Love at first sight is a simple concept. However, it can be experienced at many different levels of love. In Romeo and Juliet, the moment Romeo sees Juliet, he immediately devotes himself to her. He says “The measure done, I'll watch her place stand/ and touching hers, make blessed my rude hand. / Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / for I ne'er saw true beauty till this night” (Shakespeare 53). Shortly after Romeo meets Juliet, he immediately woos her and kisses her, forgetting entirely about Rosaline, his previous love. Their experience of love at firs sight was so intense that they forgot to even tell each other their names. Claudio and Hero' experience of love at first sight is not quite as spectacular. When Claudio is talking to Prince about Hero he says “O, my lord, / when you went onward on this ended action, / I looked upon her with a soldier's eye, / that liked but had a rougher task in hand / than to drive liking to the name of love. / But now I am returned and that war thoughts / Have left their places vacant, in their rooms / Come thronging soft and delicate desires, / All prompting me how fair young Hero is…” (Shakespeare 25) Here, Claudio says that he had liked Hero before, but now he is ready to make a move, he likes her but he does not go crazy about her. He doesn't really know what to do though. So Prince offers to woo her sometime soon in the name of Claudio while wearing a mask. Romeo is clearly much more vigorous and reckless than Claudio, who is much more conservative and thoughtful. The drastic difference in Much Ado About Nothing is that Hero does not even know that Claudio loves him at all until that night. Pace of the love is clearly different in the two plays. Romeo and Juliet's experience of love at first sight is much faster paced and intense, While Claudio and Hero's is much more laid back and careful. Love at first sight is only one aspect of love that is in both plays.

The manipulation of love is a common thing in both plays. In Much Ado About Nothing, almost all the main characters participate in a scheme to get Benedick and Beatrice, who are bitter enemies, to love each other. Prince says, “I will teach you how to humor your cousin /, that she shall fall in love with Benedick; / and I, with your two helps, will so practice on Benedick that, / in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, / he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, / Cupid is no longer an archer: / his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods” (Shakespeare 69) Prince, Hero, Leonato, and Claudio try to make Benedick and Beatrice love each other by telling each that the other is crazy about them. This makes them look upon the other in a new light and eventually love. Also in Much Ado About Nothing, Claudio is fooled by Don Jon to believe out Hero has been cheating on him, Friar tries to makes everything better by faking Hero's death to make Claudio realize how much he loved Hero and to feel bad about how he treated her so that they could get back together when Hero is “resurrected”. In Romeo and Juliet, Capulet tries to manipulate Juliet to love Paris when she already loves Romeo. “Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds, / But fettle your fine joints "gainst Thursday next / You go with Paris to Saint Peter"s Church, / Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither” (Shakespeare 167). While Capulet's strategy is to force Juliet to the wedding, believing that she will be happier when she gets married and gives her no choice in the matter and Capulet's plan fails. Friar Lawrence in is in a similar predicament as the friar in Much Ado About Nothing, he tries a similar plan for Juliet except for that he is trying to fool everyone but Romeo. This way Paris will think that Juliet is dead and will give up trying to marry her. Again, in Romeo and Juliet people are given no choice in the manipulation of their love. Again the plan fails. In both plays the lovers have to ask their parents if their love is permissible, to do this they have to manipulate their love to seem acceptable. Claudio asks Leonato politely and in the traditional fashion if he could marry his daughter Hero. Leonato accepts and is overjoyed to marry his daughter to such a man. While on the other hand, Romeo and Juliet decide to skimp on the courting process and get married right away. Their marriage ended in tragedy. It seems as though the brute force strategy of love manipulation does not work nearly as well as slowly convincing people that it is for the greater good. Another example of how love in Romeo and Juliet is fast paced and reckless. Not just the little aspects of love in the books are different, entire love stories are also perfect examples of the difference between the two books.

The love stories of Benedick and Beatrice and Romeo and Juliet are radically different. Benedick and Beatrice are tricked from hating each other into loving each other. It is the same case for Romeo and Juliet; their families hate each other also. But there are many differences between the two couples. First of all Beatrice and Benedick have a bona fide love between them, they even write love poems to each other as proof of their love at the end of the play. Benedick and Beatrice must be coaxed out of their hate for each other in order for them to love each other. But after this process they actually love each other instead of hate. Benedick carries out his love for Beatrice in a traditional way. Benedick asks Leonato, Beatrice's uncle for Beatrice's hand in marriage and the friar to help him “But for my will, my will is your goodwill / May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined / in the state of honorable marriage- / in which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.” (Shakespeare 222). But Romeo and Juliet just have the power of lust on their side. Friar exemplifies this by saying “Young men's love then lies / not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes” (Shakespeare 89). WhenRomeo sees Juliet, he totally forgets his hate for her family in his lust, and the same goes for Juliet. Romeo and Juliet clearly rush through things a little too fast and should have been more careful, considering how their marriage ended up. Finally the end of their love journey is also radically different. Beatrice and Benedick have a happy ending and live put their lives as a happy couple. They took their time and made sure that they had done everything right before they tied the not. But yet again, Romeo and Juliet rust through the dating, the proposal, and the marriage, and look how they ended up. Rushing through a love affair will clearly end up in disaster, as Romeo and Juliet's example shows. They should have been more like Beatrice and Benedick.

Romeo and Juliet is a book of two teenagers who, in their lust, rush through an affair, marrying each other within only days of meeting each other. Their love ends in their tragic deaths. But Much Ado About Nothing is about two couples who take their time and take their love on the traditional path. Their love ends in happiness. Shakespeare's plays Romeo and Juliet takes a much more radical and rushed than in Much Ado About Nothing. This is shown by when Romeo and Juliet Experience love at first sight they automatically start kissing. But Claudio and Hero also experience love at first sight but they take their time and don't even talk to each other until that night. Also, in Romeo and Juliet many people try to manipulate love through brute force, giving people no decision in the matter, all attempts ended in disaster. But in Much Ado About Nothing the attempts to manipulate love included presenting a situation and the people making up their own minds about their love. These ended in success. And finally, throughout the whole love story of Romeo and Juliet, the rush, but Benedick and Beatrice take their time. Again the slow and steady approach is successful. Rushing always leads to disaster, therefore, slow and steady wins the race.

Life in fair Verona used to be peaceful, that is until an unknown disaster exploded between the Montague's and Capulet's. Generations later the feud still rages. The two households taking up hostility in the streets like a bunch of thugs, as witnessed in the beginning of the play, Act 1, Scene 1, where Benvolio and Tybalt fight for no apparent reason other than a name; and again in Act 3 Scene 1, A fight in which results in the death of Mercutio and later on in that scene, Tybalt. If not for the all-consuming hatred the two families share, these lives would not have been wasted. In the midst of this hatred, against all odds (as mentioned in the play's introduction) "a pair of star-cross'd lovers" find love in one another.

Love, in Romeo and Juliet, is extremely powerful; it can overwhelm a person just the same as hate can. The passionate love between Romeo and Juliet is joined from the moment of its origin with death. Tybalt sees that Romeo has crashed the Capulet's party and becomes determined to kill him just as Romeo sights Juliet and instantly falls for her. From that point on, love seems to push Romeo and Juliet closer to violence, not farther from it. Romeo and Juliet are plagued with thoughts of suicide, and a willingness to experience it; in Act 3, scene 3, Romeo wields a knife in Friar Lawrence's cell and threatens to kill himself after he has been banished from Verona and therefore, Juliet. Juliet also pulls a knife on herself in Friar Lawrence's presence just three scenes later.

After Capulet decides that Juliet will marry Paris, Juliet makes it clear that she would rather die than marry a man she does not love, "If all else fail, myself have power to die". Romeo and Juliet each imagine that the other looks dead the morning after their first, and only, sexual experience ("Methinks I see thee," Juliet says, ". . . as one dead in the bottom of a tomb". This continues until its inevitable end, double suicide. This tragic choice is the highest, most effective expression of love that Romeo and Juliet can make. It is only through death that they can keep their love alive, and their love is so bottomless that they are willing to die in its defence. Love leads as much to destruction as to happiness. But in its immense passion, the love that Romeo and Juliet experience also appears so beautiful that few would want to resist its power.

Romeo and Juliet depict many examples of love and hate. The deaths suffered in this play could have been avoided if the feud was resolved. Hate leads to love, love leads to hate; it is that endless cycle that consumed the lives of Romeo and Juliet.

I believe Friar Laurence have the weakest affect on Juliet's death because all of the plans that he have prepared had failed due to misfortunate events. One example was when he helped the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, because Juliet therefore cannot marry to another person to cover up her secret marriage with Romeo since only one marriage is allowed at the period of time. Another example of his failed plans was when Juliet drank his medicine which faked her death, Romeo thought she had actually when he came to Juliet's tomb, but he doesn't know that the medicine takes time to wear out. One more example of Laurence's plan failure is that he left at the most crucial moment when he's needed the most, because he could stop Juliet to commit suicide if he notice what Juliet is about to do.

Secondly, Tybalt had the second strongest affect on Juliet's death because with his hatred against all Montagues, he tried to banish Romeo. When Tybalt strikes Mercutio down with his sword, Mercutio says, “Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm”, Romeo felt guilty and decides to avenge his friend by killing Tybalt. As a result, he becomes banished from Verona. This occurrence also led Juliet to feel emotionally hopeless and suicidal. With Romeo gone from Verona, the news of Juliet's fake death cannot reach him easily therefore communication became a problem. This communication problem causes the misleading death of both Romeo and Juliet.

Lastly, Lord Capulet had the strongest affect on Juliet's death because he's the father of Juliet. When Count. Paris asks Capulet for permission to marry Juliet, Capulet thought the marriage will be great, because Paris is rich and handsome. Since Juliet's at the age to become a mother, Capulet is determined to get her a husband and he's sure that Paris would make a great husband for her daughter. One example of which Capulet had caused the death of Juliet is when he forced Juliet to marry Count. Paris, because Juliet had already laid eyes on Romeo and that she can't live without him. When Juliet decides to fake her death, Romeo became misled and killed himself, and after Juliet waked up and sees Romeo died, she killed herself as well.

At the beginning of the play, Juliet obeys her parents. She listens to her mom when she says to think about getting married. Although she is not interested in marriage right then, she still tells her mom that "It is an honor that I dream of" (1.3.66). Here Juliet is talki8ng to her mom and the nurse about her interests of getting married and what she thinks about it. Juliet also trusts the nurse.

During the middle of the play, there is some change in Juliet. At a party, she meets Romeo. The next day, they get married. This marriage, though, she does not tell her parents bout, but then she tells the nurse so that she cam arrange the marriage with Friar Lawrence and Romeo. That same day, Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from Verona. After all this happens, her dad starts yelling at her because she will not marry Paris.

In the end of the play, Juliet is disregarding of what her parents say. Her dad is yelling at her for not wanting to marry Paris. Then, the next day, she goes to her dad and tells him that she has done wrong to argue against him and that she is sorry. She may say this, but she does not actually mean it. Following the argument, she and the nurse talk, and the nurse advises Juliet to marry Paris. After this, Juliet feels hurt inside because now she can only trust the friar and Romeo.

From the beginning to the end of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet goes from obeying her parents to completely disregarding them. Outside of this play, it is possible for one's personalities to change. If someone were to do something and then be sent to jail, for instance, they would see that if they kept doing that bad thing that they did, then they would try to change so they will not be sent to jail for a longer time. That is how Juliet changes throughout the play, Romeo and Juliet.

As for the servant's brawl, the Capulet servants picked a fight in the streets by “biting their thumbs” at the Montague servants. The scene rapidly grew into a ferocious melee between the two houses. Even the lords came and joined the battle! Some people were wounded, others were killed. In the end, the Prince came out with his royal procession and proclaimed that if any more fighting was observed, it would be punishable by death.

Perhaps a slightly less serious conflict took place when Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio went to meet with Juliet's nurse. Their heated argument started when Romeo makes and inference comparing the nurse to a ship. Mercutio then follows up his comment with an insult of his own after the nurse requests Peter to get her fan, “Good Peter, to hide her face; for her fan's the fairer face.” (II. iv.) Later on, after everyone leaves, Romeo attempts to compensate the nurse for her sufferings at the hands of Mercutio.

The last conflict that I will discuss probably has the most dire consequences, over the most trivial argument. The famous scene begins when Mercutio rashly starts picking a fight with Tybalt. Mercutio eventually goes so far as to draw his rapier on Tybalt. Unfortunately for him, Tybalt accepts his challenge and they fight. Remembering the Prince's words about conflicts in the streets, Romeo attempts to secure peace between them, but it was to no avail. Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo's arm, and he shortly dies after cursing plagues on the houses of the Capulets and the Montagues.

Shortly, Tybalt returns to challenge Romeo, and Romeo kills him. Benvolio urges Romeo to flee, because of the promised death sentence from the Prince. Benvolio tells the Prince what happened, and since there were deaths on both sides, the Prince banishes Romeo to the nearby town of Mantua.

This conflict impacts the story by making it interesting to read, and gives the reader the feeling that anything can happen at any time. Without conflict, this book would just be another love story with a happy ending. By making Romeo and Juliet rife with conflict, Shakespeare sets it apart from other standard love stories where the characters end up living happily ever after.

When Lord Capulet tells Juliet that she will be marrying Paris, she chose not to tell him that she was already married to Romeo. Because he did not know Juliet was already married, he believed that her actions were ungrateful, and was punished for it. Instead of telling the truth she chose to pretend to go to the church to ask for forgiveness, and instead went to ask the Friar for help.

During Juliet's conversation with Lord Capulet he tells Juliet that he only has one child, and apparently that is one to many,"....That God had lent us but this only child, But now I see this one is one to much, And that we have a curse in having her." (3.5.172-174).

Another bad decision is one made by Romeo that could have prevented the entire tragedy. When Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio were on their way to crash the party, at any time Romeo could have realized that it was a bad idea and turned around. That would have prevented Romeo and Juliet meeting in the first place. Romeo does in fact, take the time to think about it, but shrugs off the idea of turning around and tells himself and the other boys to continue onward toward the Capulets home.

Romeo and his friends find an easy way to sneak in by wearing masks. Masks were often worn by young bachelors while at parties. It gives the less handsome boys a chance to have a good time and get to know some of the girls their same age. Because Romeo chooses to ignore his instinct and continue on to the party and, he soon meets Juliet.

At the time neither of them knew that they were related to the one family that their family hated. By the time they knew the identity of their lover, there was nothing they could do. At this point Romeo and Juliet could have made the smart decision and just gone on with their lives, instead they decide to continue their relationship even though they know that it would be against their parent's wishes.

When Romeo is on the way to the party he ignores his instinct and continues toward the party,".... But he that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail. On lusty gentlemen." (1.4.119-120).

The story of Romeo and Juliet can be looked at in many different ways, it can be looked on as a story of love or a story of hate, it can be a story of bad luck, or it can be a story about bad choices. Romeo and Juliet made their own decisions and lived the lives they wanted to, therefore leading to their death. They decided that their love was stronger than their parent's wishes, and paid the consequences for their actions in the end.