ipl-logo

Lust In Romeo And Juliet

654 Words3 Pages

The beautiful tragedy written by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet is a story about lust and love and the juvenile view of their relationship. I don’t believe this to be a love story, but one of sadness, anger and lust. This script takes place in Verona, Italy with a timespan of 5 days. This is a story of a 13 and 17 year old falling in love in the midst of a years long feud that resulted in their death. Romeo and Juliet is the prime example of “love and first sight” to lay down one’s life for the other to only end up laying in a grave. It was their fate from the start, being told explicitly as “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”. They weren’t supposed to be together in the first place yet they still are being a bad idea from the start. The feud between their familiar already gives them a rough start to their relationship since the beginning but also leaves it doomed if their parents eventually found out about it. It also mentions “ The fearful passage of their death-marked love”. The fear they feel of their parents finding out, the fear of the rage it would concur, the fear of the backlash they would face from not …show more content…

They were wed early on in their relationship on the due insistence of Juliet's part in order to bequeath the lust they felt for one another. Their lust resulting in their death was said as “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes” The loins being the bringing the life and the fatality of it. The Oxymoron exudes the willingness to falter for their impatient love. Their short love of 5 days conjugated by “... the two hours’ traffic of our stage;”. Their life in one another was summarized in 2 hours time, the 120 hours turned to a sliver oof that. Their marriage happening on the next evening of them meeting. A juvenile action prespired by excitement and confusion. Romeo had just gotten his heart broken by Rosaline and to move on that quickly and be committed is

Open Document