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Agree, the theme of love is foci around which all other themes revolved. The Romeo and Juliet playwright themes intertwine with one another. In this play, love is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. The most salient feature of the story is the theme of love dominant and important theme. In discussion, the essay is about the themes in the tragedy foci around the theme of love.
The opening scene has many dramatic purposes that prepare the reader for the rest of the play. In his opening speeches, Romeo emphasizes the disconnection between appearance and reality. But Romeo’s words lead to the question of his love for Rosaline. ‘These violent delights have violent endings,’ Friar Laurence warns Romeo early in the play, attempting to warn him about the dangers of falling in love too hard or too fast.
In the first scene, Verona is stale and violent. Following this angry exchange between the two Capulets, Shakespeare abruptly shifts the mood of the scene, presenting Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting. Juxtaposed with the angry exchange between Tybalt and Capulet, the interaction between Romeo and Juliet seems calm and private, outside of the boundaries of the crowded ballroom. The lovers’ first conversation is arranged in the form of a sonnet, with Romeo and Juliet speaking alternately.
By jumping over the wall into the Capulets’ garden, Romeo further separates himself from his friends. Perhaps Shakespeare is pointing us in the direction of the concept of love that combines Romeo’s seriousness with Mercutio’s playfulness. Romeo hurries from Juliet’s house to the Friar’s cell to finalize plans for their wedding. Later in the play, the Friar will use his plants to prepare a potion for Juliet.
In the third scene, Mercutio and Benvolio search for Romeo in a public square in Verona. Benvolio knows that Romeo didn’t make it home the previous night and that Tybalt sent a letter to Romeo, presumably challenging him to a duel. Because love has left Romeo weak-willed and melancholy, Mercutio wonders if Romeo will have much success dueling with masterful Tybalt. Romeo and Juliet’s wedding hour has finally arrived.
As scene six opens, Romeo waits impatiently in Friar Laurence’s room. Rather than presenting a carefree image of marriage in this scene, Shakespeare intertwines images of death with love and sorrow with joy. Although tragedy waits in the wings of his marriage, Romeo isn’t worried about sorrow. He feels that nothing can diminish the joy he feels in Juliet’s presence, even if it lasts for only ‘one short minute’.
The juxtaposition between the peaceful wedding ceremony of Act II, Scene 6, and the violence of this scene is shocking. As this scene begins, Benvolio, Mercutio, and several of Romeo’s other friends walk through the streets. Mercutio, as we’ll discover later in this scene, is a true hothead, whereas Benvolio is Romeo’s coolest and most polite friend. In the middle of this playful conversation, Tybalt, and his friends enter which resulted in many feuds such as a word and a blow, Romeo attempts peace, Mercutio’s death, Romeo’s revenge, and banishment.
Another quick change in mood occurs between Act III, Scene 1, and this scene. From the fiery violence of the fight, the play switches focus to a dreamy, introspective Juliet. As the scene opens, Juliet wanders through her father’s orchard, fantasizing about Romeo. Romeo has just arrived in Friar Laurence’s cell, and here they plan Romeo’s future.
Romeo wonders what new sorrows await him because he hasn’t yet heard the prince’s verdict following Tybalt’s death. Between scenes 3 and 4 of Act III, Romeo leaves the Friar’s cell and climbs the rope ladder to Juliet’s bedroom. Scene 4 begins later that evening when Romeo is in Juliet’s room and the Capulets are discussing their daughter’s marriage proposal. Paris is in the friar’s cell with the same goal in this scene.
This scene takes place later on Wednesday morning, shortly before the planned wedding celebration. Paris has just arrived at the Capulet house for his wedding celebration, so the Nurse hurries to wake Juliet, who she assumes is soundly asleep. The dramatic irony of the play is highlighted in this scene because the audience is aware that Juliet is merely in a trance while all the characters in the play, except the Friar, believe that she’s really dead.
Entering Juliet’s bedroom, the Nurse jokes that Juliet should get her sleep now because her honeymoon night won’t be restful. The irony is acute because Juliet will soon be ‘bedded’ with death. Romeo walks down a street in Mantua as the scene opens. In contrast with the mournful mood of the previous scene, Romeo is in surprisingly good spirits.
The previous night, Romeo dreamt that Juliet found him dead. In the dream, Juliet breathed life back into him with her kisses, and he became an emperor. Although the dream foretells Romeo’s death, Romeo isn’t worried because the dream also prophesies new life with Juliet. As the final scene of the play opens, Paris and his Page stand in the churchyard at night outside the Capulets’ burial monument. The scene ironically parallels Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene. Then followed by many events, the bed of death, fate claims Paris, the feast of death, moments too late, the final kiss, Remembering the state of Verona, and the show of reconciliation.
In conclusion, the theme of love is revolved around all other themes of this playwright. William Shakespeare intertwined all themes, furthermore, the theme of love is mostly dominating in the play. William Shakespeare shows that sometimes through love, we can also hate, and also passion cannot be repressed.
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