... a very strong example of the fraternal love that is shared between Romeo and his friends. Other characters that display fraternal love are Friar Lawrence and Juliet's nurse. Both play vital roles in guiding and caring for the youths. The Nurse comes into the story at the same time as Juliet's mother and her feelings towards Juliet and the close bond that they share make her more of a mother then ... her real one. The Nurse quotes "I would say thou had sucked wisdom from thy teat". The Friar is a very good friend to both the protagonists, treating them with respect and solving their prob...

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... then to have lived without Juliet, or not to have Juliet's love and be left only with hate. He so proves the strength of such a conviction when he kills himself, and, in turn, Juliet kills herself. During this part of the play, after Romeo has killed Paris and himself but before Juliet has done the same, the Friar comes rushing in, trying to persuade Juliet out of the tomb ... before more arrive. He says to Juliet in Act V, scene iii, "A greater power than we can contradict ... hath thwarted our intents." This can be interpreted that he is talking of fate, telling Juliet that a power b...

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... these two themes to convey an idea that one cannot exist without the other, a balance in all things in nature, for instance, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity. Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. Love, in its many forms, is an important theme in the play: the love not reciprocated - the unrequited love, the ... first sight (Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight; / For I ne"er saw true beauty till this night." I.v. 50-51). Romeo and Juliet's love for each other is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all oth...

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... or does not insist in its own way, it is a celebration of what is right, true love never ends. In the plays Othello, Antigone, and Romeo and Juliet, love leads to the downfall of each of the tragic heroes. The characters excessive love leads them to the end of their own lives. Haemon the son ... and Othello's great love when Othello arrives to Cyprus and Desdemona greets him. They are so happy to see each other that they would be content at dying at that very moment. "It gives me wonder great as my content /to see you here before me. O my soul's joy!" Othello down fall comes in ... whe...

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