The Strength Of Love Essay

The love of Romeo and Juliet remains the ideal for true love even today. Years have passed since the time of Shakespeare, but for some reason, we still strive for the love depicted in his stories. It seems that the reason for this is the certain fall of modern society. People are now more eager to buy new things, rather than fix the old; they are now more acceptable to betrayal and divorce is now more common than elections.
It was not as easy to buy new and beautiful things in the past. They were not only expensive, but also hard to find. In the time of Shakespeare, people treated their things with care. This was also try for relationships and hearts. Today, people believe that it is so much easier to start new rather than try and overcome problems and forgive.
Forgiving, however, has become more common. It is now believed that a woman should forgive her man for betrayal, that a man can forgive his wife for unfaithfulness. Moreover, the other partner was apparently not good enough if the other cheated. Even if this also occurred in the times of Shakespeare, it was never this public and was never considered this acceptable. Theaters were not full of plays about cheating wives and husbands. They were full of inspiring plays about true love or entertaining plays about the funny situations one can get in. However, not everyone can forgive.
Divorce is a common way out of all the problems. People are now married 2-3 times in one lifetime and that is perfectly fine. Divorce in Shakespeare’s time? It was unacceptable. Even if it was possible, the consequences were horrible and everyone looked down on the man and woman.
With the change of value of a heart, value for faithfulness and the one true love, one cannot even hope to say that the love of today is anywhere close to the strong love of Shakespeare’s time.