Love is the strong attraction between two people born from desire and intimacy. Lust is the physical manifestation of what many would call love, but in reality this feeling can bend the will of any man or woman. Lust is power, it is passion and it can motivate. Love and lust have one thing in common: they have the ability to kill. Thus the tragedy affects a wary, but inevitable feeling that every person experiences at least once in their life. Love in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Everyone knows that Romeo and Juliet are supposedly in love; many think differently. For example, this love story is a love story, a love on the journey with death. Have you ever heard of Bonnie and Clyde, Cleopatra and Marc Antony or the couple from Titanic? If so, notice how the romance generally turns out to be terrible. It usually ends in death, but also presents alternatives, such as: tragic loss, separation, or heartbreak. Three things about love covered in the play Romeo and Juliet are romance, fairy tales, and sacrifice. Romance is a seed waiting to blossom in the presence of extreme feelings for another. Hazlitt thinks that Romeo and Juliet is a representation of how love between generations changes and undergoes an evolution that cannot be defined (Hazlitt). Schlegel thinks that love in a romance is an ethereal authority that controls "Romeo and Juliet" and their private marital matters, and is also a sign of a miserable end (Schlegel). “It is to me a prodigious birth of love, that I should love a hated enemy” (Shakespeare). Baker thinks Shakespeare tapped into the serious side of literature by making Romeo and Juliet the “perfect tragedy” (Baker). A fairy tale is a story in which unexpected outcomes occur and leads to a happy ending. Copeland believes that Shakespeare's “Ro... middle of paper... Web. 10Panagopoulos, Nic. "Vittoria and Romeo and Juliet: Eros and Thanatos." Conradiana 39.2 (2007): 135+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. 10Radel, Nicholas F. “Ethiopia's Ear: Race, Sexuality, and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet of William Shakespeare.” The Emerging Crow 28 (2009): 17+. Literary resources from Gale. Network. January 10, 2014.Schlegel, August Wilhelm. "Criticisms of Shakespeare's Tragedies." Trans. Giovanni Nero. A cycle of lessons on dramatic art and literature. August Wilhelm Schlegel. Ed. A JW Morrison. 1846. Rpt. in Shakespearean criticism. Ed. Mark W. Scott. vol. 5. Detroit: Gale Research, 1987. Literary resources from Gale. Web.Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. http://shakespeare.mit.edu.Wright, Laurence. "Fool's Hill: A South African Romeo and Juliet?" English in Africa 31.2 (2004): 73+. Literary resources from Gale. Net. 10