Tansier Mr. Cobane English 2 8 October 2006 A Deadly Love in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is portrayed a very deep love‚ a love that rarely exists in modern life. Romeo and Juliet’s strong love for one another caused them heartache in their lives. And because of this strong love‚ they both felt as though they needed each other to be whole or to continue living. It started off with young Romeo attending a party at the house of the Caplets’‚ the
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“Romeo and Juliet” is a play written by Shakespeare around 1950‚ which celebrates the beauty of love whilst also exploring the destructive nature of pride - the tragedy is made all the more poignant because both these elements of human nature are incorporated. The play is mostly about how love‚ not pride can affect people’s emotions. Shakespeare shows how love can be beautiful yet destructive. The tragedy is created when love and pride work together to create doomed circumstances for Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet What would you do for love? Would you sacrifice your life for the people you love? “Romeo and Juliet” is a thrilling play that demonstrates both love and hate. Love and hate both come at a cost‚ whether you lose something you love or something happens that you hate. As Mohandas Gandhi said “Hatred always kills‚ love never dies.” The play Romeo and Juliet demonstrates and expresses 3 main points relating to this quote. Those main points are love‚ hate‚ and marriage. Romeo and Juliet
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Love is a powerful feeling that we desire as humans beings. The power of love can blind us and drive us to make rash decisions we would sometimes never dream of. William Shakespeare demonstrated the power of “love” in his romantic-tragedy‚ Romeo and Juliet. The play is about two-star crossed lovers who are pulled apart by fate and their families’ feud‚ and eventually end up killing themselves. People to this day debate whether or not the fact if Romeo and Juliet killed themselves out of their love
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play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ is a tragic love story that focuses on natural and supernatural love. Two families‚ the Capulets and the Montagues‚ are on opposite sides of a blood feud. Romeo‚ a Montague‚ falls in love with Juliet‚ a Capulet. Many events‚ involving the friar‚ Friar Lawrence‚ Mercutio (Romeo’s friend)‚ the Price‚ Paris (who Juliet’s parents want her to marry)‚ and Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin)‚ lead to the eventual death of the two lovers. In this play there are two different forms of love‚ natural
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the play of Romeo and Juliet we are made to think that the play will be based on the tragedy of two ill-fated characters. This is expressed in the Prologue‚ Act One‚ "Two households‚ both alike in dignity‚ in fair Verona where we lay our scene‚ from ancient grudge break to new mutiny‚ where civil blood makes civil hand unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two star-crossed lovers take their life." Although these two teenager’s love is the focus of the story‚ many other views of love are expressed
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Romeo and Juliet Essay Theme: Love “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own” (Robert Heinlein). Love is not only huge in this play‚ but also in reality. In this play‚ many characters show love in different ways. Love is all around‚ and is a strong theme in Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare. Many types of love are shown such as; eros love‚ storge love‚ and philios love. Eros love is the biggest part of love in Romeo and Juliet‚ and
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themes. Make a claim about it and write your essay on how the play reveals the truth about the theme. William Shakespeare wrote a play called Romeo and Juliet‚ a story based on two lovers that ended up killing their selves because of society. There’s this thing people like to call “fickle or puppy” love. That’s when two people think that they love each other but it’s nothing real. Shakespeare showed this kind of love in two instances in the play. One with Paris’ love for Juliet and the other is Romeo’s
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. Romeo loves Rosaline‚ but Rosaline does not feel the same about Romeo. Romeo becomes unhappy with love as he says‚ ‘love is a smoke filled with sighs’‚ this shows that Romeo thinks that love is a bad thing and wishes that Rosaline felt the same about him as he feels about her. Romeo is love-sick and he doesn’t like that love isn’t going the right way for him‚ Shakespeare shows this by using the metaphor‚ ‘this is not Romeo‚ he is some other where’‚ this suggests that he is depressed over Rosaline
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Love‚ Power and Romeo and Juliet The play Romeo and Juliet is a classic tale of friendship‚ love‚ betrayal‚ comedy‚ tragedy‚ and death. I t was written by William Shakespeare in and is considered one of his greatest tragedies. It has many different renditions and has been translated into many different languages. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” two young ambitious lovers put themselves in situations that would inevitably lead to their deaths. Was Romeo to blame or perhaps Juliet? Maybe the
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