Love is not simply just an emotion, Love is not just a feeling Love is an action. Love is there when love is not returned. The average person spends a majority of their young life dreaming about a perfect love. Yet, they are not prepared for the consequences that usually come along with love if love is not exercised correctly. It is impertinent that when someone loves, they have to love God first, and use the love of God to love everything else in its proper way, All around us the penalties of not following that order are shown. The most popular songs of the modern generation are the ones with lyrics that personify the pain that can come along with love. Why is it so popular, because mostly everyone can relate to the feeling a broken heart, Love and broken hearts are not new concepts thought History shows that love has been around since before the beginning of the world, William Shakespeare is probably the most renowned author in history.
Coincidentally or not, his works are more often than not concerning love In “Romeo and Juliet” Shakespeare illustrates three types of love that have lasted throughout the ages, These are: unrequited love, parental love, and romantic love. Without meaning to he shows future generations an axiom that many still refuse to accept. That is, what can inevitably occur if love occurs outside of God.“ No matter how well»meaning love can be, it is outside of God, it can still lead to disaster. Parental love is generally one of the most unselfish forms of loves, Juliet‘s parents really love her. Shakespeare shows this through in Act 4 scene 2: Tush, I will sLir about, And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife: Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her; I‘ll not to bed tonight; let me alone; I’ll play the housewife for this once. What, ho!
They are all forth, Well, I will walk myself To County Paris, to prepare him up Against to-morrow: my heart is wondrous light, Since this same wayward girl is so reclaim’d. Capulet is going to stay up all night to prepare for Juliet‘s wedding the next day. Not only that, he says he is going to walk to Paris’s house to inform him of Juliet‘s consent to the wedding. Capulet wants Juliet to be happy Unfortunately, his desire for Juliet’s happiness can also create a counterintuitive effect When Capulet first broaches Juliet about marrying Paris, Juliet refuses. Capulet becomes enraged at Juliet’s disobedience. Hang thee, young baggage! disobedient wretchl I tell thee what: get thee to church 0′ Thursday, Or never after look me in the face: Speak not, reply not, do not answer me. My fingers itchi Wife, we scarce thought us blest That God had lent us but this only child.
But now I see this one is one too much, And that we have a curse in having her: Out on her, hilding! Capulet’s rage pushes Juliet in to making a hasty decision that ends with Romeo’s and her demise. It would not have to happen like this if Capulet would seek God for his will, instead of pushing his own agenda on his daughter, even if it is for her benefit. Rejection from parents can be painful; rejection from others can hurtjust as bad Unrequited love maybe the most painful thing a person can experience, “The most terrible loneliness is in loving someone completely, deeply, and without reserve; And knowing you’re not loved that way in return — David Wright” rejection is something that drives people into complete darkness, so much so that it takes all of their energy just to breathe That is why acceptance cannot depend on people. Acceptance must be found through God alone, so that when rejection does come it does not have an effect other than increasing trust in God Romeo was a passionate character Romeo put his whole heart out on the line when he did something.
Therefore, in the beginning of the play, when he was rejected by Rosaline, his whole outlook on life was wave after wave of pessimism, “Not I, believe me: you have dancing shoes / With nimble soles: I have a soul of lead / So stakes me to the ground I cannot moves”. Romeo goes on to say things like: “Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.” At the point he is turns away from love because it hurts so much If he looks to God, he would have confidence in him, and rather than turning away from love, he would embrace a sweeter love, Of course he meets Juliet, and forgets all about Rosaline as he enters a new fervent love. Romeo and Juliet share such a love for each other that there is some debate whether it is true or not Romeo and Juliet share a love so strong for each other, that if true, it is what every person seeking love desires.
From the first time Romeo sees Juliet, he is completely captivated by her: “0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!” Juliet eloquently expresses her love for Romeo with words like these: “But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up sum of half my wealthi”, Lines like those have been memorized by generations of people due to their endearing nature. While loving someone like they did for each other is not wrong, if it is outside of God, it can lead to disaster as Shakespeare has shown. Their passionate love, leads to their tragic deaths. If they had sought God, he would have led them in the direction they should have proceeded in He would have protected them from rash decisions, and avoidable mistakesi “For never was a story of more woe/ than this of Juliet and her Romeoi” Prince Escalus’s lines say the truth So many sad things occur in this story, so many avoidable sad things.
If any of the characters would have sought God in the midst of everything, If they would let the love of God flow through them, then it would have been a tragedy Askew parental love pushes Juliet into acting hastily which was a large contributing factor to why the story ends so miserably Unrequited love is a painful awful thing, but it does not have to bet Romeo seems to fall into a dark pit before he meets Juliet. If would have been so overwhelmed with God’s love, he would not care if Rosaline loves him back or not. And finally, romantic love, the thing that compelled Romeo and Juliet to their deaths. if Romeo and Juliet would handle their love for each other in a more pensive way, the they could avoid the tragedy. But the only way to do that is through God God is the key to this story and all other love stories alike, Love stories can have fairy tale endings, or they can end in tragedies. But, as Shakespeare so perfectly shows, that all depends on the allowance of God’s participation in them.
