Fateful Lovers in William Shakespeare's Drama with Special Reference to ‘The Merchant of Venice’

Abstract

Proscribed love relationships destroy and thwart many characters from the works of the Bard, but no two ill-fated Shakespearean romances quite emulate one another like Romeo and Juliet from Romeo and Juliet and Lorenzo and Jessica from The Merchant of Venice. As confidential romance comes up from feuding families, both duos go through many obstructions with the purpose of pursuing their barred adoration. Yet the two associations start in similar conditions, their endings are extreme. At the same time as Romeo and Juliet dreadfully kill themselves, Lorenzo and Jessica live gleefully in the picturesque town of Belmont. In their endeavours to be as one, a difference comes up between the pairs - Romeo and Juliet symbolize the striking and excruciating principles of infatuation, whereas Lorenzo and Jessica recurrently emasculate the notion of perfect love. The researcher will concentrate on two persistent points - the balcony scene and the theme of physical exchange - to exhibit how Lorenzo and Jessica skilfully subvert and avoid the lovers’ pitfalls that in due course incinerate Romeo and Juliet. Lorenzo and Jessica evade the beliefs of the perfect romance, as unfortunately exhibited by Romeo and Juliet, as a mode of endurance in their forbidden association.