Romeo and Juliet's love makes the transition from infatuation to a deep and sincere love.   ... In being faithful to her family, she is very compliant to the elders in her family. ... Juliet is also compliant to her family when she is at the feast that her family throws. ... Once this compliant young girl who is faithful to her family meets Romeo, the love she experiences begins to transform her. ... Juliet is now more excepting of love. ...

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Their love is said to be "overthrowed", the whole conflict between the families and their love for each other gets way out of hand. ... Although her family does not know it, she is disobeying the wishes of her family. ... Juliet starts to say things against her family, for instance. ... Deny thy father and refuse thy name" " Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn by my love and I"LL NO LONGER BE A CAPULET" De-grading her family name totally. She is rebelling against her family while it is not her fault, she fell in love and by no fault of her own is torn between Romeo and Capulet. ...

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Romeo and Juliet come from feuding families, but they defy the feud and fall in love. ... In the end, Romeo and Juliet's love finds a tragic way to overcome the hate between their families. ... She is practical, honest, and loyal to herself and her family. ... Because of the fact that Romeo is from a family which is feuding with Juliet's family that the love is tainted from the very beginning. Juliet's family wishes for her to marry Paris a Kinsman to the Prince. ...

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It also says how out of two feuding families, are born two lovers who are destined by the stars to disaster. ... Now he has found love he has to mortgage his life in return for that. 1."... Another reason the play ended as a tragedy is the history of the two families and the feud. Both families want revenge on each other and this puts pressure on the lovers. ... œMy only love spring from my only hate, That I loved loathed enemy- says Juliet 2. ...

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Because of this, love is the predominant theme throughout the play. ... At the start of the scene in the Luhrman version we see the first of our families, the Montagues. ... They pull into a gas station and all seems well until the second family arrives, the Capulets. ... This is a good way of showing the differences between the two families. ... Mercutio as a drag queen, this shows us that he is humorous, and doesn't care what people think, also that he may not take life that seriously, but he is respected by both families and tries to play a neutral part in-between the feuding familie...

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Plot Overview IN THE STREETS OF VERONA another brawl breaks out between the servants of the feuding noble families of Capulet and Montague. ... After citizens outraged by the constant violence beat back the warring factions, Prince Escalus, the ruler of Verona, attempts to prevent any further conflicts between the families by decreeing death for any individual who disturbs the peace in the future. ... When he finds out from Juliet's nurse that she is the daughter of Capulet "his family's enemy "he becomes distraught. ... After she is laid to rest in the family's cryp...

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"One fairer than my love! ... She is under many pressures and demands ofher family. ... The families had to have love and hate or story would have been so good.The fight of Merutio and Tybalt was an act of hate between the two societies.In that sence Romeo had to show his hate by killing Tybalt. ... The factabout this part was that hate over ruled the love of Romeo to its family. ... But can love over power the hate of two families? ...

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"Did my heart love till now?" ... /Prodigious birth of love it is to me, /That I must love a loathed enemy." ... One of the most interesting forms of love, as a theme, is that of courtly love. ... The Nurse teases about love, with an often bawdy, humorous approach to love and relationships. ... The Nurse takes the general approach that love is a regular part of family life, which should bring pleasure and fun to all who share it. ...

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'Romeo and Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's famous love tragedies written during the Elizabethan times. ... He also uses the feud between the two families to create dramatic tension. ... Her attitude towards love is quite innocent. ... I think that Juliet does not really love Romeo at this point and she is just acting. ... She has now chosen her own husband and her family loyalties are beginning to diminish. ...

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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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Shakespeare was born into a wealthy family is that his father John Shakespeare was a businessman and his mother Mary Arden came from a wealthy family, but later came adversity and John Shakespeare was devoted to a butcher with the help of their children . ... In 1590 he wrote works of love lost and the Comedy of Errors. ... Undoubtedly the highlight was William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, this play is about two young men who fall in love but it has great obstacle to be together, the enmity between their families. ... Her want a power that sleeps for hours then their parents bury and R...

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These highly subjective sonnets are wonderful tales full of love, deception, and betrayal. ... However, if one man can so exquisitely write fictional stories about love and still include a controversial issue in them, then where do we draw the line between fact and fiction? ... At the time, the sonnet was being repopularized as a common way for expressing one's love for another. ... The argument of this sonnet is if his wife does not want children, then not only does she deny herself immortality, but she also denies it to the family name. ... On the surface, the poem is simply a sta...

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To Sleep Perchance, To Dream: Shakespeare's Use Of Dream and Sleep Motifs To Create The Gothic Reality Although Shakespeare's contribution to the Gothic novel was acknowledged by Horace Walpole in the preface to the Second Edition of "The Castle of Otranto," "shelter[ing] my own daring under the can...

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