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    In "Romeo and Juliet" Shakespeare uses the contemporary superstitious beliefs and plays on them using the main characters Romeo and Juliet. For the duration of the Elizabethan era‚ people rested on their beliefs on God‚ superstition and fate to get through their everyday lives. They contemplated the fact that the world‚ in general‚ had had a stability of both good and evil. There are many specific examples which illustrate how the subject of fate had impacted on the public at that point in time.

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    Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the nurse‚ Juliet’s guardian and confidante‚ plays an essential role in the romance and ultimately the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. The nurse‚ who obtains the paramount qualities of vulgarity‚ fierceness‚ and compassion‚ provides stability in the relationship between the two star-crossed lovers and realism and humor to the story. Firstly‚ the nurse’s vulgarity brings about comic relief. While telling Lady Capulet and Juliet a story about raising Juliet‚ she makes a

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    Cavanaugh Romeo and Juliet Essay 15 May 2014 Make or Break Parents or parental figures play a big role in every child’s life. They can be good role models and set good examples for their children‚ or be awful ones and set bad examples. It is the “make or break” part in every child’s life. In the tragedy The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare‚ Friar Lawrence and the Nurse serve as parental figures that greatly impact the development of Romeo and Juliet respectively

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    “One pain is cured by another. Catch some new infection in your eye and the poison of the old one would die.” -William Shakespeare Romeo Montague is the only son of Lord Montague and his wife. He serves as the male protagonist and has a consistent presence throughout the play “Romeo and Juliet”. Romeo is driven by his fatal flaw and can be identified by his impulsiveness and obsession with love. The two traits bond together to prevent him from changing as a character. These two qualities in Romeo’s

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    listen to Romeo and Juliet talk about their undying love for each other. Romeo and Juliet were two teenagers from two feuding families. They then fell in love after they met each other at the Capulet’s ball. Romeo and Juliet get married after about two days of knowing each other‚ but Romeo then is banished from being in a fight in the streets. Not long after‚ Juliet helps come up with a plan that gets her and Romeo together again. Romeo thinks that she is dead so‚ he then kills himself. Juliet woke up

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    In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ tells a story about a couple who can’t be together‚ because of the feud that’s going on with their families. Until they both died‚ because of the feud and the hate they had towards each other. Therefore with the death of the couple made the family come in peace. Shakespeare suggests that the idea of loyalty is powerful‚ since loyalty can grow and become strong‚ although we should be cautious on who we choose Romeo and Juliet decided to be loyal to one

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    The Charistics Of Romeo Everybody has heard of the saying the heart wants what it wants. if Romeo was In our modern era‚ he would really agree and relate to that saying. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet there was a lot of feud in between the Capulets and the Montagues. When Romeo and Juliet fell in love they knew it was a debacle to be together‚ but Romeo was willing to be mutinous. Through all the traumatic scenes in the play it has proven Romeo was very Beauty oriented‚ Sensitive‚ and

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    Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy that was written by the famous William Shakespeare and soon became a classic play known to the world. The tragedy/romance play was published in 1597 and for 420 years‚ has taken effect on several millions of students in either a positive or negative way. Throughout centuries‚ this play has been acted out and has been adapted into movies to project several themes to the audience. Although there is a life lesson of the importance of communication‚ it also projects the

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    Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet. A dilemma is a very unfortunate thing that no individual should ever have to face. A dilemma is a very tough choice in which there are many choices‚ all of which usually have bad outcomes. William Shakespeare gives us many examples of a dilemma throughout his play of‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ some of the dilemma’s Shakespeare shows us‚ is when Friar Laurence has to decide whether to marry Romeo and Juliet‚ how he has to decide how to get Romeo and Juliet back together after

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    A common theme throughout Romeo and Juliet is the idea of duality. Duality can bedescribed as a combination of opposites such as good and evil‚ love and hate‚ or life and death.This theme is most apparent during a soliloquy of the Friar’s. The essence of what he is sayingis that everything has a true beneficial purpose‚ but things can be misused and perverted into evil. Nothing is purposely evil. He talks about duality most plainly with the line‚ “In man as well asherbs‚ grace and rude will;” (2

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