STUDY QUESTIONS FOR ROMEO AND JULIET The following questions should be used to guide you in your reading of the play and to insure that you recognize important parts of the play. As you read independently‚ try to answer the questions as best you can and plan to come to class seeking the answers you could not get on your own. During our class discussions‚ be sure to record the answers. It is your responsibility to ask what you do not understand. *These lines may be on a test. Be able to
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An example of this motif is Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Throughout Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare creates a dramatic contrast and connection between light and darkness by using scenes that can be happy and bright‚ but have a dark theme‚ and how the characters provide that contrast as well. Shakespeare conducts multiple scenes in the play that have that contrast of light and dark within the scenery and theme. First of all‚ when Romeo visits Juliet on the balcony‚ night has risen‚ but there
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Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet‚ far too many coincidences occur to be strictly coincidental. Fate creates a powerful effect throughout the entire play‚ starting in the prologue‚ continuing as Romeo and Juliet meet and fall in love‚ and tragically ending in the lovers’ deaths. In the prologue‚ Shakespeare makes it undoubtedly clear that Romeo and Juliet are subject to fate. The audience is first introduced to Shakespeare’s ideas of fate when he describes Romeo and Juliet as "star-cross’d lovers"
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so tragic deaths. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet this exactly happens. The characters in Romeo and Juliet play a vital role in the ending of the story. Initially‚ the feuding households‚ Montague and Capulet‚ were the reason that Romeo and Juliet could not be together and the reason why they both died in the end. Before the play begins‚ it tells us that the Montague and Capulet homes are against each other. In the beginning of Romeo and Juliet fell in love but from the start‚ they knew
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even the most prestigious and old pieces of media‚ such as in our case Romeo and Juliet. Many of the characters depicted in the classic story are teenagers‚ producing notable congruences between their actions and things expected of adolescents as shown in the brochure‚ Teen Brains. Of the many people‚
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In the play “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare I blame the reason for their tragedy on Friar Laurence. In the play the Friar married Romeo and Juliet to each other and didn’t inform the Capulet’s nor the Montague’s. The Friar also tried to help Juliet by giving her a sleeping potion so she wouldn’t have to marry Paris. He also failed to deliver the letter to Romeo saying that Romeo didn’t die‚ but she was in fact sleeping. “I could not send it here it is again nor get a messenger to
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Romeo and Juliet is a tragic tale about two teens truly in love‚ and willing to sacrifice anything for the continuance of their relationship. These characters found love at first sight and were eager to do anything to be with each other. Some may view their relationship to be teens lost in lust‚ but Romeo and Juliet were lucky enough to find their soulmate and weren’t going to abandon it. Romeo and Juliet first meet at the Capulet’s party‚ and instantly felt an attraction towards one another.
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The Fate of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is one of the most known Shakespearian play driven by fate or poor influenced decisions? Although decisions play a role in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare it doesn’t play as much as fate. From the play when the Servant ran into romeo‚ and asked him to read the guest list was all driven by fate. Also when Balthasar happens to see Juliet’s fake funeral‚ and immediately does to tell Romeo. And finally when the Friars message wasn’t able to go through
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Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare‚ is a play that has been studied in high schools for years. This tragedy is about two young kids who fall in love‚ and how all of the different characters actions intertwine and have an effect on the conclusion. At the end of the play‚ the Prince says “Some shall be pardoned‚ and some punished.” (5.3/319) It is clear in this well-known play that the adults‚ in fact‚ are to be blamed for the children’s death. In my opinion‚ the Nurse‚ Lord Capulet‚ and
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daughter’s untimely end?” Throughout the play many factors play a role in Romeo and Juliet’s death.The young lovers parent’s‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ and even fate are all to blame for the violent end to Romeo and Juliet’s love story. The Capulet and Montagues have a feud as old as time. Two rivals households that are always at each others throats have the unthinkable happen to them. Their children fall in love with one another. Romeo and Juliet
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