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    Romeo And Juliet Blame

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    Romeo and Juliet is play written by William Shakespeare in the 16th century. It is a tragic love story that is still popular today. The story is about two families‚ the Capulets and the Montagues who are sworn enemies but the Montague son‚ Romeo meets Capulet daughter‚ Juliet‚ they fall in love‚ but must keep it secret. Because of the fighting between the families‚ Romeo end up killing someone and has to leave town. Juliet’s father is going to force her to marry someone else and so she drinks poison

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    In the beginning the Chorus states that Romeo and Juliet are “star-crossed lovers” (they are meant to be by fate). Meaning it is true love. 2. Love can overcome all the obstacles it faces. Romeo and Juliet are willing to overcome any challenge that they may face (their families feud) 3. Romeo and Juliet were not too young to get married Lady Capulet says “I was your mother much upon these years.” That was a normal age to get married. 4. Romeo and Juliet have a healthy relationship because they

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    Theme of Romeo And Juliet

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    Theme of Romeo and Juliet essay paper. By Daelyn Theme essay Theme is the main message/idea of a piece of a writing. In the play “Romeo and Juliet” Written by William Shakespeare there are multiple ideas for what the theme could be; these ideas range from the topic of love‚ Fate and even haste. But the theme that I think that most represents the whole story of Romeo and Juliet is “If it’s meant to be‚ then it will be.” The first reason why I think this is the theme is because Romeo went to

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    Young people deal with challenges in both negative and positive ways. Romeo and Juliet along with the characters in the book the secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd face many different challenges and overcome them in similar ways by ending their life‚ running away‚ or finding a way around the issue. In the play Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare‚ Romeo’s family (the Montegues) and Juliet’s family (the Capulets) do not get along and have a big rivalry. Because of this ongoing rivalry between

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    Comparing Romeo And Juliet

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    or even songs. For instance Romeo and Juliet‚ the movie directed by Baz Luhrmann. In this movie two characters‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ find love. The only wringer about that is‚ Was it really love or just an obsession. Romeo‚ 18‚ and Juliet‚ 13‚ hit it off instantly. Before Juliet was part of Romeo’s life he supposedly had another “true” love. Rosaline was the name. Rosaline wasn’t that typical girl in a story. As a matter of fact‚ she was a Capulet‚ the cousin of Juliet. Some people could say that if

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    Romeo and Juliet. A tragic story about two young star-crossed lovers‚ known by many throughout the world. This story originally written by William Shakespeare‚ has been rewritten‚ performed and filmed numerous times with modified versions of the original script. Even though all of the different performances of this Shakespearean tragedy all revolve around the same concept‚ some performances and/or films better represent the original story when compared to others. This is the result of some of the

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    In the tragedy Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare‚ Shakespeare reveals that youth impulsivity can doom the inevitable fate‚ he does this by utilizing foreshadowing and metaphors throughout the play. Shakespeare utilized foreshadowing to compare fate to the stars. He makes references to the stars or fate in the play quite often through characters and discretely points at the theme. Early into the play he already references the stars. “a pair of star crossed lovers take their life

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    Hate In Romeo And Juliet

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    indirectly.In Romeo and Juliet early on we learn that two families hate each other the montagues and capulets Romeo is a montague and Juliet is a capulet. Their families ancient grudge causes a downward spiral of death and sadness throughout the whole story and everybody is affected in a negative way because of the families grudge. In the story a young couple falls madly in love but their love is denied by multiple obstacles leading back to their families grudge. Romeo meets Juliet at a

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    Romeo And Juliet Fault

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    In the story "Romeo And Juliet"‚ Romeo and Juliet both commits suicide because Romeo thought Juliet was dead so he kills himself; but‚ when Juliet woke up she found that Romeo killed himself so she kills herself. After reading this story my number one question was: "Wose fault was it?" Everyone does have their own faults in the situation; but‚ I am going to give my reasons to why Friar Lawrence and Tybalt are the two people who has the most fault in the suicide of Romeo and Juliet. Some people may

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    Romeo and Juliet are very loving‚ which contrasts with Juliet’s relationship with her parents. Juliet produces excuses for Romeo to stay. “It was the nightingale and not the lark”. Juliet wants Romeo to stay however Romeo is saying that he needs to go or he gets executed. “I must be gone and live‚ or stay and die”. This creates sympathy which creates drama throughout the play. Juliet now gives her second excuse for Romeo to stay. “Yon light is not daylight‚ I know it‚ I. It is some meteor that the

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