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Love In Romeo And Juliet

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Love is a powerful thing and can be viewed in many different ways. This is expressed in the tragedy of Romeo of Juliet written by William Shakespeare. This is the tragedy of two lovers who struggle to find ease in their life as they are in two opposing families. In the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the major characters have very different views of love that they use to their advantage. Lord Capulet sets Juliet up with Paris for marriage which shows that he has trouble understanding what love is. He even told his wife that “unworthy as she is, that we have wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride?” (3.5.149-150). Lord Capulet expresses a lot of anger here because Juliet won’t accept what he set er up with. This shows that Lord Capulet doesn’t understand true love and that it is just about social status and looks. He is so fed up with Juliet that he even insults her saying that she should “hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch” (3.5.166). He is continually angry that Juliet can’t accept her fate that is being with Paris as her husband. He may not know about Romeo and Juliet being together but he still doesn’t give her a choice. Lord Capulet’s finite view of how love works are not right and he uses it as a tool to build the family that he wants. Kersten 2 Romeo’s view of love in the story is very different from what Lord Capulet thinks of it. In the beginning of the book, he asks himself “Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too

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