Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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There Is No Hole Deeper Than True Love—
The Original Prince Charming “The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief - But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” Hilary Stanton wrote. Romeo is a man of self-sacrifice, solitude, and ideals, but only because he had everything his heart wanted. If a person ponders on the idea and history of the literature of love, a few examples would come to mind. In these thoughts, the legendary tale Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is second to none, but who is Romeo? When one asks the question, “who is Romeo”, they can only assume that Romeo was Juliet’s fated lover. However, Romeo was not just that, Romeo had a life before Juliet, just sadly not after. Being from Verona, Italy and entitled to the Montague family line, people could say he was a pretty “fortunate” young man. In addition to this, Romeo was also son of Lord Montague, the wealthy and competitive Capulet family nemesis. Romeo did not take advantage of being of such stature, though. Portraying the final chapter of his life, Romeo not only lights the path of this work, but also brings an infinite amount of figurative language, symbolism, imagery, …show more content…

His emotion and seriousness is so overwhelming that many others do not know how to translate it; as if his words were a foreign, dead language. For this reason, many of the people who care for Romeo try to “cure” him of his “infection”, but to no avail. Romeo’s tone is the key attribute to his appearance as a slave to his own love. This helps the reader and the characters of this work alike to understand that Romeo is an old soul and really and truly will go to the death for what he believes in—his passion. “I will not hide myself. If love hide hides me then I will be hidden. Otherwise, I don’t care.” (Lipson

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