Romeo And Juliet True Love

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As regular human beings, we feel the primal sensibility of finding true love. But finding true love might be very difficult because of the chance of an infatuation. In the romantic play “Romeo and Juliet”, by William Shakespeare, there are two main characters that come from families that have always hated each other. A Montague named Romeo falls in love with a Capulet named Juliet, and they instantly know that true love is shared between them. True love is an everlasting affection between lovers that have a happy and compassionate relationship. While Romeo and Juliet share true love with each other, they also fail to see the consequences of their love. At the end of the play, it is thoroughly shown that Romeo and Juliet’s love was true …show more content…

Thou desperate pilot, now at once run of the dashing rocks, thy seasick weary bark! Here’s to my love{drinking}. O true apothecary thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss, I die” (5.3.116-121). In this scene, we can truly see the impact Juliet's “death” has brought upon Romeo. True love is shown because because of Romeo killing himself so that he would metaphorically be with Juliet forever. Romeo made the ultimate sacrifice of taking his own life to find and keep the love he shared with Juliet. Similar to Romeo's death, Juliet shows the same impact of losing a loved one as Romeo did when Juliet was supposedly dead. Juliet knows she won’t be happy without Romeo so she also takes her own life, “yea, noise? Then i’ll be brief. O, happy dagger, this is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die{she takes Romeos dagar and stabs herself, then dies}”(5.3.174-176). Juliet couldn’t bear to lose Romeo, so she also took it into her own hands to take her own life. True love is a long lasting affection towards the each other. Romeo and Juliet showed true love because we knew they couldn’t live without each other. We also received a glimpse of how deeply in love they