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Love in Romeo and Juliet

Love can be defined as an intense human emotion that can manipulate a person to

perform acts that he or she might regret in life. In Romeo and Juliet play, Shakespeare reveals

direct emotions to love—and how they make people behave in particular ways. The love is two

faced in Romeo and Juliet. The love is passionate, beautiful, transformative, exhilarating, pure,

and the two are ready to give their all to it. However, the love is also destructive and chaotic,

bringing deaths to family, friends and even to themselves as they try to express love through

community values and respect.

In the play, the love between Roneo and Juliet is mentioned linked with violence and

death and finds suicide as the greatest expression. The love theme in the play extends beyond

Romeo and Juliet. Every character in the play talks about love constantly. Mercutio is convinced

that love is something like an excuse for getting sexual pleasure and that it makes a man dumb

and weak. Lady Capulet thinks that love is always because of don the material things. Because

Paris saw wealthy and handsome, Lady Capulet thinks that Juliet is going to love him. Lord

Capulet perceived love as duty and obedience. Friar Laurence thinks that love is passionate but

also claims that love is a responsibility. In other words, Shakespeare tries to show his readers that

love is complicated—and it can make people behave both rationally and irrationally.

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In the play too, the core values of community and respect affect how individuals act with

respect to love. Temperance is a core value in the sense of self-restraint and moderation. Friar

Laurence is surprised when Romeo rushed towards him after being struck by Cupid Bow in

scene 5 of act 1, saying that he spoke with Juliet, demanding that he should marry Juliet.

‘These violent delights have violent ends,

And in their triumph die, like fire and powder

Which as they kiss consume....’

Too swift arrives, as tardy as too slow. (2.6)

Romeo slays Tybalt since Tybalt killed Mercutio, his friend. Juliet also desperately drinks a

potion to appear dead. Romeo purchases position kills Paris and also kills himself thinking that

Juliet is dead.

Mercutio has a feeling that he is duty bound to respect Romeo’s honor and is killed which

promotes Romeo to commit the act he thought he could avoid, since Tybality is his family, and

he murders Tybalt to defend Mercutio’s honor.

Capulet also has been a loving father to a point where his daughter stops showing respect

for him and dishonors him. He declines to accept excuses of Juliet for failing to marry Paris, and

his tone is too harsh. He says that her daughter is a ‘disobedient wretch’ (111. V. 160) and

suggests says that he will deny her and even cast her out so that he can ‘die in the street’ (193).

Juliet escapes to Friar Lawrence pretending that she wants to confess to displeasing her father.

This shows that Juliet is interested in showing respect towards his father, but circumstances at

hand do not allow her.

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Surname 1 Name Tutor Course Date Love in Romeo and Juliet Love can be defined as an intense human emotion that can manipulate a person to perform acts that he or she might regret in life. In Romeo and Juliet play, Shakespeare reveals direct emotions to love—and how they make people behave in particular ways. The love is two faced in Romeo and Juliet. The love is passionate, beautiful, transformative, exhilarating, pure, and the two are ready to give their all to it. However, the love is also destructive and chaotic, bringing deaths to family, friends and even to themselves as they try to express love through community values and respect. In the play, the love between Roneo and Juliet is mentioned linked with violence and death and finds suicide as the greatest expression. The love theme in the play extends beyond Romeo and Juliet. Every character in the play talks about love constantly. Mercutio is convinced that love is something like an excuse for getting sexual pleasure and that it makes a man dumb and weak. Lady Capulet thinks that love is always because of don the material things. Because Paris saw wealthy and handsome, Lady Capulet thinks that Juliet is going to love him. L ...
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