Romeo and Juliet extended response

In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, we have seen different representations of love. There are numerous foreshadowing examples that are present throughout the play; some are said by the chorus, and others are said by the characters themselves. At the beginning of the play, the chorus tell the audience that there are two people that have fallen in love will both kill themselves, which tells the audience that fate controls everything, as well as giving an insight into what will happen later in the play. “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their lives;” (Act 1, Prologue, 6) In Romeo and Juliet, the character Mercutio doesn't seem to believe in love for another woman, instead he just feels that a woman is like a sex object, he just cares about the physical side of it and nothing else. “I conjure thee by Rosaline’s bright eyes, by her high forehead and her scarlet lip, by her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh, and the demesnes that there adjacent lie, that in thy likeness thou appear to us!” (Act 2, Scene 1, 19-23). At the beginning of the play, Romeo sees love as this horrible torture, as he has fallen deeply in love with a girl that won’t love him back. “Not mad, but bound more than a madman is; shut up in prison, kept without my food, whipt and tormented, and-God-den, good fellow.” (Act 1, Scene 2, 50-52) However, we see a transformation of Romeo’s views for love when he meets Juliet. “The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand, and touching her, make blessed my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” (Act 1, Scene 5, 44-47) When Romeo and Juliet first talk to each other, Shakespeare used a Shakespearean sonnet, which is a love poem from lines 90-97. Shakespeare then used a broken Shakespearean sonnet from lines 98-101, to show the true romance and positive love that Romeo and Juliet have. One technique used in Romeo and Juliet is motifs. In Act 1, Scene 2, line 25, a star motive is used by Capulet, where he creates imagery of heaven and stars.