Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

Love is said to be poisonous, but that only may be if one mistakens another emotion for love. In Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo and Juliet, a play, consisting of two star-crossed lovers who are deprived from each other because of a feud between the two families. Romeo, a Montague, attends a party where he first lays eyes on Juliet, a Capulet. Claimed to be love at first sight, they marry without rendering their love to the public. This causes trouble in the Capulet house when Juliet is said to marry Paris and cannot see Romeo because of his banishment from Verona. So in act to show their undying love for each other, they take their own lives. Romeo and Juliet commences as a lust story but in due course of their fate, sexual desire alters into

The two interpret lust for love, portraying weakness for one another to express their admiration. Once Romeo takes the life of Tybalt, the prince banishes him from Verona to which he continues to say, “And world’s exile is death. Then ‘banishèd’/ Is death mistermed. Calling Death ‘banishèd’” (pg. 141, line 21-22). Romeo explains to the prince how being banned from Verona, where Juliet lives, is just as worse of punishment as being dead. He illustrates how either way, banishment or death, he cannot see Juliet and therefore doesn’t care to be alive. Expulsion from Verona, to Romeo, is also expulsion from Juliet, which he stresses she is his only happiness. Romeo is becoming weak for Juliet by threatening his own life. This is an act of love because his true feelings want to keep him in Verona, for if it was an exploit of desire, Romeo would've left in seek of another maiden. This speculation is also demonstrated when Romeo finds Juliet ‘dead’ and says his last words before taking his life, “Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath/ Hath had no power on thy beauty” (pg 227, line 92-93). Romeo makes the observation that even though she lays dead, her features are still alive. Her lips are still worth breathing from and death doesn’t have the power to take her beauty. The beauty he explains he see’s, represents the love Romeo has for Juliet. His love will still live with her after death. Romeo’s talk of her sweet lips exemplifies his need to feel her one last time. This is lustful however, it’s all he knows. The two only experienced love as it was an act on feelings of lust. Romeo and Juliet’s longing for one another proves their