William Shakespeare once said, “What greater punishment is there than life when you’ve lost everything that made it worth living?”I have a friend who lost his father to heart disease in his teenage years, it took an immense amount of time for him to get over his loss, but this was only because of the amount of time they spent together and the amount of time they had to make bonds. When losing everything there's nothing left to live for, lose friends,lose family, and worst of all, lose love, this is evident in the mournful tragedy of star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. They find love in between two families that feel strong hate towards each other due to long past feuds, they are forbidden from being together so they are forced to take both their lives thanks to hasty decisions made by their emotions. In the novel Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare portrays the philosophy that hate and love both lead to risky decisions that will end in Failure. This is due to the blindness of the heart controlling these overwhelming emotions. During the play Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers meet for the first time, …show more content…
This is due to the blindness of the heart controlling these overwhelming emotions. Just like my friend in the beginning he was able to get over a more than likely greater love for his father than Romeo and Juliet if they would have thought it out they could have found true love through another significant other in their life. The only reason their love wasn't able to succeed because the hasty decisions Romeo and Juliet made when blinded by their hate and love. Their hearts mislead them into difficult predicaments which dug their love into an impossible grave to escape. The love they shared at the end of the story was true but constricted and eventually suffocated by the blind decisions the two lovers