Life as we know it

In the renowned play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ there are many examples of beauty in words, and poetry in motion. We see the many delusions of love, that still exist in our common day. We analyze the true topics/themes in this beautiful play such as Love vs Lust, Passion and Violence go hand in hand etc. In the play we see that Love vs Lust is probably the main theme/topic explored in this play. In my opinion, Juliet and Romeo are naive and happen to not know anything about the real meaning of love. Juliet is seen saying to Romeo “My only love sprung from my only hate !”. Only hours after their first encounter. This is an act of impulse, and one of the many characteristic’s of lust. Juliet also claims to be in love with Romeo, saying “be but sworn my love” yet she calls out to Romeo “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name”. Only hours after laying eyes on each other she tells him to deny his family, and to deny his inheritance. When someone is truly and deeply in love with a person, they would first think about the best thing for such person, and would risk everything for that person. But shown here is Juliet being selfish and telling Romeo to deny his very essence. Another example in the play Romeo and Juliet, is Family Loyalty. When Lord Capulet tells his daughter to marry Paris, and he finally understands that she doesn’t want him, he says to her “I tell thee what:get thee to church a Thursday,or never look after me in the face. Speak not, reply not, do not answer me !”. Juliet then pleads with her mother, Lady Capulet to postpone the wedding for a week, a day, a month or even an hour, her mother responds coldly saying “Talk to me not, for I’ll not speak a word/do as thou wilt for I have done with thee” Lady Capulet is seen disowning her own daughter, and goes against the motherly relationship that would and SHOULD be going on, rather then the looks of a grown women arguing and despising a teen aged girl. The play of Romeo and Juliet is indeed one of great woe, but in it is the many lessons and morals, that doubtlessly changed the course of our literal world.

In the famous play by William Shakespeare, we see the love and lust, violence and hatred, family and foes and many other relationships and characteristics. We also find the sad and abnormal sadness of suicide. We see beautiful, young naive Juliet kills herself for the handsome, gallant, and immature Romeo. We find their love as one of the biggest tales of irony, but yet the biggest example of true love. As Juliet awakens from her poisoned sleep, she awakes to see the love of her life Romeo dead at her feet. Thinking that she had died, he took his own life with a deadly suicidal poison. Imagine the irony, the frightening grief of knowing that your love is dead, and that you are the reason to blame. Seeing that she had no other reason to live, she plunged a dagger into her chest, thus causing her own demise. 

I think that the main reason of her death is not quite straightforward, as it requires much thinking. I think, that not one but many people are involved in this sad story. 

To begin, I blame the Montague family and the Capulet family for having a meaningless feud over nothing. They simply despised the other families existence, and fought over useless worldly matters. They made a threat to the security of their city of Verona. And still continued to make matters worse. So when 2 of the opposite families members fell in love, what would the possible outcome be ? A positive one ?

I also bring into perspective that if it were not for the Capulet family forcing or strongly persuading Juliet to marry Paris, maybe she would have remained. But if she disobeyed her parents demands or rather strongly voiced opinions on her arranged marriage, maybe she would have done something less extreme. Maybe she might have even remained.

Moreover, if Nurse and Friar Lawrence had done more to restrain Juliet from marrying Romeo, or from her doing anything non acceptable, such as murdering herself or trying to run away. Nurse just did whatever made Juliet happy, but rather Friar Lawrence did whatever would stop the problems, which made it WORSE, and by giving Juliet the poison he made matters alot worse. I think they both should have thought more about the REAL problem at hand, which was to protect these two young lovers undying love, and to make them both realize what was a better route out of their problem whilst still being together.

” See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love ” Prince V III

Metaphor: A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. Adjective: metaphorical.

A metaphor, is a comparison of two things, an example being, “Love is like a flower”. Meaning that love is indeed as fragile and as vibrant as a flower.

In Romeo and Juliet, there are indeed many examples of metaphors, and many of them are still used in society today. My first example is the words of Lady Capulet to Juliet and Nurse, speaking of Paris she says “This precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him, only lacks a cover”. She means, that Juliet will be the “cover” if she marries him, with a lock on it, to keep the story (Paris) all to herself. The only thing Paris needs to complete himself is a wife, and Lady Capulet wants Juliet to be that women.

My second example, is when Romeo speaks to Juliet and compares his lips to a pilgrim. He says “My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand, to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss” He means, if your offended by the touch of my hand, my two lips are standing here like two blushing pilgrims, ready to make it better with a kiss. 

The metaphorical words used by Shakespeare, are indeed magical and real in their own sense, but when put together in a scene, they make more sense.  

To me, love and marriage are two major factors needed in a married couples relationship. Without the love, the 2 wouldn’t be together. Love is the most important aspect of a marriage. If the 2 weren’t in love, would they have gotten married ? Unless it was a arranged marriage, or they didn’t have a choice AT ALL. Then the love would be absent, and thus end in either divorce, or an unhappy marriage with no way out. I saw in the text of Romeo and Juliet, that Lady Montague wanted her daughter to marry Paris. As he had money, and power and status, that would make the family look extremely well. Love was absent, and the only thing that would be present, is indeed Lust. Lust was what would keep the families happy, and probably keep them together. To me, this seems as an arranged marriage. A marriage with no choice, with no love or mutual feeling. And this will NOT lead to happiness, nor any benefit except worldly good.       

  Fate is the role of a predestined or predefined force of God in a situation or relationship. Love is usually mistaken as the role in many relationships, but to me and many others without fate, the relationship cannot go on, or further mature within itself.One of my examples is the Twilight Saga. Isabella Swan arrives from her hometown of Phoenix, to live with her lonely father in Forks, Washington. She starts off in a normal public school, and makes friends quickly. She notices the outcast Cullen after they are assigned as science partners. She swiftly falls for him, and they fall in love. I don’t think that this is the true role of fate, as in real life vampires aren’t real. I also think that she had a excellent chance with her best friend Jacob, but it wouldn’t evolve as more then a good friendship to her, but in Jacob’s head, she’s all he wants and is the love of his life. This really isn’t plausible except in the world of make believe and novels. If the aspect of Fate wasn’t invested in their relationship, her love would have easily been transferred to Jacob Black   

The common meaning of hate, is to strongly dislike something or to abhor it strongly. But hate isn’t just simply disliking something but has many forms. Hate can be hate crimes against a nation or race such as the abhorrence of African Americans in the 1900s. Hate could also be a cry of help as for Hilly Holbrook in the Help. She does so many evil things to get her way, as sabotaging her best friend Skeeter’s life and trying to run Jackson her way. I think of her hate as a cry for help, or a realization of how low she became in life. When Aibileen says to her ” Your a godless women ” I think Aibileen perfectly portrayed how Hilly must have felt, or how her character actually was. It showed that Hilly didn’t care for her religious aims, or was indeed doing the sins of the devil. Hate could also be as in the case of Hitler who hated the Jews because of their religion and he blamed them for the lose of Germany in the First World War. He hated them simply because of it and killed 6 million Jews during the Holocaust. So obviously hate isn’t only hating something but could be a cry for help or change