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    Shakespeare portrays love in Romeo and Juliet in many ways. Their love is portrayed by images of light and dark and is juxtaposed against death‚ and he sets next to Romeo and Juliet the love associated with sight and appearances. In all‚ their love is of another world. The love of Romeo and Juliet is portrayed as otherworldly and heavenly. They are "star-crossed lovers"‚ with their destiny pre-determined; they and other humans have no control. Instead the control lies with fate and God. The lovers

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    Love Essay Love is defined as a profoundly tender‚ passionate affection for another person. This emotion is so passionate it can even be considered dangerous. Without love‚ it is often next to impossible for one to survive. People in this world often conceptualize that love is necessary and crave the feeling of being in love. With that said‚ what is truly confusing is if people are truly in love with another person‚ or are they just in love with the ideology of being in love. In Ancient Greece

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    “Friendship is not about who you have known the longest but about who walked into your life‚ said “I’m here for you” and has proved it.” ~ Unknown. In The Tragedy of Romeo and JulietJuliet and the Nurse show philia love to each other. Philia love is a friendship love or similar to a brotherly love. Throughout the drama the reader can tell they have philia love through the Nurse over exaggerating the message from Romeo to Juliet‚ that Juliet trusts the Nurse to keep her secret of marrying Romeo‚ and that

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    Fall in Love... “There is only one happiness in this life‚ to love and to be loved” (George Sand). The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story which set the foundation for hundreds‚ if not millions of contemporary copies that we know and love today. The play speaks volumes to the fantastical wants of young teens while chronicling the short lived spark of a lusting passion. Even with such an instantaneous love ignited can such quickly developed feelings last between Romeo and Juliet or will

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    Romeo and Juliet is a story written by william shakespeare‚ William Shakespeare was an English poet‚playwright‚ and actor‚ widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language.The play was in Verona and Mantua in Italy in the 1300. Romero is a Montague and Juliet is a capulet. The main type of love in this play is of course true love which is shared between Romeo and Juliet. The other types of love really just serve highlight the strength and uniqueness of Romeo and Juliet’s love. Although

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    Two star- crossed lover each from hatred families‚ feel in love with each other. Romeo was in love with Rosaline‚ who didn’t love him. It was like that until he attended the Capulets’ party. Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. When they see each other they fell in love. This leads to impulsive Romeo to get married the next morning. In William Shakespeare’s famous play “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” the theme of love and hate are exemplified through the timeless grudge between the

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    In Romeo and Juliet‚ William Shakespeare uses young love to suggest that young love can make you do foolish things. He establishes this message in Act I‚ Scene V‚ Act II Scene II‚ and Act II‚ Scene VI. In act Act I‚ Scene V Shakespeare states that young love can make you do foolish things.In this scene‚ Romeo and Juliet quickly fall for one another after they exchange a kiss.Romeo says “Then move not while my prayer’s effect I take. Thus from my lips‚ by thine my sin is purged.” and Juliet

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    In the time of Romeo & Juliet people were expected to marry someone of their caste for power instead of love. Both Romeo and Juliet go against what was expected and decided to fall in love. By doing this both Romeo and Juliet believed that what they feel outweighs the consequences. The Capulets and Montagues hate each other from a disagreement their ancestors had. No one from either house remembers why they hate each other but the houses still fight. Prince Escalus told both houses not to quarrel

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    Arts 18 March 2014 Romeo and Juliet Don’t fall in love as a teen; you might end up killing yourself. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare showed that being in love has its ups and downs. Shakespeare‚ also‚ in my opinion‚ created a self-destructive tendency connected with love. Although this play was a tragedy‚ there were some bright sides. Romeo and Juliet were in love‚ and generally‚ being in love gives one feelings of joy and contentment. “This bud of love‚ by summers ripening

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    Romeo and Juliet: in love or hit with infatuation To the person that has these feelings infatuation and actual love are very difficult to differentiate. Even if these two emotions are very similar they have different effects on ones life. In infatuation usually develops to quickly such as “love at first sight”. On the other hand real love grows moderately and takes time‚ but the effects last longer. In my opinion this “star struck” couple was simply hit with infatuation not love. In this Shakespearean

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