One of the hardest things about writing one of these works is coming up with a topic. ... One of his most famous love stories is Romeo and Juliet. ... Well, one could say that it might have been the influence of what was going on in his marriage (Kinney, 1). ... Also in the play Measure for Measure, the act of premarital sex is condoned. ... Could this have been what influenced Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet? ...

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In one passage of Antigone (lines 1344-1371), a messenger tells the Chorus that a tragic event has taken place: Haemon has killed himself. ... One could observe the incongruity in Haemon's family values between the selected passage and an earlier excerpt, thus suggesting an ironic tone. ... Haemon's act of suicide depicts a gruesome image of him lunging the sword deeply into his body. ... The pathetic tone within the tragedy, Antigone, leads to the universal theme of how one should value intimate relationships over civil laws. ... The heartbreaking story of Romeo and Juliet by Wil...

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One story I remember the most was one she told about when he passed away; she thought they would grow old together, and a part of her soul died along with him. ... She writes, "If ever two were one, then surely we" (l. 1) She thinks of them as one being and there is nothing more important than her love for him. ... Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" has a Romeo and Juliet feel to it. ... Donne's poem "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", Valediction means "an act of bidding farewell". ... Today's society has lost that oneness. ...

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