Comparing Love In Romeo And Juliet And The Twelfth Night

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Rose never let go of Jack’s hand. She had risked her own life just to be with him for the time they could have together. She never gave up, but instead just kept taking risk after to risk just be with the one she loved, Jack. It was true love and people will take any risk if it’s true love. In two of Shakespeare’s plays, Romeo and Juliet and The Twelfth Night, the protagonists take risks for love, but Juliet takes greater risks than Viola. You can take great risks for love, but revealing that you have been in disguise is not the most extreme risk you can take. In Shakespeare’s The Twelfth Night Viola takes the risk of revealing that she is indeed a woman. She reveals her identity to show that she and Orsino can be together. “If nothing lets to make us happy both but this is my masculine usurped attire, do not embrace me till each circumstance of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump that I am Viola.” (V.i.240-244) To marry in secret is a great risk for anyone to take for love knowing it will cause problems in the future. “Come, come with me, and we will make short work.…show more content…
In Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet the protagionist, Juliet, took the ultimate risk. Juliet took a potion to make her appear as if she was dead and didn’t know if it would work or not, just so she could be with Romeo in the end and not have to marry Paris. The priest told Juliet to “Take thou this vile, being then in bed, and this distilled liquor drink thou off, when presently though all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse shall keep his native process, but surcease…shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come.” (IV.i.94-116) in hope that she would forever get to be with Romeo. Juliet took not only the risk of dying or surviving, but she would be betraying her family in the long run for secretly going to be with Romeo whom is of the Montague’s, a rival

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