Although I would like for my true love to say he would die for me and would never want

to live without me, and me the same for him, I know realistically that this would never be.

There is no better example of this love than in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

In this tale , their love was true and they did give up their lives tragically, so as not to be

without each other. In this play there are also forms of love between friends, and "love"

for enemies, and I will explore all three.

Two households both alike in dignity

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From froth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,

Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parent's strife.

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

The which, if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

First, love for friends was, and is a necessity for the characters. Romeo was in love with

Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished,

Go hence to have more talk of these sad things.

Rosealine, whom thou so loves, with all the admired beauties of Verona. Go thither and

The next is the love for enemies. The hatred between the house of the Capulet's and the

A glomming peace this morning with it brings:

( III, I, 108-110). In a fit of hatred and rage, Romeo took revenge on Tybalt. This revenge

lay in her tomb, cold and dead to Romeo. In his pain and sorrow for loosing his love, he

torchbearer and light thee on thy way to Mantua. Therefore stay yet: thou need'st not to

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