... hate, that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love." (Shakespeare 761). Love triumphed over hatred – but it came with quite a body count. Romeo & Juliet has many underlying themes: feuding families, political ramifications, religion, destiny, and Shakespeare's use of foreshadowing throughout the play. At its core, however, the story is about the power of emotion: both love ... and hate. The passions of love and hate throughout the play are connected through violence. In the play, love is presented as a force of nature, a duty, a bargaining chip, platonic, teenage obsession, and...

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... Hussey to be extremely agitated, which fits her age and state of mind. Act II: Scene 6 Watch how Zeffirelli directs this scene to emphasize the "violence" of the young peoples' passion and trims the dialogue to concentrate the scene. The Friar's last speech provides plenty of justification for Zeffirelli's staging. Lots of foreshadowing here. Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Setting- The play takes place in the ... town of Verona. Background information- The Montagues and Capulets are two rivalry families.They are involved in a family feud that goes back years before any of the memb...

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... the cause of all problems for Romeo and Juliet, and in this play fate, brought Romeo and Juliet together in love, separated the two lovers and shows how the two lovers are brought back together in death. It will then be obvious that fate plays the major role in Romeo and Juliet's tale. To begin, before the trauma of their deaths, Romeo and Juliet were fated to meet and fall in love. An ancient ... strife causes the Montague, Romeo's family, and Capulet, Juliet's family, families to hate one another, up until the death of their only young. Even though the ... . Thirdly, Juliet foreshadows...

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