Love Comparisy: Love's Vocabulary By Diane Ackerman

William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing has a major role about love in relationships and friendships in the play. Majority of the characters aren’t searching for love, yet love just tends to “just happen”. It also relates to how falling in love “just happens” in reality. In this play Shakespeare 's shows you how a couple needs to have achieve a sense of understanding, trust, and commitment. In Shakespeare 's time, Beatrice and Benedicks relationship was rather unordinary.

He was so quick to forget about Rosaline after meeting Juliet. Even Friar Laurence notices this on act 3 scene 3 when he says “Is Rosaline that thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken?”(Shakespeare p. 979). Friar Laurence knows just how desperate Romeo is, and even scolds him for it. He is seen frequently telling Romeo to slow down. Juliet has also noticed how quickly Romeo falls in love.

William Shakespeare, believing infatuation was true love , gave many examples of infatuation in the play. Romeo and Juliet were infatuated as proven by Friar Lawrence’s lectures, Romeo’s comments, and Juliet’s remarks. Friar Lawrence’s lectures proved Romeo and Juliet were infatuated. When Romeo told the Friar that he forgot about Rosaline, the Friar yelled, “ What a deal of brine Hath washed thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline !” (A2,S3,L76-77) The Friar evinces the audience that Romeo *acts upon his emotions because he quickly became besotted with Juliet, and he paid no attention to Rosaline, even though he cried for months because she did not return his affections. When Romeo was exiled he wished for his own death , the Friar reminded him,” Thy Juliet is alive, For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead.” (A3 S3 L152-153) Romeo was acting without thought and did not think about the grief he would cause Juliet if he killed himself.

In Romeo and Juliet, there are many complex characters that make this play more dramatic and interesting. Romeo is clearly one example of a complex character, where his romanticism blurs his sense of reality. An example of where this is seen during the play is when he falls for Juliet even though he declares that there is no one better than the woman he previously loved, Rosaline. Another example is when Romeo realizes that because of how he has lost his sense of reality, he has let his friend Mercutio die to one of their enemies: Tybalt. These two instances show how complex a character Romeo is and this shows how people in the real world can be similar to him by being complex and difficult to understand.

He hopes to see Rosaline, the women he is in love with. When he arrives he seen a lady that makes him forget all about Rosaline, this woman 's name is Juliet. When Romeo and Juliet meet, they fell right in love. They soon found out that their families were enemies, but this still did not stop them. Everything that happened from here on out depressed Romeo more and more.

Romeo says “For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (1.5.58) This example implies that Romeo falls in love at first sight. Finally, Romeo is very emotional. Romeo says “I’ll go along, no much sight to be shown, but to rejoice in splendor of my own. (1.2.187-188) from this evidence Romeo is very sad a lot of the time. Romeo is the more compulsive character in Romeo and Juliet because his emotions get

Tragic Hero A tragic hero is a main character that suffers a downfall through their good fortune because of their tragic flaw. A tragic flaw is a characteristic of the character that leads to their downfall. In Romeo and Juliet Romeo is known to be a Tragic Hero. Although Romeo doesn’t know, his tragic flaw is that he is impulsive. Some examples of him being impulsive throughout the play include Romeo immediately falling in love with Juliet, him willing to die for her, and him killing himself.

In love vocabulary, Diane Ackerman connects using figurative languages to describe themes such as changing people in a positive way/ennobles it. Being pierced in the chest can break people down emotionally. For example: Nightmares beast out of pure emotion, can feel a heavy beat while being in the chest, also inspire a crime of passion is the ways that love connects with people. Love can change people in a positive or negative. Love is base off many different emotions Furthermore, love is changing people in a positive way and those who ennobles love.

The first example of love takes place in Act I when Romeo is lovesick and acting strange according to his friends and family. Romeo is depressed because he is in love with Rosaline, but she does not love him back. Romeo’s unrequited love is what makes him sad and Benvolio

Medea’s Personas “Love is a dangerous thing, Loving without any limit. Discredit and loss it can bring. But, oh, if the goddess should visit A love that is modest and right, No god is exquisite. Great lady, aim not at me Your gold and infallibly Passion-tipped poisoned delight.” (Euripides 359) Throughout the play, we get the idea that Medea and Jason once loved each other to the fullest. But there to me, Medea really does not know what being in love truly is.