Romeo and Juliet Theme
The play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is a tragic story of two lovers and their feuding families. Throughout the story the lovers, Romeo and Juliet overcome the feuding between their families and fall in love with each other. The problem they face is that their families cannot seem to get over the feud. As the tensions rise between the two families the two lovers become desperate and end their lives, for if they cannot be together in life, they will in death.
Throughout Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare suggests many things about love, the most obvious, being that love is sad and deceiving, and it is like this in a way that people don’t realize it’s true nature until they have experienced it; Shakespeare makes this suggestion through the characters he created in the story.
Within the story of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare makes the suggestion that love is sad. Shakespeare makes his view of love apparent in Benvolio’s monologue: “A sea nourished with lovers’ tears” (1.1.199). The implication of this statement is that love tends to be very sad. Shakespeare does this by saying that a sea, which is defined as being a large body of salt water, being sustained by the tears of people who …show more content…
Although Shakespeare shows this in multiple ways two very evident ones are seen when he compares love to chaos that doesn’t look chaotic and when Shakespeare implies that lovers’ cry a lot by saying their tears nourish a sea. Shakespeare’s theme about love being sad and deceiving relates to all of humanity through various ways. The main reason being that love is often thought of as being happy and is something that many people long for. The problem with that is that they don’t seem to notice that in reality love isn’t as blissful as it is thought to be and tends to end in sorrow and people being
The play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare is a tragic story of two lovers and their feuding families. Throughout the story the lovers, Romeo and Juliet overcome the feuding between their families and fall in love with each other. The problem they face is that their families cannot seem to get over the feud. As the tensions rise between the two families the two lovers become desperate and end their lives, for if they cannot be together in life, they will in death.
Throughout Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare suggests many things about love, the most obvious, being that love is sad and deceiving, and it is like this in a way that people don’t realize it’s true nature until they have experienced it; Shakespeare makes this suggestion through the characters he created in the story.
Within the story of Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare makes the suggestion that love is sad. Shakespeare makes his view of love apparent in Benvolio’s monologue: “A sea nourished with lovers’ tears” (1.1.199). The implication of this statement is that love tends to be very sad. Shakespeare does this by saying that a sea, which is defined as being a large body of salt water, being sustained by the tears of people who …show more content…
Although Shakespeare shows this in multiple ways two very evident ones are seen when he compares love to chaos that doesn’t look chaotic and when Shakespeare implies that lovers’ cry a lot by saying their tears nourish a sea. Shakespeare’s theme about love being sad and deceiving relates to all of humanity through various ways. The main reason being that love is often thought of as being happy and is something that many people long for. The problem with that is that they don’t seem to notice that in reality love isn’t as blissful as it is thought to be and tends to end in sorrow and people being