Shakespeare’s plays Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado About Nothing both contain the elements of; love at first sight, manipulation of love and a detailed love story. Three important aspects of love are written in each play but are portrayed in completely different ways. Both Romeo and Juliet, and Hero and Claudio experience love at first sight and in both plays, love is somehow manipulated, though it is manipulated in different ways for dissimilar purposes in the different plays. Love at first sight is a simple concept. However, it can be experienced at many different levels of love.
He describes her looks as he says: "O, she is rich in beauty, only poor". Romeo talks of his unattainable love to the beautiful Rosaline. He sees Rosaline as strong, for she would never be hit by cupid's arrow. This is an example of courtly love. Now think about Romeo’s “love at first sight” with Juliet, they cannot get enough of each other, weakened at each other’s disappearance.
Romantic movies distort and create false expectations of true love. They show exaggerated stories that are used to entertain, yet young women get wound up in the thought that they will find someone that will meet up to these expectations. These set beliefs can affect them in a negative way and often lead to disappointment. Books like A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Great Gatsby, and movies like The Notebook are all examples of love stories that produce that false hope. Women begin to think that they will find a perfect man that will hand them the world, that they should dedicate themselves to finding this man, and that they deserve an elaborate story full of passion and desire.
These works have a similar villain. Tybalt of Romeo and Juliet is similar to Don John in Much Ado About Nothing in that both characters do not approve of the lover‘s relationships and wish to break them up. Furthermore, Romeo and Juliet are similar to Claudio and Hero, who are the leading couples in each play. The comic relief in each play is the watch in Much Ado About Nothing and the servants in Romeo and Juliet. Also, Mercutio and Benedick are both scornful of love.
Othello says to her “It gives me wonder great as my content to see you here before me. O my soul’s joy!” (2.1.199-200). These beautiful and loving words are soon changed to hostility and rage with the thought of Desdemona’s betrayal. Both Desdemona and Hero are accused of being unfaithful through presented “ocular proof”, they are both disgraced by the leading male role, and they are young and inexperienced in the ways of love and both women are extremely forgiving after they have been mistreated by their suitors. Much Ado about Nothing was written by William Shakespeare as a comedy, but it could have very well been turned into a tragedy comparable to Othello.
“After saying that he alone opens the curtain, the duke promptly begins a catalog of complaints about the way that his wife had acted” (Marchino, 2). The duke felt that her cheeks were blushed due to Pandolf’s compliments of her for being “courteous to everyone she encountered to everyone she encountered, for enjoying life too much” (Marchino, 2). He felt as if she never appreciated his name, and “failed to see him as superior to others” (Marchino, 2). Because he loved her he believed that he owned her and therefore he alone should be the only person allowed to ever see her smile and blushing cheeks. Through the thoughts and actions of the duke, Browning shows the possessive and jealous nature of love and how this can affect the actions of people who claim to be in love.
All three villains may differ in many ways, yet it seems they share a common urge for power, control and a use of sadistic measures. Jealousy is a very powerful emotion that can cause resentment and envy, creating strong anxieties in villains. This enviousness is a common motivational force for socio-paths. Both Iago and the Duke take on this form of motivation, in order to justify their actions that lack morally-correct social behavior. The Duke’s duchess is flirtatious in nature and this displeases the Duke “Sir, ‘twas not her husband’s presence only, called that spot of joy into the duchess’ cheek”.
Desdemona takes one look at the hunk of burning love that is Othello, his virility and manliness, and she is swept off her feet. But is this a true love? She speaks so fondly of him, yet hardly knows him. As she defends her newly born love for Othello, Desdemona says (among other things), "My downright violence, and storm of fortunes,/ May trumpet to the world. My heart's subdu'd/ Even to the very quality of my lord./ I saw Othello's visage in his
Topic: Does love triumphs? Love may be defined and define and in so many ways. However the definition that I found more compatible for such a powerful word is: love is a strong positive emotion of affection and regard. In the play Othello by “Shakespeare” love had totally different meaning where all it gave people was death and pain. Lots of times people get love and lust confused.
This is shown through the conversation between Hermia and Lysander where Shakespeare uses repetition to compare different challenging situations where two people have fallen in love. To support this Shakespeare has used the characters of Lysander and Hermia to express these situations through dialogue some of which include ‘O cross too high to be enthralle’d too low’ (act 1 scene 1) and ‘Or else misgraffed on respect of years’ (act 1 scene 1) Through these quotes we are shown that love is something that is uncontrollable and it does not always make sense. Love can cause us to both love and cry. Love is not always easy it can cause sorrow and pain. An example that love can make us laugh is when Titania falls in love with Bottom who has the head of a donkey.