Familial Love In Romeo And Juliet

Samuel
Mrs. Sever
English 9 Honors, period 1
Family is important, surrounding one every day whether it be by blood or marriage. But, if one betrays the love that they give by ignoring it and never even looking at it, horrible things can happen. Romeo and Juliet is a play by William Shakespeare that showcases many lessons, one to be focused on is the importance of familial love. As the people who betray their familial love for romantic endeavors ultimately end up dead, that being Romeo and Juliet, two star-crossed lovers. A contemporary audience can still learn from and enjoy Romeo and Juliet as it enraptures the audience with sword fights and more while also teaching them lessons in disguise. Without a doubt a contemporary audience can, in

They can learn lessons such as familial love is more important or just as important as romantic love. As seen in Juliet’s case when she, who had fallen in love with someone and married them within the day: “What’s here? A cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end. O churl! drunk all, ad left no friendly drop… Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger!” (5.3.166-174). Instead of listening to her parents who loved her and telling them the truth of everything, she kills herself when she sees her love of two days dead. Her life cut short due to a true love of two days, not living due to the 13 years, almost 14, of the familial love she was lathered with by her parents. She would have lived had she paid attention to the familial love, showing just how important familial love is. Something else that can be learned from Romeo and Juliet is that not all adults are to be trusted as the nurse first tells Juliet to marry Romeo but when that goes bad, she says to marry Paris. But, Juliet, already married, would be committing polygamy which is illegal: “I think it best you married with the county…. You first is dead-or ‘twere as good he were” (3.5.227-234). It is obvious that the nurse is not to be trusted and is in the end making life worse for Juliet, which she notices all too late. It is known that the nurse is untrustworthy because she