Romeo and Juliet- A Thin Line Between Love And Hate- Shades of Gray

Date Submitted: 05/05/2003 23:59:47
Category: / Literature / Novels
Length: 3 pages (710 words)
"Love" is a juxtaposed emotion that makes life uniquely human. Its ambivalence makes us ecstatic one minute and depressed the next. In Romeo and Juliet's occurrence, it was both ecstatic and depressing. They had an amalgamation between them that would never be destroyed, even through death. Their determination to stay together through the arduous times was astonishing, even when they knew that their relationship would never be normal because of a family feud. They never …
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…so know the template it ultimately must fit; as Tennyson so eloquently understood it, "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all." Works Cited: Leland, John. Class notes and discussion. Shakespearean Tragedies. Virginia Military Institute, 4 February 2000 through 17 February 2000. Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. In Memoriam.27. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1996.
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