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Examples Of Archetypes In Romeo And Juliet

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“Is love a tender thing? Is it too rough, too rude, too boisterous and it pricks like thorn.” Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It got published in 1597 and is the most famous love story in English history. His works are filled with archetypes. In literature, an archetype is a symbol, character or a setting that represents universal patterns of human nature. “Love is a heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake - it’s everything! Except what it is.” Love is naturally the most famous and dominant theme in this play, But not the only dominant archetype. Another dominant is death.

What does love actually mean in this play? Love is very complicated in this story but very

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