When someone is called Romeo, we understand that it is a person whose main thing is love. The exalting love brings to heaven and at the same time darkens everything around. It is unlikely that Romeo could soberly assess and perceive the surrounding world. Both he and Juliet lived alone - love. Love was for them the air and the meaning of being. their tragic finale broke their lives, but not the love that humankind has inspired for hundreds of years.In another tragedy of Shakespeare, we find a completely different eternal image. This is a deeply tragic image of Hamlet. He understands reality and is steadfast on the good side. He is irreconcilable to evil, brave and determined, but how to be when evil is in his family ?! How to give a worthy repulse to theft, if, in order to punish the father's killer, one should destroy the mother's life? Hamlet deeply contemplates the nature of evil, he believes revenge is also evil. Because murder is a murder, even if you kill a scoundrel. The image of Hamlet is an image of a responsible, thinking person who realizes that the transition to decisive action in the conflict of good and evil can give rise to new evil.One can probably cite many examples of eternal images in the literature. But there is one thing in common: they all reveal eternal human feelings and aspirations, try to solve the eternal problems that torture people of any generation.