romeo and juilet essay
...e: - “Why, such is love’s transgression, Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, Which thou wilt propagate to have it pressed with more of thine. This love that thou has shown. Doth add more grief to much of mine own, Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears. What is it else? Madness most discreet, A choking gull and preserving sweet farewell.” This is a great example of how Courtney love is expressed. Romeo isn’t in love with Rosaline he just likes the way being in love feels, except because he isn’t actually in love it becomes an infatuation not love, therefore it is ‘courtney love’ Another form of love is parental love, this is the love the mother and the father feel for their child, but in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ it isn’t just the parents that feel this love. In Juliet’s case the nurse also feels Juliet is her child. In Shakespeare’s time if you were wealthy your nurse would care for you child, she would breasts feed it and look after it as if she was her own, so in the end the nurse’s love for Juliet was as a mother not as a servant. The nurses love for Juliet was so strong that she even put her job on the line to pass messages between them to arrange their marriage only because she knew it would make Juliet happy. “then hie you hence to friar lawerence’s cell, there stays a husband to make you a wife.” Juliet also felt the nurse was her mother as she cared for her as much as she would to her parents and if anything she loved the nurse more because the nurse was her friend as well as her second mother, Juliet confided her marriage to the nurse but would not to her mother, and this was because Juliet felt closer to the nurse as it was the nurse who had cared for her since she was born and Juliet trusted that the nurse would not only keep her secret but advise her on what to do. Friar Lawrence also felt parental love towards Romeo, to him Romeo was like a son he would give him advice and keep his secrets just like a father, this is also one of the reasons friar Lawrence agreed to wed Romeo and Juliet along with the fact that he believed marrying them would bring together the two families and seese the wars among them. “o she knew well, thy love did read by rote that could not spell, but come young waverer, com...