Comparing Love In Romeo And Juliet

Love is in the air with the sound of suicide. Shakespeare himself pulled dramatic personas, Romeo and Juliet, from the deepest, darkest corners of his mind. On a slightly more upbeat note, once love is present it is too arduous to resist, or so agrees psychologist Mandy Len Catron in her article “To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This”. Both of these literary pieces revolve around the concept of love. Here lie two works of art with identical overall themes, but completely different perspectives of the subject. Whereas Romeo and Juliet believe that love is a natural feeling, psychologist Mandy Len Catron perceives love as a synthetic element. In Romeo and Juliet, the main characters act in strange ways. Why? Because love is
Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” (V,iii,169-171). The only problem is that when Romeo and Juliet fall in love, is it not their actions that form the relationship? Catron’s argument that any state of affairs
If love is a natural feeling, then that is true, however what about if it is a manufactured material? If love is manufactured, then will it not be onerous to find “the right person”? Thus questions Catron when asking, “I suspect, given a few commonalities, you could fall in love with anyone. If so, how do you choose someone?” (Catron 1). This roots back as to whether love may be a natural feeling or an artificial substance. If one can produce love, then one can choose whomever they want, but then who is to say that they have chosen correctly? Where in Catron’s article love appears to be a choice, in Romeo and Juliet it is vividly clear that Romeo and Juliet have found their significant other. Through cultivating communication, Romeo speaks eloquently of his lover stating that, “She speaks, yet she says nothing; what of that? Her eye discourses, I will answer it… Two of the fairest stars in heaven… The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven.” (II,ii,12-13,15,19-20). If love is a natural feeling, then once one meets the correct person one will surely know. Although this may be true in some cases, how can one really know what their most suitable choice is? If love was believed to be a choice, then will it not be hard to figure out who the right person is? Both arguments boil down to the same conclusion, which is why it would