Comparison Between William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Creative Title According to goodreads.com “Romeo and Juliet” is the single most popular English play in history. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare there are many lessons the author teaches the readers throughout the play which is why the play has been one of if not the most popular for hundreds of years. Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play about two lovers (Romeo and Juliet) who are the only children from two rival families. They fall in love and that causes lots of tension between the two families which results in death to family members from both families, including Romeo and Juliet who kill themselves at the end of the play. The author’s primary message of love in the play is that love is an extremely powerful emotion …show more content…

The fact that they are from rival families, getting married would cause war between the two families, and escaping their families would be a hard thing to do. All the obstacles Romeo and Juliet would have to pass to have a normal happy relationship would be about as hard as climbing the highest mountain in the world. Shakespeare uses the word death in this quote to symbolize foreshadowing of Romeo and Juliet’s fate. The phrase “kinsmen find thee here” shows how much Romeo is risking to be with Juliet. The author specifically uses the words/phrases hard to climb, death, and kinsmen find thee here to show that Romeo was willing to risk his life just to be near Juliet. That is how much he let his burning love for Juliet control …show more content…

This is why Shakespeare used this phrase. The word hate is used to show how she feels about her family compared to Romeo. Love would describe her relationship with Romeo, hate describes her relationship with her family. The phrase “Thankful even for hate that is meant love” means that Juliet is even thankful for things the hates, like her family, even if it was meant with love. The author specifically uses the words/phrases not proud, hate, and thankful even for hate that is meant love to show that Juliet distanced herself further and further from her family throughout the story and shows that she has chosen her love for Romeo over her family. Much like the first quote, this next quote demonstrates how Juliet made some daring decisions throughout the play that were fueled by her love for Romeo. This quote was said by Juliet when she is talking with Romeo about how they should choose love for each other and leave their

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