Shakespeare intentionally includes similarities between his plays Romeo & Juliet, Othello, and Macbeth in order to emphasize how love and thirst for power can play into jealousy and manipulation. To begin with, this idea of love is emphasized among Romeo & Juliet with Othello through the use of their wives. In Romeo and Juliet this is idea of love seems to be the biggest reoccurring theme and point of the story. This is seen in the starting lines of the prologue where it says “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Dowth with their parent’s strife.” (prologue.5-8) Notably, this lines use of the idea of “Star-crossed lovers” pushes forward the idea that they were bound by love and that it was so strong that they had taken their lives. While in Othello this idea first comes in act 1 from Othello where it says “I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and they moor are {now} making the beast with two backs.” (1.1.129-131) The modern day use of “Making the beast with two …show more content…
Above all, saying that this idea of “Making the beast with two backs” was because she loved him and that Othello had felt the same way