Comparing Romeo And Juliet And Much Ado About Nothing

In Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare describes what love can do. Because of the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues, Romeo, Montague’s son, and Juliet, Capulet’s dearest child, were not allowed to be friends with each other. Since Juliet was little, she had been obedient to her parents, so she went to the party. She was also under their control as she was not allowed to go out of their house without their permission. Juliet falls in love with Romeo when she sees him at the party. Before Romeo met Juliet at the party, he lamented for Rosaline, who did not love him back. Once he saw Juliet, he fell in love with her, forgetting all about Rosaline. In Much Ado About Nothing Benedick is known for being resistant

The Friar notices Romeo’s change as he says, “what a change is here!/ Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken?/ … Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline!/ How much salt water thrown away in waste/… Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears./ Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit/… Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline./ And art thou changed?” (Romeo and Juliet, II.iii.69-71,74-75,82-83). He recognizes how Romeo comes out of his sorrow life so quickly when he falls in love with Juliet. The Friar thinks that he has broken Rosaline's heart, but soon finds out that she did not love him back. Loving someone who loves him back makes Romeo realize how much power he has: “With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,/ For stony limits cannot hold love out/ And what love can do, that dares love attempt/ therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.” (Romeo and Juliet, II.ii.71-74). Juliet’s love drags Romeo into the Capulet's’ garden where the Capulets' guards could catch him as a Montague, the Capulets’ enemies. He does not worry about his life being in danger and

At first, she is not interested in loving or marrying, but with her mother’s power, she goes to a party to see if she loves Paris. Instead of him, she immediately falls in love with Romeo. But, , she finds out that “My only love sprung from my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me,/ That I must love a loathed enemy.” (Romeo and Juliet, I.v.152-155). Romeo’s love becomes too attractive to her as she doesn’t even know his name or which family he is from and loves him freely. Her love is urgent since she allows herself to love Romeo when she sees him for the first time at the party and also because she is so worried to hear what he says about marrying each other as she says, “Oh, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts,/ Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,/… Is three long hours, yet she is not come.” (Romeo and Juliet, II.v.4-5,11). Love makes Juliet call her nurse a lame person because she is too slow to deliver love letters back and forth. Juliet cannot wait to get Romeo’s response to her love. Agreeing to marry him, Juliet asks if she could go out of her house: “Have you got leave to go to shrift today?/ I have.” (Romeo and Juliet, II.v.59-60). As a young daughter of Leonato, Juliet is not able to go out of her house without permission. She is able to ask her parents with the power of