Many instances in the play reveal that the love of Romeo and Juliet would end in death. The prologue introduced the idea of fate and the predestined, tragic future that Romeo and Juliet would have together. ... In Act II, Friar Lawrence says, "These violent delights have violent end, and in triumph die". ... Shakespeare emphasizes the point that if any of these incidences were absent from the play, than the heartbreaking ending that Romeo and Juliet experienced would not have occurred. ... During these occurrences, Romeo was seeking to avoid a tragic outcome, however in the end fate broug...

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"Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance". ... "Then love-devouring death do what he dare, it is enough, I may but call Her mine" Friar Laurence tells Romeo that this marriage may come to a violent end. "These violent delights have violent ends. Friar is also telling Romeo that the marriage is violent and dangerous. ... "He told ME Paris should have married Juliet. ...

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Romeo and Juliet, dubbed as a romantic tragedy, is more about love than hate. ... As to many contrasts, hate is represented in the Romeo and Juliet to illustrate the idea of the balance in nature. ... Romeo and Juliet's love for each other is a violent, ecstatic, overpowering force that supersedes all other values, loyalties, and emotions. ... The lovers have a fair share of both, yet in the end it is their intense longing to be together, united in death, that consolidates the point Shakespeare wishes to make about the nature of true love. ... Even at the end, his final words were: "...

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