1. A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens" novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet
... than emotional, "For beauty, starved with her severity / cuts beauty off from all prosperity" (1.1.227-228). Juliet is so immature and unskilled in the ways of love, that she shares her youthful desperation with her nurse, "Go ask his name; if he is married / my grave is like to be my wedding bed" ... him is no less profound, " I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality- (Dickens 187). Romeo is no less affected by love, if in a more juvenile way when he states, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand / this holy shrine / the gentle sin ...
- Word Count: 1281
- Approx Pages: 5
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School