"Romeo and Juliet"

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This paper analyzes Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" to the effect that Juliet is the central figure in the play. She is multi-faceted, a more complex character, while Romeo instead is ruled by his hasty emotions. It looks at various aspects of the play to end at this position, using sources from psychological journals as well as Shakespeare criticisms.

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"Romeo and Juliet: Juliet as a Powerful Figure Romeo and Juliet is a play which surrounds itself upon the themes of boundless passion and true love--a love that triumphs over the grave. However, it is much more than a love story, but an illuminator of significant contrasts: love and hate, the feminine and the masculine, youth and age, life and death, light and dark, and joy and sorrow. It is a play which consistently illuminates new uses and shows paradoxes. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the character of Juliet has been recently shown to be a fully developed, multi-faced character, while Romeo is a more passionate character, heavily influenced by hasty emotion. The passions of Romeo and Juliet are what is most central in this play."

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