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Critically examine the ways in which love and marriage are presented in ROMEO and JULIET
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Critically examine the ways in which love and marriage are presented in ROMEO and JULIET In this essay I am going to examine love and marriage and the way it is presented in the play 'Romeo and Juliet'. William Shakespeare is one of the most famous writers in British history. During Shakespeare's time, attitudes to love and marriage were very different to the ways we are used to today. Love is presented as an intense and overwhelming force in the story and different forms of love are presented. There is 'courtly love' and also romantic love. Romeo and Juliet were both children from 'aristocratic' families. During the 15th and 16th centuries, Italy was divided into different areas of land owned by different groups of people. All of these areas were ruled by the 'Romeo and Juliet' families, the Montagues and the Capulets. This was the recipe for intense rivalry and ill...
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