Sunday, March 15, 2009

#13 & #14 - 2 in 1 ---War + Love




Romeo and Juliet (War + Love)

There are many various kinds of war like war between countries or between families. But whatever the kind of the war is, almost war affects lots of people's lives, and love is the part of our lives. There are many stories about war and love, and "Romeo and Juliet" is the one of the famous story about two families war and love. War can affects loves like it force them not be able to meet each other and seperated, but I think war cannot change their true love. Even they love each other a lot, they have to overcome lots of problems. But I think love is kind of fortune, which is hard to stop or prevent. Tybalt said, "Peace? Peace. I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee. " This quote tells us how serious their hatered and war was between those two families. Falling in love with enemy would be really hard to believe at first time. Juliet said, "My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy. " She had hard time to believe herself falling in love with enemy,but she finally notice that it's not her willing, but fortune. So the war can affect their life or the result of the love, but they cannot stop their love, like in Romeo and Juliet, they finally choosed death together for keeping their love. For example, "And when I shall die, take him and cut him up in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will fall in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun." from Juliet. Love between Romeo and Juliet was hard to keep because of the serious hatred and war between their families, and this war led these lovers to the death, but it couldn't stop and ruin their true love. Love was a fortune which no one cannot stop for them.



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IMDb.com. "Memorial quotes for Romeo and Juliet". An Amazon.com Company. 1990-2009. <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117509/quotes>


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