Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet
FORBIDDEN LOVE
When one thinks about forbidden love words such as excitement, exhilaration, passion and romance come to mind suggesting a happy narrative, yet the forbidden love written of in my two stories delivers a very different outcome.
The tragic ionic love story of Romeo and Juliet is between two young lust-driven teenagers. Their impulsive, decisions and selfish indulgences lead them to defy their parents and pursue their forbidden love.
In Romeo and Juliet, the two quotes “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” And “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” Both demonstrate the sorrow of the thought of being separated. A family rivalry forbid the two lovers to be together and this only served to fuel the tragedy that caused Romeo and Juliet to trek down a dangerous, fast paced road that ended in death.
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As was stated in the quote “No living mortals were allowed to cross into the shadowy regions of the underworld again”, and when Orpheus says, “Death is less painful than being apart from the only one whom you would die for” The two newlyweds were not allowed to be together because of the different worlds of the living and the dead. In both stories the doomed lovers were fated by powerful forces beyond their control; in R&J it was family and society and in O&E it was mortality. Although the two pieces have very different storylines and characters the topic of forbidden love plays a strong role in both of the
When one thinks about forbidden love words such as excitement, exhilaration, passion and romance come to mind suggesting a happy narrative, yet the forbidden love written of in my two stories delivers a very different outcome.
The tragic ionic love story of Romeo and Juliet is between two young lust-driven teenagers. Their impulsive, decisions and selfish indulgences lead them to defy their parents and pursue their forbidden love.
In Romeo and Juliet, the two quotes “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name! Or, if thou wilt not, be sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” And “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy.” Both demonstrate the sorrow of the thought of being separated. A family rivalry forbid the two lovers to be together and this only served to fuel the tragedy that caused Romeo and Juliet to trek down a dangerous, fast paced road that ended in death.
My …show more content…
As was stated in the quote “No living mortals were allowed to cross into the shadowy regions of the underworld again”, and when Orpheus says, “Death is less painful than being apart from the only one whom you would die for” The two newlyweds were not allowed to be together because of the different worlds of the living and the dead. In both stories the doomed lovers were fated by powerful forces beyond their control; in R&J it was family and society and in O&E it was mortality. Although the two pieces have very different storylines and characters the topic of forbidden love plays a strong role in both of the