“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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Love is in the air with the sound of suicide. Shakespeare himself pulled dramatic personas‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ from the deepest‚ darkest corners of his mind. On a slightly more upbeat note‚ once love is present it is too arduous to resist‚ or so agrees psychologist Mandy Len Catron in her article “To Fall in Love With Anyone‚ Do This”. Both of these literary pieces revolve around the concept of love. Here lie two works of art with identical overall themes‚ but completely different perspectives of
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consumed by love‚ then we could make decisions that could seriously affect our lives negatively. In “Romeo and Juliet”‚ Shakespeare says that love can cloud a person’s mind‚ and cause that person to make rash decisions. This can be shown through Romeo’s romantic love and Tybalt’s love of his kin. Romeo’s romantic love for Juliet overwhelms his mind and causes him to act rashly. One example is when Romeo says‚ “Farewell. Thou canst not teach me how to forget” (Act 1‚ scene 1‚ 246). Romeo loved Rosaline
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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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involved in love. Romeo and Juliet is a play based on the tragedies of young love and is one of the many plays that connects love with death. Shakespeare ties love to a responsibility that ultimately leads to the demise of many‚ as shown in Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Romeo and Juliet additionally show through their suicidal impulses that adolescent love can often be hasty and careless. Shakespeare links a self-destructive tendency with love as shown by the suicidal impulses Romeo and Juliet exhibit
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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 love for Rosaline. Although Paris went to Juliet’s father‚ Lord Capulet‚ to ask for her hand in marriage‚ Juliet didn’t really
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Is Romeo and Juliet more about Love or Hate and Violence? A story of star cross’d lovers or hate bound fighters? “What we see depends mainly on what we look for.” - (John Lubbock) As Lubbock stated‚ one tends to overlook all else to see what they want to interpreting only what they want to; so what you believe Romeo and Juliet’s main theme is‚ depends more so on your worldviews than what was written. The human eye sees only what it wants to. However‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ is always remembered as the
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Love is a strong emotion that is accepting‚ appreciating‚ and wanting to make others feel good. In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare shows that there are different types of love including idealistic love‚ parental love‚ and love between friends. Romeo and Juliet show idealistic love. However‚ Nurse‚ and Capulet show. there is also so a lot of hatred going around and a bad feud between the Capulets‚ and the Montagues. No one knows how the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues began but
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Importance of Love There are many different kinds of love throughout the play that William Shakespeare wrote called Romeo and Juliet. Three different kinds of love in the play are romantic love between Romeo & Juliet‚ Friendly love between Mercutio and Romeo‚ and parental love between Nurse & Juliet. The love in this play isn’t always easy for the characters and doesn’t always go their way. “ The course of true love never did run smooth.” The love in this play is also linked to death. Both Romeo and Juliet’s
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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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