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    Careful With Love: Themes Through Figurative Language in Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare was a 16th century poet and playwright who wrote many famous plays, poems and sonnets. One of the most famous of these is Romeo and Juliet. In the play Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare uses foreshadowing, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, and other literary devices to prove that love is unstable and can be hazardous. In the play Romeo and Juliet, two young people fall in love, however they are from

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    audience. When Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, his actions were clear, to deliver a message and convey thoughts. The message that Shakespeare is trying to give his audience about the theme of the play is centered around the theme of blind hatred. He uses acrimony and illogical thoughts to deliver the message of not letting emotions rule your life. Acrimony is bitterness or ill-feeling towards someone or something, and it it is highly evident in Romeo and Juliet between the Montague and Capulet

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    not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardon’d and some punished, for never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo” (Act V Scene III of William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet). That is what the Prince decrees at the end of the play, he is speaking of the love Romeo and Juliet had for one another. The prince believes that the reason they killed themselves is because they loved each other so much that they killed themselves because

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    freedom. The characters in Romeo and Juliet, and Pyramus and Thisbe display that their choices or destiny led to their untimely deaths. Whether it was the characters' choices or destiny remains a question that we cannot truly answer. The characters in Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, and Pyramus and Thisbe, by Ovid, show that personal choices impact them on a greater scale than destiny, because of their impulsive nature. The characters in, "Romeo and Juliet," can be characterized

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    pertinent to the modern world. Created in 1597, no tragedy is more quintessential than William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, a play in which two ‘star-cross’d lovers’ from rival families fall in love. Although they are destined to die, the catastrophic ending does not occur without a series of ill-fated events caused by the goodwill of unsuspecting

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    Fate, the unpredictable and inescapable rope, which controls every aspect of our lives, has plagued mankind. The power of fate has broached out through a story called Romeo and Juliet. This story is originally written by William Shakespeare, who was a renowned playwright during 16th century. It is a story of two star-crossed lovers from two rival families in the city of Verona who seek their love. This story has been made into several movies and the first modern Shakespearean movie which is directed

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    to give up everything for their soul mate. Many times, just like in literature authors write stories related to this concept. A great example is William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. Throughout the play the readers get introduced to two families’ with deep hatred for each other. The family feud can not keep Romeo and Juliet apart. These two star-crossed lovers marriage created an untimely death. Balthasar and Lord Capulet are mainly at fault for the

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    Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is prohibited because of societal customs during the period in which the play is set. Their love for each other is forbidden because of their feuding families, which is out of Romeo and Juliet’s direct control for the entirety of the play. There are many roadblocks in their relationship, ranging from their families to the society they live in. In Shakespeare's writing, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare advocates that the barriers in play by political and social expectations

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    Love In Romeo And Juliet

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    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

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    event of Romeo and Juliet highlights how the puzzle of illegal love has (so terrible that you can't put up with it) results. The maker uses light and reduce (putting pictures into your mind) to walkout the positive and high-energy extremes that Romeo and Juliet finger toward each other all through the play. In the uncork of the play, the topic of light and fire shows (by using a physical object to represent an idea or emotion) new love. In the middle of the very important meeting among Romeo and Juliet

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