Love is the desire for the soul. ... Romeo and Juliet are too young at the time of their marriage when one considers the nature of their "romantic love"." ... It is implied that to this point, Juliet has not had a romantic interest in anyone. ... Lastly, Romeo and Juliet loved the idea of "being in love"" instead of truly loving the actual person. ... It is clear that the type of "love"" that Romeo and Juliet are experiencing is nothing but lust and an illusion of what appears to be love. ...

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This is true romantic love. ... Friendship love is one of greater complexity even than of romantic love. ... Love is not merely a need. Romantic love provides us with our most powerful form of intimacy, a sense of self, and an aura of grandeur that must be understood in its own terms, as an emotional strategy for enriching our world (Solomon 141). ... I thought, "But is it love?" ...

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It is contained in many various forms, namely, familial or kinship love, fraternal or brotherly love, sexual love, romantic and true love, and healing love. ... Originating with kinship love, Juliet evolves in the presence of Romeo and develops a romantic, true love. ... Romantic love is the idea of being in "love with the idea of love". This romantic love is first experienced by Romeo as he mopes over Rosaline at the beginning of the play. ... Another character who experiences romantic love is Paris. ...

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William Shakespeare defines love in different ways in his writing as either being romantic love, lust, or mature love. ... This type of love may not always be perfect. ... "Romeo and Juliet" is a play written by William Shakespeare, which has a romantic love, but however, ends as a tragedy. ... The two fall in love not knowing that their love for one another was going to be the cause of their deaths. Love is very powerful in this play and also portrays passion of being in love or hate. ...

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Different types of love are represented with Shakespeare's impeccable use of the English language, and through the use of figurative language, characterization and the Petrarchan convention, the subjects of unrequited, romantic, familial and courtly love are explored. ... In addition to idealistic, lovestruck romance, readers are presented with the tragedy that romantic love can cause. ... This use of such a tragic flaw of violent passion and irrationality positions readers to view romantic love as a potentially fatal emotion. ... This gives Paris false hope and satisfaction that Juliet ...

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There are many types of love and these types of love are not to end and die. The three and the most important types of loves (in my opinion), are family love [storge"], romantic love [eros], and selfless love[agape"]. all of these love types are true and to be alive forever until the end of time. The first is family love, which is the most important type of love. ... Next is Romantic love, the sweetest love and the most joyful love there is. ... Whether that love is Romantic, or family love, or even the selfless love they all show how love is great and forever, and nothing could separate tow...

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While love causes great tragedy, it is also love that ultimately reconciles the communities of Verona. ... Some kinds of love are romantic love, infatuation, puppy love, family love, intimate love, physical attraction and friendship. Romeo and Juliet's love is unique. ... Their physical attraction to one another grew into romantic love and commitment. ... Although Shakespeare shows that love builds communities, it is also clear that love can destroy communities. ...

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Romeo is the protagonist who is romantic, virtuous, and impulsive. Romeo plays a very romantic person in the play. ... Romeo is really in love with the idea of love. ... In this short passage we can distinguish that Romeo is quite romantic since his only concern was his love for Rosaline. ... Who could resist a romantic line like that? ...

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I would die for love because love is all the solution for any conflict and people cannot survive without love and also people often give up everything just for love. ... Next, people cannot survive without love. Because the love is the basic need for people to live and without love, it is very hard for people to live day by day. ... Also, people often give up everything for love. ... It is not only for Romantic love, it could be love for country, love for friends or family members. ...

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In particular, Shakespeare uses play to convey a controversial commentary about the stark power relationships between the sexes that lie beneath the apparently benign concept of romantic love. ... And therefore, we see that Theseus uses the benign, amorous image of a romantic courtship to describe what is in fact, the bellicose reality of love in his court. ... (I.ii.24) Here we see that in this play, Pyramus proves his love to Thisbe not by hurting her, but by hurting himself, thereby following the traditional narrative of romantic courtship, or "woo". ... The clear implication is that These...

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Like all other romantic comedies by Shakespeare, the world of A Midsummer Night's Dream is a fantasy of romance, love, humor, music, dance, song, and poetry. ... Romeo and Juliet is a classic love story which has touched and moved people for generations. What is so gripping about this tale is the love, the heartbreak, and the loss of life. ... In his book A Farewell To Arms, Hemmingway explores an incredible war-torn love story between a solider and a nurse. ... It is a great love story, with plot twists, secret love affairs, and even some interwoven, gently presented social commentary. ...

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Though 'Romeo and Juliet' is displayed as a romantic love story, this play is classified as a tragedy. ... The sonnet is most often associated with love therefore is used to present the emotion of their first meeting. ... William Shakespeare applies the technique of oxymorons to display the uncertainty about her love towards Romeo in Act 3 Scene 2. ... This powerful concept shows her extreme love for Romeo as she is willing to give up her family name for the love given by Romeo. ... This is considered as one of the greatest love stories of all time as it has survived in our memo...

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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. ... The other side of symbolism is implied as he used the word "buy" this objectifies Hero; however, it could be seen as romantic as he describes her as extremely valuable as Shakespeare uses the "world" to be able to "buy" Hero. ... This is a smart way of displaying to the aud...

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Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. Love, in its many forms, is an important theme in the play: the love not reciprocated - the unrequited love, the love of parents for their children - the familial love, the love that is created from friendship - the fraternal love, the romantic love and the love of family honour, is showcased through the characters. ... The most prominent form of love, the romantic, is illustrated throughout the whole play through the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet. Romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is the intense passion th...

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Romeo is imaginative, believes love will cure everything in its path, and "loves light wings-(Act 2, scene two, line 66) had brought him to his true love; Juliet. Despite his impracticality, the ladies adore him because of his romantic language. ... It takes a very imaginative person to be romantic. ... Love is "of nothing first create!... Romeo's words to Juliet are romantic for the beginning of their conversation. ...

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The sonnet is by a man referring his name is William Shakespeare and upon how descriptive and romantic he is within this Sonnet. ... The narrator desires stand upon accomplishing the description of the aging man with imagery while at the same time demonstrating how little time is left in his romantic love story. ... Their love should grow because his time is running out. ... She loves him more because he is dying and time is running out. ... To summarize, the story is about an old man who is aging and is going to miss his female in their romantic relationship. ...

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I loved to hear her speak of her late husband and how much she loved him. ... These poems tell of love and the depths of love the speakers has for their beloved even if the love is not given back in return. Ann Bradstreet's poem "To My Dear and Loving Husband," is an interesting poem because its style is romantic and the poet professes her undying love for her husband and makes it a point to make her husband aware of the extent of love and devotion she has for him. ... My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, Nor ought but love from thee, give recompense. ... " (l.5) A p...

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And were these two really in love? ... From that point on, love seems to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it. 3 Their love is so instant and mutual that soon the two are betrothed and were secretly married by Friar Lawrence in his cell. ... That night was the night they declared their love in the way a married couple do, by making love for their first and last time. ... Personally, I believe that the was the primary cause; however Michael Rustin argues that the play is about the modern emotion of romantic se...

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The melancholic Romeo is showed twice in the play; the fist time is when his love for a women named Rosaline is not returned. ... Romeo is willing to do anything for her, he secures her love by talking romantically and expressing his love for her. The feuding families threaten to pull there love apart but the survive, sort of. In conclusion I have discussed the four characteristics of Romeo, Melancholy, impulsive, witty, and love. Romeo's dominate trait is his never dying love for Juliet ...

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The story of Shakespeare in Love is that the playwright William Shakespeare has sold his future play to two different men and theaters (Shakespeare in Love). ... William sees through her disguise and they begin a love affair. ... Separated by social classes but brought together by their love. ... Shakespeare was in love with the woman Lord Wessex was to wed. ... In this setting social class affected the relationships that people had with one another, not just romantically, but within friendships and connections. ...

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The forcefulness of their love, their love being a cause of violence and the inevitability of fate results in Romeo and Juliet's deaths. ... Specifically, romantic love and Shakespeare builds upon the intense passion that is eminent at the first sigh between Romeo and Juliet. ... Asides from love being a theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... The grand passion in Romeo and Juliet is love and not hate, but love can overwhelm a person just as easily as hate. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of love is best renowned because of his emphasis on the actual word love; love is too powerful a word t...

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The forcefulness of their love, their love being a cause of violence and the inevitability of fate results in Romeo and Juliet's deaths. ... Specifically, romantic love and Shakespeare builds upon the intense passion that is eminent at the first sigh between Romeo and Juliet. ... Asides from love being a theme in "Romeo and Juliet". ... The grand passion in Romeo and Juliet is love and not hate, but love can overwhelm a person just as easily as hate. ... Shakespeare's portrayal of love is best renowned because of his emphasis on the actual word love; love is too powerful a word t...

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Topic Question: Queen Elizabeth turns up on stage at the end of Shakespeare in Love and says 'I know something of a woman in a man's profession'. ... The 1998 film, Shakespeare in Love, cleverly altered the way in which audiences viewed Shakespeare by adjusting the temperament of the film with a modern lens. ... Shakespeare in Love, directed by John Madden and written by Marc Norman and playwright Tom Stoppard, is a romantic-comedy drama that depicts a lustrous affair between the privileged Viola de Lesseps (Gwyneth Paltrow) and the upcoming commoner playwright William Shakes...

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The majority of the sonnets (1-126) are addressed to a young man, with whom the poet has an intense romantic relationship. ... Love and Beauty The backbone of Shakespeare's sonnets is love. As a collective, different types of romantic love are exemplified, praised and critiqued. ... Keeping love alive is not easy. One knows that life inevitably comes to an end, but does love? ...

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Where it attracted not only just older more mature audiences but rather a wider range of teenagers through its change in context and style but still keeping the original theme of love tragedy with a modernized outlook. ... In the studied text Shakespeare text the taming of the shrew one of the earliest of Shakespeare's romantic comedies, audiences witness universal theme such as gender relationships, family relationships and love. ... Such as love and achieving success. ... Petruchio is a gentleman from Verona who marries Katherine neither for love nor her beauty but rather for the price ...

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