Romeo's Narrative Voice In 'Michelle'

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The narrative voices of a males in songs sometimes express their enthusiastic response to a female character. “Michelle” is a song performed by Sir Paul McCartney. Lines 44-53 from Romeo and Juliet are excerpts from a play. The protagonist are Romeo and Juliet and the antagonist is society and the situation that it forced them into. Romeo sees Juliet for the first time and begins to express her beauty verbally. It is claimed that Romeo expresses his inner emotions verbally to Juliet, but when Romeo first sees Juliet he approached her merely off of a physical attraction. Romeo approached Juliet not knowing who she was, which shows that there was no way that he could of felt a deep connection to Juliet and that it was only a physical attraction.

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