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Love Kills In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Shakespeare demonstrates that love kills in Romeo and Juliet, a tragedy, when Romeo proves himself to be desperate when Rosaline would not sleep with him in the beginning of the play, and he falls into a deep depression, when he later kills himself because he believes that Juliet is dead, and when Friar Lawrence has a deep conversation with Romeo regarding his recent behavior. In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, main character Romeo is proven desperate when Rosaline does not sleep with Romeo, and he falls into a deep depression. This happens in Act 1, when Romeo says “Ay me! Sad hours seem so long. Was that my father that went hence so fast?” (1.1.118-119). The main speaker is Romeo, directing his statement at Benvolio.

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