Pain In Romeo And Juliet
Most everyone can agree that love is a mystical wonderful thing but is is worth sacrificing everything? Is it worth putting yourself through so much pain up until the point of death? When analyzing The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare we see that love often cause tremendous pain both physically and emotionally. Anger, insults, heartbreak, and even death all share the same root...Love.
In one occasion, Juliet and Lord Capulet causes each other pain in the scene when Juliet tells her father and mother that she does not want to marry Paris. After Lord Capulet has received the news that Juliet does not want to marry him he retaliates with, “”How will she none? Doth she not give us thanks? Doth she not count her blessed, unworthy as she is, that we wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?” (3.5.147-150) Capulet is outraged that Juliet does not want to marry the “worthy a gentleman” he has brought to her. He feels insulted that his perfect, obedient Juliet has betrayed him by not wanting to marry.
Capulet also causes pain to Juliet in this scene by launching insults at her in retaliation to her unwillingness to marry. Capulet is so angry that he says he would “Drag thee on a hurdle thither”, meaning he’d drag her to the church to …show more content…
marry Paris by a wooden frame. “Green-sickness carrio” (diseased rotting animal carcass), “baggage” (Impudent young girl), and “tallow-face” (pale face of animal fat) are just some of the others. We can tell that Juliet feels terrible for what she has done to her father and also how hurt she is when she says, “Good father, I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patients but to speak a word.” If not for Romeo and Juliet’s love, none of this would have happened and there would not be so much pain going around in the Capulet household.
Juliet is also put into heart-aching amounts of pain after the nurse reveals to her that Romeo has been banished. “O, break, my heart, poor bankrupt, break at once!” (3.2.63) Juliet says as soon as she realizes what this means. She can feel her heart ripping apart in pain from the thought that they will be married but separated completely. She would rather “End motion here, and thou and Romeo press one heavy bier.” (Meaning die in a in a sad coffin with Romeo by her side; ironic though, because that is exactly what ends up happening.)
In the final act, Romeo and Juliet are in so much pain caused by believing the other is dead that they feel there is no alternative but to kill themselves.
They have such powerful love between them that it is inevitable for one to live without the other. When Romeo hears Juliet is dead, he makes the painful decision to kill himself. One second Romeo is overjoyed by the fact Balthazar comes with new about Juliet and even goes to the point of saying, “How sweet is love itself possessed when but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!”. Later on when Balthazar leaves Romeo is cast with sorrow and decides there is no other option than to kill himself, then introduces this by saying, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee
tonight.” When Juliet wakes up and discovers that Romeo had died only minutes ago, she is heartbroken and sees no point in living without him. She dismisses Friar Lawrence by saying “Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.” as though saying i'm not leaving without my Romeo. She then makes the decision to kiss herself because it would be too painful to live without him. All this love and heartbreak only to die by being stabbed by a dagger.
After examination of the text, I can conclude that in Romeo and Juliet, love is often causes pain. Multiple times throughout the play, love and pain seem to coincide. In one instance, Romeo is banished from Verona and that causes Juliet's heart to tear to pieces. Another time, Juliet's father is outraged that she does not want to marry Paris (Because she's in love with her Romeo) so he threatens her and insults her but she also insults him y not wanting to marry. Finally, Death is brought to the table as a final act of love for each other. From gut wrenching heartbreak, to zeal anger, to mortifying death Romeo and Juliet’s love is always causing some form of pain.
In one occasion, Juliet and Lord Capulet causes each other pain in the scene when Juliet tells her father and mother that she does not want to marry Paris. After Lord Capulet has received the news that Juliet does not want to marry him he retaliates with, “”How will she none? Doth she not give us thanks? Doth she not count her blessed, unworthy as she is, that we wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?” (3.5.147-150) Capulet is outraged that Juliet does not want to marry the “worthy a gentleman” he has brought to her. He feels insulted that his perfect, obedient Juliet has betrayed him by not wanting to marry.
Capulet also causes pain to Juliet in this scene by launching insults at her in retaliation to her unwillingness to marry. Capulet is so angry that he says he would “Drag thee on a hurdle thither”, meaning he’d drag her to the church to …show more content…
marry Paris by a wooden frame. “Green-sickness carrio” (diseased rotting animal carcass), “baggage” (Impudent young girl), and “tallow-face” (pale face of animal fat) are just some of the others. We can tell that Juliet feels terrible for what she has done to her father and also how hurt she is when she says, “Good father, I beseech you on my knees, hear me with patients but to speak a word.” If not for Romeo and Juliet’s love, none of this would have happened and there would not be so much pain going around in the Capulet household.
Juliet is also put into heart-aching amounts of pain after the nurse reveals to her that Romeo has been banished. “O, break, my heart, poor bankrupt, break at once!” (3.2.63) Juliet says as soon as she realizes what this means. She can feel her heart ripping apart in pain from the thought that they will be married but separated completely. She would rather “End motion here, and thou and Romeo press one heavy bier.” (Meaning die in a in a sad coffin with Romeo by her side; ironic though, because that is exactly what ends up happening.)
In the final act, Romeo and Juliet are in so much pain caused by believing the other is dead that they feel there is no alternative but to kill themselves.
They have such powerful love between them that it is inevitable for one to live without the other. When Romeo hears Juliet is dead, he makes the painful decision to kill himself. One second Romeo is overjoyed by the fact Balthazar comes with new about Juliet and even goes to the point of saying, “How sweet is love itself possessed when but love’s shadows are so rich in joy!”. Later on when Balthazar leaves Romeo is cast with sorrow and decides there is no other option than to kill himself, then introduces this by saying, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee
tonight.” When Juliet wakes up and discovers that Romeo had died only minutes ago, she is heartbroken and sees no point in living without him. She dismisses Friar Lawrence by saying “Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.” as though saying i'm not leaving without my Romeo. She then makes the decision to kiss herself because it would be too painful to live without him. All this love and heartbreak only to die by being stabbed by a dagger.
After examination of the text, I can conclude that in Romeo and Juliet, love is often causes pain. Multiple times throughout the play, love and pain seem to coincide. In one instance, Romeo is banished from Verona and that causes Juliet's heart to tear to pieces. Another time, Juliet's father is outraged that she does not want to marry Paris (Because she's in love with her Romeo) so he threatens her and insults her but she also insults him y not wanting to marry. Finally, Death is brought to the table as a final act of love for each other. From gut wrenching heartbreak, to zeal anger, to mortifying death Romeo and Juliet’s love is always causing some form of pain.