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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Essay on Romeo And ]
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[x]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [Juliet. ]
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[ ]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 08/94 # of Words:859 School:Public Co-Ed State:NY
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Throughout the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet various types of "love" are
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displayed . Benvolio believes women are interchangeable, while, at the
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beginning Romeo bel ieves love is pain. At the beginning Juliet does not
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even have a definition of l ove. Paris's and Lady Capulet's definition of
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love is in appearance. It is obvio us that Shakespeare wants the audience
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to believe that the only "true" or "real" love is the love that exists
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between Romeo and Juliet. The first type of love the audience is introduced
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to is the "interchangeable" lo ve of Benvolio. According to Benvolio, a man
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should "love" a woman for only the duration of their relationship. If their
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relationship should end, the man should feel no grief. If the woman rejects
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the man initially, he should still feel no grief. In either situation, the
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man should simply start a relationship with anot her woman. Benvolio's
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definition of love shows the audience two things about Ben volio: he is a
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womanizer and he has never before experienced "true love." The next
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definition of love comes from Romeo, but before the time he met Juliet.
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According to his definition, love (or, rather, not returned love) is pain.
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He h ides from the sun due to the "love" he feels, and does not act like
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"himself." I believe Romeo is both right and wrong: not returned love is
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pain, but Romeo doe s not truly love, as he is merely infatuated by a
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woman. The next definition of love comes from Juliet, who, before meeting
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Romeo, did no t even have a definition of love. She appears not to know
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what love is, and, for that matter, does not seem to care. She remains
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ignorant until she meets Romeo.
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Another type of "love" we are exposed to during the same scene is the love of La
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dy Capulet. Lady Capulet believes love comes from appearance, both physical and
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political, and has nothing to do with emotion. She shows this when she speaks fa
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vorably of Paris's looks and his nobility. She also shows that she does not love
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Capulet when she publicly denounces him. The Nurse's opinion of love coincides
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with that of Lady Capulet.
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Paris has a similar view of love. His "love" for Juliet appears to be pure, but
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his reason does not. He loves Juliet for her appearance and nothing else. He reg
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ards her more as property than as an individual. He is also selfish in his "love
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." When he believes Juliet is dead (in Act IV) he seems sorrier for his own loss
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than Juliet's apparent loss. He "loves" Juliet as much as he can love anyone, b
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ut his love cannot be considered "true love" because of his selfishness.
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Finally, in Act II, the audience sees what is defined as "true love" in our soci
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ety. This "love" is the love that grows between Romeo and Juliet. The definition
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of "true love" Shakespeare provides the audience with states that all the other
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characters' definitions of love are wrong. It also states that when two people
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are in true love, there is no pain unless they are permanently separated. It sho
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ws that lovers are not interchangeable, and that love transcends appearance. It
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proves all except one other "love" in the play wrong. It also shows that real lo
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ve is not affected by distance or convenience. When two people are in "true love
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" they are not selfish to one another, do not care about appearances, and cannot
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live without one another. I agree with this definition of love (all except that
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without one another the lovers cannot survive).
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Romeo and Juliet's love for one another also goes beyond one other thing: names.
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It shows that names do not matter. In our society the difference in names would
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be equal to two people of different races. The people would come from racist fa
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milies in a modern day remake of the play.
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The last example of love in the play is parental love. This is shown in Act V sc
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ene iii. Lady Montague dies due to separation from her son. Capulet, Montague, L
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ady Capulet, and even the Nurse shows that they love either Romeo or Juliet in t
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his way.
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In the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet many types of love are shown. None of them ar
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e wrong, as the word "love" is subject to interpretation, but it is obvious that
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Shakespeare did not have this in mind when he wrote the play. Shakespeare shows
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us that the only type of love worth being in is "true love." He also shows us t
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hat, with all types of love, there is pain. If his goal was to influence the aud
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ience to believe that the only real love is the type of love that existed betwee
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n Romeo and Juliet, I believe he accomplished it.
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