Romeo Juliet Final Draft

Allie Kilgore
Ms. Price
Honors English One
October 20th, 2017
True Love
“Keep love in your heart. A life without love is like a sunless garden when the flowers
are dead.” -Oscar Wilde. The types of love that are evident in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
are platonic love, familial love, unrequited love, and romantic love. One of the types of love that
is found most often in Romeo and Juliet is romantic love. Romantic love is affection and
consideration for a partner. Romantic love includes loving each other so much that you would
rather die than live without them, loving each other so much that you would risk your life to save
theirs, and knowing that true love is sacrifice.
Romantic love is shown throughout Romeo and Juliet by the main characters, which are
Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet love each other so much that they die so that don’t have to
live without each other. Romeo shows Juliet how much he loves her when he says, “With
love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out, and
what love can do, that dares love attempt. Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me.”
(Shakespeare 2. 2. 71-74). Romeo told Juliet that he would die for her the night he met
her. This is an example of love at first sight. After Juliet found out that Romeo killed Tybalt
and was to be banished, Juliet was so upset that she couldn’t be with him that she says, “Give
me my Romeo, and when I shall die,” (Shakespeare, 3.2.23). This quote means that Juliet
would rather die than be without Romeo because she loves him. When Romeo finds out
that he has been banished he threatened to kill himself so that he didn’t have to live
without Juliet. Romeo and Juliet love each other so much that they are willing to die
rather than live without each other. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romantic love is
shown through Romeo and Juliet’s willingness to die rather than live without each other
because of the love that they share.
Romantic love is shown in modern day through movies, like Titanic, and is also shown
through marriage. Titanic shows Romantic love through Jack and Rose risking their lives to save
one another. There are several examples of this, such as: Jack saved Rose from jumping off the
side of the boat when she was upset with the life she was being forced to live. Second, when Jack
got blamed for stealing the diamonds and got chained to a pole in the basement, Rose risked her
life to save him when the ocean water started to rise after the boat hit the iceberg. Rose and Jack
were willing to risk their lives to save each other because of the love they share. And lastly,
when the final piece of the boat sank, Jack let Rose lay on the headboard so that she did not have
to sit in the freezing water and because of Jack’s sacrifice Rose lived and Jack faced a tragic end
and froze to death in the water. Jack and Rose are a perfect example of Romantic love because
they are willing to risk their lives to save each other. Their relationship shows that romantic love
is loving one another so much that you would risk your life to save theirs.
No matter the time period, romantic love never changes and true love is always about
sacrifice. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo and Juliet love each other so much that they would rather
die than live without each other. Juliet proves this point when she risks everything to drink the
medicine that the friar gives her. This medicine will put her in a death like coma long enough for
her family to think that she is actually dead so she can sneak away with Romeo. This is sacrifice.
Juliet is willing to almost kill herself and run away from her family all for a someone she just
met. “Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud
(Things that to hear them told have made me tremble), And I will do it without fear or
doubt, To live an unstained wife to my sweet love” (Shakespeare, 4.1. 85-90). In Titanic,
Jack and Rose risk their lives to save one another time and time again. Jack was willing to jump
off the boat and into the water after Rose if she jumped, Rose went back to Jack to set him free,
and Jack let Rose lay on the headboard so she wouldn't freeze. When people love each other like
Romeo and Juliet love each other and Jack and Rose love each other, they will do whatever you
have to do to be with them no matter what the cost. This shows that true love is sacrifice no
matter what time period, or what person it is.
The type of love that is found most often in Romeo and Juliet and in modern day is
romantic love. Romantic love is affection and consideration for a partner. Romantic love is when
you love each other so much that you would rather die than be without them, loving one another
so much that you will risk your life to save theirs, and knowing that true love is sacrifice. True
love never changes, no matter what.
Works Cited
● Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Elements of literature, houghton
mufflin
Harcourt, 2005, 788-910.
● Titanic. Directed by James Cameron, performances by Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack
Dawson, and Kate Winslet as Rose Bukater, Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox,
1997.

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Allie Kilgore

Honors English One

October 20th, 2017

theirs, and knowing that true love is sacrifice.

because of the love that they share.

matter what time period, or what person it is.

love never changes, no matter what.

Harcourt, 2005, 788-910.

● Titanic. Directed by James Cameron, performances by Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack

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