How Does Romeo's Character Change

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Romeo’s Character Change
“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, Whose misadventured piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.” From Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet were lovers at first sight that could not be together because of a very big family feud. This represents the love that Romeo and Juliet Have but that they have to keep it in secret because of their families feuds. In Williams Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the character Romeo begins as a man who thinks he is in love with Rosaline but becomes a more dangerous and at stake character. At the beginning of the play, Romeo was a guy who felt that he was in love with Rosaline.

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