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Romeo And Juliet Love And Sight

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The great and famous play written by William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet has a centralized theme of teen love in it. The love between Romeo and Juliet, who are from two different loyal and rich families who apparently have antagonism between them for unknown reasons, is the reason they end up in their tragedious demise. Romeo and Juliet’s love is a typical “love in first sight”, love blinds them and the decisions they make are blinded by it as they even marry the very next morning in secret. Shakespeare conveys through his work that love and sight, which could mean literal sight or a perspective, have a common link. It is though most comprehensible through his work that love deceives sight. Romeo and Juliet has great examples to prove that …show more content…

This lets one comprehend that when he sees Juliet everyone else around him is like a Ethiop’s ear, which in this case is referring to Africans who at that time were treated as slaves or were in a lower class. The expensive and rare piece of earing in the Ethiop’s ear, which here Shakespeare wants to convey that it is rare, is Juliet, this shows how love that infects Romeo’s mind instantly infects his sight too and makes everyone except Juliet worthless. The other person to consider in this love-tricking-sight case is Juliet, her perspective is also a great validation of the conflict between love and sight. When she hears news from her nurse about the murder of Tybalt, her perspective about Romeo changes whom she loved so much that she would have given up her own identity. What she says about Romeo is, “Despisèd substance of divinest show! / Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st. /… / O nature, what hadst thou to do …show more content…

The speaker in the sonnet complains how love is infecting his sight, the speaker states, “O me! what eyes hath love put in my head, / Which have no correspondence with true sight”(Shakespeare 1-2), in this very first line of the sonnet it is clear that the speaker is complaining about how love gave him eyes that does not see anything accurately. Here the speaker is also comparing with type of sight he has now as he is in love to the sight he had before he was in love, and he does see difference and that is how he knows that love is a virus to his sight. Another part in the sonnet which is important is where the speaker realizes how love affects his sight. The speaker says, “If that be fair whereon my false eyes dote, / What means the world to say it is not so? / … /… / ... O how can love’s eye be true, / That is so vexed with watching and with tears? / No marvel then, though I mistake my view”(Shakespeare 5-10). Here the speaker is stressed out about why the world says the woman he says is perfect is not. He stays awake everyday and cries because of this contradiction to the world and blames it all on his love toward her for mistaking his view. Now it is confirmed when taken an example from another one of Shakespeare’s work that sight in his work is a slave of

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