When you think of love do you think of inexplicable joy? Do you automatically relate a parent’s love to over exaggerated punishment? Or do you think of pain when you think of love? And correlate parental love with the ultimate best choice? Pain is not often thought of first when hearing about the passionate love some feel towards their partners. Similarly, a parent’s love for their child can frequently be mistaken for overdone punishments. However, in texts such as Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid, Duty by Rafael Berkman, and My Shakespeare by Kate Tempest, these beliefs can be reversed and the realization of the true meaning of love can be recognized. Romeo and Juliet, Pyramus and Thisbe, Duty, and My Shakespeare
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This love is called eros, the attachment that causes a lover to be blinded from any faults in their partner and can cause radical actions because of this. However, Romeo and Juliet dont have the only intense love story, eros love can also be found in Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid, “My Shakespeare,” by Kate Tempest, and Duty by Pamela Berkman. When wanting to hear of a romantic love story, many turn to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo speaks of Juliet with deep affection when he says, “Oh she doth teach the torcher to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel, beauty too rich for use…” (Sh1, 5, 42-44). Here, Romeo not only refers to Juliet as a rich jewel, but comments on her beauty as well, saying it is too good for the world. As many know, Romeo and Juliet ends in an unfortunate tragedy, but many overlook Paris’s tragic ending in “Romeo and Juliet.” The text, “Dusk,” gives a unique perspective from Lady Capulet who reverently regards to Paris saying, “...that fool Paris, who no less than Romeo died for love of my daughter.” (20-21). Often overlooked, through Lady Capulet’s perspective, it is evident that Romeo isn’t the only one in love that earns a fateful ending. Similar to “Romeo and Juliet,” the love story of “Pyramus and Thisbe” has an equally devastating ending. When Thisbe sees her lover dead …show more content…
For Romeo and Juliet, their eros love only caused pain to stem from their passion. After Romeo kills himself, Juliet cries to him, “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.- O churl, drunk all, and not left a friendly drop to help me after?” (5, 3, 173-176). Hearing of Juliet’s death, Romeo resorts to suicide, by poison. When Juliet sees him she is upset, not only because he killed himself, but because he didn’t leave any poison for Juliet to kill herself as well. Just as Juliet found Romeo, Thisbe found Pyramus. As she sees Pyramus, “She is quick to recognize her lover; with loud blows she beats her arms—” (117-119). Although she does not deserve to harm herself, she immediately goes into shock and breaks down. It was the eros love that killed Pyramus and caused Thisbe’s break down in this moment. In Duty, Lady Capulet feels the pain of losing her only daughter. Lady Capulet expresses her sorrow saying, “...my bean as she once was within me, lies here curled at my feet, curled around him, for that, that boy.” (65-66). In this example, it is not only the lovers involved feeling pain because of love, it is also Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother. Lady Capulet sees Juliet curled around the one she was forbidden from and is devastated because of her only daughter’s death. It is important to recognize that the
This love is called eros, the attachment that causes a lover to be blinded from any faults in their partner and can cause radical actions because of this. However, Romeo and Juliet dont have the only intense love story, eros love can also be found in Pyramus and Thisbe by Ovid, “My Shakespeare,” by Kate Tempest, and Duty by Pamela Berkman. When wanting to hear of a romantic love story, many turn to Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Romeo speaks of Juliet with deep affection when he says, “Oh she doth teach the torcher to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel, beauty too rich for use…” (Sh1, 5, 42-44). Here, Romeo not only refers to Juliet as a rich jewel, but comments on her beauty as well, saying it is too good for the world. As many know, Romeo and Juliet ends in an unfortunate tragedy, but many overlook Paris’s tragic ending in “Romeo and Juliet.” The text, “Dusk,” gives a unique perspective from Lady Capulet who reverently regards to Paris saying, “...that fool Paris, who no less than Romeo died for love of my daughter.” (20-21). Often overlooked, through Lady Capulet’s perspective, it is evident that Romeo isn’t the only one in love that earns a fateful ending. Similar to “Romeo and Juliet,” the love story of “Pyramus and Thisbe” has an equally devastating ending. When Thisbe sees her lover dead …show more content…
For Romeo and Juliet, their eros love only caused pain to stem from their passion. After Romeo kills himself, Juliet cries to him, “What’s here? A cup, closed in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.- O churl, drunk all, and not left a friendly drop to help me after?” (5, 3, 173-176). Hearing of Juliet’s death, Romeo resorts to suicide, by poison. When Juliet sees him she is upset, not only because he killed himself, but because he didn’t leave any poison for Juliet to kill herself as well. Just as Juliet found Romeo, Thisbe found Pyramus. As she sees Pyramus, “She is quick to recognize her lover; with loud blows she beats her arms—” (117-119). Although she does not deserve to harm herself, she immediately goes into shock and breaks down. It was the eros love that killed Pyramus and caused Thisbe’s break down in this moment. In Duty, Lady Capulet feels the pain of losing her only daughter. Lady Capulet expresses her sorrow saying, “...my bean as she once was within me, lies here curled at my feet, curled around him, for that, that boy.” (65-66). In this example, it is not only the lovers involved feeling pain because of love, it is also Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother. Lady Capulet sees Juliet curled around the one she was forbidden from and is devastated because of her only daughter’s death. It is important to recognize that the