Jane Eyre is an Iconic love story written in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte. The story is based around the forbidden love between Jane Eyre and her employer, Edward Rochester. Romeo and Juliet Is another iconic love story written by William Shakespeare. Set in 16th century Italy, the story revolves around the relationship of two children from feuding families (Capulet and Montague). The themes of love presented in these two love stories include Platonic love, unrequited love and romantic love.
In the beginning of the play, Romeo is shown to feel unrequited love towards Rosaline. Shakespeare shows this by making Romeo moody and reluctant to talk to anyone. He then uses Benvolio to get Romeo to show his emotions. During this, Romeo expresses his feelings using oxymorons such as: ‘O brawling love, o loving hate’ and ‘bright smoke, sick health’. This repeated use of oxymorons may make the audience view Romeo as an emotional young man who is unsure about his feelings.
In Jane Eyre, St. John feels unrequited love towards Jane. Bronte shows this through the use of first
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O Romeo, Romeo! Where fore art thou Romeo? ‘Deny thy father and refuse thy name; or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I 'll no longer be a Capulet.’ This is an example of how Juliet believes that their love surpasses their family feud. Juliet also believes that their love would be accepted if it weren’t for their families. ’I take thee at thy word: Call me but love and I 'll be new baptized; henceforth I never will be Romeo.’ This is another example of romantic love. Romeo is willing to do anything anything for Juliet and sacrifice his own name to be with Juliet. This foreshadows Romeo’s later sacrifice, his life. Romeo is also shown to be acting irrationally as he is willing to sacrifice everything he has for someone he just met. This could also be an example of how Shakespeare presents love at first
In lines 174 through 178 of Act 1 Scene 1, Romeo says many oxymorons in the beginning of his conversation with Benvolio. “Heavy lightness” and “serious vanity” are just some of the many oxymorons that Romeo says while explaining how it feels to love someone who doesn’t love you back. The use and repetition of the many oxymorons in the same dialogue leads the reader to the conclusion
Romeo, son of Montague and Lady Montague, is introduced into the story as a depressed, upset young man, moping over a girl who will never love him back. As he says to Benvolio, “She’ll not be hit with Cupid’s arrow. She hath Dian’s wit, and, in strong proof of chastity well-armed, from Love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharmed” (Romeo and Juliet I i 203-206). Romeo states that his true love will not love him as he thinks of her, as she intends to stay chaste and turn into a nun, thus upsetting Romeo and putting him in a depressed state of mind. He is a very extreme person, and in a way, that contributes to the hastiness of the whole play, as Romeo is always at either of his two extremes; his mood either quite happy or relatively dismal. He shows that in his thoughts, as he is at first convinced he should never love another woman, but then he meets Juliet only days afterward and forgets about his previous love. His encounter with Juliet is hasty, but he claims he “never saw true beauty till this night” (Rom I v 52). Romeo reveals his personality, and how quickly he is able to get over someone whom he thought he was in love with. However, after encountering Juliet and falling in love once more, Romeo develops an obsession of sorts w...
Shakespeare shows both the excitement and the dangers of first love using a range of structure and language devices to show how each character feels. He uses a wide range of metaphors to describe Romeo’s thoughts of Juliet and structures the play full of opposites and contrasts to show the light of love and the darkness of death and violence. In Act 1 Scene 5, Romeo and Juliet first meet each other in the party. This is a significant scene in the play as this is the start of the event that ultimately leads to their demise.
“Romeo and Juliet”, a play composed by William Shakespeare, is about a boy and a girl who are fall in love with each other at first sight, but soon find out that they have fallen in love with the child of their parents enemy. Seeing fate is not on their side due to the ongoing feud between their parents, they are willing to do anything to be together, which unfortunately leads to both of their demise. Many people question if the love between Romeo and Juliet was true. The love between the two was not true because they fell in love with each other’s appearances, they didn’t know each other long enough to actually figure out each other, and they were hardly thinking straight during the relationship.
Playwright, William Shakespeare, conveys the different forms of love between characters in his drama, Romeo and Juliet. In the small town of Verona the different types of love are highlighted, through character actions and speech. Unrequited love is seen in Romeo and Juliet through Romeo 's 'love ' for Rosaline in Act one, while the forbidden love at first sight, also known as romantic love is seen between Romeo and Juliet. Furthermore, the motherly love/ familial love, Juliet and the Nurse share is also explored.
The lover’s immediate connection is established at the Capulet feast, “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it sight / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Through doing this, it shows that Romeo is reckless and continues even though he recognizes that they come from different families, “o dear, my life is my foe’s debt”. Throughout the play, it establishes that Juliet allows herself to behave impulsively and be persuaded by Romeo into a impetuous and thoughtless marriage, “The exchange of thy love’s faithful vowel for mine” Juliet expresses her concern that it is too soon to promise to love Romeo when they have only just met, “It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden / Too like the lightning” This simile is used to convey Juliet’s thought on their sudden love. Although Juliet has recognized how spontaneous they are acting, it does not prevent her from continuing her relationship with Romeo, proving that Juliet is just as impulsive as Romeo. Thus, Shakespeare has skillfully utilized the lovers to demonstrate that their own reckless actions is a reason for their untimely
Through this tragic play, Shakespeare illustrates that love requires people to sacrifice many precious things, which can include family, friends, even life. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet depicts the nuances of human experience of love. Romeo and Juliet’s story is the greatest declaration of romantic love.
Romeo throws himself into whatever emotion he's feeling wholeheartedly, he will either be fully sad or fully happy. These are the only two emotions we see portrayed from his character throughout the play. At the beginning of the play Romeo is extremely sad to the point where Lord Montague describes him as crying every morning, locking himself in
Love is ironic. It can take you anywhere in the world unexpectedly, and turn you into a person that you never were. However, love is also two-faced, having both a negative and positive view. It is what drives you to the point where you do not know who you are anymore. In Shakespeare's story, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare perceives love with the personalities and actions of the characters, Romeo and Juliet. Both Romeo and Juliet are characterized as immature and irrational due to their "love." In addition, both characters fail to realize the reality of life and go towards the path of adolescence. Even though Romeo and Juliet are doomed at the end of the journey of "love," their demise was caused by their rash and silly decisions because their belief of everlasting love blinds them from reality and shapes their lives into an unstoppable time bomb.
Gladly shunned who gladly flew from me" Benvolio is saying Romeo is avoiding him. This is because Romeo says he is in love with me. In sadness, I love a woman" Romeo says he is in love, but is he really? Romeo uses dull and depressing language and a series of oxymorons. "cold fire, heavy lightness, sick health" Romeo is depressed because his love for Rosaline has not returned.
He asks his cousin, Benvolio, for his advice and remorse. Therefore, when Romeo is with Benvolio in the first scene, he is in a deep agony from Rosaline’s love. He describes her love as “a choking gall” (1.1.185) that he can’t resist and brings a deep sadness in his heart. Showing the audience that he is in love with Rosaline, but she does not love him back and that is why he is sorrow. Also, Shakespeare is using an oxymoron to empathize how sweet, wonderful, and magnificent love is; however it’s showing how depressing, sorrow, and the agony that comes from it. Secondly, Rosaline doesn’t want to be loved and that emphasizes Romeo’s situation. Romeo tells Benvolio that she is “not [to] be hit with cupid 's bow [or]…hath Dian’s wit” (1.1.200) meaning that she refuses to be hit by Cupid’s love arrows and has Diana 's virginity. Making Romeo upset because he loves Rosaline, but she does not want to be love by Romeo. Also, to exaggerate her virginity and deflection of love, Shakespeare uses Greek mythology as metaphors that can empathizes his words’ meanings. In conclusion, Romeo’s depression comes from Rosaline’s virginity and not wanting to love
In Act I of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare demonstrates different forms of love that characters face. From the beginning, Romeo struggles to find true love and what love really is. As for Juliet, she also struggles on what love is, but also finding her own voice. And when finally finding true love they discover that they have fallen in love their own enemy. They both realize that the idea of love can be amazing, but also a painful experience. Shakespeare demonstrates love versus evil and the forms love takes that is acknowledged as an universal issue that connects different types of audiences. Audiences are captured by relating on love and the emotions that are displayed. From Romeo and Rosaline’s unrequited love, Paris and Juliet’s false love, and Romeo and Juliet’s ill-fated love, create the forms of love that establishes love as a leading theme in Act I.
When examining the characters in Romeo and Juliet, it is hard to look past the obvious disparities between how the two main characters act and how all the supporting characters respond to these actions. For Romeo and Juliet, their focus on their love seems trivial in comparison to the world around them, especially as their everyone around them starts to be killed, their relationship being a somewhat catalyst for it all. Romeo, however, is by far the most oblivious of the two, being introduced as someone who is looking for love in places he should not. It is with this search for love that Romeo begins being depicted as the archetype for the Petrarchan sonnet, the idea of unrequited love always looming over Romeo. This creates tension when the
Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, various types of love are portrayed. According to some of the students of Shakespeare, Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters pertaining to love (Bloom 89). Undoubtedly, he draws upon this wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love, the interchangeable love, the painful love and the love based on appearances, but only true love is worth having.
Romeo has a passion for love that is unbreakable, and he will do anything to get who he wants, no matter the consequences that might follow. An example of this is when Romeo goes to Juliet’s balcony and confesses his love for her, but what he does not understand is that “if they do see thee, they will murder thee” (Shakespeare II.ii.75). Romeo has trouble accepting the reality that it will not work out for him or her because of family differences. The intensity of love in both of these texts becomes a dangerous and violent thing.