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    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 for their love each other‚ or if it was for some other reason. For some‚ it may seemhave seemed like Romeo was truly in love with Juliet‚ but I believe that his long-lasting love for Rosaline affected the way he felt towards Juliet. Romeo’s

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    Draft Miss Docktor March 20‚ 2013 Themes in Romeo and Juliet Everyone is affected by love in his or her own ways. William Shakespeare uses his intelligence to deeply describe the characters and how they make their next decision for one another. In Romeo and Juliet‚ the three important themes that are used throughout the play are the aspect of love‚ fate‚ and time and haste. In this paper I will be showing the three main themes in Romeo and Juliet and how those themes had effect on the characters

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    Romeo and Juliet is a classic tale of two “star-crossed lovers” (Shakespeare 736) whose destinies were pre-determined. As the scenes unfold‚ the main theme of love dominates above all else. As a matter of fact‚ Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story there is in English literature. The audience is taught to accept the realm of variations of love such as love at first sight‚ lust‚ and infatuation. Throughout the decades‚ many more versions of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet were created including

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    Gender Roles in Romeo and Juliet In Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietJuliet resorts to conniving and shrewd ways in order to control her destiny and free herself from her confined existence. Contrary to the critics who view Juliet as innocent‚ childish and immature‚ Juliet’s habits of manipulating people–particularly the men in her life‚ expressly Romeo–through simulating maleness implies a parallel between the approaches falconers (mostly males) use to train their falcons (mostly females)

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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 blame

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    Romeo and Juliet Essay Fate means an event that will inevitably happen in the future. Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was not in the hands of the stars but in their own hands. One reason why Romeo and Juliet’s relationship was not predestined was when Romeo decided to go to uninvited to the Capulet Ball. Another justification that illustrated Romeo and Juliet’s independent action was when they decided to keep their marriage a secret. Finally‚ the third example of their action was when Romeo

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    English 1/16/14 Romeo and Juliet‚ two lovers are faced with a grave problem when falling in love was inevitable; however‚ both sides of their families are participants in an ancient feud against one another‚ but even their own blood wont come between the passionate love that they share. For Romeo and Juliet many choices were made for them‚ but the madness that drove them to be together would eventually take their lives. The playwright Shakespeare utilizes metaphors in Romeo and Juliet to help us better

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    Romeo and Juliet is the tale of starcrossed lovers‚ who come from two feuding families‚ the Capulets‚ and the Montagues. During the time period when the Montagues and Capulets lived‚ they believed that whatever arises amid their lives is imminent and all events are predetermined and arranged before them like a road map to life; otherwise known as‚ fate. In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare supports that humans are sentenced to an inevitable fate through symbolism‚ the character of Romeo

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    Hopeless. Desperate. Tragic. “Romeo and Juliet”‚ a story written by William Shakespeare‚ is about two teenagers‚ Romeo‚ a Montague‚ and Juliet‚ a Capulet‚ falling in love but ended in one of them dying because they couldn’t have the other. They were influenced by many external forces that caused the tragedy‚ like accidentally falling in love at a ball‚ being forced to marry someone they did not want to marry‚ and because the two families didn’t agree with each other. The first external reference

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    Juliet! Juliet! I’m coming Nurse. I will compare and contrast Romeo and Juliet the play by William Shakespeare and the movie by Baz Lohrmanns. The topics to be discussed the theme and a specific character in the play and the movie. Important to know that; “ A daughter of one family and a son of the other A pair of star-crossed lovers take their own lives.” Nevertheless‚ in the play Romeo and Juliet is during the 1600’s and is about a young man and a young woman named Romeo and Juliet. Romeo wanted

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