Love is the desire for the soul. ... Romeo and Juliet decided to hide their marriage because they know that their families are at feud and their marriage needed to be kept a secret. ... In Romeo's part, Romeo finds out the truth about Juliet's family background and declares, "O dear account! ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...

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The first scene in the play continues the theme of love and fate as it shows both families fighting. ... He uses the oxymoron "I love another, and thus I hate myself;", this could represent the pain he feels when he experiences love, however, instead of it being shown as hurting other people (e.g. both families fighting in Romeo & Juliet), the pain is inflicted onto himself, and him alone, we can see this as the speaker in Wyatt's sonnet being portrayed as more of an experienced lover, having his pain being kept to himself whereas Romeo & Juliet's love is portraying themse...

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Conflict of Love Romeo and Juliet is a famous captivating story of love, lust, and hate. ... His exaggerated idea of honor to his family blinds him of any sort of ability to act rationally. ... He constantly persues brawls between the families and further fuels the fire of a age old family feud. ... Romeo and Juliet does not make a specific moral statement about the relationships between love and society, religion, and family; rather, it portrays the chaos and passion of being in love, combining images of love, violence, death, religion, and family ...

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All You Need Is Love Romeo and Juliet Montague recently celebrated their fourteenth wedding anniversary, a quiet dinner at home, no banquet, no family invited. ... Friendship love is one of greater complexity even than of romantic love. ... Friends are chosen family. ... Love is not merely a need. ... I began to spin a writer's story: the brief courtship in a rural Wisconsin junior high school, a small-town wedding overflowing with family. ...

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What exactly is love? ... Everyone in some point of their life has experienced love whether they loved or been loved. People go through their ups and down when experiencing love but they rather be loved than not to be loved at all. ... The story deals with a man,Romeo, falling in love with his family's sworn enemy. Romeo and Juliet find that a family feud can not stop them from loving each other. ...

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The three and the most important types of loves (in my opinion), are family love [storge"], romantic love [eros], and selfless love[agape"]. all of these love types are true and to be alive forever until the end of time. The first is family love, which is the most important type of love. A family is where we learn how to love one another. We experience the most comfortable love in the family. ... Whether that love is Romantic, or family love, or even the selfless love they all show how love is great and forever, and nothing could separate tow people who truly love each other. ...

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Romeo, although cheerless and deeply in love with Rosaline at the beginning of the play, matures rapidly by the power of his undying love for Juliet to a honest and gentle young man able of loyalty and commitment. ... For example, in the balcony scene when Romeo and Juliet are all alone and Romeo is confessing his dying love for Juliet he states, " call me but love, and I"ll be new baptiz"d, henceforth I never will be Romeo" (2.2. 52-54). Romeo feels that he can throw away his family name so he can be with Juliet. ... Romeo has grown up and that he feels that there should be love between th...

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Great Family vs. ... "Take him and cut him out in little stars, / That all the world will be in love with the night" (III, ii, 22, 24). In these lines she is saying that if Romeo were the stars, everyone would love the night. ... More evidence of the Capulet family's sub-Montague level actions can be shown by the things that the family says to other members of the family. ... The things that the families say to the other members of the family displays which family is superior. ...

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Love is giving and selfless, love is therefore unselfish. ... The Montagues and Capulets are two rivalry families, they are involved in a family feud that goes back years. ... Friar Lawrence agrees to marry them to end the feuding between the families. Juliet's family is planning to marry her off to Paris a wealthy young man that Juliet does not love. ... Romeo and Juliet are both in love with the idea of being in love. ...

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Shakespeare's" tragedy is the tale of two lovers who take their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their feuding families. ... Later, Romeo the son and heir of the Montague family finds himself in the middle of the violent family feud. ... And were these two really in love? ... Still unaware of Romeo's presence, she asks him to deny his family for her love. She adds, however, that if he will not, she will deny her family in order to be with him if he merely tells her that he loves her. ...

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I would die for love because love is all the solution for any conflict and people cannot survive without love and also people often give up everything just for love. ... For me, whenever my family gets into a fight, we get over with it quickly because we love each other. ... Next, people cannot survive without love. ... For example, if my friend, family members or one who I love, need tremendous helps and that requires my lives, I would give up anything for that person, because I care about them and I love them. ... It is not only for Romantic love, it could be love for country, love for ...

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William Shakespeare defines love in different ways in his writing as either being romantic love, lust, or mature love. ... Romeo and Juliet is a tale of two star-crossed lovers who secretly fall in love behind their families back. In the play love is violent and the two couples are soon to realize the affects on their family and friends. The two fall in love not knowing that their love for one another was going to be the cause of their deaths. Love is very powerful in this play and also portrays passion of being in love or hate. ...

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Some kinds of love are romantic love, infatuation, puppy love, family love, intimate love, physical attraction and friendship. ... They managed to accept each other and overcome the fact that their families were rivals and that their love was forbidden. ... There is also a family love between Romeo and Mercutio. ... Romeo's love for Juliet brought him to realise that all of the feuding between the two families isn't necessary and is just ludicrous. ... The feud between the two highest families, Capulet and Montague, creates many issues regarding the love of two rivals. ...

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Romeo and Juliet~ A Torn Love "My only love sprung from my only hate! ... It is a tragic story about two young lovers who come from feuding families. ... Yes, Friar is a kind man that loves Romeo and Juliet. He loves these two lovers so much that he lies for them and secretively goes behind their family's backs. ... But while doing so he kept it from their families. ...

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The Force of Love Love has both positive and negative effects. ... Here's to my love! ... (Act V, Scene 3, L.100-115) Romeo's love for Juliet is as strong as her love for him is. ... Since the Montague family is an enemy to the Capulet family, if Juliet's parents were to know that she had been talking to him from her balcony, they would have been in an outrage; because if Paris had to ask the Capulet's permission to court Juliet, Juliet is going behind their backs to be courted by Romeo. ... Because she chooses to marry him, she is going behind her parent's ...

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Though 'Romeo and Juliet' is displayed as a romantic love story, this play is classified as a tragedy. ... By inputting "fiend" and "angelical" together, Juliet is really showing the contrast of her and her family's opinions about Romeo as he is considered as an angel towards Juliet but an arch nemesis towards the rest of Juliet's family. ... Now she is left in a hard situation especially after marrying Romeo which has definitely crossed the line of her family's obligations. ... This powerful concept shows her extreme love for Romeo as she is wi...

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In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, love is a destructive force. ... Hate is the catalyst for almost every theme in the play, be it love, free will or even trust. ... Love is one of the main causes of Romeo and Juliet's death but in doing this it ends the ancient fighting between the two families. ... The prince says that "heaven finds means to kill your joys with love" referring to how fate is hurtful and is causing death and destruction to the families. ... Whilst fate is a reason for Romeo and Juliet's deaths, if we look at the bigger picture, this eventually causes th...

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Complication between their two families leads to demise. ... His love for Juliet is without bounds and his love for Rosaline quickly vanishes. ... She would selfishly deny her family and live with Romeo. ... She forsakes her family, and when she wakes up to find Romeo dead beside her, she mourns and kills herself. ... Lady Capulet blames Romeo, makes excuses, and fails to accept her own family's problems on the issue. ...

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Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story which has touched and moved people for generations. What is so gripping about this tale is the love, the heartbreak, and the loss of life. ... This particular book followed a family on their summer holiday and eventually on their separate paths in life. It includes amazing uses of rhetorical devices and is a complex study of family dynamics, yet it has no message of a rebellious or adverse nature. ... It is a great love story, with plot twists, secret love affairs, and even some interwoven, gently presented social commentary. ...

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It is seen early in the play when we see the Montague family concerned for their son, Romeo, who is infatuated with Rosaline. ... Furthermore the love between Romeo and his family is so strong that, on realising that her son was exiled, Lady Montague died of grief. Juliet's family, however, is slightly different. ... He is always trying to achieve peace between the 2 feuding families and his ideals are purely honest. ... However their dedication to one another even when faced with impossible obstacles (ie. the fighting between the two families) is tremendous. ...

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In his search for love, his immaturity is readily seen. ... His shallowness is illustrated when he falls in love with Juliet. ... While Romeo is at the party, he encounters Juliet and claims that he has never loved anyone so beautiful, Did my heart love till now? ... However, Friar Lawrence agrees to assist with the ceremony because he hopes that it will end the long feud between the two families. ... His shallow mind is exposed throughout the play several times and confirms that he is just a young boy who loves to be in love....

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Are Romeo and Juliet really in love? ... Their love is selfish, self-fulfilling, quick, and superficial. ... In the midst of growing up in rich families, these two teens were perhaps feeling neglected by their parents, and when they found someone was attractive, paid attention to them, they immediately became attached. ... They are not in love with each other, but they are in love with the idea of love. ... The night Romeo and Juliet met and found out each other's family name, they could have left it at that and realized that they could not be together. ...

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Even though Romeo and Juliet are from two rival families, they were determined to express their love despite the consequences that would follow. ... Eventually they both defy their family values and loyalties just to be together. ... and I"ll no longer be a Capulet" (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 74-78); denying her family name and roots to further her cause for love; she asks Romeo to do the same. ... Love seems to cause more violence between the families rather than mending it. ... Right away in the beginning the audience is made aware that the Capulet and Montague families are feuding. ...

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Even though Romeo and Juliet are from two rival families, they were determined to express their love despite the consequences that would follow. ... Eventually they both defy their family values and loyalties just to be together. ... and I"ll no longer be a Capulet" (Act 2, Scene 1, Line 74-78); denying her family name and roots to further her cause for love; she asks Romeo to do the same. ... Love seems to cause more violence between the families rather than mending it. ... Right away in the beginning the audience is made aware that the Capulet and Montague families are feuding. ...

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Love has the power to give life, and also the power to take it away. ... Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two "star-cross'd lovers', Romeo and Juliet, who are forbidden to love, due to their families' long standing feud. ... The Friar also displays instances of familial love. ... Courtly love is shown between Paris and Juliet, and it seems to be another form of unrequited love, on Paris' part. ... All forms of love are represented as having a negative effect. ...

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