LoveReligion3

 **__Love as Religion Theme__** //Write about Shakespeare's love as religion theme.//

__General Meanings__ Romeo compares love to religion multiple times to show that he has undying love, just as religion is undying. It is a very strong usage for someone he met one day ago and brings up the question of love verses lust. (Burge)

Romeo uses religion as a metaphor for his love many times when he is talking to different people. Religion and love are alike because they are both intangible things where you connect to someone, either a god or your significant other. (Wilkins)

__Quote Collection__ "ROMEO [To JULIET] If I profane with my unworthiest hand This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, Which mannerly devotion shows in this; For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.

ROMEO Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;    They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.

ROMEO Then move not, while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by yours, my sin is purged.

JULIET    Then have my lips the sin that they have took.

ROMEO Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again." (1.5.92-109) (Burge)    _

ROMEO Then move not while my prayer's effect I take. Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged. (1.5. 105-106)

ROMEO She speaks O speak again, bright angel, for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes. (2.2 25-29)

(Wilkins) Recurring Themes and Images Page