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　　Topic: "Romeo and Juliet's love is doomed not just by the world around it, but by its own intensity." Do you agree?
　　 
　　          The tragedy we read of in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is the result of both the world surrounding them and also their blinding emotion. The continuous misinterpretation from the people around them leaves the young lovers in despair, and acts as a catalyst to fuel their emotions to an absolute extreme. Resentment between the two households influences greatly on their family and friends and, in the end, impacts on the lovers. Romeo and Juliet’s intense passion is uncontrollable, often compelling them to make irrational choices, and loving each other so immoderately poses as a danger it self.
　　          The misunderstanding between Romeo and Juliet and their family and friends is responsible for their doomed love. Capulet fails to understand Juliet’s unwillingness to marry the ideal man for her. Usually a loving father, he was in rage when Juliet refuses to marry Paris in Act III:
　　Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!
　　I tell thee what: get thee to church a’Thursday, 
　　Or never after look me in the face.
　　Speak not, reply not, do not answer me! (III.v.160)
　　Her father’s words result in a desperate Juliet, as she is deeply in love with Romeo and disinclined to betray him. Misunderstandings like these lead to desperate situations, and Romeo and Juliet’s feelings for one another is stimulated to a very dangerous point.
　　The continuous intrusions of the hate between the two households affect the people around Romeo and Juliet, and these people ultimately affect the young lovers. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, loathes the Montague family and Romeo: ‘To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.’ (I.v.58) Mercutio, on the other hand, hates Tybalt and the Capulets to the same degree. It is this very occupying anger and resentment towards one another that led to the fight with tragic outcomes. Overly influenced by the family feud, Romeo and Juliet’s friend and kinsmen produce surprising events that lead to the worst scenario.
　　          The feelings between Romeo and Juliet are liable for the tragedy too, as what they share for each other is an engulfing emotion that drives them to make radical decisions they would otherwise not consider. When divided by unexpected events caused by the outside world, the agony of separation fill their minds with death and suicide. Juliet, when forced to marry Paris, decides that, ‘If all else fail, myself have power to die’ (III.v.242) Romeo and Juliet think this is their only solution to end the torture of being without one another and to preserve their love. The troubled lovers, consumed by the flame of passion, make drastic decisions hastily without having a thought of the circumstances. Their intense love is extreme and dangerous. In the play, Friar Lawrence gives Romeo advice on the way to love: ‘Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast.’ (II.iii.94). Yet, Romeo pays no attention to these sensible words, tumbling into a consuming passion after meeting Juliet. Worried about the outcome of this love, the Friar warns him again of the overpowering emotion, ‘These violent delights have violent ends…’ (II.v.9). Not taking the Friar’s caution into consideration, Romeo and Juliet continues to love in an immoderate manner. Love can be as overwhelming, fierce and serious a sentiment as hate and, unaware and blinded by it, Romeo and Juliet steps into the tragedy of their condemned love – one that, as foreshadowed by Friar Lawrence, had a ‘violent end’.
　　With the ongoing feud between the Montagues and Capulets, Romeo and Juliet’s love is not to be a blissful one. The constant misunderstanding from friends and family fires up their feelings; the powerful hate from the world around them has too much an impact on their life, especially those people who are close to them. However, the irrational passion between them is to be accounted as well, for the feelings are consuming and blinding and affects their decisions and that an emotion as intense as theirs, it is dangerous. In the end, the heartbreaking tragedy is outcome of the world around them and their intense love.
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　　VH。