WHAT IS EVERLASTING LOVE?

Please reflect on and respond to the video clips in one complete paragraph.  What is revealed in the clips we just watched that connects to your concept of everlasting love?  What contradicts your beliefs?  What is the filmmaker trying to reveal?  Do you feel that these depictions are authentic?  You have less than 9 minutes.

LONG LASTING LOVE

Reflect on the clips taken from When Harry Met Sally.  How do the filmmakers portray these long-lasting relationships?  How do these interviews reflect the work you've done thus far in your exploration of romantic love?

Seeing the future in nature...

FRIAR LAURENCE
    The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
    Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light,
    And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels
    From forth day's path and Titan's fiery wheels:
    Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye,
    The day to cheer and night's dank dew to dry,
    I must up-fill this osier cage of ours
    With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers.
    The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;
    What is her burying grave that is her womb,
    And from her womb children of divers kind
    We sucking on her natural bosom find,
    Many for many virtues excellent,
    None but for some and yet all different.
    O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies
    In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities:
    For nought so vile that on the earth doth live
    But to the earth some special good doth give,
    Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use
    Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse:
    Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied;
    And vice sometimes by action dignified.
    Within the infant rind of this small flower
    Poison hath residence and medicine power:
    For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
    Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
    Two such opposed kings encamp them still
    In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
    And where the worser is predominant,
    Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.

  (Act II, sc. iii)                                                                             

In a complete paragraph, explain Friar Laurence's soliloquy.  How does his meditation on nature foreshadow possible future events in the play?  You have 10 minutes. 

Love at first sight

When Romeo first sees Juliet at the ball in Act I, sc. v, he is immediately taken with her.  He becomes a victim of love at first sight:   What lady's that, which doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight? ... O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear— Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows(50) As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I'll watch her place of 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.(55)
----- Cosmopolitan magazine reported that readers in Great Britain still believe in love at first sight, with only 28% declaring love at first sight as impossible. This statistic does come as a surprise however, especially when nine out of ten questioned said they’d never experienced it. A total of 41% of respondents believed it takes at least a few weeks to fall in love in contrast to 55% who believe it takes months rather then days. A random 4% however, think it’s a matter of years before you can feel those all important three words. (http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/love-sex/relationships/romantic-britains-still-believe-in-love-at-first-sight-2120#ixzz2MWTH3xW5) -----
Do you believe in love at first sight?  Write a TEXT paragraph that is aimed at persuading your peers to agree with your opinion on this matter.  Use Romeo's soliloquy above, or other parts of Act One, as well as your research and interviews as evidence.  Remember, acknowledging the opposition's argument and responding directly to it can help you strengthen your own persuasive argument. YOU HAVE 9 MINUTES.