Love In Romeo And Juliet Essay

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    texts we’ve read in class by William Shakespeare, we have seen love depicted in multiple different ways, from paternal and pathological to romantic and even erotic. The love that we have seen has been conducted in many different forms as well, including familial, homosocial, and hetro/homosexual; Shakespeare has showed these types of love in varying degrees of sincerity. Shakespeare’s sonnets are a perfect example of how he depicts love in different forms. He uses the speaker (possibly himself),…

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    Throughout the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Juliet is faced with a lot of forced love, even though Juliet loves Romeo. Juliet’s parents aren’t very supportive about the fact that Juliet wants to encounter real and a more serious relationship. Juliet’s guardians Lady and Lord Capulet believe that since Juliet reached adulthood, she should already have a lover. What they don’t know is that Juliet really does have a lover and on top of that is married, Romeo. Her parents however,…

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    Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare in the late 1590s, was a play about forbidden love. Two families, the Montagues and Capulets, had been feuding for ages, and the tension was only worsened when the relatives had gotten into a street fight. Despite the public-known feud, the son of Montague, Romeo, and the daughter of Capulet, Juliet, had fallen in love at the Capulet’s house. Capulet had arranged a marriage between Juliet and Paris, she rushed to marry Romeo, and the following…

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    comedy love play, whereas Romeo and Juliet is seen as a tragic play. Shakespeare explores the feelings of love through various ways such as love at first and presenting love as being never ceasing. When both plays were performed, the Shakespearean audience would think that courtly is better than romantic due to the fact that it is seen that women have more power and in order for the man to win the women’s heart he needs to do something lusty in order for that to happen. Whereas romantic love is…

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    Romeo and Juliet is a famous play, written by acclaimed 16th century poet, playwright and actor, William Shakespeare. There are many recurring motifs in this piece of literature; however, two of the most prominently portrayed ones are those of love and hate. These themes are inextricably entwined as the love of the two main protagonists in this play, Romeo and Juliet is constantly overshadowed by a pallor of hate, leading to an unresolvable confrontation between these two emotions, with each…

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    In this play, both love and hate are used in many ways. Sometimes love can inspire hate, while other times hatred can inspire love. One of the many things that makes this play what it is, is how love and hate are used hand in hand. One could even say that in some ways, if there had not been hate, there could be no love, and vice versa. In general, both themes of love and hate are used predominantly in Romeo and Juliet. For the use of love in this story, the theme of romantic love proves a lot.…

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    Love is a feeling of deep affection. Some people may believe in love at first sight, but johanna doesn't because as shakespeare once wrote “ Young men's love lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.” Love at first sight is not real because Romeo in the beginning was in deeply in love and obsessed with a girl named Rosaline and was sure that no girl was more beautiful than her. However, when Romeo went to the capulets party and first saw Juliet, he fell in love and forgot all about…

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is the romantic tragedy about two fighting families, the Montagues and the Capulets. The play is mainly focused on the relationship between the supposed love between Romeo and Juliet who are both from these separate families, but it is shown multiple times throughout the play that they do not make the best decisions as a couple. After all, they married each other the day after they met. Romeo and Juliet aren’t actually in love. This supposed love causes frequent…

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    Romeo and Juliet, a classical tragic love story depicts the forbidden love of two young individuals – Romeo and Juliet. Through the two young lovers, Shakespeare displays hate and love being the two most powerful forces in human nature. In the play, Romeo and Juliet, both belonging to the feuding families overcome the hate of their despiteful families to be with one another for they have fallen into passionate and unconditional love. Although, hate does a lot of damage and causes pain between…

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    with them. Love is wanting to wake up next to them in the morning’’ - Dan Simmons, American fiction writer. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two so called “star crossed lovers” who think that their love is so strong that they will be brought together even in death if they cannot be together in life. However, due to their young ages, and small amount of time that they knew each other, they were not in actual love. There is no doubt that they lusted for each other, but in this story, love was…

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