Love Is Risky In Romeo And Juliet

Falling in love is a great risk, so is it worth it to fall in love at sight? In the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare tells a story where there are two feuding sides who have one child who fall in love. On one side, a guy named Romeo who is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet, that meet at the Capulet’s ball and show love at first sight and want to marry soon after. But later there 's a big fight that ends up banishing Romeo so Friar Lawrence comes in and he has a plan where Juliet could be with Romeo and would get out of marrying Paris. But the wedding moves up and the plan isn 't updated so Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and kills himself and then Juliet kills herself because she can 't live without Romeo. Love is both powerful and destructive, which allows the reader to see Shakespeare’s belief that love is risky. Shown by the death of two lovers, in the end their love was powerful and strong leading them to kill themselves because they couldn’t bear being apart from one another.

Love is powerful because it can cause many resolutions, but also many conflicts. When Juliet

Shakespeare describes how love can be risky because it can end up causing harm and damage to others. Love is risky in who you the person may be, and how both lives of the people have been, Shakespeare shows this in the play when Romeo and Juliet marry because of their feuding ancestors and families. “Come, come with me, and we will make short work, / For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone / Till Holy Church incorporate two in one” (2.6.35-37), illustrates Shakespeare’s view that love is risky, which we can tell because Romeo and Juliet are being wed in secret. Shakespeare 's of damaging love is clear in Montague’s monologue, “Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. / Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath / what further woe conspires against mine age?” (5.3.218-20). The implication of that statement is that he is saddened by the tragic loss of these two star-crossed