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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The love of friendship that is shown between many characters such as Mercutio and Romeo, the love of family that is very obvious in both families, the love of god and religious aspects and the most powerful which is true love, between the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet. ... Family love in "Romeo and Juliet" is different to that of the love experience by friends. This love is stronger because both families are extremely proud of their name and the reputations they have made for each other. ... Another type of love is that which is felt towards God; both families feel this greatly. ... Al...

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Romeo and Juliet teaches the reader how difficult having a relationship can be when two people love each other but come from feuding families. ... This aggravated them people they could not be open to their families about their love for each other. ... The plan was that Juliet would drink a potion that would make her appear dead to her family. ... Unable to go on with life, he bought poison and went to Juliet's family vault where Juliet lay. ... Love simply cannot be fought....

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The two young lovers knew that their families despised each other, and this is why they kept their marriage a secret. If their families would have known about the marriage, they would have banned Romeo and Juliet from being together. ... The love and death of Romeo and Juliet may have been destined to end the feud between their families. ... Juliet fell in love with him before his face was revealed. If Juliet had known before who he was, they would have never fallen in love. ...

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She explains her love for Romeo in many words. ... This means that Romeo falls in love with a member or the family that his family is in a feud with. ... The theme of unforbidden love gets stronger as the play goes on. Romeo starts doing extreme things that proves he loves Juliet. ... Unforbidden love supports the lens because love, honor, pride, compassion, and sacrifice are all shown in the play. ...

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She explains her love for Romeo in many words. ... This means that Romeo falls in love with a member or the family that his family is in a feud with. ... The theme of unforbidden love gets stronger as the play goes on. Romeo starts doing extreme things that proves he loves Juliet. ... Unforbidden love supports the lens because love, honor, pride, compassion, and sacrifice are all shown in the play. ...

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Lear is unable to give selfless love to his family and his unable to understand love as something independent from wealth and power "Thy fifty yet doth double five and twenty, And thou art twice her love." ... Through use of facial expressions Eyre reveals the emotions of characters and on several occasions highlights the despair they experience as a result of family disfunction. ... Using a minimalist style for the set designs Eyre takes the emphasis of the play away from Lear's kingly splendors and places it on the most basic social structure - the family. Eyre does not create scenes co...

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First and foremost, the two stories are about star crossed lovers, one with a single pair, being Romeo and Juliet, and the other with two pairs, Lysander and Hermia, and then Demetrius and Helena, though Demetrius sought after Hermia love until the love spell with put upon him. In Romeo and Juliet, their two families are long time rivals, so naturally they have a problem with them falling in love, and they are forbidden to be with one another. In Midsummer Night's Dream, Lysander and Hermia are in love, but Hermia's father forbids their matrimony and gives only Demetrius his daughter...

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In the play written by William Shakespeare, the Capulets planned the party and only three people from the Montague's family came. ... Some time ago many young people didn't have a lot of individual freedom so they were mostly locked away in the house of their family. ... This significant difference is the amount of loyalty and love between the characters. Since the play shows how much Romeo loves Juliet, their loyalty and love towards each other are much deeper than Tony and Maria. ...

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The first one is in the prologue where it says, "star crossed lovers" which shows that it is inevitable that Romeo and Juliet fall in love. ... If Romeo and Juliet had not fallen in love than the events that occurred after they met would have never happened, but no one can control whether or not you fall in love and who with, which suggests fate was the over-riding influence in the play. ... If they had settled it amicably then Romeo and Juliet would have had no need to fear the detrimental affect their relationship might have on their family lives. ... However, Friar Lawrence should...

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In a family there are sometimes the feelings of fighting for a parents love with other siblings. ... ~Cordelia not telling her father how much she loved him. P.42 quote ~"Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace health, beauty, honour, as much as child e"er loved or father found; a love that makes breath poor and speech unable; beyond all manner of so much I love you" p.3 Said by Goneril to Lear about how much she loves him. She really doesn't love him that m...

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The ultimate act of selfishness is betraying family and friends. ... Hamlet uses this to deceive his family members and friends in order to cause them harm for their actions. Hamlet's plot to act as though he is mad causes him to deceive and harm his family members and peers, primarily Ophelia. By denying his love for Ophelia, he leaves her confused and broken hearted. ... Hamlet truly loves Ophelia, but she will never know because of his deceptive processes. ...

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Their love seems real. ... In the Elizabethan period, violence was a nobler concept seen as a means of conserving one's honour and family pride. ... This recurring imagery conveys to the audience the growing divide between the two lovers and their respective families. ... Their families on the other hand, live in a world of deep hatred and violence. ... Similarly the values love, loyalty, justice and order are eternal. ...

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What he does not understand fully is that the people of the World State have been conditioned from birth to hate all things important in Shakespeare's works; emotion, family, love and death. ... Love is not encouraged, rather promiscuity is socially acceptable in the World State, "everyone belongs to everyone else."" ... Love, death, family, and passion are major themes in his plays, every one of these removed from the minds of the World State citizens. ... Love is also devalued; seeing one person exclusively is the kind of thing that would give a person a bad reputation. ... No more u...

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The Major conflict in the play is when Viola falls in love with Duke Orsino, who is in love with Lady Olivia, who is in love with Viola's male disguise, Cesario. This love triangle is complicated by the fact that neither Orsino nor Olivia knows that Viola is really a woman. ... They interrogate one another with a barrage of questions about their birth and family history. ...

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Similarity "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" both show how powerful love can be. Love is a very serious matter during the era Shakespeare existed. ... But isn't love at first sight a fantasy a lot of people have today? ... Right then and there his love for Hermia was replaced with this new face. ... In that play, the two lovers were not "allowed" to be together due to the status conflict their two families had with each other. ...

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They were used to forge alliances with other powerful families through arranged marriages. ... Elizabeth "was answerable to no male member of the family. ... The men fall victim to the love potion that makes them "pursue with the soul of love [t]he next thing [that they], waking, [look] upon" (2.1.189, 186). ... Their fortunes in love come under the rule of the love potion, taking away their free will to choose whom they will love. ...

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Macbeth was only seen as unnaturally cruel because he killed families and took land from people. ... He was only concerned with his family and justifying his own problems . ... Macbeth was only feared, "All is fear nothing is love"(Macbeth IV. ... Claudius was neither feared nor loved. ... To have men that are loyal and trustworthy who love their king is an army that wins. ...

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The idea of love is everywhere, partners, friends and family. Therefore love can relate to people and the extent of love is tested constantly in life today as well as in Much Ado About Nothing. ... Reason being that love is such an important part of life and so many different types of emotions can be caused by the events that occur in love. Much ado about nothing proves that many emotions can follow from many different forms of love because the other themes featured revolve around this theme of love even though the play is not a typical love story. ... Throughout the first scenes Shakespear...

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Family members are mistreated by each other. ... King Lear also has a political approach for it is not only about family dynamics. ... His two daughters Goneril and Regan claim that they love him a lot and they try to gather love words in order to describe their fake love for their father. ... Unwittingly, he gives away his paternal love and abandons his daughter who loves him the most. ... He was not aware that one is willing to kill his own family if he/she wants to get some wealth. ...

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The reader is exposed to Tamora's thirst for revenge against Titus and the entire Andronicus family. Tamora and her family goes as far as disguising themselves in act five, scene two and she displays to the reader the revenge she seeks in lines such as: "Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment, I will encounter with Andronicus, and say I am revenge, sent from below to join with him and right his heinous wrong. ... Even though he looks at Titus as not being a criminal, he enables Tamora's to be able to make her revenge of destroying the Andronicus family becomes reality. ... H...

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When she sees Romeo she is startled, and tells him that if her family finds him they will kill him. ... For example, he says "love's wings brought me here to you.... To his surprise, Romeo has found a new love to admire. He tells Friar Lawrence that he is in love with his foe, Juliet. ... He believes that bringing the two foes together will end the family feud between the Montagues and Capulets. ...

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Forgoing the traditional, boring Franco Seffirelli style of R&J filming, director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom) has created an awesome visual pastiche that brings the Bard's vision of hopeless love amisst chaos and enmity to flashy, vivid life. ... Baz Luhrmann Tells the greatest love story of all time, in our time. ... In this opulent world hate, rival gangs and families at war, Romeo (Leonardo Dicaprio) and Juliet (Claire Danes), are ignited by the passion of first forbidden love and Verona Beach explodes. Shakespeare's heart-wrenching tale of doomed love is told with passio...

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The malice of a large ego and the contempt of power drive the tragedy of this royal family. 2)3)A.C. ... In King Lear's pursuit to have his daughters quantify their love, he is blinded to the understanding of how people around him truly feel. ... King Lear's pursuit to reaffirm love and devotion offers him tragic lessons in betrayal, pride, and the contemplation of his very existence. ... What he does not know is that deceit is all around him and his weaknesses will be exploited by the ones he loves most. ... King Lear's mismanagement of his family and his kingdom makes him co...

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I also think the he chose to use a sonnet is because Romeo and Juliet is about love and this is what sonnets were used for. ... This means both families are eminent and have stature. ... The third line "From ancient grudge break to new mutiny," describes the argument between the two families as an "ancient grudge". ... This is not representative of all of the family though. ... The third section of the prologue "The fearful passage of their death-marked love and the continuance of their parents" rage, which but their children's end nought could remove, is now the two hours" traffic on our...

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