Although, love and hate are very similar emotions, the different forms of love depicted in Romeo and Juliet exhibit the complex extremities and danger of love. Love is so powerful, complex and dangerous it is the slowest form of suicide. Love is so complex that there is no true explanation on what it is or how it affects any person.
Shakespeare portrays love in Romeo and Juliet in many ways. Their love is portrayed by images of light and dark and is juxtaposed against death, and he sets next to Romeo and Juliet the love associated with sight and appearances. In all, their love is of another world. The love of Romeo and Juliet is portrayed as otherworldly and heavenly.
In his collection of essays, Soliloquies in England, George Santayana dedicated some pages to a piece titled “Queen Mab” presumably after the enigmatic faery who is mentioned by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet.(1) The essay turns into an analysis of British literature, which I take to mean that Santayana saw some form of greater representation in Queen Mab that extended to the wider British.
Romeo falls in love with Rosaline and Paris falls in love with Juliet which remain the most obvious examples. However, I do believe their is an unrequited love between Juliet and her parents. When we first meet Romeo, he is infatuated by Rosaline (which he calls love), who happens not to be in love with him and plans to become a nun.
Another form of love in Romeo and Juliet is the bawdy type of love. This type of love refers to the physical and sexual form of love. Shakespeare brings out this type of love with two superb and colorful characters. These characters are Mercutio and Nurse, who each in their own demonstrated this kind of love and mindset.
Throughout human existence, creativity, such as that in music or literature, has been inspired by many things. These things include fear, anticipation, hate, and, most importantly, love. The creativity based on love has produced many forms of art, one of which being theatre. Of plays, the majority p.
Types of Love Essay a. unrequited love: Romeo for Rosaline, Paris for Juliet b. romantic love: Romeo and Juliet c. parental love: Lord and Lady Capulet for Juliet, Lord and Lady Montague for Romeo, Nurse for Juliet d. friendship: Romeo and Benvolio, Romeo and Mercutio, Romeo and Friar Laurence, Nurse and Juliet e.
Paris’s courtly love towards Juliet in Act 3 Scene 4 is juxtaposed by Shakespeare to the passionate love illustrated in Act 3 Scene 5 between Romeo and Juliet. In Act 3 Scene 5. Shakespeare assigns Romeo and Juliet to play out an drawn-out metaphor about two birds; a lark and a Luscinia megarhynchos.