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Eamon Barkhordarian

Ms. Munger

Literary Style “D”

3 October 2008

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Title: The Fate of Romeo and Juliet’s Love

Reflections: What worked well, what still needs work...

I might have to go into a little more detail with eh ideas/questions and I need to

backup my answers a little more. I still need to improve my vocabulary a little to

make the essay a little more interesting to grab the reader’s attention. Maybe add

or cut some things from or to my essay to make the size more appropriate.

Commitment: In this ESSAY I have paid special attention to…

Focusing on what my thesis sentence mentioned: love and fate, and provide

thorough examples and reasons that support my thesis throughout the essay. I also

use questions and quotes to make the essay more interesting.

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Eamon Barkhordarian

Ms. Munger

Literary Style “D”

3 October 2008

Throughout the book Romeo and Juliet, the relationship between parent and child

was very distinct. In Romeo and Juliet’s case, they both become rebellious after

encountering one another. Before seeing Romeo, Juliet was a very cooperate girl that

always listened to her mother. Even Romeo who was even a little rebellious before

encountering Juliet developed actual unruliness once he experienced true love. The main

reason why the couple was rebellious was because the two shared each other’s love

regardless of the feud that was taking place between their two families. Even after Romeo

murdered Tybalt, he did not just leave the town, but risked his life in order to say a final

farewell to his one true love. This showed that even a feud between two families could

not separate the couple from each other’s site, showing what true love really means. But

the fact that their parents prohibited their children to date created a lot of problems for the

two. It was because of their parent’s restrictions that the two killed themselves in the end.

It’s like they always say, “All great things must come to an end.” “But how did it end up

where two lovers find themselves in the middle of a family feud, and that that very love

was what killed them in the end?” you might ask. Well, I believe it all comes down to two

words that can never be defined no matter how hard to try, love and fate.

Romeo and Juliet were both very rebellious children. Even though the feud that

was occurring between the two families might have not been the smartest thing that was
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going on at the time, it was still considered an act of rebellion that the two were meeting

with each other in secret. But it was not completely Romeo and Juliet’s fault for acting

rebellious. For the first time in his life, Romeo experienced true love which is something

no man can be separated from. And for the first time in Juliet’s days, she finally found the

perfect man that would devote his life to her needs. It was not their fault the two ended up

in a feud between their two families, so why should they be taken apart by something

they were born into? In the end, the purpose of prohibiting the kids to date at such a

young age backfired. The restriction did not protect the kids from learning mature

concepts at such a young age, but rather killed the couple in the end. Once again, it is

love that brought the two together and fate that lead to the demise of a young and happy

couple that had just married two days ago.

The overall story of the book Romeo and Juliet went very quick. Romeo and

Juliet first met at the ballroom party. Two days after first encountering one another, the

couple gets married. Soon after their marriage, the two have a suicidal impulse, and kill

each other after a horrible turn of events. For much of the time, Romeo and Juliet very

much experienced young love. Young love is timid, the two involved are often rebellious

in order to obtain what they want, and normally the couple doesn’t establish a bond as

strong as an adult couple would. Yet at the same time, the love Romeo and Juliet

experienced was not young love at all, but something far more mature than their age.

Young love didn’t include the risk of dying to see the other, nor did it include the need to

marry in secret. But never would young love require you to go so far as to take your own

life in order to continue living with your love in the afterlife. Shakespeare shares my

same belief that always with a high comes a low, and he connects his belief with the
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theme of love. I believe that the young couple loved each other so much, that even the

obstacle of death would not separate them.

In conclusion, it was the very love that kept the two together that sealed their fate.

They would be together eternally in the heavens, but at the cost of their own lives. This is

the power of fate and the effects love has upon it. It is because of love that the two

became rebellious towards their family and it was love that helped them put the

differences of their families aside and focus on what truly mattered. It was fate that the

two found each other, and it was fate that ended their lives. You see, the two are closely

tied, and they were what took apart the young couple. It like they say, “All great things

must come to an end.”