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His friend Mercutio encourages him to dance and be joyful by "borrow [ing] Cupid's wings" and soaring to new heights. Romeo claims he's "too sore enpiercèd with [Cupid's] shaft to soar with his light feathers." He feels weighed down by love's heavy burden, which he describes as rough and harsh.
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; O'er courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies straight, O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream on fees, O'er ladies ' lips, who...
He suspects that this is his fate—“hanging in the stars”—and his use of the word “stars” reminds the audience that he is “star-crossed” (I.i.). Romeo’s fear that he will arrive at the masque “too early” points to an important theme of the play.
The theme of love is interwoven into every scene in the play, the different forms of love are also explored by Shakespeare. He contrasts the purity of first love with the passionate and uncontrollable force of the emotion. He uses existing conventions, as well as his own elaborate language and imagery, to present love as: Unrequited.
duality (or opposites) Love. The main theme of love is introduced at the very beginning by the Chorus who tells the audience that this is a play about star-crossed lovers. When we first meet...
Love is the main theme in Romeo and Juliet. At the start of the play, Romeo is in love with a character called Rosaline. She does not feel the same way and Romeo feels hurt and frustrated.
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Juliet suffers a lot of internal conflict as she struggles between her love for Romeo and her loyalty to her family. Due to the conflict between the houses she is forced to choose her family or to follow her heart and pursue a relationship with the son of her enemy.
