Love, in its many forms, is an important theme in the play: the love not reciprocated - the unrequited love, the love of parents for their children - the familial love, the love that is created from friendship - the fraternal love, the romantic love and the love of family honour, is showcased through the characters. ... Romantic love between Romeo and Juliet is the intense passion that springs up at their first sight (Did my heart love till now? ... In the course of the play, the young lovers are driven to defy their entire social world: families ("Deny thy father and refuse thy name," Juliet ...

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In good time" (I, ii, 45-46) and is given the task of which he must ask for help, and who might he stumble across none other than the love sickened Romeo and his courteous companion, Benvolio. ... Calderwood, who says that Romeo " did not absorb much of Friar Lawrence's speech and that there is no world beyond Juliet's garden". ...

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