True Love In Romeo And Juliet

713 Words3 Pages
“My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep the more I give to thee, the more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite”-- Shakespeare. The play Romeo and Juliet is a romantic love story about a young man named Romeo who falls in love with a girl named Juliet, but is unable to marry her because of a family feud. Throughout the play, Shakespeare thoroughly explores the themes of true love, enduring love and forbidden love. However, audiences question whether Romeo truly loves Juliet. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the couple absolutely demonstrates true love for one another. This is proven through Romeo and Juliet in the ending who has taken their life because they truly loved each other, Romeo and Juliet 's relationship difficulties because of Montagues and Capulets, and when Romeo killed Tybalt and was sent to exile but when Romeo hears about Juliet’s death, he went back to see Juliet one last time.
True love has been shown in many romantic plays and books, however, in the play of Romeo and Juliet, true love is blind. The love that Romeo and Juliet shared was true as it has blinded them from the consequences of death. In the final stages of the play, Romeo drinks poison when he finds juliet dead and right after the death of Romeo, Juliet wakes up from her sleep, the first thing that she does is ask where Romeo is. “Oh comfortable friar, where is my lord? ... Where is my Romeo?” Once Juliet wakes up, she quickly notices Romeo’s dead body and stabs