Throughout this essay, I will be focusing on how love is presented through in Shakespeare's: Romeo and Juliet and how love is presented through a series of sonnets (18, 130 and 134). ... An example of this theme is when Romeo and Juliet are described as, 'a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life'. This line also has contemporary relevance to today as it still may occur in practice or in language. ... This is used by Shakespeare obviously so that the reader is aware fully that this is one of the constant running themes during the play and it also makes the reader aware why ...

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• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 987
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School