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What is true love? True love is a personal decision to commit oneself to another and to work through any conflicts instead of giving up. For better or for worse, it’s the act of devotion and passion within a deeper understanding of each other. True love is a power like none other, it has a power over the senses and it can change one’s life. True love is not only about romance, however; there is also love between friends and family. Humans crave love. Therefore, we obsess over it, we dissect it, we romanticize it, and we ponder its meaning. True love can also be found in love at first sight, fatal events and over exaggerations. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare suggests that true love is one of the most powerful effects on our human nature.
In the beginning of the play, William Shakespeare conveys that love at first sight is a true possibility. Some people say that love at first sight is not true love because true love can’t be recognized immediately. William Shakespeare suggests otherwise by making reference to Romeo and Juliet as star crossed lovers. He’s saying that destiny is pulling them together from the very beginning. The very first time Romeo laid his eyes on Juliet he knew he was in love. Romeo fell in love because he was heartbroken and seeing Juliet healed his heart. She was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Romeo asks himself if he had loved until now while approaching Juliet. Although she denies him at first Juliet later allows him to kiss her and she realizes she too is in love. This is true love because once they are aware they are foes they do not let their differences get in the way of their love. True love is found in many different levels.
Romeo and Juliet’s love hangs on the edge of life and death. Shakespeare suggests that their love is true because of one small and simple factor; they would die to be with each other. Shakespeare conveys that true love takes control of ones emotions and senses. When Romeo suspects that Juliet is dead he poisons himself to be with her in the afterlife. It is also the same for Juliet when she awakes from her sleep to find Romeo dead next to her tomb. She then proceeds to stab herself with a dagger so that she won’t have to face the world without him. Their love runs so deep that they could not bear to live without one another. Their love is literally taking control of their senses and consuming them to end their lives for love. They killed themselves out of pure passion that only they could see. William Shakespeare defines love as an endless emotion. It is forever holding two people together even when they are supposed to be apart.
Although the true love shown by Romeo’s and Juliet’s human nature appears to be infatuation, it is not. It is an exaggeration of the love they think they see. Shakespeare suggests that these teenagers are falling in the hands of what they believe is their one and only love. This statement is true in many ways. Although Juliet may be young with raging emotions and hormones she is not blind to love. There is one person that she sees when she looks into her heart and that is Romeo. In Act two Juliet and Romeo show how their names will not stop who they love. This is a part of love. Loving each other for who they are and what they are worth, not what their name is or who their families are. Some may argue that Romeo and Juliet weren’t in love because they didn’t even know each other well but in the Elizabethan era the women never chose who they were to marry, it was a father’s decision. No one ever knew much about their future husband or wife. Their love was much like everyone else’s in that era except for the fact that their love was a true and passionate not just a mutual liking of one another. Romeo and Juliet’s love was unlike any other.
To conclude, in the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare suggests that true love is one of the most powerful effects on our human nature. True love is a power like none other, it has a power over the senses and it can change one’s life. Humans crave love. Therefore, we obsess over it, we dissect it, we romanticize it, and we ponder its meaning. True love can also be found at first’s sight, fatal events and over exaggerations of its true meaning. Romeo and Juliet were in love and it was an unbreakable love that they both possessed.