What Different Ideas About Love Does Shakespeare Present In Act 1 Scene 1, Act 1 Scene 5 And Act 2 Scene 2?

Romeo and Juliet is one of William Shakespeare’s most famous tragedy plays. The play was written in 1955. Shakespeare is very well known for writing tragedies and Romeo and Juliet is a fine example of this. The play is based on ‘two star-cross’d lovers’, Romeo and Juliet, who fall in love despite their families being enemies. Love is presented throughout the play in various different ways and forms such as in family love and Romeo’s love for Juliet (love at first sight, powerful love, pure love and physical love). This essay will focus on the different ideas Shakespeare portrays about love in Act 1 Scene 1, Act 1 Scene 5 and Act 2 Scene 2.

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Love is presented through family love and honour. The two houses ‘Montague’ and ‘Capulet’ are enemies in the play and they fight each other all the time to prove who is the better family. At the start of the play in Act 1 Scene 1 it begins with Sampson and Gregory, ‘ I will push Montague’s men from the wall, and thrust their maids to the wall’ Sampson says to Gregory. This suggests that Sampson is saying that he thinks his house (Capulet) is better and will push Montague’s men off the wall and the take the virginities of their ...

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