A comparative study of Sydney Carton in Dickens" novel, A Tale of Two Cities, and Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet in Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, requires the reader to analyze various aspects that the transforming effect love can have on a personality. ... Romeo is no less affected by love, if in a more juvenile way when he states, "If I profane with my unworthiest hand / this holy shrine / the gentle sin is this; / My lips, two blushing pilgrims / ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss" (1.5.104-107). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Romeo and Juliet, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Tale of Two Cities, a recurring theme is how children act as "agents of redemption" for their parents. ... The audience is, of course, meant to wonder how excessive of a feud there really is between the two families. ... Essentially, Romeo and Juliet's love for one another could have bridged the feelings of hatred between the two families and settled their differences. ... Friar Lawrence not only believes that it is unfair for the two to be separated by their quarrelling families, but he also believes that ma...

• Word Count: 1505
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Shakespeare's" tragedy is the tale of two lovers who take their lives for each other when their love is hindered by their feuding families. ... The people of the city become outraged by the constant violence between the two families, causing the ruler of Verona, Prince Escalus, to interfere. ... And were these two really in love? ... Romeo and Juliet were two young lovers, whose love was destined for destruction. ... These two young people did nothing except fall in love. ...

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In this tale, when love is most apparent, the most crucial events occur to develop this "tragedy." ... The forbidden love of Romeo and Juliet is spawned from the feud between the two households; Capulet and Montague and throughout Juliet's "supposed" soliloquy, she ponders over the prospect of the two families" names: "What's in a name?" ... Similarly with Frost's poem, the persona is presented with two choices to make. ... The Trojan War story, which is based upon the events leading up to, and including the fall of the City of Troy. ... It just took two teenagers to show them...

• Word Count: 1689
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School