The Theme Of Love In Romeo And Juliet

Throughout the course of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship, they are constantly faced with trials and tribulations. Every time they overcome an obstacle, they are met with another issue, one after the other. Because they are so overcome with the kind of desperation and impulsivity that love produces, they are willing to risk disownment by their polarized families, disobey the wishes of their parents, and even put their lives on the line for one another. All of these risky and dangerous situations that Romeo and Juliet decide to place themselves in are taken without the concrete knowledge that the outcomes of their actions will successfully aid them in their goal of being together in the end. To showcase this underlying theme of love as a dangerous

Now, Romeo has been banished from the land of Verona, away from his sweet Juliet. When Juliet learns of Tybalt’s death by the hand of Romeo, she first states “my husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain” with Romeo as the focal point (3.3.115). In the next line, she reiterates this same idea by stating, “and Tybalt’s dead, that would have slain my husband” with Tybalt as the focal point (3.3.116-117). This reiteration of the same idea from two different perspectives, facilitates a sense of logic and illustrates how Juliet is attempting to connect the dots and make sense of all that she has just been informed of in regards to how she should feel towards Romeo. As Juliet’s family is in mourning of Tybalt and is crying over his corpse, Juliet tells her nurse that her tears will not be caused by the death of her cousin but by the banishment of her beloved husband, Romeo. The imagery used in the line “wash they his wound with tears,” generates a sense of great mourning by quantitating the amount of grief that the Capulet family is experiencing in response to Tybalt’s death to the number of tears that they are crying, which is so much that their tears could wash Tybalt’s wounds (3.3.141). In this instance,

However, each time that they seem to make any sort of advancement toward their goal of being together, another problematic force is introduced and poses a threat to the survival of their relationship. This is the result of many complicated factors which cause Romeo and Juliet to make several rash decisions throughout the play. How Romeo and Juliet respond to these factors within their actions and decision making as they are desperate to be with one another illustrates the impulsive and dangerous characteristics of love, which can lead to unpredictable outcomes. Although impulsivity caused by love can be dangerous, sometimes drastic actions caused by love can produce a beneficial outcome out of a bad one, such as the mending that occurs between the two feuding Capulet and Montague households as they come together over Romeo and Juliet’s deaths at the end of the play. For Romeo and Juliet, love instigated them into taking dangerous risks in the name of love that they eventually faced the repercussions of, costing them their lives. However, since their bloody tragedy led to peace in Verona with the ceasing of conflict between their two raging families, Romeo and Juliet’s rocky journey through love’s mountainous terrain portrays that because of loves unpredictability, it also contains