Although it is about four hundred years old, it is one of the most popular stories ever told. ... And probably a little bit about the passionate, spirited and witty young man who wrote it. ... (Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Prologue, l. 5-8) I think that the theme love is the centralized theme. ... "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite." ... A narrator would deliver the prologue at the beginning to set or state the theme of the play. ...

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"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, /Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers" eyes, / Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers" tears, /What is it else? ... She asks after Romeo, and wonders about his background, clearly intrigued by this young man she has just met. ... One of the major themes of Shakespeare's imagery is that of light. ... Throughout the play, Lady Capulet seems older than her years, as she has a very serious outlook on life and indeed love. ... She describes Paris to Juliet as "a man of wax", trying to persuade, but by no means enforce, Juliet to at least pond...

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Shakespeare's creation ofthe conflict in this play, between Juliet and the adults, demonstrates hisunderstanding the young and olds various views on topics and how thismisunderstanding may result in betrayal. ... Juliet is shown to be immature in a opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. ... (Lines 50-51, Scene 5, Act 1) He say this but he seemed to have forgotten Rosaline like old news, even though he speaks of Juliet as he spoke of Rosaline only a few short hours before. ...

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It conjures up beings - mad monks, vampires, and demons - and settings - forbidding cliffs and glowering buildings, stormy seas and the dizzying abyss - that have literary significance and the properties of dream symbolism as well. ... Patriarchal transgressions are an important underline theme on Gothic literature. ... In her dissertation "Something Old And Dark Has Got Its Way," Nathalie Hewitt points out that: : "The dominant figures are the paternal characters, those who establish the rules for their wives, daughters, sons, and servants. ... He is concerned about what may have kept ...

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