Famous Love Stories

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely

regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. A number of
Shakespeares plays seem to have transcended even the category of
brilliance, becoming so influential as to profoundly affect the course of
Western literature and culture, Romeo & Juliet being one of his
primary creations.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William

Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers
whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families.
The play ascribes different poetic forms to different
characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops.
Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course
of the play.

Synopsis
A long feud between the Montague and Capulet families
disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo
and Juliet who fall in love, but unfortunately cannot be together. A
secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up
quickly for Juliet is to be wed to another. Juliet takes a sleeping
potion that makes her appear to be dead for 42 hours -- in this
time Romeo is to be told that she is still alive, however he was not,
so he illegally purchased a poison so that he could be with Juliet in
death. He goes to her tomb and takes the poison. When Juliet
awakes she sees this and kills herself with Romeos dagger, because
a life without her lover is a life without meaning.

The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all
three dead. Friar Laurence recounts the story of the two "starcrossd lovers. The families are reconciled by their children's
deaths and agree to end their violent feud.

Romeo and Juliet is sometimes

considered to have no unifying
theme, save that of young love.
Romeo and Juliet have become
emblematic of young lovers and
doomed love.
The play arguably equates love and
sex with death. Juliet erotically
compares Romeo and death. Right
before her suicide she grabs Romeo's
dagger, saying "O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath. There rust, and let
me die."

Conclusion
Madness revolves around the influence of Romeo and Juliets love
which contributed in forming the very desire that drove their
downfall.
Thus, madness became a signature, a codex that was assumed to be
formed from any fragile dream exposed to reality. These things are
triggered by the very desire of one's heart, and their growth depends
on the person's
naivety.
In conclusion, Shakespeare's influence was to unravel the mystery
behind compassion which leads to love, then to guilt, resulting
afterwards to an incomprehensible disorder of balance in the
human's soul and mind, called
madness.