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Romeo And Juliet Literary Analysis

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The most famous love story in the world is Romeo and Juliet, written in 1579. Also, the women protagonist, Juliet, who is only thirteen, married at an incredibly young age. In the end, the two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, took their lives. Juliet is a well-behaved child until Act 4 Scene 2. In this act, she refused to marry the young man named County Paris, who is cousin to the Prince. Because of his nobility, Juliet's parents wanted her to marry him. Many people like the word "love" because of all emotions attached to it.; "love" is an emotion people get when they like the person or when you see you crush you get "butterflies" in your stomach; however it is just an emotion. On the day of the party at Lord Capulet's House, Lady Capulet told Juliet to try to have feelings for Paris, but Juliet could not because she …show more content…

That is just one opinion on this subject. There could be other people that don't believe this opinion also a lot of people who do. According to Wall Street Journal, "Some of the 41% of men versus 29% women say that they have experienced love at first sight,". Still According to Wall Street Journal, There are couples that have been married for years an example is there is an old couple that were married in the 1990s and live a very happy life. Also scientist say, " We are generally wired to for the possibility of love at first sight, but why it happens to some people and not others is largely a matter of timing and of self-assurance. A Lot of people,but it doesn't exist even though Romeo and Juliet said something's different that it does exist and to believe in it. But even though we think the play is bad and that we don't understand it, it a really good play and since we do not get the language of Shakespeare, if people look up the lines in the internet. Thanks to Professor Google we can read the information to translate the languages. In Act 1 Scene 5, Romeo and Juliet meet each other while they were dancing.

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