Romeo and Juliet is often referred to as the greatest love story ever created but there has been an argument on Romeo and Juliet's relationship with each other. Romeo and Juliet's love is real.
Romeo and Juliet met at a Capulet party which is Juliet's family and Romeo's family's sworn enemy. Two days later, they got married. Before that, Romeo was in love with Rosaline, who didn't love him back and he was heartbroken. Yet when he saw Juliet, he forgot everything he said and thought of Rosaline. This is shown in these lines from the play in Act I Scene III, "Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night" Juliet was a Capulet, which hated the Montague family, Romeo's family.
Romeo and Juliet may love each other, but their relationship seems more creepy than romantic. It is creepy, but it is still real. In Act III Scene I, Romeo kills Tybalt, Juliet's cousin and as shown in Scene II, she says she'd rather hear that Tybalt is dead than hear that Romeo is alive, well, and banished from the city. She'd rather weep for her husband than weep for her cousin, "‘Romeo is banished,’ to speak that word, Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet, All slain, all dead. ‘Romeo is banished!’ There is no end, no limit, measure, bound, In that word’s death;" and also, they committed suicide for each other. That may be creepy and seem wrong but that's what brings me to my next point.
Romeo and Juliet, despite all differences, would do anything for each other. In Act IV, Juliet goes through faking her death, and being laid in a tomb with her dead, rotting, ancestors just to be with her banished husband. And in the end of the play, Romeo kills himself to be in Heaven with his beloved Juliet only to be revealed that she was still alive, and then when she woke and saw that Romeo had been killed, she then commited suicide "for my love" They are willing to end their own lives, leaving behind family and friends for someone they met about a week ago. And that may be creepy, but that shows how much they would do for each other, and that's what really matters in true love.
Romeo and Juliet's love is real because they still loved each other with all those differences and complications in play, they still loved each other, and surely some things in their love isn't so romantic, but their proving of what they would do for them is beyond your average dating relationship. Thus concluding that their love is real.
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Great start! Your first paragraph needs to be more precise. One could argue that you are proving that they ARE NOT in love. In the middle paragraph you need to make it clear you are noting the "counter argument" to your own. Keep after it.
ReplyDeleteGood job with using quotes from the play!!
ReplyDeleteGood job and the structure and working in the counter argument! However I think it would be better if you added a bit more stronger arguments!
ReplyDeleteIn the beginning I believed you, yourself, believed that their love was creepy. Perhaps clear that up a bit? But otherwise, you've done well!!!
ReplyDeleteI like the peers comments. Things you can improve: your argument becomes unclear when you try to add the part about it being creepy (I get it but it doesn't read well), your intro needs to be rewritten as the first sentence is awkward "an argument on … (their) relationship" isn't as clear as it could be, and you need to rethink how you framed why their family history is important. Things you did well: I love that you tried to touch on the "weird" concerns and still find it "true love", and I like that you included quotes and the Act/Scene combos for your evidence. :) Read Unjali for help with how to make the argument flow.
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