Love In Romen and Juliet by Shakespeare

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Love has existed in many forms throughout time. There is no better example than in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In this tale, when love is most apparent, the most crucial events occur to develop this "tragedy." The evident forms of love are love for friends, "love" for enemies, and love between lovers.

First, love for friends was, and is, a necessity for the characters. Romeo had been in love with a girl who didn't feel love the same way that he did. Consequently, Romeo was distraught. He thought no woman could be as fare as Rosaline. Romeo's friend, Benvolio, thought differently. Benvolio encouraged Romeo to go to the Capulet's feast and accurately predicted that Romeo would find other girls more attractive than Rosaline. This was highlighted when Benvolio said "Compare her face with one that I show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow." ( I. ii. 86-87). Later, when violence was prevalent, Benvolio watched out for his friends and relatives, encouraging peace. He spoke against fighting when he said "I pray thee, good Mercutio, lets retire. / The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, / And, if we meet, we shall not 'scape a brawl,"(III. I. 1-3).

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lastly, the most importantly type of love is love between lovers. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet were victims of Cupid's arrows. They were truly "star-crossed." Juliet needed Romeo to get away from her overprotective parents who were planning her future. If Juliet was going to disobey her parents, they would have disowned her. Ironically, at the party that Lord Capulet held so that Juliet could meet her projected husband, Paris, she met her future husband, Romeo. They met by chance, looking into each others eyes and instantly being attracted. There first conversation was sealed with a kiss. The meeting was regretted, however. Romeo and Juliet knew a relationship wouldn't be accepted with them being from feuding families. It was too late for them to turn back though, they had fallen in love. When Juliet found out she had started to love Romeo, she didn't change her feeling, she just said "My only love sprung form only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and know too late! / Prodigious birth of love it is to me / That I must love a loathed enemy." (I.v.138-141) In an act of impulse, the two were secretly married by Friar Lawrence. Romeo was soon ordered to be banished. In his last night in Verona, Romeo made love to Juliet. Juliet wished Romeo wouldn't go even though it would be risking his life to be seen in the daylight . Her feeling were expressed when she said "Yond light is not day-light, I know it, I; / It is some meteor that the sun e

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