way it is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet first.
meet. "If I profane with my unworthiest hand this holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: My lips,.
two blushing pilgrims, ready stand To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss". "Good.
pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, which mannerly devotion shows in this;.
For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch, and palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss. . . " (.
Act 1, scene 5). Some criticism views Juliet as a young, naive girl whereas other critics.
characterize her as a "spontaneous, passionate child of nature". By others her emotion is.
described as a sort of magic: "Alike bewitched by the charm of refusing to describe it: But my.
true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth" (III.i.33-34). Love,.
in other words, resists any single metaphor because it is too powerful to be so easily contained or.
understood. The power of love allows us to question how two such young people have such.
feelings for each other. And were these two really in love?.
Love, in Romeo and Juliet, is a grand passion, and as such it is blinding, and can .
overwhelm a person as powerfully and completely as hate can. The passionate love .
between Romeo and Juliet is linked from the moment of its inception with death. .
Tybalt notices that Romeo has crashed the feast and determines to kill him just as Romeo .
catches sight of Juliet and falls instantly in love with her. From that point on, love seems .
to push the lovers closer to love and violence, not farther from it.
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Their love is so instant and mutual that soon the two are betrothed and were secretly.
married by Friar Lawrence in his cell. On his way home from his marriage is when the climax.
point of the play sprouts. Frankly, Romeo surrenders himself to God because he has understood.
the fact that he has had no control over his destiny.
