Shakespeare explains the idea of men in love with a fatal tragedy or sometimes a comic resolved endings. ... Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. ... Romeo is initially presented as a Petrarchan lover, a man whose feelings of love aren't reciprocated by the lady he admits he is in love with, Rosaline, and who uses the poetic language of sonnets to express his emotions about his situation. ... By Shakespeare making Romeo poetic he presents the Prologue as a sonnet in order to point to the...

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