Analysis of Major Characters Romeo The name Romeo, in popular culture, has become nearly synonymous with "lover."" ... Romeo is a great reader of love poetry, and the portrayal of his love for Rosaline suggests he is trying to re-create the feelings that he has read about. ... Her level-headed observations, such as the one about Romeo's kissing, seem just the thing to snap Romeo from his superficial idea of love and to inspire him to begin to speak some of the most beautiful and intense love poetry ever written. ...

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• Approx Pages: 54
• Grade Level: High School

"In these texts (courtly tradition's lyric and narrative poetry) woman appears as a physically desirable but difficult-to-attain goal for her refined though still unworthy lover, often her social inferior," Lillian M. ... "The social function of woman is sufficiently defined by male-generated strictures on purity and wifely duty so that no autonomous image of woman exists and 'feminism' is inconceivable," Winthrop Wetherbee in his The Canterbury Tales, a critical analysis suggests. ...

• Word Count: 3384
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School