Love vs. Lust Practice Essay

The interesting love of Romeo and Juliet a play by William Shakespeare shows that most of its moments of love is actually lust. The couple see each other with true interest in one another for each other’s beauty and falls instantly in love after a small amount of talking. The method sound strange to us nowadays as we fall in love after a long period of time then marry later on if believed we have found the one.  Shakespeare’s play of a young love is sculpted around the time of the Elizabethan era and he has created the characters to feel a sensitive love around each other.

Romeo’s character talks of virginity and how he is thrilled to take Juliet’s,

“Her vestal livery is but sick and green,

And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!

It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.

Oh, that she knew she were here!”
(Act 2, Scene 2, 8-11)

Romeo has referred to Juliet’s virginity quite a few times and within the quotation he believes that only fools hold onto their virginity and her virginity makes her looks sick and green. It shows the lust Romeo has for Juliet, he wants her to know how he truly loves her and he wants to cure her from her virginity. Shakespeare has crafted the play into a work that shows the Elizabethan rules of society such as the use of virginity and how it is to be held until marriage.

Romeo is considered to be both sensitive and immature as he falls for the beauty and talks of the women like they are an angel from the heavens. Juliet talks of Romeo romantically as well which is creating a belief that Juliet is falling in love with her own words. It is strange as to how they fall for each other so soon, many people believe it is sweet yet silly as the couple are only teenaged and have not yet lived to be worrying about love. It is also impractical how the couple believe that they cannot live without one another. This leads them to a terrible death hence the play’s ‘Tragedy’ genre.

 “A thousand times the worse to want thy light.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,

But love from love, toward school with heavy books.”
(Act 2, Scene 2, 159-161)

Romeo is explaining his joy in seeing his love and his anguish in losing her, he cannot live without her. Although the couple within the play talk of how they are serious about their love for one another,

“My loves true passion, therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.”
(Act 2, Scene 2, 113-115)

Juliet talks of how she is in love with Romeo already but just because she has been so fast – does not mean she is not serious about it. Shakespeare has given us every reason to believe that they are not serious and that they just have sensitive emotions but he is also telling us otherwise.

William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet shows moments of love but is questioned as being lust instead. The character’s quick to fall for each other and rush to get married has got the audience to consider whether it is love or lust. The talk of virginity, taking into the fact of the Elizabethan society rules at the time and the sensitivity of the characters emotions has efficiently created the feel that Shakespeare wanted to portray within the romantic tragedy.

~By Gabrielle Burey 2012~

Discussion Starters (from Motherboard)

The following topics, as listed below, will be helpful for you as you practise writing extended responses to the text. As you work your way through topics (you do not have to complete them in the order they are listed), you should aim to make direct reference to the play. My expectation is that you complete two per week as we lead into your exam.

 
• Love vs. Lust: Romeo and Juliet are obsessed, infatuated, out of control, and irrational. Sounds like lust to me.

 
• Prejudice: The feuding families create tension and conflict, not unlike feuding cultures in today's society.

 
• The Role of Fate: Shakespeare calls the two lovers "star-crossed." Does fate, however, play a greater role than the numerous stupid choices made by Romeo and Juliet.

 
• Book Smarts vs. Street Smarts: Friar Lawrence knew a lot. Most of it was useless. After all, he had no real world experience. He just walked around all day collecting herbs.

 
• Suicide: It's the gigantic green elephant in the room. You might as well talk about it.

 
• The Role of Women: Verona society did not hold much for women, which makes Juliet's strength stand out even more.

 
• The Role of a Husband: Romeo's weakness dooms the relationship from the start.

 
• Friendship: Romeo's friend, Mercutio, causes his banishment. His other friend, Friar Lawrence, causes his death. Juliet's friend, the Nurse, abandons her in her time of need.

 
• Communication: Juliet and her father need to sit down and have a nice long talk.

Given that the discussion starters are written as statements, it may be useful for you to turn them into questions. Alternatively, you may be comfortable simply adapting them so that they read as clear topic sentences or thesis statements.

When writing your responses, please keep the following things in mind:

1. You need to plan your response before you start writing

2. You should follow the accepted structure for paragraphs and essays

3. You need to ensure that you are analysing the text, not simply describing what happens

4. When analysing you need to ensure that you are identifying the various positioning techniques that Shakespeare is using and evaluating how these techniques help to position the audience

5. When analysing you should be making reference to what messages are being presented, i.e. what is important, etc.

6. You need to make sure that you integrate your evidence - remember, we want to try and avoid simply throwing quotations into the sentence or introducing every quotation with , "For example..."

7. Make sure you reference your quotations e.g. (Act 3, Scene 5, 22-23)

8. Avoid using large quotations - shorter examples are often more effective

9. Make sure you proof-read and edit very carefully! If you are having trouble proof-reading and editing your own work, ask someone to read it aloud to you (for this to work effectively they need to read exactly what is on the screen - spelling and punctuation too!)

10. Once you have finished a response, make sure you remember to publish it.

Quotations on Act 2 Scene 3 to Act 3 Scene 1 (with certain themes)

Love

Act 2 Scene 3

 

45-46 ROMEO

“With Rosaline, my ghostly father? No.

I have forgot that name and that name’s woe.”

-          With Rosaline father? No I have forgotten that girl and all the sadness she brought me.

 

57-61 ROMEO

“Then plainly now that my heart’s dear love is set

On the fair daughter of rich Capulet.

As mine on hers, so hers I set on mine,

And all combined, save what thou must combine

By holy marriage.”

-          I love rich capulet’s daughter. I love her, and she loves me. Were bound to each other in every possible way, except we need you to marry us.

 

66-68 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“Is Roasline, whom thou didst love so dear,

So soon forsaken? Young men’s love  then lies

Not truly in their hearts but in their eyes.”

-          He is saying that Romeo’s and Juliet’s love isn’t serious, how Romeo is in love with Juliet because of her looks, not because of what she is.

 

90-92 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“In one respect ill thy assistant be,

For this alliance may so happy prove

To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”

-          Ill help you with your secret wedding. This marriage may be lucky enough to turn the hatred between your families into pure love.

 

Family Feud

Act 2 Scene 3

 

27-31 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“Two much opposed kings ecamp them still,

In man as well as herbs – grace and rude will.

And where the worser is predominant,

Full soon the canker death eats up that plant. “

-          There are two opposite elements in everything, in men as well as in herbs – good and evil. When evil is dominant, death soon kills the body like cancer.

 

90-92 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“In one respect ill thy assistant be,

For this alliance may so happy prove

To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.”

-          Ill help you with your secret wedding. This marriage may be lucky enough to turn the hatred between your families into pure love.

 

Act 3 Scene 1

 

69-72 MERCUTIO

“A plague o’both your

Houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a

mouse, a cat to scratch a man to

death!”

-          May a plague strike both your houses. Godammit! I can’t believe that dog, that rat, that mouse, that cat to scratch a man to death!

 

61-62 ROMEO

“This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.

This but begins the woe others must end.”

-          The future will be affected by today’s terrible events. Today is the start of a terror that will end in the days ahead.

 

148-156 PRINCE

“And for that offence

Immediately we do exile him hence.

I have an interest in your hearts proceeding.

My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding.

But ill amerce you with a strong fine.

That you shall repent the loss of mine.”

-          And for that crime, Romeo is hereby exiled from Verona. I’m involved in your rivalry. Mercutio was my relative, and he lies dead because of your bloody feud. Ill punish you harshly that you’ll regret causing me this loss.

-          Family feud

 

Rushed Love/Irony

Act 2 Scene 3

 

79-80 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“Pronounce this sentence then:

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.”

-          Then repeat this after me: you cannot expect women to be faithful when men are so unreliable.

94 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.”

-          Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

 

Act 2 Scene 6

 

11-15 FRIAR LAWRENCE

“The sweetest honey

Is loathsome in his own deliciousness

And in the taste confounds the appetite.

Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.

Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”

-          Too much honey is delicious, but it makes you sick to your stomach. Therefore, lover each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.

-          The friar warning him to not rush into this too much.

 

Violence

Act 3 Scene 1

 

1-3 BEVOLIO

“I pray thee, good Mercutio, lets retire.

The day is hot; the Capulets abroad;

And if we meet we shall not ‘scape a brawl,”

-          I’m begging you, Mercutio, let’s call it a day. It’s hot outside, and the Capulets are wandering around. If we bump into them, well certainly get into a fight.

 

59-61 MERCUTIO

“I am hurt.

A plague o’both your houses! I am sped.

Is he gone and hath nothing?”

-          I’ve been hurt. May a plague curse both your families. I’m finished. Did he get away clean?

 

143 LADY CAPULET

“Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live.”

-          Blame on romeo.

 

Guilt

 

Act 3 Scene 1

 

72-75 ROMEO

“This gentleman, the prince’s near ally,

My very friend, hath got his mortal hurt

In my behalf. My reputation stained

With Tybalt’s slander.”

-          This gentleman Mercutio, a close relative to the prince and my dear friend, was killed while defending me from Tybalt’s slander.

 

 

 

 

 

Quotations in Act 2 about Love, Violence and reflecting on Elizabethan times

Love:

Lines 13-14, Act 2, Prologue (CHORUS)

“But passion lends them power, time means, to meet,

Tempering extremities with extreme sweet.”

-          Love gives them power to be together, to keep going through the hard love.

Lines 10-11, Act 2, Scene 2 (ROMEO)

“It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.

Oh, that she knew she were here!”

-          Oh, there’s my lady! Oh, it is my love. Oh, I wish she knew how much I love her.

 

23-25 (ROMEO)

“See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.

Oh, that I were a glove upon that hand

That I might touch that cheek!”

-           Longing for Juliet.

33-36 (JULIET)

“O, Romeo, Romeo! Where fore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And ill no longer be a Capulet.”

-          Juliet is willing to give up her name, life, reputation and family for Romeo.

38-42 (JULIET)

“’Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

Whats Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man.”

-          Its only your name that’s my enemy, you’d still be yourself even if you stopped being a Montague. What’s a Montague anyway? It isn’t a hand, a foot, an arm, a face, or any other part belonging to a man.

49-51 (ROMEO)

“I take thee thy word.

Call me but love, and ill be new baptized.

Henceforth I never be Romeo”.

-          Willing to give up anything for her.

78-79 (ROMEO)

“My life were better ended by their hate

Than death be prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

-          I’d rather they (the Capulet’s) killed me than have to live without your love.

82-84 (ROMEO)

“I am no pilot. Yet, wert thou as far
As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,

I would adventure for such merchandise”

-          im not a sailor but if you were across the farthest sea, I would risk anything to gain you.

113-115 (JULIET)

“My loves true passion, therefore pardon me,

And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.”

-          So excuse me, and do not assume that because you made me love you so easily my love isn’t serious.

 

120 (JULIET)

“It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden.”

-          It is too sudden. We haven’t done much thinking. It is too crazy.

 

159-161 (ROMEO)

“A thousand times the worse to want thy light.

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,

But love from love, toward school with heavy books.”

-          Leaving you is thousand times worse than being near you. A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as school boys leaving their books. But when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as the school boy on his way to school.

Violence:

Line 70, act 2 scene 2 (JULIET)

“If they (the Capulet’s) do see thee (Romeo) they will murder you”

 

Elizabethan times/setting:

Lines 8-11, Act 2, Scene 2 (ROMEO)

“Her vestal livery is but sick and green,

And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!

It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.

Oh, that she knew she were here!”

-          Virginity makes her look sick and green. Only fools hold on to their virginity. Let it go. Oh, there’s my lady! Oh, it is my love. Oh, I wish she knew how much I love her.

-          Talking about a lady’s virginity and how he would want her in that way and he loves her, it reflects on the times the play is set as it was socially unacceptable to lose your virginity.

Homework Task Response - What is love?

William Shakespeare has created Romeo and Juliet to show many various representations of love such as friendship and love between a woman and a man. Love coexists within the friendship of Mercutio and Romeo within the fight scene between the Capulets, mainly represented by Tybalt and the Montagues, mainly represented by Romeo and Mercutio. Tybalt, angry and annoyed at the fasmily of the montagues, finds out Romeo has trespassed at the capulets party in which romeo met juliet. Full  of so much hatred he starts a fight with Mercutio and Romeo tries to stop them and protect Mervutio which ended with Mercutio being stabbed by Tybalt. 

	"I am hurt.
	A plague o' both your houses! I am sped.
	Is he gone, and hath nothing?" Act III, Scene I, 87-89

Romeo in repsonse felt guilty and upset to the new of which Mercutio dies for Romeo in the worst way. he is angry to the fact that Tybalt is able to get away with such maddness.

	"Now, Tybalt, take the villain back again,
	That late thou gavest me; for Mercutio's soul
	Is but a little way above our heads,
	Staying for thine to keep him company:
	Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him." Act III, Scene I, 121-124

 

Either one must die Romeo says, who was angered by Mercutio's death and unfrotunately was not thinking clearly. Despite from the respresentation of love between friendship including Romeo's and Mercutio's there is also a romance between Romeo and Juliet represented in the play. Romeo and Juliet are bounded together by love at first sight, and although their love may seem rushed, they are serious about it especially Juliet,

"My loves true passion, therefore pardon me,
And not impute this yielding to light love,

Which the dark night hath so discovered.”Act II, Scene II, 113-115

 Juliet believes that Romeo may be just trying to use her or to fall in love with him so easily but will dump her later, but infact Romeo cannot live without her either that we would give up his name, family, reputation and even life to be with her,

“I am no pilot,Yet, wert thou as far

As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea,

I would adventure for such merchandise”

Act II, Scene II, 82-84

Anybody can say that their love is a teenaged love that is not always constant but in their hearts, as most teenagers do, they fall deeply and cannot live without them despite the fact that they have a family with open arms. Romeo and Juliet is a play written by Shakespeare which delivers various representaions of love between friendships and true love.

 

 



 

What is Love? - Homework Task

What is love?

So far in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, we have been exposed to various representations of love. Write an extended response that explores these representations.

In your response you must demonstrate your ability to do the following things:

1. Use direct evidence
2. Reference your evidence (Act 3, Scene 1, 45-67)
3. Refer to the various positioning techniques in your discussion. E.g. Foreshadowing, language choices, use of Shakespearean sonnet, imagery, metaphor, simile, symbolism, motifs,etc.
4. Synthesise your evidence - the discussion of positioning techniques should help you here.
5. Can you suggest what is valued by certain characters with regards to love?

Make sure you proof-read and edit carefully.

Womens Expectations

What I found within the sheets was many horrifying things such as:

·         If were everything but a maid, she be called a whore, but if she was nothing but a maid, she is worth marrying.

·         At the age of seven or so, she may be married, nine she has a share of her husbands estate if widowed, etc.

·         When the maid is in the conversation of her two parents of which she has to marry someone, she isn’t to talk. At all.

·         Once married, they cannot be separated by law but can re marry if widowed.

·         A woman’s virginity is the main thing about her – otherwise no man would bother marrying her.

·         “Hippomenes, a great man of Athens, when he knew his daughter desoiled of one, he shut her up in a stable with a wild horse, kept meatless. For the horse, when he had suffered great hunger long and because he was of nature fierce, we waxed mad and all to-tare the young woman to feed himself with…” (Vives VII)

·         There was also a story about a woman whom was pregnant but not married and once she gave birth the father and brothers stabbed her and the mid wife still looked on.

As you can already see those times were terrible for women.

Homework on Maiden Expectations

On Blackboard, under the folder, "Exploring the world of Juliet and her Romeo" there are three documents that I would like you to read. These documents are:

* "Expectations of daughters in Elizabethan England" (this has been scanned as a PDF file and therefore you need to open both PDFs to read the entire document)

* "17th Century rules regarding marriage"

* "Marriage Customs"

As you read, make note of the most important/interesting/surprising points and post them on your blogs once you are finished.

This needs to be completed by Thursday please along with any class work that is incomplete by the end of today's lesson.

Lea Granich's (Juliet Capulet's) Diary Entry

Nick Whorsley = Romeo Montague

Lea Granich = Juliet Capulet

 

Dear Diary,

I don’t understand it, how can my parents be so overdramatic. He is a boy, just a boy, of which I love and they are not happy about it? For all I know, Parents are shown to do whatever would make their child HAPPY. I cannot live on without Nick Whorsley as I cannot see anyone else in his place. I know it might sound crazy but I want to marry him, I know it is so early but I’d be dammed if I was to have any other husband. Tonight we are meeting in my backyard, there is a bush where no one can see via the house. I hope he comes, for I want to be with him so bad. Oh, Diary… what do I do?

Love,

Lea Granich

Love Story by Taylor Swift Homework

1. Love Story by Taylor Swift is of a actual love story between the two characters of Romeo and Juliet and their forbidden love. It becomes lonely and heart breaking to Juliet as she ravels upon whether or not Romeo actually loves her and if he still wants to be with her. She waits and waits and most of the time he doesn’t come – she doesn’t know what to think, is he still in love with her or does he want to end it? The evidence to the plot is shown most in the quotation of stanza 9,

“Romeo save me, I’ve been feeling so alone

I keep waiting for you but you never come

Is this in my head, I don’t know what to think”.

Swift has produced a song/poem upon the love and hope of the well-known story of Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare showing their illicit love.

 

2. The poem Love Story by Taylor Swift is titled “Love Story” because that is the main subject matter of the poem. It shows the happy ending of being a prince and princess longing for each other and eventually being together.

“I’ll be waiting, all there is left to do is runYou’ll be the prince and I’ll be the princessIt’s a love story, baby, just say yes”.

The love story has hope and strength as the distance makes them uncertain but as they all say, the more distance the more fond the heart is.

“I got tired of waiting, wondering if you were ever coming around

My faith in you was fading

When I met you on the outskirts of town”.

The reasonable title chosen by Swift fits the poem perfectly as it actually talks about a love story between the two characters of Romeo and Juliet a tragedy written by Shakespeare.

 

3.The relationship between Romeo and Juliet is a strong teenaged love, and possibly first love. Of which everyone knows how that feels and how it feels when you part. Romeo and Juliet are deeply in love with each other,

“Romeo, save me, they’re trying to tell me how to feel, This love is difficult, but it’s real,Don’t be afraid, we’ll make it out of this mess,It’s a love story, baby just say yes

 …

Marry me, Juliet, you’ll never have to be alone,I love you and that’s all I ever know”

They make it through, they have held their love for each other and they have made it through their forbidden love together .

 

4. The evidence shown within the poem by Taylor Swift that the two lovers have really made it and have manage to overcome the obstacles in their forbidden love. Shown in the quotation, their love is shown forbidden by Juliet’s father,

“And my daddy said stay away from JulietBut you were everything to me I was begging you please don’t go”

The father seems to be the main antagonist of the love story but in the end, Romeo finds his way through. He has asked her father for her hand whilst she waited, longing for Romeo to come. When out of the blue, he has proposed and they have been destined to live together forever.

“I talked to you dad, you’ll pick out a white dress, It’s a love story, baby, just say yes”.

It would be considered that the two lovers have went through the obstacles of a forbidden love together due to the evidence found within the poem by Swift.

 

5. The themes explored through the poem and the music clip shows the following themes:

·       Love at first sight

·         Hope

·         Joy

·         Passion

·         Heart break

·         Forbidden love

They are shown in many ways in the lyrics and the clip such as joy and love is shown when they run into each other’s arms and can finally be together. Love when they first meet at the party, the love at first sight catches them and lures them in. Patience and sadness is shown in the scene of when Juliet is waiting on the balcony, waiting for her Juliet and joy for when he finally comes. The themes are relatively clear in the love story in Taylor Swift’s poem and music video.

 

6. The love story within the song ends differently than William Shakespeare’s play. Shakespeare has originally written a tragedy of which both Romeo and Juliet die. It is seen by Romeo seeing Juliet’s fake dead body where she actually took a potion to stop her heart and for when Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo dead by a poison. Unable to live without him, she commits suicide by stabbing herself or in the film adaption, shoots herself. Whilst Taylor Swift has made a different approach, leaving a happy ending, which is the purpose to her decision as she would have wanted a love story not a tragedy story. Or else she would have had to change the title as it wouldn’t fit, she would have to change it to “tragic love story” or “the tragic love”, etc. The perspective is coming a teenaged girl’s point of view, ie Juliet. Most teenaged girls believe in love and they have a more emotional side to love than men, Swift would have wanted the teenaged girls to hear a happy ending. As most people I know, prefer that ending then the ending written by Shakespeare, although he longed for a dramatic ending.

Diary Entry Homework

One of the central themes in Romeo and Juliet revolves around relationships and love, but it also links to the influence of family members on such a relationship. You are to write a diary entry that explores the following scenario.

It is 2012 and a girl in her late teens has started dating someone who she believes is her true love. Unfortunately, her parents, family and friends don't approve of the relationship and are trying to force her to end it. Her parents have even gone so far as to say that they will disown her if she doesn't stop the relationship. In her diary she writes down her feelings about the whole situation. What does she write?

In your response, consider where in the world this girl lives, what her family situation is, what her social status is, what it is about her 'true love' that her family and friends dislike, etc.

Opening Lesson Homework

Love Story – Taylor Swift

 

We were both young when I first saw you
I close my eyes and the flashback starts
I'm standing there on a balcony in summer air
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns
See you make your way through the crowd
And say hello, little did I know

That you were Romeo
You were throwing pebbles
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
And I was crying on the staircase
Begging you please don't go

And I said
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby, just say yes

So I sneak out to the garden to see you
We keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew
So close your eyes, escape this town for a little while

Oh, oh, oh

'Cause you were Romeo,
I was a scarlet letter
And my daddy said stay away from Juliet
But you were everything to me
I was begging you please don't go

And I said
Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone
I'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run
You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess
It's a love story, baby, just say yes

Romeo, save me, they're trying to tell me how to feel
This love is difficult, but it's real
Don't be afraid, we'll make it out of this mess
It's a love story, baby, just say yes

I got tired of waiting, wondering if you were ever coming around
My faith in you was fading
When I met you on the outskirts of town

And I said
Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone
I keep waiting for you but you never come
Is this in my head, I don't know what to think
He knelt to the ground and he pulled out a ring
And said

Marry me, Juliet, you'll never have to be alone
I love you and that's all I really know
I talked to your dad, you'll pick out a white dress
It's a love story, baby, just say yes

Oh, oh, oh, oh
We were both young when I first saw you

 

Love Story Official Music Video Clip           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlbB7qt6v_0

 

Discussion Questions:

1.     Outline the subject matter of the poem?

2.     Why is the poem entitled “Love Story”? Use evidence from the   lyrics to support the titles significance and relevance.

3.     Describe the relationship between the two characters.  Who are they?

4.     What evidence is there to suggest that these lovers have to overcome obstacles in their relationship?

5.     What themes and issues are explored in the lyrics and through the video clip?

6.     How does the “Love story” end for Romeo and Juliet in the song? Is this how it ends for the Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Why does Taylor Swift end her song this way? What perspective is she writing from and why would they want the story to end this way?