How Does Romeo And Juliet Determine True Love

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William Shakespeare is a brilliant and well-known author for his use of writing techniques and sonnets throughout his pieces. This excessive amount of talent is seen especially in one of his most famous novels about a pair of star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. This piece follows the lives of young Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague as they fall in what is assumed to be love. However, this adoration is forbidden by the citizens of Verona, as their families are fixed into an immovable and unjustifiable feud. After catching sight of each other at a Capulet party, they instantaneously grow an immense amount of fondness towards each other. As the story progresses and complicates, the star-crossed lovers face conflicts that lead towards their …show more content…

As the text advances, the contrast between Paris and Romeo’s ideas of love and how them and their relationships with Juliet advance throughout the plot assist in developing the theme; fate cannot determine true love. Paris and Romeo’s actions and words in regards to Juliet inevitably shows that Romeo is truly in love with Juliet and not Paris. Romeo from Romeo and Juliet is one of the first characters introduced to the audience by Shakespeare. He first appears broken hearted due to a rejection from his ‘love’ Rosaline, who refused to please Romeo before marriage. He is also seen as an impulsive lover, who instantly disregards his ‘love’ for Rosaline when he catches sight of Juliet. Juliet expresses interest in him when they first meet, allowing him to kiss her without decline. They exchange words, flirting back and forth before he kisses her, “Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purged” (Shakespeare 59). Shocked, Juliet asks for him to take his sins back, saying “Then have my lips the sin that they have took” (59). Romeo kisses her once more, and Juliet responds with, “You kiss by th’ book” (59). Within minutes of meeting each other, they have

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