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Romeo And Juliet Love Is Destructive

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Sadie Frost once said, “When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart, it ends up being destructive.” In ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’, ‘The Story of Layla and Majnun’, and ‘The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe’ love is a destructive thing. In all three stories, two people die due to their forbidden love. Love causes destructiveness by death in ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’. Destructiveness is shown in both Majnun and Layla’s lives. In ‘The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe’, destructiveness is shown by their sacrifice for love. Love can cause tragic events to occur. In ‘The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’, their love entailed risk that led to destruction. Juliet loved Romeo enough to plan to fake her death in order to live with Romeo in Mantua. This plan would ruin her family’s spirit and their hopes for her to marry Paris. When Romeo heard of …show more content…

Their plan to run away was made because they love each other, this, in turn, causes their deaths. When they ran away, Pyramus thought she had been killed by a lion. Because of his love for her, he took his life. Seeing that he dies for her, made Thisbe believe that she was the motive for his death. She too took her life for her love(Ovid 2). “Your love, that took your life away. I too have a brave hand for this one thing, I too have love enough, and this will give me strength for the last wound. I will follow you in death, be called the cause and comrade of your dying” (Ovid 2). Thisbe notices that Pyramus loved her so much, that he chose to die for her, this made her accuse herself for his death. Thisbe says, “I will follow him in death” (Ovid 2) because she loves Pyramus enough to kill herself for her love, just like Pyramus. Destructive things happen to Pyramus and Thisbe in this story due to their love for each

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