Themes are universal ideas that are explored in literature. Although written in different time periods and in different styles, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, and Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees share the common theme of love – love of all kinds – the love of people, the love of community, or even the love of ideas. People of all generations and people of all ages deal with the universal idea of love: finding love, the loss of love, the love of family or lack there of, forbidden love, the yearning for love. All of these things impact each story, whether it’s beneficial or harmful to the characters. In Romeo and Juliet, the whole play has to do with the theme of love. The main story line has to do with Romeo and Juliet’s love, but there are many subplots and minor characters that bring out the theme of love in different ways. Romeo demonstrates love at first sight when he sees Juliet saying "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight /
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (Shakespeare, Act I, Scene V) Within a short amount of time they already knew that they had to be together, even though they would soon find out that they were supposed to be sworn enemies of each other. Not knowing that Romeo is in the shadows, Juliet talks out loud about their last names …show more content…
There is the childhood love between the characters Dill and Scout, who wanted to marry each other when they grow up. There is the love that Boo Radley shows the neighbor children Jem and Scout by giving them trinkets, protecting them when they are attacked by Mr. Ewell. In The Secret Life of Bees, the abusive father T. Ray showed love in his willingness to give up his daughter, Lily, and let her stay with the black women: “I looked one last time at the highway. I remember thinking that he probably loved me in his own smallish way. He had forfeited me over, hadn’t
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." (Shakespeare, Act I, Scene V) Within a short amount of time they already knew that they had to be together, even though they would soon find out that they were supposed to be sworn enemies of each other. Not knowing that Romeo is in the shadows, Juliet talks out loud about their last names …show more content…
There is the childhood love between the characters Dill and Scout, who wanted to marry each other when they grow up. There is the love that Boo Radley shows the neighbor children Jem and Scout by giving them trinkets, protecting them when they are attacked by Mr. Ewell. In The Secret Life of Bees, the abusive father T. Ray showed love in his willingness to give up his daughter, Lily, and let her stay with the black women: “I looked one last time at the highway. I remember thinking that he probably loved me in his own smallish way. He had forfeited me over, hadn’t