The song by Selena Gomez “The Heart Wants What It Wants” explains the love between Romeo and Juliet perfectly: Their hearts want love, so that is what the heart gets. Romeo and Juliet obviously refuse to stop until they get love, which is all they ultimately want. In the story Romeo and Juliet the tragedy between the two characters is true love because they disobey each others families to be together, they show genuine affection for each other, and lastly they would rather die together than be apart from each other alive.
The first reason why Romeo and Juliet's relationship shows true love is because they disobey the orders from both of their families, and ignore their hatred for each other to be together. Juliet says in the balcony scene, …show more content…
Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. Hoping she might die by the same poison, Juliet kisses his lips, but to no avail. Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself was said in (5.3.171) when Juliet tries to kill herself and then stabs herself to die with Romeo. This quote is saying that Juliet sees Romeo dead, so she wants to be dead with him, they would not be happy alone when they are alive but not together. They are so in love that they will go to any length to be together even if they are not alive. This quote is important because it emphasized the undying love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other and it also shows that they are willing to die for each other to be happy so that their love will never stop. If you think that you would be happier dead without the person that you are in love with than sadly alive then that shows true love if you would give up your life for …show more content…
In act 2, scene 2, line 1 Juliet says “Who told you how to get here below my bedroom”. That means that Romeo stands in the shadows beneath Juliet's bedroom window. This quote is important to how Romeo shows Juliet legitimate affection for her because he goes to her house at night to talk to her because of how much he cares for her and to show his love for her. Romeo also says “love showed me the way—the same thing that made me look for you in the first place” (act 2, scene 2, line 2-3). This quote means that love brought Romeo to her house. He shows a absolute love for Juliet by still going there no matter what anyone said and not letting anyone stop him even after knowing that he can get in trouble and he is not supposed to be there. They talked about them getting married and even with all the unlucky circumstances, they still agreed to
The first reason why Romeo and Juliet's relationship shows true love is because they disobey the orders from both of their families, and ignore their hatred for each other to be together. Juliet says in the balcony scene, …show more content…
Juliet sees Romeo dead beside her, and surmises from the empty vial that he has drunk poison. Hoping she might die by the same poison, Juliet kisses his lips, but to no avail. Hearing the approaching watch, Juliet unsheathes Romeo's dagger and, saying, “O happy dagger, / This is thy sheath,” stabs herself was said in (5.3.171) when Juliet tries to kill herself and then stabs herself to die with Romeo. This quote is saying that Juliet sees Romeo dead, so she wants to be dead with him, they would not be happy alone when they are alive but not together. They are so in love that they will go to any length to be together even if they are not alive. This quote is important because it emphasized the undying love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other and it also shows that they are willing to die for each other to be happy so that their love will never stop. If you think that you would be happier dead without the person that you are in love with than sadly alive then that shows true love if you would give up your life for …show more content…
In act 2, scene 2, line 1 Juliet says “Who told you how to get here below my bedroom”. That means that Romeo stands in the shadows beneath Juliet's bedroom window. This quote is important to how Romeo shows Juliet legitimate affection for her because he goes to her house at night to talk to her because of how much he cares for her and to show his love for her. Romeo also says “love showed me the way—the same thing that made me look for you in the first place” (act 2, scene 2, line 2-3). This quote means that love brought Romeo to her house. He shows a absolute love for Juliet by still going there no matter what anyone said and not letting anyone stop him even after knowing that he can get in trouble and he is not supposed to be there. They talked about them getting married and even with all the unlucky circumstances, they still agreed to