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Capulet's Ideal Form Of Love In Romeo And Juliet

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Love is an intense emotion, which influences decisions relating to impetuousness. In Act 1 Scene 5 Lord Capulet hosts a masked ball, which is common for the upper class in Elizabethan times to attend, as it shows a symbol of their high society status. Romeo attends in order to win Rosaline; who he instantly forgets as soon as he lays eyes on Juliet. He articulates on Juliet’s beauty; where he uses similes and metaphors in “Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.” These comparisons in the excerpt help emphasise Romeo’s characteristic of being an impulsive romantic. As well as supporting Romeo’s ideal form of love which is courtly love. Within twenty-four
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