Romeo and julliet's love intro

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How Shakespeare presents the love between Romeo and Julliet?

Shakespeare starts the play with a prologue, this told the audience the

outline of the story, and that this play would be a love tragedy. The idea of the prologue is to tell the audience some background information on the characters, basically setting the scene. Shakespeare presents the love between Romeo and Juliet as meant to be.

'A pair of star crossed lovers'

This is Shakespeare saying that there love that they share is meant to be and is written into the stars. However in the prologue Shakespeare also says that there love that the share is doomed from the very beginning, and would always end sadly.

'There death marked love'

This is strange because its like a big oxymoron he has used two complete opposites to describe one thing. The last point Shakespeare tells us about there love is that if they were to die it would bring peace.

'Death bury there parents strife'

This is a positive coming from a negative which is a interesting way to show that the love that Romeo and Juliet share is very