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This essay will show to what extent Shakespeare convincingly portrays the phenomenon of love at first sight in Romeo and Juliet.  

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This essay will show to what extent Shakespeare convincingly portrays the phenomenon of love at first sight in Romeo and Juliet. One of the first things that make reader believe in love at first sight is the way Shakespeare created two characters who should of hated each other in the form of Romeo and Juliet but who instantly fell in love the moment they first saw each other. This shows the reader that even though they were from feuding families and were each others enemies love at first sight was in itself was a real enough force to make two people fall in love The first message in the play is where straight away Shakespeare makes his first reference to love "... A pair of star crossed lovers take their life... Doth with their death bury their parents' strife" Even though this does not refer to love at first sight directly it...

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