What are the main themes in Romeo and Juliet?
Themes are ideas that run all the way through a literary text. They are great to analyse because you can discuss the writer's intentions:
- What has the writer done?
- Why?
- What are they trying to make the reader and audience think and feel?
This allows your analysis to be extended and developed, allowing for you to write comprehensively about a given literary text.
The main themes in Romeo and Juliet are love, conflict and family.
In Romeo and Juliet there are many themes such as:
- love
- conflict
- family
All three themes interlink, as Shakespeare wanted to illustrate how love, conflict and family intertwine with one another. He also wanted to show that sometimes, through love, we can also hate.