If I recall from such a long time ago, we were asked to blog about what we need in life. I remember reading someone else’s blog about this topic and sadly I can’t remember whom it was, but I do remember him/her saying that love is not a necessity of life. I’d certainly like to think this is false. Sure to keep breathing one would definitely need food, water, and shelter and that is it, but I think in order for any person to desire to stay alive, love is needed. For humans, it’s simple to say we are social beings and constantly want to be around others, but I think there is more to it than that. We need meaning in life and love gives us just that. Shakespeare’s plays easily display this necessity of life. Can you think of a play where love is not involved? Where love is not desired? And I’m not just talking about love between a man and a woman. It could also be the love of a daughter or the people, ect.
We could say we don’t need love to live, but if you think about it, if we don’t have a person to love, we fill the void with something else. This is a little off topic Shakespeare wise, but if you take for example the movie Cast Away, when Chuck is left stranded on the island alone his affection shifts to a volleyball he names Wilson. He’s infatuated with the ball despite this inanimate object can show no affection back. Wilson gives Chuck meaning to life, someone else to care about outside of himself, a reason to stay alive. So back to Shakespeare it would seem the characters that fail to attain love, or lose the love in their life end up dead such is the obvious case of Romeo and Juliet and many others among Shakespeare’s work.
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