Tuesday, January 4, 2011

In Romeo and Juliet, does Shakespeare seem to consider a self-destructive tendency inextricably connected with love, or is it a separate issue?

That's an
interesting question. The two
characters in the play who fall in romantic love
do
commit suicide, so it could be easily to conclude that Shakespeare is

pointing the finger at romantic love and saying it is
inextricably
connected with self-destructive tendencies.


However, I would argue this is
not the case. As Shakespeare points
out in the play's, it is the feud between the...

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