Love, Death and Destiny in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is a play about 3 things, love, love is an idea but it is not all about love there is love in the story but the main idea is not love though, Shakespeare wanted us to think that but the love was deceiving in Romeo and Juliet and they fall deeply in love, they get married the next day after they meet a man named Friar Lawrence because he hoped their family would stop feuding over them to if they get married, long story short that did not happen but at the end, they both commit suicide because they would rather be dead then to be apart of there true love. Death, Death is also an important part of Romeo and Juliet because there is death in the book and death can affect others differently for Romeo when he found Juliet ``dead” he killed himself because he did not want to be apart of his true love and when Juliet found Romeo dead she stabbed herself with his dagger as said on act  5 scene 3 lines 169 and 170 “ O happy a dagger! This is thy sheath. Thy rust, and let me die.” and that is why death is a key idea in Romeo and Juliet. Destiny, destiny is something we knew way back before we even knew who Juliet was because the chorus was singing about how “a pair of starcrossed lovers take their life.” said the chorus, and that is destiny. I agree with Duper, Duper says how their love brings them down to their death and I agree with that because it ties in with the 3 things Romeo and Juliet are about because they're in love, they die in the end and the chorus sings about them. But on the other hand, Romeo and Juliet is also deceiving because it's about a great tragedy, not a great love story.

In Romeo and Juliet there are 3 main themes: love, death, and destiny, these 3 ideas give us insight into what's going on and how their lives were and it starts with this.In the Biblical sense, hell is the absence of God, while for Romeo, hell now becomes the absence of love. In other words, Romeo's world is all about Juliet, and taking Juliet away from him he is just as good as dead, just like the world, taking away all laws, and the whole world breaks into anarchy.  I agree with Duper because they both kill themselves at the end because their hell was without each other and they would rather be with each other in the afterlife than to know that their one and only true love is dead. For example “Thus with a kiss i die.” and “O happy a dagger! This is thy sheath. Their rust, and let me die.” V iii line numbers 120 and 169-170. Their hell would be without their love and they would rather be dead than without them so they do the only “logical” thing possible and that is to kill themselves. At the end of the book, Romeo and Juliet kill themselves because they would rather not be alive than be apart and that is the point that Duper was saying with hell is the absence of love for Romeo and that is the absence of love.

In Romeo and Juliet before they met they were doing their normal life doing what they did but when they first met they kissed and Duper says something that ties into that very well. Duper said in his article “This "passion lends a power" that awakens each of them and energizes them. For Romeo, this awakening increases his sense of beauty and his feelings for the world as evidenced in his poetic declarations to Juliet.” In other words, their love changes them, turns them into different people, and increases their love for each other. I agree with it like I was saying earlier they were living their normal lives but when they met everything went for the better, they thought, but their love drove them both to suicide to it definitely awoken something in them. “Then move not, while my prayers sake. Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged.” I v lines 107-108. This is the scene where they kiss for the first time and this awakens something in him like the quote said and also Juliet and they changed from this moment onward. Romeo and Juliet is complicated because you want to say it's a happy story but they kill themselves and there is a lot of death so it's up to you to decide that but  Romeo and Juliet had another person awakened inside them.

Romeo and Juliet, is one of the most known stories of all time people argue about what it is about, and when we first read the book I thought it was about love, no Romeo and Juliet is deceiving because Romeo and Juliet first of all keep everything from their parents and second it's a tragedy hidden by teen love. Duper says Romeo and Juliet is about how they put everyone against each other including Friar Lawrence, their parents, and their community. Romeo and Juliet do indeed pit everyone against each other; they kill themselves and the tragedy could have been avoided but it wasn't. We can all agree on Romeo and Juliet was not all 100% about love only if you live under a rock you would say that but i think it is a great story on a tragedy that was deceitful and about fulfilled destiny and death and a tiny bit of love only because they both commit suicide because they did not want to be apart.