Positive Influence In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is about a consuming love. It is a play filled with hatred overcome by love. Old hate versus young love, who take no thought for the past or future. With this love ending by “love-devouring death.” The hatred overcame the young love and left the two in love desperate, thinking death was the only way to be together. If love caused death, would you feel taken over by love and in a positive or negative way? This could be shown either way and i’ve chosen to show you both sides. The answers to your questions are all found in the rest of the essay below. You chose your fate/love and you choose to have it taken over by the choices you make. Everyone makes there own decisions even if that decision is hard to make, some people just don’t realize this till it’s too late, for example Romeo and Juliet. How does love over power the characters and their lives? I think an example is when Romeo and Juliet commit suicide, …show more content…
Love can be shown as a positive or negative influence, an example of a positive influence is even though Romeo and Juliet can’t be together they fight for eachother and do everything they can to be together. This shows a positive influence because it shows love is real, strong, and can give people happiness. A negative example of love in this play, is how hard they make love seem to accomplish and how it can tear families apart. For instance Mercutio and Tybalt dying, Juliet and her father fighting, and Romeo and Juliet killing themselves to be together. It shows how much they’re willing to lose to be together. Another positive influence love has in the play, is it influences people to follow their hearts and shows that love is real. It encourages people not to give up and to fight for what they want no matter how bad the circumstances are. This shows that love can be both a positive or negative influence, like stated in my thesis statement and proven in this