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    Romeo and Juliet was written by Shakespeare. It is a tragic love story about two people whose love is forbidden. Romeo and Juliet relates to the idea of fate because without fate nothing would have happened. Since they had fate then Romeo and Juliet met. There is a lot of fate in the story Romeo and Juliet. Fate is when events happen in your life and you cannot control them. It made important decisions in their their and that is what they did because you do not get to change your fate. In Romeo

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    Romeo and Juliet are portrayed as a passionate yet endearing couple. They are both consumed by their love for each other and Romeo uses the metaphor ‘holy shrine’ to refer to Juliet. This emphasises on the great importance and meaning Juliet has for Romeo. The religious imagery and use of the adjective ‘holy’ highlights the intense feeling of admiration and attraction Romeo has for Juliet. According to a 20th century audience, religion was of great importance and the comparison Romeo has made of

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    either by the church or the law, is the union of two mature individuals that love each other so dearly. In the play, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, the two main protagonist young Romeo and Juliet, both from different households, instantly fall in love and get married at a very young age. Romeo was the only child of the Montagues and Juliet was the only child of the Capulets. The history between the Montagues and the Capulets is a very bad one for they have a family feud

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    Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well known and influential pieces in English literature; more importantly, most people recognize it as a story of true love, or star-crossed lovers. This play tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, who are from two feuding families. They fall in love with each other, despite being from rivaling families, and face numerous obstacles because of the feud. After a series of tragic events and miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet end up taking

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    Romeo and Juliet Final Essay The tragedy Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is the story of a young man and woman with a fatal love. The two were from feuding households, but when Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet met, it was love at first sight. They desperately wanted to be together. The day after they met, Romeo and Juliet were secretly married. However, this would not be their happy ending. In a turn of events Romeo is then banished from Verona after he kills a kinsmen of the

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    Romeo and Juliet Everyone thinks of Romeo and Juliet as a love story that ends poorly, but there was a lot more to it than that! Two young teenagers thought they had fallen in love after spending only a few hours together. They secretly married each other, but then shortly later something tragic happened causing Romeo to be banished from Verona. The story of Romeo and Juliet showed more than just their love for each other at such a young age. Romeo and Juliet were not responsible for their deaths;

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    The play Romeo and Juliet is about the love between two people even though their love for each other is forbidden because of their families being enemies. In the passage spoken by Friar Laurence, he compares Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other by contrasting it to different ideas in the play using strong language and imagery. “Your part in her you could not keep from death,/But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.” (39) . In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses Friar Laurence

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    Romeo And Juliet Rewards

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    In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the author, William Shakespeare, argues that love, especially when it’s forbidden, can hurt people, kill people, and even endanger people. In this play, a young teenage boy named Romeo meets a beautiful teenage girl named Juliet and they fall in love. It is destined to end in tragedy, because they are from opposing house-holds, the Montagues and Capulets, and it ends with both Romeo and Juliet dead. The events leading up to this could be explained by modern

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    Throughout the play, both Romeo and Juliet take on the role of being a shadow for one another. Shakespeare reveals shadows only twice throughout the play both of which deal with the concept of love. Romeo and Juliet have a deep love for each other and display it greatly by mirroring each other’s words and paths. There are many exact definitions for the word shadow which include, “a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface”, and to “follow and observe (someone)

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    Lust In Romeo And Juliet

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    affection”, to our hearts, it feels indescribable. However, in Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the two “star-crossed lovers” seem to form their own twisted definition of love. Their “love” is based completely on first impressions, appearances, and selfish desires. If these two were so in love, why is there a large speculation that the relationship was formed on a strong lust for each other? Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet tried to convince themselves they were in “love”, but it was really more

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