Romeo And Juliet Sacrifice

Shakespeare’s iconic star-crossed lovers that prevailed over time itself, Romeo and Juliet, the world’s epitome of true love. The most “in love” strangers who've never truly loved each other. Their “love”, the sweetest poison that gives both immense blisses along with immense suffering.

William Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play filled with acts of sacrifice, vengeance, and recklessness by the helpless teenagers and protagonists Romeo of Montague and Juliet of Capulet. Whose “love” binds them to a grim fate leading to their sacrifices thus resolving a long-running feud between both families.

Shakespeare did not intend for Romeo and Juliet to be seen as iconic lovers, as the “love” they shared was toxic and led to their

As said in the Prologue, “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,/Whose misadventured piteous overthrows/Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife./ The fearful passage of death-marked love” Shakespeare Act 1.1 5-8.

Shakespeare does not believe in love at first sight and constantly ridicules it as irrational, absurd, and dangerous through his writing. Rather, he mostly uses this troupe with teenagers in his plays to show how they aren't mature enough to (understand) the difference between love and (attraction/lust).

Romeo and Juliet are not in love but rather the idea of love which they relate to their “beloved” quickly turning their love into obsession.

At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet, we find that Romeo is heartbroken because the recipient of his love, the beautiful Rosaline, does not reciprocate his love back and states, “She hath, and in that spring makes hide waste for beauty, starved with her severity, cuts beauty off from all prosperity. She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair to merit bliss by making me despair” (Shakespeare Act.1.1.

Young men’s love then lies/ Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” Shakespeare 2.3. 65-68

Friar, shocked by how fast Romeo is falling in and out of “love” tells Romeo that he only loves with his eyes/what he sees and not in his heart thus meaning his love is not true.

When Frier ridicules Romeo for replacing his love for another Frier says, “O, she knew well/thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. But come, young wanderer, come, go with me, In one respect Iʻll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove/To turn your householdsʻ rancor to pure love” Shakespeare Act 2.3 88-92.

This shows that Rosaline knew that Romeo only loved her beauty and didn't truly love her which is why she didn't reciprocate his feelings. The only reason why Friar agreed to Romeo and Juliet's marriage was for selfish reasons, as it would stop the feud between the Capulets and Montegues.

Romeo and Juliet's romance began on a whim, with each of them falling in love with the other's physical appearance yet unable to grasp the other's emotions, resulting in inconsistencies in their already (weary)