romeo and juliet coursework

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           In this essay I have examined the six types of love throughout Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; the types of love are love at first sight, unrequited love, and ideal love. Parental love, religious love and friendship love. In each paragraph I will explain the historical context and the important things about the certain love throughout the play. These types of love are shown in the play by these characters Romeo, Juliet, Rosaline, Paris, friar Lawrence, the nurse, lord and lady Montague, lord and lady Capulet and Mercutio.

           The first type of love I have identified is love at first sight, love at first sight is shown by Romeo and Juliet as when they first meet at the Capulet’s party they both deeply fell in love and couldn't have one another .This is portrayed by Romeo and Juliet because Romeo confess his love to Juliet

'' If I profane with my unworthiness hand this holy shrine, the gentle sin is this, my lips two blushing pilgrims' ready stab to smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.''

They talk to one another in a sonnet from this is a suitable format because a sonnet is a form of love poetry. the religious imagery used was that they use words like pilgrim, sin, saint , faith, holy palms, pray and prayers this shows that during the time of Romeo and Juliet that there was a lot of belief in religions and people were commit to there religion.                

            Secondly the second type of love I have looked at is unrequited love, this type of love is where you love them but they don’t love you back. In the play this is shown by Romeo to Rosaline but we never see her and this makes there love seem more distant. Meanwhile in the play Romeo says in despair

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'' A sick man in sadness''.
The word sick is illness, by all the talk about love which is gentle actually turns out apprehensive and cruel. But Romeo becomes confused because he says
''oh loving hate''.

This is an example of an oxymoron which is like a feather of lead, bright smoke and cold fire, which us very confusing which is why you can see that Romeo is love sick and confused.

               

            Thirdly, Ideal love is the love that parents would like to see for there children. ...

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