“Don’t waste your love on somebody who doesn’t value it.” - William Shakespeare. The belief by people of what love truly is gets crushed in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare shows the lack of what love really means and how certain peoples' lives get cut short due to it. Everybody in this play is forced to marry a certain man from a certain family. None of the ladies get much of an option in who they choose to marry, but Romeo and Juliet decide to try and abide by the rules and attempt to break them because they believe they truly love each other. In the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the image of love is portrayed as a forced or wanted thing to do rather than …show more content…
The quote symbolizes how in the story, parents and family get carried away with the problem of Romeo and Juliet being in love but come from opposing families. Juliet attempts to try and persuade her mother and father into understanding that they love each other, but neither one of them ever do. Shakespeare states how love can “perpetuate a cycle of irrational choices and decisions that can lead to tragic consequences.”Although Romeo could’ve chosen to move on and went with Rosaline, who was the cousin of Juliet, he still didn’t budge from his decision. Between the feud of the Montague and Capulet families, Romeo and Juliet never had a true chance to be …show more content…
They want to be in love so badly that they don’t think about how their families are sworn enemies, and that their love affairs could cause a war between the two families. In the quote, “My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen, unknown, and known too late!” (Act 1. Sc 5. Lines 138-139.) Juliet shows how although she loves Romeo, her parents will never accept him. Juliet then disregards her family's thoughts and feelings toward the situation and decides to listen to what her heart says in the situation rather than the correct thing to