Different Types Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet
The Different Types of Love Present In Romeo and Juliet' By William Shakespeare
In this assignment I will be looking at the different types of love present in Romeo and Juliet'. This is arguable one of Shakespeare's most famous plays famous for the two devoted lovers, whose relationship was doomed from the start. But this is not the only type of love that is found in the play as there are strong bonds between parents/carers and children, friendship and infatuation which sets the scene at the start of the play.
The play opens with the obsessive infatuation that Romeo feels for Rosaline. This is the first type of love that I will investigate.
Lord Montague had become increasingly worried about his son, Romeo, when he started showing …show more content…
signs of depression and behaving strangely.
Lord Montague: "Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night."
When Lord Montague expresses his concern for Romeo's behaviour to Benvolio, his nephew, Benvolio decides to confront Romeo and find out what is troubling him. Romeo eventually explains that he is in love' with a girl who doesn't feel the same way about him.
Benvolio: "Then she hath sworn, that she will still live chaste?
Romeo: "She hath, and in that sparing, makes huge waste: For beauty starv'd with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity."
Benvolio trys to comfort Romeo by telling him that there are plenty more girls and he will find someone who loves him in return,
Benvolio: "By giving liberty unto thine eyes, examine other beauties."
But Romeo insists that he will never find another.
Romeo: "Thou canst not teach me to forget."
Romeo's friend, Mercutio, decides a good way to get Rosaline off his mind is to sneak into the Capulet Ball,
Mercutio: "Nay gentle Romeo, we must have you dance."
Romeo is stubborn and doesn't want to go but eventually his friends win him over.
At the ball Romeo meets Juliet for the first time and completely forgets about his love' for Rosaline, and falls in love with Juliet.
Romeo: "I have forgot that name (Rosaline), and that name's woe."
This shows that he never loved Rosaline; he was simply infatuated with her. He forgets all about her once he sees Juliet.
The love between parents and children is also very prominent in this play. Romeo's parents only appear at the beginning and end of this play, but when they appear, they always seem very concerned for Romeo welfare.
Lady Montague: "Right glad I am, he (Romeo) was not at this fray."
Likewise Lord Montague shows his concern for his son when he appears depressed.
Lord Montague: "Could we but learn from wence his sorrows grow, we would as willingly give cure as known."
Lady Montague is also worried about Romeo because he
Lady Montague: "Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out"
Similarly we see Lord Capulet (Juliet's father) affection for his daughter. He is asked by a boy if he can have permission to marry Juliet, but Lord Capulet shows that he want Juliet to say at home with her family when h replies to the young boy
Lord Capulet: "Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Lady Capulet makes sure that Juliet's prospective husband is very rich and good looking.
Lady Capulet: "so shall you share all that he doth posses, by having him, making yourself no less."
To a modern audience, Lord Capulet arranging his daughter's marriage behind her back would be thought of as very intrusive and controlling, but in the year of this play it was common practice.
Lord Capulet: "Of my child's love: I think she will be rul'd in all respects by me: nay more, I doubt it not."
However, when Juliet defies her father's wishes of marrying Paris later on in the play, Lord Capulet is furious with her.
Lord Capulet: "To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church: Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."
Despite Lord Capulet's short temper, when Juliet dies' he is terribly upset.
Lord Capulet: "Sweetest flower of all the field and leave him all life living all is death's."
Lady Capulet: "Revive, look up, or I will die with thee"
Lady Capulet is saying the complete opposite from a recent argument when she said
Lady Capulet: "I would the fool were married to her grave."
Lord Capulet keeps repeating himself which shows his grief for the death' of his daughter.
Lord Capulet: "O child, o child, my soul and not my child, dead art thou, alack my child is dead and with my child my joys are buried."
Romeo also has a strong relationship between his friends, Benvolio (cousin) and Mercutio. It is very evident due to the sacrifices they make for each other.
At the beginning of the play, Benvolio says he is determined to find out what is causing Romeo's depression.
Benvolio: "See where he comes, so please you step aside, I'll know his grievance or be much denied."
Benvolio appears to be concerned about Romeo; he is patient and gives him good advice.
Benvolio: "Examine other beauties."
Later, when they gate-crash' the Capulet Ball, Romeo says he doesn't want to join in with the dancing.
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love"
Mercutio tells Romeo to treat the object of his affections as she treats him.
Romeo's friends decide to leave the party but Romeo is still inside. They will not leave without him, knowing that he could be caught trespassing at the party.
Benvolio: "Call good Mercutio"
Mercutio: "I conjure only but to raise up him"
Mercutio showed his strong friendship with Romeo when he fights Tybalt, to protect his friend's honour
Mercutio: "O calm, dishonourable, vile submission Tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?"
Benvolio: "Brave Mercutio is dead"
Romeo wants revenge on Tybalt for killing Mercutio Romeo's dearest, loyal friend.
Romeo: "He is gone in triumph, and Mercutio slain?...Either thou or I, or both, must go with him."
Benvolio also shows his friendship with Romeo by telling him to run away because he would be killed if they found.
Benvolio: "The prince will doom thee death, if thou are taken, hence thee be gone away."
Romeo is found out, instead of killing him; they banish him from the town.
Another strong relationship in this play is the relationship between Juliet and her nurse. Juliet seems closer to her nurse than her own mother, perhaps this is because the nurse had a child who would have been the same age as Juliet.
When talking about Juliet, the nurse always uses terms of endearment,
Nurse:"What lamb, what ladybird", this shows how dear Juliet is to the Nurse.
The Nurse can even remember the exact time Juliet was born
Nurse: " I can tell her age unto an hour", whereas her mother is more vague. The Nurse talks at great length which would be considered rude of a maid, this obviously shows that the Nurse is in a way accepted into the Capulet family which shows that the Nurse is a loyal, caring servant.
Another example of the Nurse showing her love for Juliet is when she said,
Nurse: " I might live to see thee married once."
The Nurse is so keen to please Juliet that she even puts up with Romeo's friends teasing her,
Mercutio: "Good Peter to hide her face, for her fans her fairer face."
The Nurse warns Romeo that he must be faithful to Juliet,
Nurse: "if ye should lead her into a fools paradise...it were a very gross kind of behaviour."
And of course my investigation into this play wouldn't be complete unless I looked at Romeo and Juliet's love for each other which is perhaps the most devoted type of love in this play.
From the first moment that Romeo sees Juliet he is captured by her beauty. He speaks in rhyming couplets to show how important he finds her.
Romeo: "Did my heart love till now; forswear its sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty until this night."
Romeo uses beautiful imagery: "she hangs upon the cheek of night, as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo sees Juliet to a precious jewel.
Romeo describes Juliet as dove in a flock of crows; he is saying that her beauty stands out by far compared to the other girls at the party.
All his love for Rosaline has dissolved away.
Likewise, Juliet has fallen for Romeo and has totally forgotten about Paris and she already feels ready to marry Romeo even though they have only known each other for a very short time.
Juliet: "Be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
Romeo comes to visit Juliet in secret, Juliet warns him
Juliet: "If thee do see thee, they will murder thee."
Romeo is endangering his life because he will be killed if he is caught in the town. But Romeo says,
Romeo: "Than 20 of their swords, look thou but sweet."
This means he doesn't care as long as he gets to see her.
They both quickly confess their love for each other and decide instantly that they want to get married. They can't bear to be apart from each other.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Later we notice Romeo is willing to put up with Tybalt's insults villain'; he doesn't want to encourage any aggravation with Tybalt
Romeo: "And so good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own." because Tybalt is now Romeo's cousin after marrying Juliet secretly that morning.
On the afternoon of Romeo and Juliet's marriage, Juliet is placed in a very awkward situation when she finds out Romeo had murdered Tybalt Juliet's cousin, in a fit of rage. The Nurse is disgusted with Romeo and begins saying bad things about him, but Juliet jumps in and defends her husband.
Juliet: "Blistered by thy tongue for such a wish, he was not born to shame."
Romeo has already shown how brave he can be for Juliet, now it's Juliet's turn to show her bravery in return.
She agrees to drink the poison that the priest gave her, it will send into a very near death sleep, so on the morning of her marriage to Paris she will not awake and her family will think she is dead. She is terrified of what the outcome of taking this poison will …show more content…
be.
Juliet: "Shall I be married to-morrow morning?" No, no this shall forbid it"
The second sentence explains that she has a dagger, which shows she is prepared to stab herself if the poison doesn't work.
Romeo receives the wrong message from his servant thinking Juliet is dead, he decides he wants to join Juliet in death.
Romeo: "I will lie with thee to-night"
Romeo goes to an apothecary to buy a poison strong enough to kill him. He requests
Romeo: "a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear"
The apothecary tells Romeo it is illegal and refuses to sell it to him, but then Romeo offers the apothecary a large sum of money, the apothecary gives in to Romeo's bribe
Apothecary: "if you had the strength of 20 men it would dispatch you straight."
Romeo goes to the Capulet Tomb where all of the Capulet family is put to rest again risking his life entering the town to see her. When he arrives, he finds Paris at Juliet's side, in a fit of rage, Romeo kills Paris.
Even when she is dead Romeo continues to comment on Juliet's beauty,
Romeo: "This vault is a feasting presence full of light crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks."
Romeo takes the poison as he says
Romeo: "Here's to my love.
O true apothecary. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die "
When Juliet awakes, she finds Romeo's body at her side; she shares the same feeling of not wanting to carry on without her lover. She realises that he had killed himself with poison; she kisses his lips hoping for some of the deadly poison to be left on his lips, sadly she realises that his lips where still warm he had only just died, she had not revived in time, if only she woken a few minutes before then they would of still had each other.
Juliet: "Thy lips are warm."
She finds that there is not enough poison on his lips so she takes her dagger and immediately stabs herself.
Juliet: "Oh, happy dagger" this transferred epithet tells us that she is glad to embrace death to be with Romeo.
In conclusion, I believe that the strongest love present in this play is the love that is shown between Romeo and Juliet. Even thought they had only known each other for just three days, in this short time they were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for each other
suicide.
In this assignment I will be looking at the different types of love present in Romeo and Juliet'. This is arguable one of Shakespeare's most famous plays famous for the two devoted lovers, whose relationship was doomed from the start. But this is not the only type of love that is found in the play as there are strong bonds between parents/carers and children, friendship and infatuation which sets the scene at the start of the play.
The play opens with the obsessive infatuation that Romeo feels for Rosaline. This is the first type of love that I will investigate.
Lord Montague had become increasingly worried about his son, Romeo, when he started showing …show more content…
signs of depression and behaving strangely.
Lord Montague: "Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out, and makes himself an artificial night."
When Lord Montague expresses his concern for Romeo's behaviour to Benvolio, his nephew, Benvolio decides to confront Romeo and find out what is troubling him. Romeo eventually explains that he is in love' with a girl who doesn't feel the same way about him.
Benvolio: "Then she hath sworn, that she will still live chaste?
Romeo: "She hath, and in that sparing, makes huge waste: For beauty starv'd with her severity, cuts beauty off from all posterity."
Benvolio trys to comfort Romeo by telling him that there are plenty more girls and he will find someone who loves him in return,
Benvolio: "By giving liberty unto thine eyes, examine other beauties."
But Romeo insists that he will never find another.
Romeo: "Thou canst not teach me to forget."
Romeo's friend, Mercutio, decides a good way to get Rosaline off his mind is to sneak into the Capulet Ball,
Mercutio: "Nay gentle Romeo, we must have you dance."
Romeo is stubborn and doesn't want to go but eventually his friends win him over.
At the ball Romeo meets Juliet for the first time and completely forgets about his love' for Rosaline, and falls in love with Juliet.
Romeo: "I have forgot that name (Rosaline), and that name's woe."
This shows that he never loved Rosaline; he was simply infatuated with her. He forgets all about her once he sees Juliet.
The love between parents and children is also very prominent in this play. Romeo's parents only appear at the beginning and end of this play, but when they appear, they always seem very concerned for Romeo welfare.
Lady Montague: "Right glad I am, he (Romeo) was not at this fray."
Likewise Lord Montague shows his concern for his son when he appears depressed.
Lord Montague: "Could we but learn from wence his sorrows grow, we would as willingly give cure as known."
Lady Montague is also worried about Romeo because he
Lady Montague: "Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out"
Similarly we see Lord Capulet (Juliet's father) affection for his daughter. He is asked by a boy if he can have permission to marry Juliet, but Lord Capulet shows that he want Juliet to say at home with her family when h replies to the young boy
Lord Capulet: "Let two more summers wither in their pride, ere we may think her ripe to be a bride."
Lady Capulet makes sure that Juliet's prospective husband is very rich and good looking.
Lady Capulet: "so shall you share all that he doth posses, by having him, making yourself no less."
To a modern audience, Lord Capulet arranging his daughter's marriage behind her back would be thought of as very intrusive and controlling, but in the year of this play it was common practice.
Lord Capulet: "Of my child's love: I think she will be rul'd in all respects by me: nay more, I doubt it not."
However, when Juliet defies her father's wishes of marrying Paris later on in the play, Lord Capulet is furious with her.
Lord Capulet: "To go with Paris to Saint Peter's Church: Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither."
Despite Lord Capulet's short temper, when Juliet dies' he is terribly upset.
Lord Capulet: "Sweetest flower of all the field and leave him all life living all is death's."
Lady Capulet: "Revive, look up, or I will die with thee"
Lady Capulet is saying the complete opposite from a recent argument when she said
Lady Capulet: "I would the fool were married to her grave."
Lord Capulet keeps repeating himself which shows his grief for the death' of his daughter.
Lord Capulet: "O child, o child, my soul and not my child, dead art thou, alack my child is dead and with my child my joys are buried."
Romeo also has a strong relationship between his friends, Benvolio (cousin) and Mercutio. It is very evident due to the sacrifices they make for each other.
At the beginning of the play, Benvolio says he is determined to find out what is causing Romeo's depression.
Benvolio: "See where he comes, so please you step aside, I'll know his grievance or be much denied."
Benvolio appears to be concerned about Romeo; he is patient and gives him good advice.
Benvolio: "Examine other beauties."
Later, when they gate-crash' the Capulet Ball, Romeo says he doesn't want to join in with the dancing.
Mercutio: "If love be rough with you, be rough with love"
Mercutio tells Romeo to treat the object of his affections as she treats him.
Romeo's friends decide to leave the party but Romeo is still inside. They will not leave without him, knowing that he could be caught trespassing at the party.
Benvolio: "Call good Mercutio"
Mercutio: "I conjure only but to raise up him"
Mercutio showed his strong friendship with Romeo when he fights Tybalt, to protect his friend's honour
Mercutio: "O calm, dishonourable, vile submission Tybalt, you rat catcher, will you walk?"
Benvolio: "Brave Mercutio is dead"
Romeo wants revenge on Tybalt for killing Mercutio Romeo's dearest, loyal friend.
Romeo: "He is gone in triumph, and Mercutio slain?...Either thou or I, or both, must go with him."
Benvolio also shows his friendship with Romeo by telling him to run away because he would be killed if they found.
Benvolio: "The prince will doom thee death, if thou are taken, hence thee be gone away."
Romeo is found out, instead of killing him; they banish him from the town.
Another strong relationship in this play is the relationship between Juliet and her nurse. Juliet seems closer to her nurse than her own mother, perhaps this is because the nurse had a child who would have been the same age as Juliet.
When talking about Juliet, the nurse always uses terms of endearment,
Nurse:"What lamb, what ladybird", this shows how dear Juliet is to the Nurse.
The Nurse can even remember the exact time Juliet was born
Nurse: " I can tell her age unto an hour", whereas her mother is more vague. The Nurse talks at great length which would be considered rude of a maid, this obviously shows that the Nurse is in a way accepted into the Capulet family which shows that the Nurse is a loyal, caring servant.
Another example of the Nurse showing her love for Juliet is when she said,
Nurse: " I might live to see thee married once."
The Nurse is so keen to please Juliet that she even puts up with Romeo's friends teasing her,
Mercutio: "Good Peter to hide her face, for her fans her fairer face."
The Nurse warns Romeo that he must be faithful to Juliet,
Nurse: "if ye should lead her into a fools paradise...it were a very gross kind of behaviour."
And of course my investigation into this play wouldn't be complete unless I looked at Romeo and Juliet's love for each other which is perhaps the most devoted type of love in this play.
From the first moment that Romeo sees Juliet he is captured by her beauty. He speaks in rhyming couplets to show how important he finds her.
Romeo: "Did my heart love till now; forswear its sight, for I ne'er saw true beauty until this night."
Romeo uses beautiful imagery: "she hangs upon the cheek of night, as a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear" Romeo sees Juliet to a precious jewel.
Romeo describes Juliet as dove in a flock of crows; he is saying that her beauty stands out by far compared to the other girls at the party.
All his love for Rosaline has dissolved away.
Likewise, Juliet has fallen for Romeo and has totally forgotten about Paris and she already feels ready to marry Romeo even though they have only known each other for a very short time.
Juliet: "Be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
Romeo comes to visit Juliet in secret, Juliet warns him
Juliet: "If thee do see thee, they will murder thee."
Romeo is endangering his life because he will be killed if he is caught in the town. But Romeo says,
Romeo: "Than 20 of their swords, look thou but sweet."
This means he doesn't care as long as he gets to see her.
They both quickly confess their love for each other and decide instantly that they want to get married. They can't bear to be apart from each other.
"Parting is such sweet sorrow."
Later we notice Romeo is willing to put up with Tybalt's insults villain'; he doesn't want to encourage any aggravation with Tybalt
Romeo: "And so good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own." because Tybalt is now Romeo's cousin after marrying Juliet secretly that morning.
On the afternoon of Romeo and Juliet's marriage, Juliet is placed in a very awkward situation when she finds out Romeo had murdered Tybalt Juliet's cousin, in a fit of rage. The Nurse is disgusted with Romeo and begins saying bad things about him, but Juliet jumps in and defends her husband.
Juliet: "Blistered by thy tongue for such a wish, he was not born to shame."
Romeo has already shown how brave he can be for Juliet, now it's Juliet's turn to show her bravery in return.
She agrees to drink the poison that the priest gave her, it will send into a very near death sleep, so on the morning of her marriage to Paris she will not awake and her family will think she is dead. She is terrified of what the outcome of taking this poison will …show more content…
be.
Juliet: "Shall I be married to-morrow morning?" No, no this shall forbid it"
The second sentence explains that she has a dagger, which shows she is prepared to stab herself if the poison doesn't work.
Romeo receives the wrong message from his servant thinking Juliet is dead, he decides he wants to join Juliet in death.
Romeo: "I will lie with thee to-night"
Romeo goes to an apothecary to buy a poison strong enough to kill him. He requests
Romeo: "a dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear"
The apothecary tells Romeo it is illegal and refuses to sell it to him, but then Romeo offers the apothecary a large sum of money, the apothecary gives in to Romeo's bribe
Apothecary: "if you had the strength of 20 men it would dispatch you straight."
Romeo goes to the Capulet Tomb where all of the Capulet family is put to rest again risking his life entering the town to see her. When he arrives, he finds Paris at Juliet's side, in a fit of rage, Romeo kills Paris.
Even when she is dead Romeo continues to comment on Juliet's beauty,
Romeo: "This vault is a feasting presence full of light crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks."
Romeo takes the poison as he says
Romeo: "Here's to my love.
O true apothecary. Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die "
When Juliet awakes, she finds Romeo's body at her side; she shares the same feeling of not wanting to carry on without her lover. She realises that he had killed himself with poison; she kisses his lips hoping for some of the deadly poison to be left on his lips, sadly she realises that his lips where still warm he had only just died, she had not revived in time, if only she woken a few minutes before then they would of still had each other.
Juliet: "Thy lips are warm."
She finds that there is not enough poison on his lips so she takes her dagger and immediately stabs herself.
Juliet: "Oh, happy dagger" this transferred epithet tells us that she is glad to embrace death to be with Romeo.
In conclusion, I believe that the strongest love present in this play is the love that is shown between Romeo and Juliet. Even thought they had only known each other for just three days, in this short time they were prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice for each other
suicide.