Symbolism In Romeo And Juliet
Romeo and Juliet isn't a harrowing love story pertaining “a pair of star-crossed lovers”
(I i 6), nor it is about celestial symbolism hinting fate as the manipulator of “civil blood” (I I 4) “in fair Verona” (I i 2). Instead, Romeo and Juliet portrays a love not for another, but a love of unhealthy obsession, for the sins of the minds true desires. Desires disguised as love, unity, and wit, but when uncloaked the sins of lust, division, and malice begin to materialize. Romeo expresses intense compulsive desires of lust, and the constant need of fulfillment from another. In Romeos search for the fulfillment of lust he unearths Rosaline, a vision well armed with the formidable walls of chastity. For Romeo realizes that Rosaline cannot fulfill
Romeos desires of lust, and for this he “locks the fair daylight out,/and makes himself an artificial night” (I i 138-139). However, Romeo’s path to contentment doesn’t reach a complete halt, rather leading Romeo to a festivity at the Capulet’s household. It is when Romeo arrives he bears witness to Juliet a “beauty too rich for use” (I v 48), and for this Juliet becomes the crowned jewel of Romeo’s lustful desires. Juliet’s obsessions intertwine with her level of maturity, and depend on her being the object of another obsessive desires.
(I i 6), nor it is about celestial symbolism hinting fate as the manipulator of “civil blood” (I I 4) “in fair Verona” (I i 2). Instead, Romeo and Juliet portrays a love not for another, but a love of unhealthy obsession, for the sins of the minds true desires. Desires disguised as love, unity, and wit, but when uncloaked the sins of lust, division, and malice begin to materialize. Romeo expresses intense compulsive desires of lust, and the constant need of fulfillment from another. In Romeos search for the fulfillment of lust he unearths Rosaline, a vision well armed with the formidable walls of chastity. For Romeo realizes that Rosaline cannot fulfill
Romeos desires of lust, and for this he “locks the fair daylight out,/and makes himself an artificial night” (I i 138-139). However, Romeo’s path to contentment doesn’t reach a complete halt, rather leading Romeo to a festivity at the Capulet’s household. It is when Romeo arrives he bears witness to Juliet a “beauty too rich for use” (I v 48), and for this Juliet becomes the crowned jewel of Romeo’s lustful desires. Juliet’s obsessions intertwine with her level of maturity, and depend on her being the object of another obsessive desires.