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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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 Romeo and Juliet love is seen as a tragic sin that causes people to turn back on their family's belief and faith but also turn back on their religion that has so much importance to them both as Capulets and Montagues. ... Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme across Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo forgets his love to Rosaline at the first moment he sees Juliet. ... This is a smart way of displaying to the audience that the love that is inte...

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Topic Question: Queen Elizabeth turns up on stage at the end of Shakespeare in Love and says 'I know something of a woman in a man's profession'. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... The set of Shakespeare in Love is a clever conception of London in the 1500's and convincingly reveals to the audience the possible conditions of how Shakespeare may have lived (Fitzsimmons, 2012). ... Although the plot in Shakespeare in Love is fictional, the po...

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The story is about a boy by the name of Romeo Montague and his family and about a girl by the name of Juliet Capulet and her family. These two families had an Ancient feud that lasted for decades; this feud was fuelled by anger, hatred and violence but through this came love a love so beautiful that even the biggest feud in Verona could not stop. The two that were in love were Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet their two families were the richest and most powerful in Verona and also had the biggest feud but that did not stop them from falling in love and getting married secretly. After getting ...

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Lord and Lady Capulet's weak relationship with Juliet ultimately prompts her to a state of depression through their ineptitude to see her love for Romeo. ... Shakespeare adduces Romeo as being in capable of controlling his emotions; he personifies the irrational nature of love through Romeos actions, namely his extreme reaction to Juliet in the Capulet party scene. ... Shakespeare not only uses the adult's actions to depict the play as a tragedy, but rather the teenagers through Romeos impotence to control his overwhelming attraction and love for Juliet. ... Through this ancient fe...

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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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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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Two never-fading names that distinguish true love from all else and immediately cry "Star-crossed Lovers", a rare and unique term indeed, given to those that were fated to die from their first meeting. ... And even when Romeo was under the balcony to hear his destined lover declare her powerful love for him, it was undeniably fate that allowed him to hear such warm and fragrant words. ... Tybalt's cunning character was rather childish at times when trying to maintain the family name and status in Verona. Tybalt's proud and quarrelsome character clashed with that of Mercutio, which in...

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This oftenly pirated play of the time was carefully written about two young "Star-Crossed" lovers Romeo Montague(17) and Juliet Capulet(13) who fatally fall in love in the midst of a century old feud between the two very prominent and powerful rival families at the time who were known as The Montagues and The Capulets. ... Even though the nurse wasn't her true mother, she is by far the most prominent parent figure throughout Juliet's life; Seeing as how her true mother (Lady Capulet) was the female ruler of the Capulet family; And didn't actually need to raise Juliet since ...

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The man who has most control in the activity of the two families is Mr Rock who seems to have the both in the palm of his hand. There are similarities too, however, in the two texts in the distinct hierarchy present in the structure of the opposing sides/families. They both have a controlling father figure and loyalties to the respective culture/family run deep, although in ""Romeo Must Die"" this loyalty turns out to be fake. ... The role of love and fate also vary greatly in the two texts. ... "Romeo and Juliet" opens with the prologue revealing the fate of the star-crossed lovers and the na...

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Romeo and Juliet coursework Romeo and Juliet is a play with many themes like love, death, friendship, revenge and honour. ... The reason for Romeo's peace here is that he feels he is apart of Tybalt's family as he is married to Juliet, the audience knows why Romeo wants peace but the characters don't which is where dramatic irony comes into it. ... This scene will also changes the audiences mood from sadness of Mercutio's death the anger Romeo is feeling after, Mercutio's death is important because it marks a change in the mood of the play. it does this by killing o...

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