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The Forcefulness Of Love In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet, the tale of two teenagers lustily in love. Near all have heard this tale, “the story of two star-crossed lovers, who take their lives.” Romeo and Juliet takes place in Verona, Italy. Where two feuding families lose their only children to fate. The forcefulness of love was very impactful on these two. In Romeo and Juliet, there are three key themes that will apply not only to that day in age but today's society as well. The themes I found were age, identity, and revenge. The theme-age is presented strongly throughout the play of Romeo and Juliet. Age is what greatly separates characters. Not only does age separate how elder a person is to how young one is if shows how wise one can be compared to another. Being aged, one …show more content…

See, a person can get revenge in a lot of ways; they can hurt someone you care about, they can disrupt something or someone close to you. In this play, revenge is shown in a sorrowful and quite gruesome way. In act three, there is a brawl between three key characters; Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio. Now Tybalt has reasons for upbringing this fight. The simple fact was he did not enjoy the fact that his cousin (Juliet) was associating herself with his rival the Montagues (Romeo). Romeo then begins to go on about how he has reasons to love Tybalt and does not wish to brawl with him; owing to he no longer wants to be enemies with the Capulets. Mercutio stands against Romeo’s statements and says “If Romeo does not fight Tybalt, I will do so,” and he does. Mercutio brawls with Tybalt for a long while and unfortunately Mercutio gets wounded and bleeds out resulting in a gory death. Romeo beings only to think with his Amygdala. (He only using emotion to rationalize) Enraged, from his confidant’s death, Romeo declares his love for Juliet and how he must avenge the death of Mercutio. As Tybalt rushes from the scene of Mercutio's body, Romeo draws his sword and fights him as Tybalt did Mercutio; but in this fight, Romeo slays Tybalt and gets banished from Verona. Revenge is very present in today’s world as well. Many people get hurt or watch others be hurt and just want to take in into their own hands. For an example, imagine a woman waking up only to realize that her husband has cheated on her. This woman is going to be distraught and wants to hurt the man just as awfully as he did her. She wants revenge for herself. There are many instances like this, thus showing how often revenge takes

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