Romeo And Juliet Concepts Of Love

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is an intense and moving story about the love two adolescents share with each other only after meeting twice. Shakespeare not only explores the instantaneous love Romeo and Juliet have but has also included the different concepts of love people might go through, in the play. Gregory and Sampson interoperate 'love' in a completely different manner than Romeo and Juliet, their intentions are animal like. Gregory and Sampson can also represent a typical, simple minded man scared of commitment. Friar Lawrence's interpretation of love is unlike Romeo and Juliet's and not like Gregory and Sampson either. Being a man of the earth, he believes that you should take your time when it comes to love. The genuine of all love is the clichй' of 'love at first sight' combined with the classic 'forbidden love' that Romeo and Juliet come to experience. This kind of love only happens once after every Armageddon. The passion and love they hold for each other is continued and grows throughout the story.

Gregory and Sampson are not the type of people you would want to run into in a dark alley, especially if you're from the house of Montague. Their view of love you could say is the complete opposite of Romeo and Juliet. While Romeo and Juliet's love is pure Sampson and Gregory's view of love are vulgar, so sad to see such a once pure word 'love' be used in the lowest form possible to describe the views of Gregory and Sampson. One of the traits Sampson shows is sexism, "women being the weaker vessels are ever thrust to the wall" Sampson is illustrating sexism by saying that women are inferior to men being the weaker vessels and using that in the same sentence as that he will thrust them to the wall, this being interpreted in a sexual meaning. Carrying on with his conversation with Gregory he continues to say that he will cut of the heads of the maids or their "maidenheads, take it in what sense thou wilt" interpreting this in both sense; in killing the Montague maids and in the sexual sense (in which he is most probably implying) that he will take their virginity. From what we read Gregory and Sampson do not talk about love, they talk only about sex when it comes to women, they are like teenagers that just hit puberty and have not developed in their knowledge of true love. Shakespeare could also be giving us an idea about the way a simple man's mind works, there are many people like Sampson and Gregory around and even though not in the play a sense of fear of commitment are in the way of how Gregory and Sampson's lines are written. This concept of love is not worthy to be called a concept of love but should be called 'what love is not.'

Another view of love is Friar Lawrence's view. Friar Lawrence was the one to agree and help Rome and Juliet get married. This was dangerous because he was absolutely aware of the feud between the two families. He was also the one who devised the plan to keep Romeo and Juliet together, in order to avoid Juliet's 'second marriage' to Paris. This shows that the Friar has such a wonderful view of love that he was willing to risk his own life and reputation for Romeo and Juliet's marriage. At one part he speaks to Romeo and gives advice and guidance by sharing his ideas and views on love. He describe that what Romeo and Juliet is going through is a 'violent delight' in which will have a 'violent end.' "Therefore love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow" friar Lawrence is insisting and here he tells Romeo and Juliet to not rush too quickly in their relationship, it will end as quickly and badly as how it started. Love moderately, take your time.

The main focus of the story is the love Romeo and Juliet share. When Romeo first gazed upon Juliet at Capulet's party, Romeo imedietly forgot the state of sorrow he was in because of the regection of his love from Rosaline. At the start of the play Romeo was deeply 'in love' with Rosaline and Shakespeare gave us a clear image of how broken Romeo was in because

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