YOUNG LOVE
The theme of young love is seen in William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. The play shows the intense and passionate love between two young lovers, Romeo and Juliet. They fell very in love at first sight and they were willing to risk everything, including their own lives, to be together.
Throughout the play, Shakespeare shows young love as a powerful force. He shows that love can help overcome extreme obstacles including family feuds, and that love can become everything to someone at a young age. The play also highlights the impulsiveness of young love and how people act on their feelings without thinking through the outcome or consequences. Romeo and Juliet secretly get married a day after they met because they were so desperate to be together, and this shows the impulsiveness and effect that young love can have.
PASSION
Passion is a theme seen in William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. The play is about the intense and passionate love between, Romeo and Juliet. Their passion is what makes their love for each other so strong, powerful, impulsive, and tragic. From the moment they met, the couple was extremely passionate about being together. They fell in love at first sight and were immediately in love.
Romeo and Juliet are from feuding families and their love was forbidden. Montagues and the Capulets have a long-lasting feud and would never allow Romeo and Juliet to be together. Despite the disapproval from their families and the dangers they faced when falling in love, their passion took over and allowed them to sacrifice anything to be together. In the end, Romeo and Juliet's passion lead to their secret marriage as well as their deaths. Their love was so strong that they were willing to die for each other, and they would rather die than live without one another.
FATE
The theme of fate is seen in William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet. The play demonstrates this theme because Romeo and Juliet's love is seen as predetermined and set up for tragedy. Romeo and Juliet are introduced to the play, and known as star-crossed lovers. This term refers to "any lovers whose love for each other is doomed to end in tragedy"
The characters refer to fate and the role it plays in their lives many times throughout the play. Romeo refers to himself as "fortune's fool" to express his belief that his actions and outcomes are already determined by fate. He believes that his love for Juliet is never going to have a happy ending because fate has predetermined failure for them.
At the end of the play Romeo and Juliet, the star-crossed lovers end up taking their own lives because of their strong love for each other. This is seen as the lover's fate when the play begins.