Romeo and Juliet-The Modern Title: Blood, loss, love, grief, tragedy. All are subjects that most people will face at least once in their lifetime. In the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers experience the similar themes of tragedy, love, loss, grief, and other long-term consequential themes. Romeo is a young man under the family name Montague, while his lover Juliet is a Capulet, with these two families being well-known rivals. Due to their families’ ongoing feud, they are forbidden to be together, so they take drastic measures to ensure their love. Despite the proposition that some of Shakespeare’s work may be outdated, his work is still relevant to modern society through his ongoing and discussable …show more content…
Torres illuminates how it is an effortless way to bring up conflicting issues that still linger today. Once more, these themes/topics aren’t talked about very much, so it is good to start young and inform the youth of modern-day societal problems. On another note, Shakespeare is still relevant to modern society today because people continue to suffer from the conflicts of death and they still learn and relate from the themes presented and the characters. In Romeo and Juliet, love and death go hand in hand. Love was the main culprit for the theme of death in this story as the love between Romeo and Juliet blossomed and interfered with their family rivalry and resulted in a consequential death. A prime moment in the story to this relevancy of the themes of love and loss is when Romeo has intense feelings for Juliet as he is in love with her. Shakespeare writes “‘Eyes, look at your last! Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!’ [Romeo kisses Juliet, then takes out the vial of poison and addresses it]” (Romeo