Romeo states, ""Tis torture, and not mercy. ... The two characters are just as much contrasted in their level of dependency on other people. ... In Romeo and Juliet, the difference in the personality between the two characters figures significantly. ... She often depends on others in order to meet her needs while Romeo demonstrates more independent character. ... By lending these two characters an entirely different personality from one another, Shakespeare adds much more interest to the play. ...

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L1 English Essay- William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet "What type of love is the most powerful in Romeo & Juliet?" ... The love of friendship that is shown between many characters such as Mercutio and Romeo, the love of family that is very obvious in both families, the love of god and religious aspects and the most powerful which is true love, between the two main characters, Romeo and Juliet. ... Friar Laurence also has a major influence on the main characters, Romeo and Juliet by acknowledging their relationship and agreeing to marry them in the hope that the two families would be ...

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Were the young characters the masters of their own destinies or were they victims of fate? ... Yet, there is another interpretation, which arises from the soliloquies of both Romeo and Juliet, considering each love independently - that Romeo is a lover of the first definition, enamored, and that Juliet and her love for Romeo are best described by the baser classification. ... In contrast, Romeo's love is much different. In Act II, Scene II, Romeo equates love with Juliet. ... If love were Romeo, then she lies; for she has both married and loved him in this sense. ...

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Instead love is often shown in its tragic form, resulting in the death of one or more characters. ... Juliet goes to the extend of saying "O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ... Asides from love being a theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... Fate is also another theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... The fate aspect of the play is constant and is made aware not just to the audience but to the characters as well. ...

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Instead love is often shown in its tragic form, resulting in the death of one or more characters. ... Juliet goes to the extend of saying "O Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? ... Asides from love being a theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... Fate is also another theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... The fate aspect of the play is constant and is made aware not just to the audience but to the characters as well. ...

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Are Romeo and Juliet really in love? ... At any time, Romeo could see another girl, and fall instantly "in love" with her. Romeo's character is not ready for love and does not know how to read his own feelings and think about them. ... Romeo's love is fake and quick, and his feelings about Juliet are not sincere. By a double suicide, Romeo and Juliet confirm that their love is unstable and premature. ...

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Most of what the do and how they act is affected by love for another character. ... Each character has a different kind of love for another character and they love in different ways. ... So, the friar also loves the other characters and wants the best for them. The death that occurs in this play is a result of the characters love. ... There is not one character who doesn't love at all. ...

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Many characters in the play show an extrusive amount of love towards another character. One character that expresses their true love for Juliet, in a variety of ways, is Romeo. ... Juliet also reveals how much love she has for Romeo in the scene where Juliet is in her chamber on her balcony and starts off by saying, "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" ... Each of the characters (Romeo and Juliet) shows an unbelievable amount of love for one another. ...

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Many characters in the play show an extrusive amount of love towards another character. One character that expresses their true love for Juliet, in a variety of ways, is Romeo. ... Juliet also reveals how much love she has for Romeo in the scene where Juliet is in her chamber on her balcony and starts off by saying, "O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" ... Each of the characters (Romeo and Juliet) shows an unbelievable amount of love for one another. ...

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Inside of each of these emotions lies a deeper meaning which drives many of the characters to serious extremes. The characters of Tybalt and Romeo, are examples of how extreme excess emotions lead to deadly consequences. Through an examination of the characters of Tybalt and Romeo, it becomes evident that hatred, love, and the fight for honor, proved to be the ultimate cause for their downfall. ... Yet Romeo's deep capacity for love is merely a part of his larger capacity for intense feelings of all kinds. ... Such extreme behavior dominates Romeo's character throughout the play,...

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The play "Romeo and Juliet" takes place over a very short span of time. ... The characters are trapped in a whirlwind of events dictated by Romeo's brash nature as well as a pervasive rush that finish in the double suicide of Romeo and Juliet. ... Secondly, Romeo and Juliet see each other for the first time. ... Mercutio, Romeo's friend, advisor, bodyguard, and fellow member of the Montague clan cannot understand Romeo's cowardice without the benefit of knowing of Romeo's secret marriage, and steps in to accept Tybalt's challenge. ... Tybalt stabs Mercutio from under R...

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I loved the plot of the story because it was like a modern Romeo and Juliet. ... I loved the characters in the story because they all were interesting and unique in their own way. I liked the way the author used the characters to deal with delicate issues such as love, and friendship. I liked the way she kept me interested in the characters while also dealing with more serious issues such as violence and gangs. Each character's name was fitting, Romiette and Julio, ironically lovers as in Romeo and Juliet, and Destiny the psychic always predicting someone else's "destiny." ...

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Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two "star-cross'd lovers', Romeo and Juliet, who are forbidden to love, due to their families' long standing feud. ... Rosaline is not an active character, but through her descriptions we can perceive her as cold and heartless, as she rejects Romeo so thoughtlessly. This positions readers to sympathise with Romeo and to dislike Rosaline, who crushes Romeo's sensitive heart, shirking his passionate emotions. ... The friar is also familiar with Romeo's laments, as he knows who is in Romeo's company. ... Familial love cause th...

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In Romeo's part, Romeo finds out the truth about Juliet's family background and declares, "O dear account! ... Juliet is already making plans to kill herself if Romeo is already married while just before that, Romeo is already putting Juliet in the life of his hands. ... Just two scenes after Juliet's secret marriage to Romeo, Juliet is idolizing Romeo as some sort of God, "Come night, come Romeo, come thou day in night, for thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, whiter than new snow upon a raven's back"" (3.2.17-19). One scene later, Romeo idolizes Juliet in the same manne...

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Similarity "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Romeo and Juliet" both show how powerful love can be. ... You can tell this by, not only seeing that the root of both these plays is falling in love, but also by some of the comments the characters make. ... When the moon changed, something significant happened to either one of the characters or a turning point of the play occurred. ... The same situation took part in "Romeo and Juliet." ... Juliet asks herself, "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" ...

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I will look at how Shakespeare has created characters and comment on the action of the play and how Shakespeare has used dramatic devices and structures. ... An example of this theme is when Romeo and Juliet are described as, 'a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'. ... Romeo's mixed feelings for Rosaline, and how it always leads to new doors. ... Shakespeare uses oxymoron when describing Romeo's sadness. ... It seems that Shakespeare often uses oxymoron when characters talk about love, again to indicate mixed opinions and emotions. ...

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Also, Shakespeare displays that both the men in love, Romeo and Benedick, are very dangerous and reveal that love is potentially divisive. False love is the first evident important theme across Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo forgets his love to Rosaline at the first moment he sees Juliet. ... This is a result of love at first sight which is also present when Romeo first meets Juliet. ... Shakespeare demonstrates the shallowness of courtly love mainly through Claudio and Hero, who are the central characters of the main plot. ...

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Romeo and Juliet in Sarajevo is based on a real life story that takes place in Bosnia-Herzegovina during the 1990's. ... They are known as the Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo because their love and plans were shot down by the hatred of their religion. ... We get to know the characters opinions and feelings making it easier for us to understand the situation. ... The emotions are shown to us from real characters making the images more vivid. ... Also, knowing for ourselves the ending we sympathize with the characters, making a mark in our memory. ...

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The characters are not tormented by the "dissonance between personal satisfaction and the suffering one shares with others... A Farewell to Arms is a Romeo and Juliet. ... Wilson points out that Hemingway did not show any solid sense of character during the book. ...

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Julie is the Juliet to R's Romeo, when R first encounters her he describes her eyes as "classic novels and poetry" (page 18). ... The narrative develops our understanding of the characters and how they influence the protagonist throughout the novel. ... Thus, this integrates empathy within his character. ... Alternatively, he encapsulates the story well and overall realistically portrays his character to its full extent. ... Although I have not read any other novels within this theme, Romeo and Juliet portrays a similar premise throughout the novel Warm Bodies. ...

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Romance films (or romance movies) are romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theaters, television and on the big screen, that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters and the journey that their genuinely strong, true and pure romantic love takes them through dating, courtship or marriage. ... Also the romance genre has a range of subgenres: Romantic Drama ( "Last Tango in Paris", "Water for Elephants",  "A Walk to Remember"), Chic Flick ( "Dirty Dancing", "Romeo+Juliet")...

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