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After reading both the Canterbury Tales and Romeo and Juliet, one can clearly understand that both of these famous works of literature are driven solely by the exercise and control of human passions. ... The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories consisting of different tales, while Romeo and Juliet is a play that is focused on two young individuals who fall in love and in the end they commit suicide. ...
The tragic play Romeo and Juliet is one that involves two main characters. ... Romeo, the main character is a passionate, intelligent, and a well-liked young man that is admired throughout Verona. In the preliminary scenes of the play, Romeo sees Juliet at a social gathering. ... Unlike Romeo, Juliet is a young, innocent girl who is startled by the sudden power of her love for Romeo. ...
This attraction is immediate and rather overwhelming, and neither Romeo nor Juliet even attempts to pretend to understand its cause. ...
At times during the tragedy, love is described in the terms of religion, as in the fourteen lines when Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. ... Juliet, the young and innocent lover, best describes her love for Romeo by just refusing to describe it: "But my true love is grown to such excess, I cannot sum up some of half my wealth" (III. ...
The main theme of human passion that drives the characters in Romeo and Juliet to their actions is clearly love. ... Besides their closeness and their love Romeo and Juliet were truly destined to be with each other. Shakespeare characterizes their love calling it spontaneous and he portrays Juliet as a mother figure despite her being a young girl.
Approximate Word count = 1299
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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