A Comparison Of Love In Romeo And Juliet By William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare, a poet prominent for his tragedies concerning forbidden love, once proposed that “love, so gentle in his view, Should be so tyrannous and rough in proof”. Nonetheless, society has educated humanity to deduce that love is an auspicious emotion, worshipping the feeling by squandering a myriad of hours searching for the “right one” and venerating “family time”. Hence, it is evident that love is a powerful instrument in numerous lives as individuals have expended hours fixated on enhancing the love of storge, love between family members, as well as eros, romantic love that is perceived by significant others. Although the amalgamation of media and culture has convinced civilization to deduce that love is a vital necessity
Following Lord Capulet’s arranged marriage for his daughter, Juliet refused to be wed to his favored consort due to her love for Romeo which evoked her father to holler that his “care hath been to have her matched” and reprimand her for such insolence (Shakespeare I.v.179). Juliet’s parents profoundly concerned themselves about their daughter’s melancholic mood from her cousin’s death; as a result, they primarily admonished their daughter for disobeying their command to marry Paris, prompting her to develop a scheme of feigning death that ultimately resulted in the protagonists’ genuine demise. By emphasizing the endearment The Capulets perceived towards their daughter, Shakespeare implies that storge may threaten eros since the excessive affection of the parents to their child strangled the lives of both their daughter as well as her beloved as it engendered the misconceptions of death to arise between the protagonists. Likewise, Ovid depicted Pyramus and Thisbe’s desire to marry, however, their “marriage was forbidden by their parents” (11). The families of the two characters despised one another; therefore, they did not permit the wedding to occur between their children, inducing Pyramus to perish after a series of turmoils
Due to his belief in Juliet’s death, Romeo mentioned that he would “lie with [Juliet] t[hat] night” (Shakespeare V.i.34). Romeo accentuated his extreme desire to die with Juliet for he could not imagine living in a world that was void of his beloved despite the fact that she was not deceased in actuality and he had simply misapprehended her authentic intentions to be able to live with him. As Shakespeare exposed Romeo’s will to die, the poet indicates that love is ethereal since lovers encounter numerous tribulations due to the tumults that originate from storge, prominent when the protagonists’ of the play eventually perish, which further validates that the ideal endearment is discovered exclusively in delirious fantasies. Similarly, Tempest suggested that Shakespeare’s morals influence “every vain admirer” as his “words are the setting for our stories” (13, 31). Tempest disclosed that Shakespeare’s plays persist to impact humanity as his tragedies, which arose due to the excessive endearment experienced within one’s kindred, represented an equivalent duplicate to the innumerable lives existing in communities. Through her connection between the situations of the characters Shakespeare presented and those that countless subjects of the populace living currently experience, Tempest conveys