I promise to share my food with you, never go to bed angry and always honor your passion for the Red Sox… but NOT your passion for the wave. I promise to give you all the love and support that I give Ella. I promise to make sure I’m not just hungry when I get upset. I promise to never stop holding your hand. Today, I want to make promises to you that I will always keep. I love that you’re open to trying new things. I love that I get a kiss from you every time we stop at a red light. I love that you always push my hair back when it’s in my face. I love the way you dance to make me laugh. “I’m so proud that today I become your wife. You are my best friend and I’m the luckiest person on Earth to call you mine.” I promise to always pursue you, to fight for you, and love you unconditionally and wholeheartedly for the rest of my life. I vow to laugh with you and comfort you during times of joy and times of sorrow. I promise to dream with you, celebrate with you, and walk beside you through whatever life brings. So today, I vow to honor you and respect you, support you and encourage you. Even when the day comes that we’re old and gray, I promise to always see you with the same eyes and the same heart that I see you with at this exact moment. I take you as you are now, tomorrow and for eternity to come, to be my husband. You make me want to be a better person every day. You acknowledge my strengths and accept my faults. Your laugh is contagious and you can put away an entire Baskin Robbins ice cream cake in one sitting like nobody else can. You are a million dreams and a million prayers of a little girl come true. Love is a word that is much too soft and used far too often to ever describe the fierce, infinite and blazing passion that I have in my heart for you. Not the love of butterflies and stomach knots-but more the blurring of self and the entanglement with another soul. Romeo and Juliet both decide who they are going to marry - this would have been highly disrespectful to their families, particularly as they both decided to marry their family's sworn enemy.“I want so badly to be able to explain all the love I have for you. Normally, parents chose their child's partner and this would be based on wealth, potential titles and family ties. It would be common practice to get married at 13 years of age. In Elizabethan times, people got married much earlier than they do today. The use of the exclamation mark illustrates her emotion - she is both elated and distraught - she cannot cope with life without Romeo so decides to join him in death. This shows that Juliet is happy to die, as she describes the dagger, the instrument of her death, as 'happy'. Juliet awakens, finds her love poisoned and kills herself with Romeo's dagger so they can be together in the afterlife. Romeo goes to find Juliet in the Capulet tomb, believing her to be dead. This directly shows how passionate he feels about Mercutio, as someone will be joining Mercutio's soul in the journey to heaven. He tells Tybalt that either he or Tybalt 'must go with him'. This shows Romeo's determination for avenging Mercutio's death, as he is willing to die to see Mercutio's murder avenged. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him." "Mercutio's soul is but a little way above our heads, staying for thine to keep him company. When Tybalt kills Mercutio unjustly, Romeo swears to avenge his best friend's death, thus killing Tybalt. Romeo refuses to fight Tybalt so Mercutio takes his place. This shows that their first meeting was charged with love and desire for one another. The fact Romeo describes the kiss as 'tender' illustrates Romeo's gentle and true emotions and feelings for Juliet. Romeo suggests that he is 'rough' and not worthy of Juliet's touch. "To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss." Shakespeare presents their initial meeting as passionate, flirtatious and true. When Romeo and Juliet first meet, they instantly fall in love. Shakespeare explores love through a variety of ways: How is the theme of love shown in the play? Even though Shakespeare's play is about a pair of 'star-crossed lovers', Shakespeare also wanted to examine the other types of love and how love can sometimes consume us, in a positive and negative way. Romeo and Juliet centres on the developing relationship of Romeo and Juliet and how it impacts on other characters and relationships. In the play, we see many different types of love and their impact on individuals, families, friendships and the wider society of Verona. Through Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare deals with the idea of love - its meaning, its causes and its impact - both positively and negatively, and its goal.