... than Paris'', this causes Lady Capulet to call Juliet a "disobedient wretch". Romeo risks his life to be with Juliet, she tells him that "if they do see thee, they will murder thee". The love between Romeo and Juliet is described as "too rash, too sudden, too unadvised" and even the Friar says that "these violent delights have violent ends". Depression is another symptom of love, when Romeo can't be with Roseline he feels like ... he has "a soul of lead" and that he "cannot bound a pitch above a dull woe. Romeo and Juliet are so overwhelmed by love that they willingly take their ... ...

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... and it destroys your desire to fall in love again. How can he make this assumption, as he has no knowledge to what it is like? The friar plays a linkage role in the play. He marries Romeo and Juliet even though he knew that it would probably end in disaster. He believes this as he says 'these violent delights have violent ends, and ... in their triumphs die, like fire and powder, which as they kiss consume'. When he says this he ... means that such extreme emotions like the love Romeo feels for Juliet often end violently as does gunpowder when it is touched ... does this not mean that ...

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... • The Chorus's first speech declaring that Romeo and Juliet are doomed to die and "star-crossed."" The lovers' frequent thoughts of death: "My grave is like to be my wedding bed- (Juliet, I.v.132). The lovers' thoughts of suicide, as when Romeo threatens to kill himself after killing Tybalt. Friar Lawrence's warnings to behave moderately if Romeo and Juliet wish to avoid tragedy: "These violent delights have violent ends . . . Therefore love moderately- (II.v.9-14). The ... lovers' mutual impression that the other looks pale and deathlike after their wedding night (III.v). Juliet's fa...

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