Fight to Flight

Fight to Flight

"Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance, love will last forever"

-Corinthians 13:4-6

The powerful nature of love can be seen, heard and felt by people surrounding it. Love is contagious and it has a light that illuminates through every individual, leaving them wanting more. The play, Romeo and Juliet, composed by William Shakespeare, is a tragedy of two star-crossed lovers whose decisions lead to their untimely death. The main characters Romeo and Juliet, look up to the Friar Lawrence and the Nurse to guide them throughout the play which has an effective impact on Romeo and Juliet's relationship. Disorder is demonstrated when the Nurse and Friar make decisions based on their own desires to transform the future, leading to tragic death.

Firstly, it is evident that one see's the Nurse as Juliet's confidante, but when things hit a rough patch the nurse retreats from true love and falls on more pragmatic choices. To begin with, the Nurse is seen as a parental figure for Juliet and acts more like a mother trying to protect her child from harm. For instance, the nurse threatens Romeo when she says:

But first let me tell ye, if ye should lead her in a fool's paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behavior, as they say; for the gentlewoman is young; and therefore, if you should deal double with her, truly it were an ill thing to be offered to any gentlewoman, and very weak dealing

(Shakespeare, II, iv, ll. 150-155).

Although the nurse may seem like a humorous character, when it is her time to be serious, she does it with vast charisma in order to get her feelings across to Romeo. Next, the reader realizes that the Nurse plays along with Juliet's impulsive decisions, yet she herself believes in the easy way out when it comes to love. The nurse explains to Juliet that "Romeo is banish'd, and all the world to nothing .../[The nurse] [thinks] it best [she] [marries] with the County./ O, [Paris is] a lovely gentleman!/ [Romeo is] a dishclout to him" (III, v, ll. 13, 17-19). The nurse conjures that Romeo has been banished and he is no good to Juliet now, but Paris is a fine gentleman whom she can make ends meet and satisfy her parents with. Therefore, the Nurse is always going to be there for Juliet, but becomes more logical when believing one handsome guy is as good as the next, not understanding Juliet's dying passion for Romeo.

Secondly, Friar Lawrence pushes for the young lovers marriage while he is caught up