Comparing Love In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

Love is a word that is used every day. It has become a common phrase used in many different contexts. “I love pizza” “I love my mom” “I love the boy I sit next to in Algebra” “I love video games”. But do people really “love” pizza or video games? What even is love? Dictionary.com says love is an intense feeling of deep affection. But is that really all love is? Can such a big word truly be summed up in less than 10 words? How can all of these different phrases be categorized under one word? The feelings you have for your mom are much different than the ones you have for your current crush. Reading Romeo and Juliet gave me a good reason to look more deeply into what love truly is in a relationship. For my interview, I decided to interview one

So I started off with the biggest question “What is love to you?” My father answered, “Finding a partner who you are willing to do anything for and knowing it is vice versa. They are willing to be there during your highest point and your lowest point, with no doubts about it.” My mom stated, “Love is finding the perfect person who will always be there to get through the ups and downs of our crazy world, and share responsibilities with.” Even though I interviewed them at two different times, I began to see that all of their answers were extremely similar. Given that my parent’s have been married for 20 years, raised a family together, and been through the thicks and thins of life, it makes sense that their ideas of love are extremely

Immediately, both answered that my dad’s parents were their inspirations. My father said that “I strive to be like my mother and father who have been married for 56 years. I have watched them grow every day together, get through the same military duties that my wife and I have experienced, console each other after losing their baby boy, and stick together in sickness and in health, especially this last year. They have always shown respect to each other, raised a beautiful family, and I see them as relationship goals, or whatever you say now a day.” I was also curious as to how they knew that their significant other was “the one”. They answered with the exact same words “I knew that my husband/wife was the one because every time I saw them, this feeling welled up inside of me. I can’t explain what that feeling is. It was just different than anyone else who had ever been in my life” Romantic, but it still wasn’t telling me what love exactly