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Similarities Between Romeo And Juliet

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Prior to their love affair, Romeo and Juliet were complete opposites. Juliet, categorized as an Eros lover, had a “normal”, happy childhood (with at least one secure parental figure), and knew love existed but wasn’t desperately searching for it. Meanwhile, a Mania lover, such as Romeo, is pessimistic, over dramatic, and yearns for light, but makes no effort to reach it. When souls such as Romeo and Juliet’s cross, it causes an extreme attraction concluding in a collision, ending both of the lover’s lives as they are remembered as tragic heroes. Throughout Juliet’s seemingly untroubled and satisfactory childhood, she was fortunate enough to have, not only a personal servant, but the Nurse being someone she could trust, acting as a best …show more content…

The prior Juliet said “I’ll look to like, if looking liking move;/ But no more deep will I endart mine eye/ Than your consent gives strength to make it fly” (I.iii.97-99), promising her mother that she would stay inside the restraints Lady and Lord Capulet placed on her and Paris’s love. This same girl was suddenly was making secret plans to get married the very next day. “Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” (II.ii.144). When her husband of a few days was banished from Verona, she broke down to near insanity. “‘Romeo is banished’ - to speak that word/ Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet,/ All slain, all dead. ‘Romeo is banished’” (III. ii. 122-124). She was willing to go to measures such as killing herself in order to not marry County Paris, refusing to be a wife of two men, even though her chances of ever seeing Romeo again were slim. “Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,/ Then it is likely thou wilt undertake/ A thing like death to chide away this shame” (IV. i. 72-74). She settled for just a taste of death. “... appear like death;/ And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death;/ Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours” (IV. i. 103-105). Then when she found her husband dead lying on the ground next to her upon her awaken, she knew her plan had failed. Juliet decided a life without Romeo is not a life she wants to live. In result, she found

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