Examples Of Turning Points In Romeo And Juliet

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Shakespeare beautifully captures someone who initially believes that love is defined by pain and sorrow but eventually comes to experience the passionate and complex feelings of love after meeting a certain someone. In Romeo and Juliet, the two competing families come together at the expense of their children because Romeo and Juliet fall in love. Romeo’s ideas of love reached turning points with his change of lovers, banishment and then death. One of Romeo's turning points was when he went from Rosaline to Juliet. At the start of the play, Romeo has feelings with Rosaline but his feelings are sorrowful and gloomy. He feels constrained and unable to soar. In the play Romeo states,”I am too sore enpiercèd with his shaft To soar with his light