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Relationship Between Romeo And Juliet

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Mckenzie Ulibarri Ms.Sweet English 9 November 13, 2017 Romeo and Juliet character Analysis- Romeo is killed because he is too Romantic When analysing Romeo and Juliet it becomes apparent that while the two main characters’ lives were said to be predetermined by fate, it is Romeo's deep love for Juliet that acts as the catalyst that sets his fate into motion. Romeo was bound to love juliet but it was Romeo’s deep love for juliet that gets Romeo in to trouble. Additionally, Romeo gets to caught up in the one and only love of his life and when all the sudden it was gone he decided to kill himself. Although Romeo stated, “with love's light wings did I o’erperch these walls”( 2.2.73-75). This would prove that know matter what happens romeo will always go after Juliet/love Juliet. Ultimately, it is Romeo who is to romantic therefor creating the fate for himself and Juliet. Romeo is the one of the only characters in this play that would kill himself because he is too romantic. At the beginning of the balcony scene Romeo says when, hiding in the Capulet orchard after the feast, he sees Juliet leaning out of a high window. Even though it was late at night, Juliet’s beauty makes Romeo imagine that she is the sun, "transforming the darkness into daylight.” Romeo on the other hand personifies the moon, calling it “sick and pale with grief”, and that Juliet, the sun, is “far brighter and more beautiful.” Romeo then compares Juliet to the stars, claiming that she “eclipses the stars as daylight overpowers a lamp”and that her eyes alone “shine so bright that they will convince the birds to sing at night as if it were day.” Here, Romeo imagines Juliet transforming darkness into light; later, after their wedding night, Juliet convinces Romeo momentarily that the daylight is actually night (so that he doesn’t yet have to leave her room).“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . . The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars. As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven. Would through the airy region stream so bright. That birds would

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