Love, with its binding, twisting labyrinth of emotions, often has diverse effects on those caught in its grasp. To the lovers in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, love is an overwhelming, overpowering emotion to which all else must yield. Both of the teenagers felt an immediate tug at the first sight of one another and desperately acknowledged that nothing was to be left in the onslaught of that sweeping tide. Not only was there love between …showed first 75 words of 1403 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1403 total…thy sheath; there rust, and Let me die.”(5.3.167-170). Love, once so bright, is lost in the darkness. Love subdues all of those who are faced with it. They are taken over by it’s grace and power. It had harsh consequences for those who were faced with it in the play Romeo and Juliet. Love, was felt not only by the lovers in the play but by the spectators that interacted with the lovers.