This theme of death started of with one person I think Shakespeare was a very clever person to incorporate the deaths into each other.
Love is also an important theme in Romeo and Juliet in fact maybe the main theme.
Romeo’s original love was Rosaline when he heard that she was at the Capulet's ball he was ecstatic.
Although when he arrived he saw Juliet and his heart was forever hers,
This is whoever is only one type of love the sexual kind there is also many other types of love you had the friendship love between Benvolio, Mercutio and Romeo, there was also the type of love between Romeo and his servant Balthazar for Balthazar told Romeo the news of his loves death.
Then there was the sexual passionate love between Romeo and Juliet and the infatuation between Romeo and Rosaline after all she was the reason Romeo went to the party.
But was the love between Romeo and Juliet real?
Is there such thing as love at first sight?
Was there love so strong that it was worth dying for?
Or did Shakespeare exerate a bit?
Then there was the love between Friar Lawrence and the nurse for Romeo and Juliet they risked their lives for Romeo and Juliet’s love and would probably got caught in the end.
Then there was the parental love of lady Montague,
When she heard Romeo was dead she died of a heart attack.
Another important theme was loyalty,
Loyalty was very important to 16th century people I like the way Shakespeare incorporated this into most of his plays including this one.
Benvolio in my opinion was the most loyal because he stuck by Romeo and all the Montague’s all through the play (this was mainly because he liked to fight ‘Though? Why, though wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than though’) although in act 3 scene 1 Benvolio did not do anything while Tybalt tried to fight Romeo it was Mercutio who was loyal and stuck up for Romeo and fought Tybalt and Mercutio died for him then Romeo was loyal to Mercutio and went after Tybalt and killed him.
The nurse was also very loyal to Juliet for she did not tell Juliet’s mother of the arranged marriage an also the Friar was very loyal to Romeo and Juliet for although he did not agree with the marriage ’these violent delights have violent ends’’,
He went along with it and did not tell anyone although if he would have he would have been executed so it was in his favour as well.
And also Tybalts friend was very loyal to him Petruchio for he did not back away from the fight in act 3 scene 1 and Tybalt himself was loyal to his family because when Romeo turned up Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo to protect the family honour.
Pain showed up quite a lot in the play the most obvious to me is the heartache of Juliet when she heard Romeo had been banished and the also heartache of choosing the love of her life or her family.
Another decision that maybe would have caused heartache was the choice of either a rich young Paris or the member of the family she has been told to hate.
Also the pain of Juliet’s father when she told him that she did not want to marry Paris for Mr Montague it was his duty as a father to marry his daughter of to a young man that it why he told her that he would disown her to save himself the embarrassment.
The pain that I think would hurt the most is the death of Mercutio for Romeo and also the Capulet’s pain for Tybalt’s death.
Romeo went through quite a bit of pain particularly his heartache for Juliet when he heard she had died.
Family was very important in the play because it is about to feuding families the Capulet’s and the Montague’s it is not known when the feud began but it has been going on for some time know.
In the play family is very important Tybalt is almost crazy about family honour and loyalty.
Hate is a very close to love it almost overlaps at times this is what happens in Romeo and Juliet ‘My only love sprung from my only hate’
People especially in Romeo and Juliet will always hate each other,
In the play the people (the Capulet’s and the Montague’s) only hate each other because that they are competing all the time.
In my opinion they only hate each other because they have to they only have the feud because they have to and they only have the one skill from what I can see and that is fighting so they have to hate each other so they can keep fighting.
