In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the two main characters display the classic romantic relationship that is often portrayed as what a couple should strive for. Thus, many of the ideas presented in the tragedy about “true love” are romanticized in modern society, leading to an idealized toxicity in which the participants are extremely codependent and fail to take notice of their own personal well being. Juliet’s toxic love for Romeo manifests in her desire to always have him by her side in a way that lacks individual freedom. Romeo has a similarly unhealthy love with desires that satisfy Juliet’s. In the orchard, as Romeo is about to leave, Juliet says she wishes to keep him “no further than a wanton’s bird, / That lets it hop a little from
