Romeo and Juliet Love at first sight

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Love At First Sight

Romeo and Juliet’s love at first sight is a very passionate beginning to this play, but also very confusing to understand the true meaning of every line. Three components to help understand some of these lines are character, plot and irony.

        I think that nobody can help Romeo with his problems and that he has to always figure things out on his own.  He has to try and find a way to move on from Roseline, and going to the Capulet’s party could help him solve his problem. An example of this is when Romeo finds out Juliet is a Capulet, after meeting her and asking her nanny.  “Is she a Capulet?”  “O Dear account!  My life is my foe’s debt.”  After he meets Juliet though, he is very anxious because he thinks he’s in love already, and wastes no time in talking to her and even kissing her because he thinks that she is the most beautiful woman he has ever seen in his life (Line 11: “O, then, dear Saint, let lips do what hands do”).

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        Juliet on the other hand, is excited to look for a man, because she wants to get rid of County Paris. She wants to please her Mother (Lady Capulet) and her Father (Father Capulet) and is willing to listen them about whom she should marry. She stumbles into Romeo, and admires everything about him and thinks he is the man that will please her the most. She quickly comes out with her true feelings after their kiss: “You kiss by the book.”  This represents personification because Juliet is comparing the kiss to a book, and each book is perfectly written, ...

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