Romeo And Juliet Quotes Analysis

Was The Play Romeo and Juliet Actually a Warning?
Love; an intense feeling of deep affection. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare emphasized love and made it a driving factor in the play. Love is what drove Romeo and Juliet to get married, love is what made Lord Capulet try to force Juliet to marry Paris, and love is the reason Romeo and Juliet die at the end of the play. In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare tries to teach the audience about the dangers of love.
To begin, Shakespeare uses characterization to teach the audience about the dangers of love. In act two scene six of the play, the Friar is made out to be a wise mentor. Right after Romeo came to the Friar to ask him to marry him and Juliet, the Friar talks about love and he says, “These violent

In one of Romeo's last lines he talks about death and he says, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark! Here's to my love!” This quote shows imagery by describing a piece of bark smashing against rocks. This is important because in this quote Romeo is the piece of bark, the rocks are death, and the sea is love. This quote shows that love is what drove romeo to death. This is Shakespeare’s way of subtly showing that love can be, and is dangerous. Near the end of the play, after Romeo's death, Juliet wakes up and sees his body and says, “O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.” This quote shows imagery by describing how Juliet killed herself. This is important because just like Romeo, Juliet killed herself for love. This is Shakespeare's way of doubling down on the idea that love leads to death which is one of the reasons love is dangerous. Both of these quotes connect to the topic sentence because they both show how love caused a character to kill his or herself, and they both emphasize that love is