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Compare Shakespeare’s attitudes to love and hate in Romeo and Juliet  

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James Cannon Compare Shakespeare's attitudes to love and hate in Romeo and Juliet In Shakespearean time love was not a common thing, as most marriages were arranged by the parents to keep the families' wealth and status the same. Love was usually looked down at especially if expressed in public, as it was supposed to be some kind of structure from many sonnets. Shakespeare showed very well love as being a rigid institution as he used many sonnets through the play. He used the sonnets when love or a marriage was present; this shows the marriage as having a bit of structure in it and the way they had to express their love. A sonnet was an inflexible and ordered poem as it had to be about 14 lines long, have a problem and a solution throughout and be around 10 syllables per line. No one could fully express there love for each...

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