“Star crossed lovers” is often the term used to describe Romeo and Juliet. That term is used to tell a story of many powerful emotions, two of the most powerful being love and passion.
Romeo and Juliet follows two teenagers that fall deeply in love with one another after only a day. Throughout the play they allow their passion and love to overpower and that ultimately leads to their demise. Shakespeare uses Romeo and Juliet to show that both passion and love can overpower emotions. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare says that love will overpower emotions. For instance, when Romeo went to visit Juliet and he was talking to her while she was on her balcony. Juliet then tells Romeo, “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite”(II.2.140-143). During this scene, Romeo and Juliet are in love; Juliet expressed that by saying her love for him is endless. However, there are a lot of emotions that are being overpowered because of that love. For example, the impulsiveness of them only meeting a day ago but being madly in
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For example in Act 3, Tybalt has come back from killing Mercutio and Romeo begins to talk to him, “That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio’s soul, Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him”(III.3.131-134). Romeo tells Tybalt that he or Tybalt must die to get justice for Mercutio. This is very different from what he was saying earlier which was that he would love Tybalt like a cousin because he is married to Juliet. In this moment, Romeo’s passion took over and made him want to fight Tybalt even though he had previously not wanted to fight him. The passion he had overpowered all of his other emotions, making him only able to focus on one emotion. Shakespeare used Romeo and Juliet to convey that passion can overpower