Romeo And Juliet Love And Sight Essay

Love: The Person That Will Ruin One’s Life A common thread connecting all of William Shakespeare’s works is love and sight. Many of Shakespeare’s poems, sonnets, and plays deal with love and how it can be a guiding force. He wrote love poems and romantic plays about what happens when people are in love. FLUFFFFFFF (insert transition) sight is also a prevalent aspect of Shakespeare’s works, because he often mentions the different ways things can be perceived, and uses the perspectives of characters to his advantage in limiting the information that the reader knows. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a prime example of love, because the story is based on the love between two star-crossed lovers. Throughout the play, love seems to dictate the thoughts and actions of the lovers Romeo and Juliet. Another example of the relationship between love and sight
Many a time, Shakespeare claims that love masks the true nature of people and objects, such as with a “serpent hid with a flowering face” (III.ii.79) or a “dove-feathered raven, [a] wolvish-ravening lamb” (III.ii.82). Taken from Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet is attempting to describe Romeo after he killed Tybalt, one can see how Juliet determines that love has warped her vision so that she things appear to her not as they truly are. It can also be seen that she believes love has placed a cloak on her love; that Romeo is a perfect being in her eyes, but is in actuality a horrible person. Love’s physical form is further expressed in Sonnet 148, in which Shakespeare asks, “what eyes hath love put in my head,/Which have no correspondence with true sight!” (1-2), where he believes that love, as a physical being, has replaced his eyes with eyes that give him vision that is not real. This is an explicit personification of love, and leads into the idea that love controls the