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Lust In William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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Whilst reading the theatrical work, the author proves that Romeo rushed into the relationship with Juliet due to lust and caused a troubled future. Starting off, Romeo married Juliet while he only knew her for a couple days “Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.” says Friar Lawrence (ll.vi.14-15). Which totally goes against what he says because they are rushing into the marriage too quickly. This shows, that since they have not known eachother long they want to get married, that it is lust because they know nothing about each other. Second, Romeo then kills himself because he believes that Juliet is dead. First he buys poison and tell the apothecary to buy food and is saying “I sell thee poison;
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