In Dante’s Inferno the lustful are described as “those who make reason slave to appetite” or as those who let their erotic passions “master reason and good sense”. It is for this reason that he chooses this “heaven” even when it becomes his hell. She is the goddess to which he owes the sum of all his worship. Juliet is Romeo’s alpha and omega, his beginning and his end. This is evident in Romeo’s blasphemous exclamation that “heaven is here / Where Juliet lives”. rational and irrational love, is highlighted. In Romeo and Juliet the difference between true and false love, i.e. Here are a few of the timeless truths in Shakespeare that are also and always timely. Last week, to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, I focused on the “eternal Shakespeare,” arguing that Shakespeare is timeless and therefore, and paradoxically, that he is also timely.
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