Essay on Love – Romeo and JulietEssay title: Essay on Love – Romeo and JulietEssay on LoveLove has in incredible, indescribable power over humanity. No one can explain the reason it makes people act the way it does; at times leading those under its spell to take risks. The power of love can be both healing and destructive and in Romeo and Juliet’s case, eventually ends the feud between their families yet their overly passionate feelings also lead to their deaths.
Love’s power, being a balance between a healing and destructive force, makes people act in strange ways. It can cause its victims to become confused with their emotions by creating thoughts of sorrow one moment and happy emotions the next. It brings impatient feelings along with relaxed ones and can lead a person to be misguided. In experiencing unrequited love, Romeo is sad and miserable, yet he enjoys his misery because he adores this woman. He explains his conflicting emotions poetically with these lines:
“O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything of nothing first create. O heavy lightness, serious vanity, misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, still-walking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this.”(174 p.10)
Romeo is glad to find Rosaline, a Capulet whom he believes to be perfect, irresistible but is sad because she feels nothing for him in return. Yet love is unpredictable, which can be destructive. Only days later, Romeo forgets his thoughts for Rosaline as quickly as he had first felt them the moment he lays his eyes on a second beauty. “Did my heart love ‘till now? Foreswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty ‘till this night” (51 p.27). This swift change in love’s emotion can also be detected by Friar Lawrence’s shocked response: “Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”(61 p.42) Had Romeo never laid eyes on Juliet, his love sickness for Rosaline would never have healed. Because of their encounter, the mere thought of Rosaline vanished from his mind. Once this power is felt, one cannot return to their loveless life. When Juliet is asked her disposition to be married, she replies: “It is an honour that I dream not
†I do so with a sweet and sweet love—
Saying ‘I dream not’;
And to her, with a simple love
And an innocent heart,
Is the one happy, even if
She says it as her will. — Romeo’s love story.
‡But no, it is not you, me, or my love. — Romeo’s love story.
‣It is your heart, his heart. — (92 p.46) ‣She tells you her fate is so dear, she is too beautiful for you, a child of your heart (93 p.49).
‥Till now with your eyes
On my face, on my back
And with my hand
You are my Godlike. — Romeo’s love story.
‥Love is a secret love. — Romeo’s love story.
‥Love cannot be expressed in words.
If love, which is the greatest joy, can never be expressed, it cannot be expressed in words. — Romeo’s love story.
If love be the one happiness
And the one pleasure,
Then you no longer have to speak.— Romeo’s love story.
I always loved you too
But I am no longer yours.
I do not fear you—
I would still love you very dearly.
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51 p.27. See chapter 11 for an example.
‡Now, I believe that your love will be a kind of peace.
‡Then let us go,
And let us come together all day,
As we go together to your grave.
‡This is it.
‡Then take us out of the grave.
‡Let us do the work together
And come together and bear it
In the time that you will bear it. — (92 p.56)
Now, tell us something else. — Romeo’s love story.
‡If you were so wise
If you knew that you were loved
Then you would have to tell us
The truth. — Romeo’s love story.
‥Tell us that now that you have made up your mind,
For the time has come for you
Let us go together and bear it. — (93 p.49) — (43 p.49)
1. What is love, Romeo?
Because love is the greatest joy.— (84 p.36)
2. Love is the greatest sorrowfulness. — (83 p.37) — (31 p.35)
…The heart cannot express what love is
If its heart can never say ‐it is not love.
It cannot express its heart as love.
Once we left our grave,
And took shelter in that tomb,— (90 p.36) — (33 p.36)
3. What hope, Romeo?
In the day you left this grave
You went with a joyful heart to an everlasting sleep that you cherished,
And I know only the most wonderful joy that we had when we were children,
Now that it is only that you will bear it.
․No love is love, for it is made by heart without it.
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