1. Grade 9 Stretch and challenge
You could try to incorporate into your essay awareness of other critics’ (than yourself – you are one!) views on the play on the subject of love
On the next slide are a few examples I have found by reading articles discovered by googling ‘Shakespeare attitude love Romeo Juliet’. You have to rummage a bit for good quotes!

2. One critic has suggested that in the play…
Shakespeare presents ‘Love as an ennobling (giving dignity) and dynamic (life changing)force’
‘Courtly loved prevailed in Renaissance England and involved the idealisation of the female subject’ we see this in the idolatrous love of R&J
Love in Romeo and Juliet (1595), becomes a strong might that encourages the lovers to thread their way through obstacles set up by middle aged vanity and impercipience (state of being imperceptive), and even to sacrifice their precious lives without wavering.
In Shakespeare's plays, love and romance are often treated in ambiguous ways. Romantic love frequently ends in death, as in the tragedies, but such love may be presented in an idealized manner, shown to be courageous and unconditional

3. Beware…
your interpretation and view is the most important one in your essay, you can get the top mark with just this!
Only choose a critical quote that a) you understand b) adds something to your essay
Embed it in a sentence and make sense of it to forward your point ‘we see this idea in a critical idea that “…….” which reinforces the idea that Shakespeare values the love between Romeo and Juliet.’