“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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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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Bucci May 23‚ 2008 Romeo & Juliet: Superficial Love There are infinite ways to define love. Love has become such an ambiguous and vague term‚ though it is one of the most recognizable of human emotions. It has existed as far back as humans remember and love has been a source of interest and inspiration in the Arts‚ Religion‚ Sciences‚ and most popularly‚ in Literature. The most memorable and popular work of love is William Shakespeare’s tragic Romeo & Juliet. What is so remarkable about
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Many Types of Love Romeo and Juliet One of the many themes of Romeo and Juliet is the strength of love. In the play‚ different types of love form between the characters. Shakespeare uses these types of love in the play to not only keep the audience on their toes‚ wanting more‚ but also to develop a tragedy‚ and something unexpected. Shakespeare used true romantic‚ community‚ misplaced‚ and caring but conflicting love‚ not only between Romeo and Juliet‚ but between Friar Lawrence and the city of
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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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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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Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ various types of love are portrayed. Shakespeare himself had accumulated wisdom beyond his years in matters related to love. Undoubtedly‚ he draws upon his wealth of experience in allowing the audience to see various types of love personified. Shakespeare argues that there are several different types of love‚ the interchangeable love ‚ the painful love‚ forced love and the love based on appearances‚ but only true love is worth having. There
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unmatched ability to represent human behavior and emotion makes the love in Romeo and Juliet the driving force behind the play’s success. Shakespeare incorporated many different types of love in order to capture the hearts of the Elizabeth Era. Juliet’s nurse shows amazing concern for the young girl’s well being. She‚ in some ways‚ takes the place of her natural mother ("Examples of Love in Romeo and Juliet"). Lady Capulet treated Juliet as a naïve young girl with no knowledge and feelings
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Shakespeare is Romeo and Juliet. Romeo and Juliet is a romantic tragedy play in which two star-crossed lovers’ deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. This play presents many different types of love which usually sparks conflict among the characters. Some types of love in the play include unrequited love‚ romantic love‚ friendship love‚ parental love‚ and love of family honor. The most common types of love displayed in Shakespeare’s works are romantic and unrequited love. These two different
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