Friday, March 16, 2012

Love and Marriage comparison.

There are many relations and differences in the comparisons of reality in love and marriage to Romeo and Juliet. Reason being, Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as the invincible lovers that do not show any interest in other beings like the affect that they have for each other. William Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet as the lovers that are linked with indestructible gold chains. For example, when Romeo sees Juliet at the feast he instantly falls in love as he laid eyes on her as the thought of Rosaline vanished from his mind. Likewise, Juliet also falls in love with Romeo and completely forgets about her 'marriage' with Paris that her mom had arranged beforehand. As we read further along the lines of this play, we come to realize that William Shakespeare purposely depicts this young couple as an unstoppable force, meaning no one can get in their way.
In comparison to this type of love and marriage, the cold reality resembles demonstrates this in a bit of a different way. Normally, love and marriage can be easily broken off in the blink of an eye 'in our world'. That is why North America's divorce rates have gone much higher since the 1930s.

Also, nowadays in our generation we normally don't have many woman that take sexism very lightly. It's a shame that back in the days of William Shakespeare, women were treated as individuals that do not have the right to speak for themselves, or in other words, plan their own marriage. Maybe that's why William Shakespeare made Juliet seem so powerful and worthy in the play. He might have given her the most memorable lines of the play to show others that women can be as superior as the men, if not stronger.

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