Thematic Complexity of Love in Romeo and Juliet

There are many different types of love in this world, thus there are many different ways of expressing love. What revolves around that love, and the many different circumstances, trials, and tribulations that a love might face can greatly influence the outcomes of that love. These trials and tribulations can also be seen as different literary elements when used in plays. When looking at Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, he used many different themes and elements to provide complexity to the love story. Shakespeare cleverly takes the main theme of the play, love, and ties in other elements such as time, stage imagery, and language to pull the whole play together in a way that makes one think about the play on other levels.

A love that must revolve around time and is not allowed to take a natural course is ultimately the worse kind of love that there ever was for man. Love must be patient and not done in haste. If so, then it is ultimately doomed to fail, as is the case of Romeo and Juliet. Being as that their love revolves around time it cannot be natural and open and take a natural course. The timing of each action influences the outcome of the play. While some events are of less significance, some are crucial to the development of this tragedy. Time is a big issue when it comes to their love, because time almost becomes an object that lurks over them.

Looking at the start of Romeo and Juliet's love, it is apparent that the only time they can meet safely is at night, hence their first meeting, although, not planned was at night at the Capulet's party. The first time we see both Romeo and Juliet as individuals was during the day in which neither were happy. Romeo was melancholy as we see when he states "Is the day ...

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...o find someone who can surpass his brilliance in taking a major theme in a play such as love, and use so many other techniques in writing such as time, stage imagery, and language to better express the true emotions of love. Romeo and Juliet is a play that is known for its tragic love story, but will always have so many other aspects and elements of literature that make it much more real and stand out in so many different ways. If it were not for Shakespeare's usage of time, stage imagery, and language this love story would not have as great of an impact as it does. The fact that Shakespeare was able to incorporate many different elements into his writing makes him an "expert in the field." "For never was a story of more woe" and excellence "than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (939), and this is only because of the brilliant mind of the playwright, Shakespeare.