Romeo And Juliet Sacrifice

Shakespeare’s iconic star-crossed lovers that prevailed over time, Romeo and Juliet, the world’s epitome of true love. The most perfect pair that never should have met. Their “love”, is the sweetest poison that gives both immense blisses alongside 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” tied them to a grim fate leading to their sacrifices thus resolving a long-running feud between both families. It is prominent through Shakespeare’s writing that he did not intend for Romeo and Juliet to be seen as iconic lovers, expanding on the idea that the intensity

Infatuated by the beauty of Juliet, Romeo awaits her in the darkness below her balcony confessing his love hours after their meeting, telling Juliet that she is the sun that kills the envious moon. Juliet is skeptical asking him how serious his feelings are. Acting without thinking, he was unknowing who to swear by swearing his love to the ever-changing moon, whom he referred to as jealous just minutes before. So Juliet says, “O, swear not by the moon, thʻ inconsistent moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, lest that thy love prove likewise variable” Shakespeare Act 2.2 109-111. This unsureness shown in Romeo displays the inconsistency in the clarity and reliability of Romeo’s emotions/feelings for Juliet. The symbolism portrayed in these lines also shows how Romeo and Juliet are a perfect pair; as Juliet is the day to Romeoʻs night; as Shakespeare remains consistent with the light and dark imagery throughout the book. However, no matter how much of a perfect pair night and day is, they can not co-exist together, foreshadowing the misfortune of their love. Another example of indecisiveness is when Romeo exclaims to Friar Lawrence about his new love, Juliet, and how he wants to marry her the day after they met. Shocked he says, “Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!/Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,/ So soon forsaken? Young men’s

While Romeo and Friar Lawrence are awaiting Juliet for their marriage, Friar says, “These violent delights have violent ends/ And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,/ Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey/ Is loathsome in its own deliciousness/ And in the taste compounds the appetite./ Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow...Oh, so light a foot/ Will neʻer wear out the everlasting flint. A lover may bestride the gossamers/ That idles in the wanton summer air,/ And yet not fall. So light is vanity” Shakespeare Act 2.6 9-20. Friar is warning them that this “love” of theirs may be sweet, light, and beautiful; it is also dangerous foreshadowing the dark turn their love will face. In addition, minutes before Juliet awakens from her slumber, Romeo drinks the poison and says, “O true apothecary,/Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” Shakespeare Act 5.3 119-120. This clearly shows how Romeo is very irrational and does things without thinking. If he had just had a little more patience many deaths could have been prevented including his own. Soon after Juliet reawakens to find her beloved Romeo dead, she takes his dagger and says, “O happy dagger,/This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die. (stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger and dies)” Shakespeare Act 5.3 169-171. Similarly, with