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Romeo and Juliet. Take a Stand: Love & Loyalty and other themes. It often takes something catastrophic or tragic to make people realize that they are behaving or living foolishly. Tragedy. Old codes or old traditions can be especially foolish or dangerous. . Tradition.
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Romeo and Juliet Take a Stand: Love & Loyalty and other themes
It often takes something catastrophic or tragic to make people realize that they are behaving or living foolishly. Tragedy
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. Tradition
There is always conflict between youthful passion and old age’s narrow-mindedness. Youth & Age
If your parents do not approve of the person you love, you should end the relationship to keep peace in the family. Youth & Age/Loyalty/Tradition
Love expressed and consummated (fulfilled) is worth any cost. Love
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
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 Loyalty
“Don’t let passion rule you!” or “The best life is the balanced life.” Balance
Fate connects everything to everything else. (Fate ultimately determines one’s destiny.) Fate & Destiny
Each person has enough to manage in his/her own life; managing the lives of other people leads to tragedy. Individualism
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) Karma