Shakespeare's View on LoveShakespeare's plays are very drastic in the way he relates love to it. Shakespeare always adds comedy or tragedy to any romance that might take place. For example in Twelfth Night, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet, there is romance but he also puts comedy in it so love is not that simple. In the play Othello, he turns it into a tragedy that makes love even more difficult. Shakespeare always found a way to make love as complicated as possible, which leads me to believe that he believes in working for love and not trusting it to you. Love is already complicated, but when Shakespeare is involved, he ensures that at least two things happen that can make it harder for those who are in love to actually stay in love. Twelfth Night is a romantic comedy that makes romantic love the main focal point of the play. In this play, Shakespeare shows that love can cause pain. He does this by causing a love triangle which includes: • Viola loves Duke but • Duke loves Olivia and • Olivia like Cesario who is actually Viola disguised as her twin brother. Because of this confusing love triangle, some characters seem to see love. like a curse. They also claim to suffer painfully from being in love or from the “throes” of unrequited love. In act 1, scene 5, Olivia describes love as a “scourge” from which she suffers terribly. In Act 1, Scene 1, Orsino sadly depicts love as an “appetite” that he wants to satisfy and cannot. Another example of characters disliking love is in Act 2 Scene 2, when Viola says, "My state is hopeless for my master's love." » This quote refers to the violence in Act 5 Scene 1 when Orsino threatens to kill Cesario because he thinks... middle of paper... and they will go together. Clubs cannot separate them. Act 5, scene 2 • “This bud of love, thanks to the ripening breath of summer, could prove to be a beautiful flower the next time we meet. » Romeo and Juliet Act 2 scene 1 • “She loved me for the dangers I had gone through, and I loved her because she pitied them. » Othello Act 1 scene 3• Give me my Romeo; and when it dies, take it and cut it into little stars, and it will make the face of the sky so beautiful that everyone will be in love with the night and will pay no worship to the garish sun. ~Romeo and Juliet • What’s in a name? What we call a rose by another word would smell just as sweet. ~Romeo and Juliet• But, very gentle! what light through this window breaks? it is the east, and Juliette is the sun. ~Romeo and Juliet• Good night, good night, parting is such sweet sorrow that I will say good night until tomorrow. ~Romeo and Juliet