romeo and juliet Explore the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet

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“Romeo and Juliet”

Explore the theme of love in Romeo and Juliet

“Romeo and Juliet” is a famous play by Shakespeare. It is about a pair of “Star crossed lovers” who give their life to be with each other. Romeo, the tragic hero, is from the family of Montagues. On the other hand Juliet is from the family of Capulets. Montagues and Capulets have been sworn enemies for a long time. The two lovers give their lives for their families to be friends again.

There are many themes in “Romeo and Juliet”. Some of the themes are parenthood, tragedy, hatred, violence and love. The theme I will be focusing on is love. This is because there is several types of love in “Romeo and Juliet” another reason for this choice is because the theme of love can be seen throughout the play.

The first type of love is romantic love, this is the love between Romeo and Juliet. Romantic love is seen throughout the play, in the beginning of the play Romeo was in love with Rosaline, this was also romantic love but not Romeos true love. Throughout the play we see that romantic love is not accomplished it is always incomplete. Romeo loves Rosaline but she does not lobe him back, and then Romeo falls in love with Juliet but they have to die for their love rather than being able to stay together.

The second type of love is parental love with the child. This type of love can be seen between Juliet and lord and lady Capulet. This type of love is not very strong in the play. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris her father say that he will throw her out of the house

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“You shall not house with me”.

To make up for the lack of love from the childrens parents they have surrogate parents. Romeo has the Friar who is like a father to him, we know this because he says “my ghostly father” which shows he sees the Friar as a father. Juliet on the other hand has a motherly figure, the nurse acts as a mother for Juliet, when Juliets parents tell her that they will disown her she asks for “some comfort, nurse” as she would have asked her mother to comfort her at this time.

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