Love Enshrined: Pagan Tradition and Despair in Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet is rich with religious language while containing some references to pagan beliefs as well. Hence, the play has been approached either in terms of fate and fortunes or in terms of Christian theology, but attempts to encompass both pagan and Christian values have been rare. This study examines how these two disparate values are reconciled and woven into a tragedy of love, focusing on fate and despair respectively among other pagan and Christian values. While making use of the tragic pathos that religious despair evokes, the dramatist tries to subvert the stigma attached to the religious sin of despair by making the title characters into devotees of the pagan god of love and attributing their final destruction to the workings of fate.
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Romeo and Juliet is rich with religious language while containing some references to pagan beliefs as well. Hence, the play has been approached either in terms of fate and fortunes or in terms of Christian theology, but attempts to encompass both pagan and Christian values have been rare. This study examines how these two disparate values are reconciled and woven into a tragedy of love, focusing on fate and despair respectively among other pagan and Christian values. While making use of the tragic pathos that religious despair evokes, the dramatist tries to subvert the stigma attached to the religious sin of despair by making the title characters into devotees of the pagan god of love and attributing their final destruction to the workings of fate.
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