Introduction
In the play Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare effectively represents the theme of different types of love as doomed due to the strength of their love being genuinely powerful. Such love can lead to keeping secrets from loved ones and people can get hurt or killed.
Point
In the play ‘Romeo and Juliet’ Shakespeare exhibits that despite everything Romeo and Juliet’s love is really strong and there is nothing that anyone can do to break them apart, not even death however It will come with a string of troubles and can cause unusual things to occur.
Example
In Act 2 Scene 2 Juliet asks Romeo how he had managed to find his way to her room and he responded by saying ; “By love, that first did prompt me to inquire. He lent me counsel and I lent him eyes. I am no pilot. Yet, wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise.”(Lines 80-84). In these lines Romeo repeatedly notified Juliet of how his love for her had showed him the way.
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Technique
The technique used in the example above is personification as Romeo is addressing that his love for Juliet had borrowed his eyes and had shown him the way to her. As humans look for things and have eyes Romeo gives ‘love’ a human trait.
Analyse
In using personification Shakespeare makes the line appear more vivid and since it isn’t overly descriptive it gives the reader a chance to imagine what ‘love’ may look like. In doing this he also shows that the effect of love being strong enough to make you go places. It communicates a better understanding of how Shakespeare feels about love; that it can supposedly take over your body and make you do things you wouldn’t do in your ‘normal’ state.
Example
In Act 3 Scene 3 Romeo had previously killed Tybalt. He was then called upon by Friar Lawrence who said, “ Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.” He says that to prove to Romeo of his misfortunate destiny.
Technique
In this line Friar Lawrence uses a metaphor to show that Romeo’s marriage to Juliet will come with a string of other ‘calamities’. Romeo isn’t literally married to ‘calamity’ but rather he has married his families’ mortal enemy, a Capulet, this is the calamity that the Friar is talking of. This helps us see that due to the strength of their love they will face a lot of issues such as the death of Mercutio which happened due to his hate for the Capulet’s and Tybalt’s hate for the Montague’s.
Analyse
This shows that Romeo is prone to unfortunate things happening to him and that his killing of Tybalt wasn’t an astonishment to the friar as it was due to his love for Juliet was being to strong and getting in the way of and It also means that as Romeo has married his families’ mortal enemy, a capulet, he has married into a chain of hardships to follow.
Link
By writing this, Shakespeare proves that though there may be moments in their relationship that may shed a ray of hope for the readers, he makes it clear that there is nothing that can break Romeo and Juliet’s connection as their love is really passionate in their short-lived journey/romance.
Conclusion
Shakespeare effectively represents the theme of different types of love as doomed due to the strength of love being genuinely powerful, maybe even overly powerful. Shakespeare expresses that no matter how fond you might be of love, Romeo and Juliet’s story is the strongest one yet.
