Romeo & Juliet medea essay

Romeo & Juliet and Medea Essay “You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams” – Dr. Seuss. This quote explains how love can possess you, sometimes in a way that causes powerful devotion. Other times it may cause a malignant insanity. But that is why I think that in the plays of Romeo & Juliet and Medea, love and hate are just as powerful because they create each other.
In the story of Romeo & Juliet, love and hate play a serious role in the characters fait. Romeo & Juliet demonstrate the power of young love and it’s ability to make those possessed by it, blind to what danger might lie ahead. For Romeo and Juliet, their love is in constant danger of being dissolved because of their family’s vicious despise for one another. Both houses, Montague and Capulet have hated each other for many years, killing each other at every chance, but now Romeo and Juliet are in love, breaking all rules of the two families hate for on another. Although their hate for each other is strong, it did not stop the Montague’s from crashing the Capulet’s party and unknowingly sealing their fait to what was to later come. “Tis but thy name that is my enemy. Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s a Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to man. O, be some other name! What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet. So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, and for thy name, which is no part of thee, take all myself.” –Juliet. This quote is Juliet saying her experience with Romeo and how she has fallen madly in love with him, despite the very short time that she got to spend him at the party. Every conflict that Romeo had to face for Juliet, was a task that he was strongly willing to make. When Tybalt challenged Romeo to fight in the street, Romeo tried to tell Tybalt but he was to angry and his hate drove his fury to try and kill Romeo until Mercutio stepped in front of him to deflect his attention. “I do protest I never injured thee but love thee better than thou canst devise till thou shalt know the reason of my love. And so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own, be satisfied.” Said by Romeo when he tried to calm down Tybalt down, but failed when Tybalt ended up slaying Mercutio with a quick strike under Romeo’s arm and hitting Mercutio only perfectly enough to kill him. That is how love and hate plays a role in each character’s life. In the story of Medea, love and hate play a role in the destructing fury that Medea brings from her love of Jason. Medea loved Jason very much up until he left her for the princes. Jason claims that he did it for her and the children’s sake. “I wanted to save you and have children, royal princes, with the same blood as my sons. That way my house has more security.” Said by Jason when he went to go visit Medea. Medea did not take it to kindly to Jason leaving her and especially his unexpected arrival. “You come to me now, you come at this point, when you’ve turned into the worst enemy of the gods and me and the whole human race?” –Medea. Medea was very enraged about all that was going on. She could only think of pain and destruction to bring to Jason. What makes Medea’s hate grow so much stronger is the painful fact that she gave Jason her heart but then he broke it by leaving her for the princes, now Medea is contemplating how to take her revenge, so she is thinking on weather killing her kids would be a good idea or not. For she loves her children very much but her revenge on Jason is what her main focus and she is willing to do anything to make him pay for what he did to her. That is how love and hate play a role in the destructing fury that Medea brings from her love of Jason.

In both Romeo & Juliet and Medea, love and hate fueled the catastrophic endings to their journey of life and love. Love and hate are big factors for each characters expression on how they act towards other characters. When love has taken control of a person, it can make them do many things. In Romeo & Juliet, love made them do crazy things, things such as Romeo risking his life for Juliet, and Juliet fake killing herself for Romeo so she didn’t have to marry Paris, so she could be with him. For Medea love, it would be when Medea first was with Jason when she sacrificed her brother so they escape her fathers army from catching them, when they took the Golden Fleece, and when Jason took Medea from that barbaric land and brought her to a civilized kingdom. When hate takes control of a person, it can ruin there lives and it can ruin other peoples’ lives. In Medea when hate takes over her mind, she wants nothing but to destroy Jason’s life and everything that causes joy in his life. Her solution of desolation of Jason is to kill her own children even though she does love her children very much, she’d rather hurt Jason more. When Jason got was filled with hate it was only to counter Medea’s fury and rage that she was placing upon him. In Romeo and Juliet hate didn’t effect them together because of their intense love for each other, but the effect of hate did dwell outside of their relationship. When hate took over Romeo, it was when Mercutio fell slain by Tybalt and a fury flowed through Romeo, causing him to take action and killing him. When hate took over Juliet, it was when she got news of when Romeo slew Tybalt. She couldn’t stop thinking of him in such a poisonous manner but she couldn’t help but cure that her notion of him by listing reasons of his goodness, for she didn’t know his reason of his actions. That of which Mercutio lay dead from the blade of Tybalt. Love and hate fueled the catastrophic endings to their journey of life and love, that is why I think that in the plays of Romeo & Juliet and Medea, love and hate are just as powerful because they create each other.