (a life together in Verona, their families at peace, their faith) they have to alter the cosmos, and that is why they are always evoking the dark and light imagery, evoking the moon and sun; day and night.

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'

Even though Romeo and Juliet where hasty in their actions, because they where young and did not have the breath of expirence to act more moderately, their death is not entirely their fault. The prologue states: “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”; meaning that they were doomed to their deaths from the start. During the play the star-crossed lovers are seeking to control the cosmos in order to change their fate, but the universe will not bend to it. In fact the universe will do anything that is in its way to doom the young lovers. For example the family feud; the death of both Tybalt and Mercutio; Romeo´s exhile, Paris´ proposal and finally the delay of the