Examples Of Unrequited Love In Romeo And Juliet

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In the passage from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo talks to Benvolio about how a girl does not return Romeo’s love. Through Romeo’s characterization, Shakespeare proves the central idea that unrequited love often makes a person depressed. In this passage, Romeo is depressed about a girl not returning his love. Romeo's love not being returned or rewarded to him makes him very melancholy and heavy-hearted this is shown through characterization. For example, Romeo states, “For beauty, starved with her severity/Cuts beauty off from all posterity” (65-66). Romeo is characterized as very depressed from his unrequited love because she is keeping her beauty in since she took a vow of chastity. She will never have children and therefore,

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