The infamous archetypal lovers, Romeo and Juliet, will forever be looked to as a model of passion and love. ... Unlike the straightforward Romeo, the speaker twists his words in order to hide his true motive. ... Looking to Romeo and Juliet as our example of passionate love, we know they never used fear to manipulate one another into action. ... Rebounding back to his old wooing ways he recycles the flowery language he used in the first paragraph. ... As we have seen from Romeo and Juliet, lust can exist within passionate love, but passionate love cannot exist within lust. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare is also sometimes thought of as the master of the artistry of the English language. ... One of his most famous love stories is Romeo and Juliet. ... Could this have been what influenced Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet? ...

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One of his most most respected and beloved plays, "Romeo and Juliet," has inspired scores of movies such as Baz Luhrmann's version starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. ... He used language according to his own fashion, coining words and expressions that have today become so commonplace, that they seem to have been part of the very idiom of language. ... Johnson's edition of Shakespeare (1765), he writes, "This is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate