This is exactly what happens in William Shakespeare's tragic romance, "Romeo and Juliet." ... Firstly, Romeo and Juliet follows a structure similar to that of a sonnet: there is a volta at Act III Scene I where Mercutio and Tybalt are killed. ... To begin with, Romeo and Juliet are blinded by their love for each other because of Cupid, whose, as Romeo states, "view is muffled still, " (1.1.176). ... Cupid represents love, and excessive amounts of it were why Romeo and Juliet get married. ... As Prince Escalus once said, "never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo"" ...

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One of the favorite plays by William Shakespeare is the tragedy Romeo and Juliet. ... Romeo and Juliet tells a lot about the society and times in which it was written. ... (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, sc. ... Juliet as well is consumed with the love she has for Romeo. ... (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, sc. ...

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Similarly, In Romeo and Juliet, fate is blamed the cause of trouble. ... (Romeo and Juliet, III.i.136). ... In Romeo and Juliet, the two lovers commit suicide, and Macbeth ends with a decapitation. ... Suicide is common as well, evident in both Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet. ... Even Romeo and Juliet, which begins as a promising comedy, turns into a tragedy as the plot unfolds, and ends in suicide. ...

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It was an allusion to Romeo and Juliet; when Juliet foreshadows her own death: "My grave is like to be my wedding bed"(1.5.9). Moreover, Spring Awakening and Romeo and Juliet were two plays of youthful passion where themes of education, suicide and violence were approached. ...

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Shakespeare lived in a male-dominated world where women didn't have the same kind of respect the majority of our women do today and I feel like Shakespeare intended to show what life is like for women in society ruled by men in the 1500 through his plays like Romeo and Juliet. In plays like Romeo and Juliet, he not only criticized arranged marriages but he presented Juliet with a sense of feminism and he made Juliet ruin gender stereotypes by proposing to Romeo in Act 2 scene 2. ...

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