In William Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, there is an absolute abundance and multitude of love, hate, family bonds, and no short supply of long-standing noble family feuds. Through the experiences and outstanding gestures of love and bonding, we find that the young Juliet Capulet is entranced and enchanted by Romeo, who is a member of the Montague family, an enemy of a long-standing feud to the Capulets. The tragedy mood is set forth from the very beginning with his outright statement in the opening statement, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” (Shakespeare I. i. 5-6). With this statement proclaimed, not only is a sense of gloom established, but also a sense
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The presence is very clear between Romeo and Juliet, the star-cross’d lovers of the fatal foes of this classic play. Sadly, however their love will meet a tragic end. Shakespeare, while talking about their love, wrote: “Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books / But love from love; toward school with heavy looks” (II.ii. 157-158). In “Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet”, the author analyzed this sentence, and said that “The school for these young lovers will be tragic experience” (Levin 5). Levin understood Shakespeare’s implied meaning that when two lovers are together, knowledge is to be had, but when they are separated, bad things are bound to happen. This is very true in Romeo and Juliet, seeing as how many people died as a result of their recklessness and unmeasured amounts of passion due to their love for each other. Romeo is so infatuated with Juliet that he is even willing to give up his courtship with Rosaline, mainly due to the implication that he does not posses any love for her. While he does not love her, he does not leave her formally before kissing Juliet, referring to the kiss as a sin, which would make since since during the time, it would have been considered unholy for a courted man to kiss another woman (Bond 5). All of these ideals and events occur due to the dark and deep nature of Romeo and Juliet’s love, which is made very clear by Shakespeare …show more content…
The love of two young lovers makes the families rethink the whole meaning of love and brings them to ask themselves what the point of the feud was, since they lost their most important assets in life to the feud, their children. The love that Romeo and Juliet shares last them literally until death does make them part. The feud between the families is ended since its overall insignificance is realized. Hatred is no longer needed for the Montagues and Capulets, due to the display of affection that the family's own offspring showed for each other. This helped the families realize that the hatred that they exhibit for one another is completely unneeded and only displayed due to their parent’s or older generation’s stories and upbringing to show that hate. It is a learned hatred rather than a true hatred, and the love that their children showed for each other shows them that the learned hatred could be overcome if they actually wanted to end the longstanding feud. Ultimately, their children act as a lightning bolt, striking both families to their very core. The future for Romeo and Juliet is, unfortunately, nonexistent. But through them their families should hold a very happy, and bright life, sharing the same love that Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet
The presence is very clear between Romeo and Juliet, the star-cross’d lovers of the fatal foes of this classic play. Sadly, however their love will meet a tragic end. Shakespeare, while talking about their love, wrote: “Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books / But love from love; toward school with heavy looks” (II.ii. 157-158). In “Form and Formality in Romeo and Juliet”, the author analyzed this sentence, and said that “The school for these young lovers will be tragic experience” (Levin 5). Levin understood Shakespeare’s implied meaning that when two lovers are together, knowledge is to be had, but when they are separated, bad things are bound to happen. This is very true in Romeo and Juliet, seeing as how many people died as a result of their recklessness and unmeasured amounts of passion due to their love for each other. Romeo is so infatuated with Juliet that he is even willing to give up his courtship with Rosaline, mainly due to the implication that he does not posses any love for her. While he does not love her, he does not leave her formally before kissing Juliet, referring to the kiss as a sin, which would make since since during the time, it would have been considered unholy for a courted man to kiss another woman (Bond 5). All of these ideals and events occur due to the dark and deep nature of Romeo and Juliet’s love, which is made very clear by Shakespeare …show more content…
The love of two young lovers makes the families rethink the whole meaning of love and brings them to ask themselves what the point of the feud was, since they lost their most important assets in life to the feud, their children. The love that Romeo and Juliet shares last them literally until death does make them part. The feud between the families is ended since its overall insignificance is realized. Hatred is no longer needed for the Montagues and Capulets, due to the display of affection that the family's own offspring showed for each other. This helped the families realize that the hatred that they exhibit for one another is completely unneeded and only displayed due to their parent’s or older generation’s stories and upbringing to show that hate. It is a learned hatred rather than a true hatred, and the love that their children showed for each other shows them that the learned hatred could be overcome if they actually wanted to end the longstanding feud. Ultimately, their children act as a lightning bolt, striking both families to their very core. The future for Romeo and Juliet is, unfortunately, nonexistent. But through them their families should hold a very happy, and bright life, sharing the same love that Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet