Romeo and Juliet

Take a Stand: Love & Loyalty and other themes

Tragedy

It often takes something catastrophic or tragic to make people realize that they are behaving or living foolishly.

Tradition

Old codes or old traditions can be especially foolish or dangerous.

Tradition

A person should not marry someone from a different religion.

Tradition

A person should not marry someone if s/he is from a different background.

Youth & Age

There is always conflict between youthful passion and old age’s narrow-mindedness.

Youth & Age/Loyalty/Tradition

If your parents do not approve of the person you love, you should end the relationship to keep peace in the family.

Love

Love expressed and consummated (fulfilled) is worth any cost.

Passion

True love means that you will make personal sacrifices for the person you love rather than live without him/her.

Passion

It’s better to burn out than to fade away. A brilliantly lived, fully passionate life is a more valuable, spiritually triumphant life than a life of sedate balance and compromise.

Passion

I believe in love at first sight.

Passion

There is no such thing as true love.

Loyalty

Loyalty is the most important value in friends, it trumps everything, especially romance.

Loyalty

It is important to be loyal to the person you love, even if he/she breaks the law

Balance

“Don’t let passion rule you!” or “The best life is the balanced life.”

Fate & Destiny

Fate connects everything to everything else. (Fate ultimately determines one’s destiny.)

Individualism

Each person has enough to manage in his/her own life; managing the lives of other people leads to tragedy.

Karma

Everyone is connected in a web of experience—not just our enemies, but our loved ones are impacted by malicious choices.(What comes around goes around)