Comparing Love In Shakespeare's Romeo Katharine Hepburn And Spencer Tracy

Stories of love have been told many different ways. We tell them in ways that are so fascinating that we think it could not have been possible. Some stories of love between couples we know very well are fictional, and some of them happen in the real world. Fiction or not, it is their stories that have an impact on how we choose to believe in love and how we perceive the stories of these well-known couples. It seems that these couples were sometimes not meant to be together due to outside forces like the story of Romeo and Juliet, and others were tricked by fate like Orpheus and Eurydice. Whether they were meant to be together or not is the question that keeps so many of these couples famous.
One of the famous works of William Shakespeare, Romeo …show more content…
While they were in love, Spencer still had a wife and a kid that he did not leave. Katharine had no children and Spencer stayed in touch with his wife. Spencer also had other affairs but when he died, but the media did not mention any of these affairs including Hepburn. He was in terrible health and he died of a heart attack and was said to have treated Katharine badly. People wonder if their story was love based on how Hepburn described her role in the relationship. She described it as her doing everything to please him, and even going so far to change the best parts about her. Although Katharine was in excellent health and the opposite of Spencer, she could not change him and people wonder if this was ever a story of love or just attachment from Hepburn to Tracy in order to feel …show more content…
Hazel Grace Lancaster has thyroid cancer and Augustus Waters has osteosarcoma but had recovered from it. They met in a cancer support group and became good friends because of how frequently Augustus waters would drop his friend isaac off at the support group. Hazel and Gus became friends and bonded over a book with an abrupt ending called An Imperial Affliction. They soon fell in love, but Hazel continued to get more sick. Gus got tickets to go see the author of An Imperial Affliction in Amsterdam but then he got sick again. The story goes on with him getting more ill and he ends up passing instead of her. The title of this story even suggests how “star-crossed” they are, but it still shocks so many to read the ending. While they are fictional, readers are able to feel the same heartache and sadness because of how tragic their love story