Themes are something present in everyone’s life. Some don’t apply to you, but others do. From the works we have studied this year, the themes I have chosen to include love has sacrifices, from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, the theme of grief in Red Cloud’s speech, and the role of gender in A Lamb to The Slaughter by Roald Dahl. First off, love has sacrifices is an easy theme and is stated in Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet are a pair of star-crossed lovers who are in a forbidden relationship by their warring families. This is the first instance of sacrifice. They are potentially sacrificing their relationships with their families by being together. But, if you talk about sacrificing in the way of death, they do that too. In act 5, scene 3, Romeo says this, “Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once …show more content…
There rust, and let me die. (She takes Romeo’s dagger, stabs herself, and dies.).” When she realized that Romeo is dead, she mills herself out of grief. Love is sacrificial in. multiple different ways. Grief is a theme in Red Cloud’s speech the whole way through. But especially in this line, “We held our dying children and felt their little bodies tremble as their soul went out and left only a dead weight in our hands. They were not very heavy but we were faint and the dead weighed us down. There was no hope on earth. God seemed to have forgotten.” This line shows just how much the tribe had to grieve over losing person after person, and how hopeless and sad everyone felt. Finally, gender roles in A Lamb to The Slaughter is very prominent. It’s set in the 1950s, where women were to stay home and clean house and take care of kids. If they worked, they were underpaid and seen as selfish. The man controlled all money and household things and women had no control over anything financial and nothing to their name. This is why Mary covered her husbands murder up, she would have been subjected to a life of