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    To begin with, both stories are based on a tragedy that came between their love. The main characters are the ones who end up dead. I’m talking about the story about Romeo and Juliet which is not alike to Pyramus and Thisbe, but there are some similarities. Let me start off with the differences. In your own perspective, you can tell me if there mostly alike or not alike. Romeo and Juliet didn’t know each other, they didn’t talk about each other before, didn’t communicate, and didn’t…

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    act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit into a certain category that was often unattainable. Dracula illustrates the gender roles of the Victorian age by following the eerie escapades of the Count Dracula and his victims. The stereotypes of the Victorian age seem to linger even after more…

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    Throughout Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the author suggests that when people are mourning a loved one, they can express their love for them in ruinous ways. The belief of people acting in regretful methods because of intense love, is another concept that is reflected in the story of the two love birds. Romeo and Juliet conveys an idea of destructive behavior that is caused by impassioned love, when Romeo exhibits disastrous actions when he kills Tybalt, Paris, and even himself.…

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    As a young man or woman, love is a new concept that is often mixed up with attraction. People who experience the phenomena of “love at first sight” only find each other attractive. In the movie Romeo and Juliet, Romeo talks about how he has never seen a girl as beautiful as Juliet when he first lays eyes upon her. This means that he had found her beautiful and doesn’t necessarily love her. As a teenager, love is such a new abstraction and point of curiosity that teens do foolish things just to…

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    In William Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet’s, dreams were destroyed. A common question that is asked when reading this love story is, did Romeo have the power to choose what he wanted to do or was he destined to play his part in this tragedy? The hope Romeo and Juliet getting married and living happily ever after was crushed. Fate plays the role of a watchdog right from the start. Destiny, a greater power, takes control and signals the outcome of the star-crossed lovers story. Romeo’s fate…

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    Would you rather be single or be with the wrong person? In the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, the Swedish singer Christine Daae is torn in a weird love triangle between two men: the handsome, rich, yet controlling and jealous Raoul, the Viscount of Chagny and the mysterious, talented, yet ugly and violent Erik, the Opera Ghost. Raoul was Christine’s childhood sweetheart and he wants to win her back. Erik is a masked man that slowly falls in love with Christine, while he hides…

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    In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet the characters Tybalt and Benvolio are presented as personalities opposing each other throughout the play.Tybalt is staged as a character who prefers to take action and fight to be patriotic to his family. On the other hand Benvolio who is Romeo's best friend chooses to keep peace between him and Tybalt, but likewise between the two families - Montagues and Capulets. And Shakespeare has given both Tybalt and Benvolio the necessity to be loyal to their…

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    For many centuries love has been defined as many things like as the worst thing you can ever experience or the best thing that can ever happen to a human being depending on the experience and can be defined by different people this is one of the definitions of love: true love is putting someone else's needs before your own and to want what is best for them. The story of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet are two starcrossed-lovers both their families are similar in dignity…

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    How Can Love Be A Tragedy

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    Can love be a tragedy? In Williams Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it is just that. A tale set where two hate ridden families must learn to love one another. The Capulets and Montagues rivalry tearing everyone, both their families and Verona apart. Romeo and Juliet is a timeless classic that has stayed elegant and yet evolved with the generations that read it in ways such as, the plot, characters and ending. The plot of Romeo and Juliet has always been about two forbidden lovers in Verona,…

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is commonly known as one of literature’s finest romances, but it is actually one literature’s most ironic romances. While it is a well-written piece of literature, it is a very unrealistic and sudden story of how two star-crossed lovers meet and end. Since Romeo and Juliet’s relationship is formed during a few days, the two are not truly in love. The couple was not truly in love, but rather they were carried away with their emotions, tried to escape their…

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