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Romeo And Juliet Cause And Effect Essay

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When your eyes interlock with the “one” you feel like your world has lit up, the heavens have come down and you would do anything in your power to be with them. Everything in your way will be gone no matter the hate, and violence. This is the same way Romeo and Juliet feel about each other, with just one look and one meeting everything started like a domino effect. A story of the difficulty of love, and hiding feelings from the ones they love dearly. A feud for ages, with a solution at hand. A story of joy, pain, and death of the lovers. Romeo and Juliet is a love story unlike any other piece of magic by William Shakespeare. It shows that love at first sight is possible True love at first sight might not be possible as one might feel lust …show more content…

forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night”(1.5). Upon Romeo of the first meeting with Juliet, he is in awe of the beauty he has seen. Not knowing who she was, or even her personality he was said to be in love, which is more like lust and just in love with her looks. He just had ‘loved’ Rosaline but just in a few days that love vanished for the glimpse of Juliet meaning there was no real love there in the beginning. Over time though there is a big difference between love and lust and only loving for looks and that is the measure to which one goes, the extent that one goes to be with one another. Instead of finding someone new and thinking of someone else the one in love would do anything to be together.“ With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls,/For stony limits cannot hold love out”(2.2.66-67). The intense family rivalry separating Romeo and Juliet meant nothing to them. The level of extent Romeo took to be with Juliet. Breaking the rules, risking getting killed, and doing difficult stunts just for Romeo to hear and speak to Juliet. His love is too powerful for anything to stop him and unlike he never went to such an extent for Rosaline. “My

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