Romeo and Juliet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Romeo and Juliet.

Romeo and Juliet Essay | Essay

This student essay consists of approximately 4 pages of analysis of Romeo and Juliet.
This section contains 988 words
(approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page)
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Romeo and Juliet: Love or Lust

Summary: Discusses the William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. Analyzes the relationship between the play's title characters and discusses whether the duo were in love or merely lust.
Romeo and Juliet is a theatrical-script written by the renowned writer William Shakespeare, the story is claimed to be the best love story ever written. But is love a word used unnecessarily or under the wrong tense, is the so-called love between Romeo and Juliet no more than an overused name for lust"

In William's opinion as the writer in the prologue, he announces that this play is a love story and is nothing more " From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-crossed `lovers' take their life."(Pro.i.6) Thus indicating from this passage that the writer of the story has written it to be a tale of love not lust. Although in following parts of the story he hints lust e.g. when Juliet says to herself "My only love, sprung from my only hate!"(I.iv.137) Juliet has said this after...

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