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"There is much to do with hate


i.76-78). As with so much else in this play of contrasts, romantic love is placed in sharp opposition to the reality of true love - with all its happiness and tribulations. The lovers have a fair share of both, yet in the end it is their intense longing to be together, united in death, that consolidates the point Shakespeare wishes to make about the nature of true love.
             Unrequited love is personified through the love portrayed between Rosaline and Romeo, but also Paris's love for Juliet. Romeo is introduced to the audience as a brooding young man who loves a fair maiden, Rosaline, who does not reciprocate his feelings. ("She hath forsworn to love, and in that vow / Do I live dead that live to tell it now." I.i. 221-222). In Act 1 Scene 1 of the play, Romeo and his cousin Benvolio met on the street, and Romeo sadly confessed his unrequited love for an aloof and indifferent young woman. ("For beauty, starv"d with her severity, / Cuts beauty off from all posterity. / She is too fair, too wise, wisely too fair, / To merit bliss by making me despair." I.i. 217-220). "She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide th" encounter of assailing eyes, / Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold." (I.i 210-213), the poetic language conveys the unsuccessful gestures of love conducted by Romeo towards the indifferent Rosaline. .
             Paris, a kinsman of the Prince, approached Lord Capulet with the intent of marrying his fair daughter, Juliet, but Juliet does not reciprocate the love. Even with the appraisals from Lady Capulet and the nurse, she is apathetic towards the matter of marriage to Paris; "He is a man of wax." (I.iv. 76) and "Read o"er the volume of young Paris" face, / And find delight writ there with beauty's pen; / Examine every married lineament, / And what obscur"d in this fair volume lies / This precious book of love, this unbound lover, / To beautify him, only lacks a cover." (I.iv. 82-87). Although Juliet does not return Paris's love, he continues with gestures such as grieving during her "death" and is slain by Romeo during a duel in Juliet's tomb in the final act.


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