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    that heartbreak is a part of love. To start, for Malvolio, Orsino and Olivia, the person they love does not love them back. Furthermore, Olivia, Viola and Sebastian are sorrowful due to losing their sibling. And finally, social norms make it unacceptable for Viola (Cesario) and Antonio to go after the person they want to be with. In all, this goes to show that happiness is not the only effect of love. First of all, Malvolio, Orsino and Olivia’s love are not returned by the person

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    isolation and loneliness that she felt. She loved Dorrigo, well at least she though she did, but it sometimes seemed to her that her love was an unrequited love. It was as id Dorrigo was just going through the motions with her; that she was just part of some elaborate game in which Dorrigo must take part. There was a time in which Ella thought that Dorrigo did love her but over time it seemed that they became more and more distant and as if she bored Dorrigo. Slowly his leave became fewer and further

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    I have actually never experienced unrequited love, so I wouldn’t know what it would feel like to go through that, but I have been the recipient. It wasn’t just once but multiple times that I have been the person to reject or just not care about someone’s affection towards me. Out of all the time that it had happened I didn’t really care until one or maybe even two boys got a bit excessive. If anything I’ve always just felt bad or weirded out but for these boys, I just wanted them to get away from

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    in the enhancing of the deeper parts of the poem. To test this I took the same topic/theme of two of the poems from this set and attempted to portray it in a different light. This theme/topic being exploring the feelings and emotions tied to unrequited love. The main aspect of the poem is the obvious tone shift from lighthearted comedy to contemplating sadness, starting slowly between the second and third stanza and slowly building up more and more as the poem continues. This foil accentuates the

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    Night’s Dream, true love plays a huge role in the play. Several relationships begin true love such as Hermia and Lysander’s and Hypolyta and Thesus’ but some that did not begin in true love, end as true love such as Helena and Demetrius’. Helena and Demetrius in my perspective were meant to love each other so that everyone may be able to love each other in harmony. The love potion was only the push Demetrius needed so that he could be happy forever True love is the most powerful love in this story

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    The Impact of Unrequited Love Love changes every individual in unique ways. The changes love possess over an individual may result in unhappiness. A person who suffers from unrequited love may experience hardship. In the 17th century romantic comedy, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, the playwright utilizes Viola’s unrequited love to show how affection may become the cause of suffering. Those who fall prey to love may experience heartache. Unrequited love does not discriminate against man

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    types of love in the world. Romeo and Juliet is a dramatic tragedy written by William Shakespeare in 1597. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed lovers who because of their feuding families, can never be together, and later kill themselves. Through the use of oxymorons, imagery, metaphors and characterisation, Shakespeare conveys the themes of unrequited and fake, contractual, maternal and romantic love. Shakespeare uses tone and oxymorons to express the idea of unrequited and fake

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    A Midsummer’s Love “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind.” (Shakespeare, act 1) Shakespeare had a way with words and a story line full of romance. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream there is a range of characters falling in or falling out of love- due to magic or from the forces of nature. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is filled with different types of love such as romantic love, friendship love, and unrequited love. It is the type love that goes over

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    particular person they love, yet their investment in their relationship oftentimes end in utter rejection. Orsino appears to have a strong love for the Countess Olivia, but in the end, he falls in love and marries Viola. In the early 1600s comedy Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare reveals through the development of Orsino the love and desire towards an apparent loved one, thereby, showing the fluidity of love and its presence in interactions between two people. The first love of an individual may

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    Night's Dream, love is central theme. Throughout the plays entirety, love is seen in many forms. One of the first forms of love that is seen is the parental love of Egeus towards Hermia; however, Egeus' love towards Hermia makes him want what he think is best for her, even if she does not want to do what he wants. Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius instead of Lysander, who Hermia romantically loves, because he thinks Demetrius is a better person, even though he is not. Egeus' love could also be seen

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