The Power of Love

William Shakespeare between 1594 and 1595 wrote the illustrious tragedy of Romeo and Juliet after hundreds years, the wailful love story of two lovers is still remembered. In the “two hours’ traffic of our stage” the story of “A pair of star-crossed lovers” is told. The two feuding families’ children’s love end the “ancient grudge”, Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other, fighting against their kin, and the treacherous fate they portrait the everlasting love. The two teenagers fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from rival families, and when the fate helps them see the truth it is too late. Juliet and Romeo hatred amends to passionate love “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late!”, however they don’t turn away, but together they fight for their love as they walk “The fearful passage of their death-marked love,” they sacrifice their lives, to be with each other and end the ancient feud.
By sacrificing their lives for each other, Romeo’s and Juliet’s love end the feud, showing that love is everlasting. The two teenagers are in love, and not infatuated, because if they would have been astonished by their looks, they wouldn’t have gone through so many hindrance to stay with each other. When Romeo was banished from Verona, he didn’t hesitate to come to Juliet, knowing if he was to be found, he would, meet his doom. When Benvolio’s servant, comes to Romeo to tell that his lady Juliet is dead, Romeo doesn’t wait and goes to apothecary to get poison, to end his life and be with his love. He searches the Capulet’s crypt, for his beloved Juliet, whereas he discovered Paris and duels him to the death, which neither of these facts where mentioned in the movie. Bewildered by his wife’s death, Romeo drinks the poison and dies with words “Thus with a kiss I die”, not long after Juliet awakens from her sleep, and finds her husband dead, her heart is broken and she chooses to die, with her lover. “I will be brief, for my short date of breath is not as long as is a tedious tale. Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet; and she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife: I married them; and their stolen marriage-day” these are the earliest words of Friar Lawrence speech which is not shown in the movie, where he enlighten the love story of “A pair of star-crossed lovers” Romeo and Juliet. Romeo’s banishment breaks his mother’s heart, “Alas, my liege, my wife is dead to-night; Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath:” and Montague lost not only his beloved wife, but his son, too along with he promised to raise a statue of Juliet “For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet.” The everlasting love of Romeo and Juliet stopped the feud and brought peace to Verona.
In Verona, on the streets, Romeo and his friends, clashed, sending Tybalt and Mercutio to the other world, and Romeo banished from Verona, and from his wife Juliet, and if he would have been found he would be killed “he’s found, that hour is his last”. However this didn’t keep young lovers apart, Romeo risking his life visits Juliet, to comfort her of her beloved cousin’s death on their wedding night, as Nurse gave Juliet’s word, while Romeo was planning his suicide, since he killed his wife’s kin, and now she felt hatred as before. Nevertheless, Romeo risked his life also when he sneaked into the Capulet’s Orchard and wasn’t fearful of Juliet’s kinsmen “And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here”, both of them were willing to refuse their families just to stay with each other “Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet”” Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo”. On the carnival night it was intended for Juliet to fall in love with Paris, however she fell in love with her loathed enemy “Prodigious birth of love it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy” while Paris was a more suitable gentlemen, for her.
Juliet had a choice between to men Romeo and Paris, and after Romeo was banished, she still chose to stay with Romeo, when her Nurse advised that Romeo is dead to her “Your first is dead; or ’twere as good he were, as living here and you no use of him.” In the Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman Catherine yearns for adventure, but her mother wants to teach her sewing and decent conduct, while her detestable father wants to find her a suitor with a hefty dowry, and one day before her wedding she runs away to her uncle’s house, she later decides that she is going to marry the suitor her father chose, but he dies and she marries his shrewd son. In both of the stories the women’s fathers picked their husbands to be, however both of them oppose their father’s decisions and marry someone else instead. The tragic death of Juliet and Romeo leads to reconciliation between the rival families; although Catherine endures several bumbling suitors she finds true love in the end.
William Shakespeare between 1594 and 1595 wrote the illustrious tragedy of Romeo and Juliet after hundreds years, the wailful love story of two lovers is still remembered. In the “two hours’ traffic of our stage” the story of “A pair of star-crossed lovers” is told. The two feuding families’ children’s love end the “ancient grudge”, Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other, fighting against their kin, and the treacherous fate they portrait the everlasting love. The two teenagers fall in love with each other at the first sight without knowing that they are from rival families, and when the fate helps them see the truth it is too late. Juliet and Romeo hatred amends to passionate love “My only love, sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown and known too late!”, however they don’t turn away, but together they fight for their love as they walk “The fearful passage of their death-marked love,” they sacrifice their lives, to be with each other and end the ancient feud.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” addressed Juliet of Romeo her lover, who was her sworn enemy, however their love and deaths reunite the two families. “A pair of star-crossed lovers” Romeo and Juliet’s love illustrates that everlasting love exists, and even though the two lovers love is “death-marked” it brings peace to Verona. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet will be remembered as “For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”