Examples Of Tragic Love In Romeo And Juliet

Sydney Turner

Mrs. Wall

English II PAP

12 March 2015

Tragic Love

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wound; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” -Anais Nin Love feels like you are on a whimsical joyride;. Uunfortunately that joyride can turn into a trainwreck.. Tragic love is what happens when a significant interruption occurs between two lovers resulting in an unfulfilled love life. Many characters in books, movies and even today’s news have experienced tragic love. Even though people die, the love that the person shared with the other person is in their hearts forever. In the modern literature,

is displayed when two star crossed lovers die tragically by committing suicide. In this story, the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, are part of two different families, the Montagues and the Capulets and they hate each other. So they have a "forbidden love" because the families disliked each other, but Romeo and Juliet loved each other. were not allowed to be seen together because Romeo was a Montague, and Juliet was a Capulet, and there were standards that Juliet’s parents didn’t see with Romeo. When Friar Lawrence explains, “These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in a victory like fire and gunpowder. When they meet, as in a kiss, they explode. Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, love each other in moderation. That is the key to long lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow” (Shakespeare, 133), he is saying that when a person is in love, that the person needs to love in moderation, and take time in the relationship, because when a person does that, the love will last for a long time.When Juliet decides that the only way to be together is to do something drastic. For Juliet to not to marry Paris, is for Juliet to act like she is dead, poison. The plan would be for Juliet to drink a potion for her to appear to be dead, and then when she is laid to

Tommy does the complete opposite of what a normal boyfriend would do, and kills the Sheila because an argument broke out between Tommy and Sheila. “Bali spokesman tells CNN “it appears that the motive for the killing was because Sheila was against the relationship that Tommy and Heather had” (Chicago Tribune). A brother of Heather’s, thinks that Tommy showed up in Bali without his sister’s prior knowledge knowledge. The brother says that Sheila was excited about the trip when they had last spoken (Chicago). After Tommy killed Sheila with Heather witnessing, the couple fled six miles away from the St. Regis hotel where they had been staying. The couple told police that they had been taken captive at the hotel by an armed gang who killed Sheila, but that they had managed to escape (Chicago). The tragic point of this source is that, the boyfriend killed Heather’s own mother. It astonishing that people would go beyond measures to get anything that they may want. Heather makes it evident that she clearly doesn’t care about her mother’s death when she flees with her