Love = Life = Death?

During the last lessons on Romeo and Juliet, what made me reflect the most was the relationship between passionate love and death.  To be finally together, Romeo and Juliet decide to die. Also, when they start drowning in this sea of love, they sort of disappear from the rest of the world; they create a new universe of their own.

Love brings Romeo and Juliet to life by escaping from the people they are supposed to be and by letting they feel deeply; yet at the same time, love takes them to actually die.

In this post, I wanted to show you a television series, which I used to watch when I was a teenager, called Pushing Daisies. At the very beginning, I thought it was a story similar to R&J because of the fact that Ned and Charlotte “Chuck” live an impossible love. However, then I realized that the play and Pushing Daisies have something more in common, and that is the relationship between a profound love and death and life: in this cute story, Ned (the protagonist) has a very rare ability, he can reanimate the dead by touching them, but if the thing is relived more than one minute another living creature with similar life value in the surroundings dies to make balance.  Chuck, his loved one is one of the dead that Ned has revived.  Ned gives life to Charlotte, the same as what Romeo does with Juliet or Juliet does with Romeo. Both couples get involved in a passionate relationship, but they cannot be together; the Montague-Capulet because they are enemies, and Ned-Chuck because if the pie-maker touches the girl, he kills her –that is part of his ability; when he touches what he revived again, he gives them death.

I wonder if that happens every time we love. I think that loves actually give us life and charm, but I am not sure if every real love leads us to die.

Well, I encourage you to watch this series if you like, I hope some of you find the relationship I wanted to make. Here you have the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRC_zw0q58Q

And here is the two seasons http://watchseries.lt/episode/Pushing_Daisies_(2007)_s1_e1.html

Have a nice week