There's a common saying that claims, "love is a drug". The saying means that love is addicting, and it makes people do things that they wouldn't do if they were in the right state of mind. Lovers Romeo and Juliet's addiction led them to a fateful overdose. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare about star-crossed lovers whose family's feud ultimately leads them to an untimely end.
Romeo and Juliet's suicide shows that Cupid's arrows, while romantic, are sharp as daggers. For instance, Romeo exclaims in 5.3.119-120, "Here's to my love... Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" (Shakespeare). Later, after discovering her true love has met his end, Juliet states in lines 174-175, "O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die." Neither Romeo nor Juliet even hesitated or doubted their decision for a second. For one another, there was never another option. The two were so deeply in love that they would have rather been six feet underground together, than to be alive without each other. It's an extreme act of true love, and shows that love is in fact violent. While love is proven violent, it can also be confusing as well.
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For example, Capulet scolds Juliet in 3.5.195-207, that she will stop whining about the wedding arrangement, and she will marry Paris and live a happy life. Capulet doesn't view love as the grand, romantic, and dramatic feeling as Romeo and Juliet do. Capulet's opinion of love is putting up with the significant other in a relationship. He doesn't care about Juliet's inner feelings for Paris, instead he sees a wealthy, good friend that Juliet would be a fool not to marry. The word love holds no weight to Capulet, as opposed to the titular lovers who live and die by it. Although it can be confusing to a lot of people, in its truest form, love is ultimately