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Similarities and Differences Between Romeo and Juliet and Lord of the Flies

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Similarities and Differences Between Romeo and Juliet and Lord of the Flies
1. How does civilization breakdown as time passes in RJ and LOTF?

• Montague and Capulet families have been bitter enemies for generations.
• Bitter hate even extend to the families’ servants who open the play fighting in the streets.
• Arguments end up in fights resulting in murder, followed by revenge and more murder – Tybalt kills Mercutio, Romeo kills Tybalt despite knowing that Tybalt is his new wife’s cousin.
• Juliet finds out that Romeo kills her cousin, but tolerates it.
• Juliet would rather die than marry Paris
• Romeo kills Paris
• Double Suicides – First Romeo, then Juliet after she wakes up

• No Parents are around for maturity and authority after the children arrive at the island
• Jack goes from hesitating to kill a pig to being able to viciously kill them
• Jack rejects Ralph’s authority and does not respect him
• Ralph talks to Piggy and Simon and tells them of their need for adults
• One of the “littuns”, Phil, die in a big fire
• Fighting and Arguing gets worse between Ralph and Jack who has form a “gang” of hunters
• Piggy is killed – Stone rolling and knocking him off a cliff
• Simon is killed – when he is mistaken for the “beast”
• Ralph was about to be hunted and killed just before the Naval Officer arrives

2. Sides are divided in both RJ and LOTF according to inner-self, conflicting factions, and opinions

• Montague and Capulet families have been bitter enemies for generations.
• Bitter hate even extend to the families’ servants who open the play fighting in the streets.
• When Juliet finds out that Romeo is a Montague, she too has to keep her love for him secret.
• Each lover, Romeo and Juliet, knowing they are warring Montagues and Capulets, has to ask others to help in order to see each other (e.g. Friar Lawrence and The Nurse).
• When Juliet finds out that her new husband Romeo had killed her cousin, Tybalt, she accepts it.
• Juliet would rather die than marry her parents’ choice of Paris for her.
• Both lovers’ love for each

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