Analyse the Different Views of Love Represented in Romeo and Juliet

Love has existed in many forms during time. There is no superior example than in the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. In this story, when love is most obvious, the most crucial actions take place to create this "tragedy" of a play. The clear forms of love are love for friends, "love" for enemies, and love amid lovers. It is obvious that Shakespeare wants the audience to believe that the only "true" or "real" love is the love between Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare had written many plays throughout the years he was a playwright, all of which are based around tragedy, history and comedy. Nobody knows exactly when Romeo and Juliet were written but it is believed that Shakespeare wrote it before he was thirty. Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets in his time and all of which are based around the idea of ‘love’ this is another indication of his passion in relationships and in this case predominantly in romantic love. When writing Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was keen to impress the monarch at the time, Elizabeth I. Shakespeare made sure he met his target and therefore created his female characters to be stronger than his male characters. Shakespeare has formed an idyllic relationship through the use of this play, where it is down to their true love for each other and not due to tradition of an arranged marriage. He has provided the readers with a thought of   how love should really be in a relationship.
In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare has provided us with a shocking but interesting introduction. Shakespeare introduces a depressing reality concerning relationships, he shows the audience the violence in many relationships.   He opens the play with Sampson and Gregory, who are the servants for the Capulet family. Shakespeare uses them to provide a comedic effect and to captivate the audience. In the opening conversation between the two servants, sexual puns are used to help add more comedy in this play. Sampson comes out with ‘I will be civil with the...