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How Does Shakespeare Present The Love Between Romeo and Juliet  

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How Does Shakespeare Present The Love Between Romeo and Juliet? Do you believe it is Genuine? Love is just one word, but has a variety of meanings in the English language, from something that gives little pleasure ("I loved that movie") to something one would die for such as patriotism or pair bonding. I view love as a feeling of deepened affection between two people. Oxford's dictionary describes love as "an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state". The Greek also have separate words to describe different types of love. 'Eros', which translates to physical/sexual love, 'Agape', which translates to religious love and 'Filial', which translates to maternal or family love. One could argue that that William Shakespeare explicitly contradicts the dictionary's definition of love in Romeo & Juliet by representing it in a combination of good and evil, eradicating the fact that love has no evil...

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