Romeo And Juliet Suicide Impulse Analysis

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Romeo and Juliet is a play created by William Shakespeare to conceptualize his idea of the highest form of love. This play is meant to show, through example, what real love is; and the desperate measures one would take to maintain such love. Love through Shakespeare’s vision is meant to be the ultimate emotion, the one feeling which one would risk their very being to possess. Shakespeare captures that feeling in the final scene of the play when Romeo and Juliet both end their own lives when they believe they will never feel such powerful love again. However, this “suicide impulse” that both Juliet and Romeo exhibit does not relate to the play’s theme of the highest form of love, but it relates to another theme in the play: the theme of young,