Head Vs Heart In Romeo And Juliet

Head Versus Heart In Nick Cassavetes movie, "The Notebook," Allie and Noah exemplify the theme of head versus heart when two people fall in love but are tragically ripped apart by their families. Years later Allie is engaged with another man but falls in love with Noah again. Ultimately, they disobey what their head deems correct, and wind up choosing what their hearts desire. Similarly, Shakespeare uses the same theme of head versus heart in his book, “Romeo and Juliet,” exemplifying how the heart overruled the head. In this book, Shakespeare personifies the balance of head versus heart with Juliet and personifies the heart with Romeo. Due to lack of balance, and nature, the heart takes the victory over the head. This shows how passion

Romeo sees what he thinks is Juliet lifless and cold. He professes his love for her and kisses her. Romeo says, "Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!/ Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on/ The dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here's to my love (drinking)/ Oh true apothecary/ Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die." Romeo physically can't bear life without his one true love and only she can fulfill him, he says, "Thy drugs are quick," saying how he takes the illegal drugs that will soon terminate his existence. He got them from a doctor, or pharmacist saying, "Oh true apothecary," thanking the peasent for the illegal elixir. Finally, he kisses her for the last time before he enters his eternal slumber. Romeo makes this decision with his heart affirming that the heart rules over the head. Furthermore, Juliet soon wakes up and realizes that Romeo is dead. Juliet takes his dagger and kills herself, the after-effects of the previous foreshadow when she showed Friar Lawrence her dagger. Juliet says, "Yea noise? Then I'll be brief. O, happy dagger,/ This is thy sheath. Their rust, and let me die. (She takes Romeo's dagger, stabs herself, and dies)." Shakespeare uses the pun, "rust," to show how Juliet is killing herself with an iron dagger. Juliet says, “oh happy

Combined, Romeo and Juliet risk getting killed, commit suicide, and Juliet even fakes her own death so that her and Romeo could be together. They truley prove and exemplify the argument that the heart overrules the head because they ultimately take their lives for one another. These arguments substantiate the theme of choosing what your heart desires over anything else in the world, even your own life. Nowadays, this can be paralleled to walkouts, peaceful protests and other forms of passion-driven expression. This can also be parallel to the everyday acts of courage, that pushes one person to stand up for another. I personally think that it is human nature to choose passion over sensibility, for this was how our world and society was created. If we had not made these big movements with our passion driving us, like women's rights, gun violence, and equality we would not be as progressive as we are today. I believe that we must be liberated from fear, denying it the ability to influence our decisions that we make, and Romeo and Juliet truly personify this. Presently, we see teens as young as Romeo and Juliet, walking out to represent all those killed by erratic gun violence. These massive issues need to be spoken out upon with passion and if we always followed what we deemed