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
The theme of love is everlasting. It has been the subject of much argument throughout the ages and is as relevant today as it had been a thousand years ago. Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet depicts the lives of two lovers and the events of their lives as they hide their love from their parents. Romeo and Juliet are lovers who have an overwhelming passion for one another, a passion that transcends every complication that they may encounter. The personalities, attitudes, and emotions of Romeo and Juliet mirror to those of teenagers today.
Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare about two people who fall in love but are from two feuding families and are fitting to be with each other. They do not listen to their families and in the end, their “star-crossed love” results in both of their deaths. Importantly, their love has consequences that affect more than just themselves. When Romeo and Juliet’s love leads to their deaths, it also affects their family, friends, and community members. In this way, Shakespeare’s play suggests that love, which we all think as a positive thing, can have far-reaching negative consequences.
The tale of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare will always be revered as one of the most tragic, classic tales of young love. However, is it possible that Romeo and Juliet’s feelings for each other could be something other than love? It is quite unlikely that two young teenagers who just met could be so passionately affectionate towards each other within such a short time frame. Yet, the situation becomes far more likely when one takes the time to carefully define what emotions they are truly experiencing.
Love is one of the biggest misconceptions humans partake in. It’s dated back centuries, the contradicting emotion exceeding nearly all other ideas and stories. Teen boys and girl are the most at fault when it comes to the delusions elicited by love. In William Shakespeare’s Tragedy Romeo and Juliet, the two young teens experience “love” in completely different ways. Romeo dwells only on the beauty that of Juliet in deciding that he loves her while Juliet searches for an intimate relationship, evidently leading her to want a committed one as well.
In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, various references to sight, seeing, and eyesight serve as a constant reminder both to the play’s central characters and audience members of the flawed distortions of appearance, in juxtaposition to the true nature of things—namely reinforcing a constricting tension between appearance and reality. Numerous references to the moon also reinforce the reduced vision, as an effect of darkness, that characters must endure in a world of constant transformation and unrealistic change. In a play where the language of love heavily depends upon sight imagery ry, the magical interventions of fairies—namely, Oberon’s placement of the love juice on characters’ eyes in the play—perturbs their ability to “see” true love. In Act 2, Scene 2, xx declares that 'Reason becomes the marshal to my will / And leads me to your eyes, where I o'erlook / Love's stories written in love's richest book'. Reason and love, it appears, cannot coexist.
Although love is an affectionate and peaceful feeling, it can also be dangerous and deadly towards many lives if mixed with immature and impulsive characteristics. The tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, written by the well-known author William Shakespeare centers on a corrupt society and the romance of two young lovers, each a member of one of the feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. The importance of wealth, status and pride in society causes each of the family’s to disregard and neglect the new love formed by their immature children, Romeo and Juliet. The neglectful decisions created by the families, leads the passionate young lovers to perform a string of mistakes based off of their impulsive love, thus ending the conflict by taking their own lives and causing pain in the lives of those dear to them. The tragic love story, Romeo and Juliet qualifies as a Greek tragedy for the reason that it contains plot events displaying corruption of society as well as chains of mistakes created by the tragic hero, Romeo. Shakespeare shows that love can either be one’s hero and savior or a dangerous weapon if put into the hands of those who possess immature and irresponsible characteristics.
Love is one of the central ideologies present in this text. Shakespeare endues love with numerous traits and flaws, elaborating on the nature of love with statements made by the young lovers. Through Helena‘s soliloquy, Shakespeare describes many of the frustrating characteristics attributed
Many people argue wether Romeo and Juliet is a true love story due to the fact that they got married in the matter of less than 24 hours from the time they met. The big question is if it is true love? Is it love at first sight or not? Some people believe in love at first sight but many do not. What does it take for two people to engage in true everlasting love? Different psychologists, marriage counselors, married couples might all have a different outlook on this. There is no way Romeo and Juliet could have loved each other the same way a true married couple does, Romeo already said he loved Juliet before he even got to know her.
Even though their love was toxic, due to the hatered between both families, Romeo and juliets love over powered it. thus, both of their fates lead to death. because Romeo was banished and Juliets family wanted him dead. but how could his wife agree. so she is torn between the two. she fakes her death. Romeo lost without his wife he drinks poison to be with his beloved. she awakens and see that he committed suicide. so then she does the same with a dagger. both families notice what they have done to their loved once., getting married secretly is what they did. the death of Romeos friend by Juliets cousin, and the death of juliets cousin by her husbands hand in revenge made things worse., and their families did not like one another. so they where
Ever since Romeo and Juliet was written, people have debated whether it was written to be a love story or a tragedy. The play is centered around a romantic relationship, which may cause some to believe it to be a love story. However, Romeo and Juliet show tragic themes as well as themes of love. This play can be considered both, but even so, it shows more elements of being a tragedy than a love story.
Here he gives us insight into his own personality and almost seems to mock those in love. When he says “let the audience look to their eyes” (1.2.20), he is directly touching on one of the themes in the play: the use of one’s eyes in love, which according to Bottom means that people do not use their heads when in love and that it is an emotion merely based on superficialities. Whatever the case may be, it is obvious that he is much more of a lover than a tyrant.
As it may seem, the tale of our lovers has ended. I have experienced every feeling and expression of love between these couples spanning from mere discrepencies about obsession, to pure jeaolousy grasping a firm grim upon one’s thought.As I look back upon these events, it is fairly simple to witness how love guides one as if hypnotized or deluded caused by an inexplicable feeling. When I had gone to fetch my lord Oberon his flower, the obsessed Helena and her beloved Demetrius were bickering about love. Helena persistently followed her love, constantly telling him of his beauty and inexplicable appeal, yet dastardly Demetrius spurned her. I felt utterly appaled by Demetrius’s actions, even when Helena went as far as to state,”I am your spaniel.
The beauty of love is what this passage focuses on, it shows us the love that two young lovers have towards each other. Even though they both know that their love is forbidden, they still love each other deeply. Shakespeare’s writing skills helps the audience connect with the characters with
The famous drama of Romeo and Juliet stands as a novelty of romance since the Shakespearean Era. Essentially, the story revolves around the ideology of love at first sight and the intensity of their tragic romance. The cheesiest of romance films have advertised the legitimacy of love at first sight. Yet surprisingly controversy still seems apparent over its existence. For a non-believer, love at first sight is simply a form of physical attraction and lacks the likeliness of a long-lasting relationship.
Now many would call Romeo and Juliet the play that teaches us that love, at first sight, is real. While reading this play the only thing the audience will be able to understand from this story is that love holds no bounds, that some love is forever. In class, we came to the conclusion that this play is about immature, naive, stubborn kids who do not understand the concept of what real love is. Their demised stemmed from a fast-paced relationship which bloomed from rejection. Stupidity, naivety, stubbornness, and immaturity are all traits that may be used to describe Romeo Montague. Now, these traits shaped Romeo to be the most irresponsible guy ever which lead him and his supposed love to their demise. Now it is not to be said that Juliet was not at fault, on the contrary, she is also to blame for their demise because the traits Romeo has she seems to have too. Most of these ideas seem pretty petty for older people, which is why it weighs so heavy on them, they are children, if they would have waited to even commence their relationship they would have outgrown most of these traits and their demise may have been avoided altogether.