Romeo and Juliet Concepts of Love

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an intense and moving story about the love two adolescents share with each other only after meeting twice. Shakespeare not only explores the instantaneous love Romeo and Juliet have but has also included the different concepts of love people might go through, in the play. Gregory and Sampson interoperate ‘love' in a completely different manner than Romeo and Juliet, their intentions are animal like. Gregory and Sampson can also represent a typical, simple minded man scared of commitment. Friar Lawrence's interpretation of love is unlike Romeo and Juliet's and not like Gregory and Sampson either. Being a man of the earth, he believes that you should take your time when it comes to love. The genuine of all love is the cliché' of ‘love at first sight' combined with the classic ‘forbidden love' that Romeo and Juliet come to experience. This kind of love only happens once after every Armageddon. The passion and love they hold for each other is continued and grows throughout the story.

Gregory and Sampson are not the type of people you would want to run into in a dark alley, especially if you're from the house of Montague. Their view of love you could say is the complete opposite of Romeo and Juliet. While Romeo and Juliet's love is pure Sampson and Gregory's view of love are vulgar, so sad to see such a once pure word ‘love' be used in the lowest form possible to describe the views of Gregory and Sampson. One of the traits Sampson shows is sexism, "women being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall" Sampson is illustrating sexism by saying that women are inferior to men being the weaker vessels and using that in the same sentence as that he will thrust them to the wall, this being interpreted in a sexual meaning. Carrying on with his conversation with Gregory he continues to say that he will cut of the heads of the maids or their "maidenheads, take it in what sense thou wilt" interpreting this in both sense; in killing the... [continues]

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