Stereotypes Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Love, an untamable force, has been the subject of many objects of literature. It varied from the sappiest romantic stories to the most wooing of tragedies. In Romeo and Juliet, love was so much deeper. It was an ever-evolving monster that gave and took away happiness. It’s different faces varied from unrequited, pure, or youthful, foolish love. It’s the evolution, that was best performed in Romeo and Juliet, where stereotypes were set aside to create the most accurate vision of human nature and the beast known as love. This route or evolution is based around the characters of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris with their relationships to one another. In the beginning, and concerning Romeo, love was wonderful force of magic through the life of inexperience and wanting. He had been starstruck and in “love” with the first maiden he saw known as, Rosaline. Quickly, however, Romeo’s love became unrequited, sending that love-struck man into the deepest pits of sadness. “Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs” (Shakespeare 1.1. 170). The statement that Romeo has said showed that a man believing in love lost hope in it after it evolved into something one sided and cruel, leaving him to suffer. …show more content…
That displays what must have seemed to be the forceful love of Paris towards Juliet and his wanting of her physical features and her ability to bear children, but not of her as herself. “Younger than she are happy mothers made” (1.2.12 Shakespeare). That was Paris’s reply to Capulet’s statement about Juliet being too young therefore showing what Juliet meant to Paris which was nothing but a bearer to his children. This pushes Juliet into forcing herself to love Paris therefore creating a stupor of