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    Opposites Attract Romeo and his parents don’t interact very much. Romeo is a very independent‚ self-kept person. He doesn’t really involve his parents in anything he does. One example is when Romeo’s heart get’s broken by a girl named Rosaline and Romeo kept crying about it. Romeo’s friends and father were talking and his father said… :”Both by myself and many other friends‚ but he his own affections counselor‚ is to himself‚ I will not say how true‚ but to himself so secret and so close‚ so far

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    In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ Romeo and Juliet experience an adventure that has been revisited by generations of readers and critics. The story provides an interesting look to what love can really do to its victims as Romeo and Juliet go through many adventures and trials to be together. Shakespeare paints a realistic plots and dramatically expands it to make a point that love can cause a person to give up their values and morals‚ while his characters commit crazy schemes

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    rights currently compared to the Elizabethan era. In “Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare‚ Juliet makes her own decisions outside of the dictatorship of her father. She meets Romeo at a party‚ originating a love at first sight‚ Juliet defies her father’s wishes and marries Romeo in secret‚ planning to run away with him. Their plan has many obstacles that results in both of their deaths which mends their family feud. Shakespeare wrote Juliet as a feminist as demonstrated through her actions

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    In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet‚ the characters have very distinct personalities that are portrayed and developed in various ways. Their unique personalities are what makes the play so diverse and complex. In the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann film versions of the play Romeo and Juliet‚ the personality traits of humour‚ wisdom‚ and loyalty of the character Mercutio is portrayed in different ways. To begin‚ in both the Zeffirelli and Luhrmann versions of the play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ Mercutio - one of

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    believes there is no doubt Juliet will obey him and marry Paris later that week (3.4.13). Following up on his offer‚ in Act 3‚ Scene 5 Capulet informs Juliet about the proposal whereby Juliet refuses. This refusal to obey her father’s wish is a betrayal to

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    Paris‚ Romeo‚ and Lord Capulet are three upper class men of different ages in the Renaissance time that have three different ideas on love and marriage. Romeo Montague is a young upper class man that is fickle and emotional when to comes to love. He is about 18 years old and is very quick to fall in and out of love. When he believes that he is in love‚ it consumes his every thought. In the first scene of Act I‚ Romeo appears depressed as he is in love with a girl- Rosaline- who does not love him

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    stars" and ultimately lead to his "untimely death." Stated differently‚ Romeo feels as though "he that hath the steerage of Romeo’s course" is forcing him to attend this gathering. Despite his unsettling belief that everything will ultimately lead to his death‚ he feels compelled to go. The play presents the idea that fate determines our fates rather than us influencing them through these and other references. I disagree with Romeo and Juliet’s belief that fate dictates their fate‚ which serves to undermine

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    Romeo and Juliet were two young kids in love. The problem was that their love for each other also lead to their demise. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet shows how love can bring people together no matter who they are. Although it shows how wonderful love can be‚ Romeo and Juliet also teaches how love can lead to unfortunate consequences like death. That is the case in Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton and The Odyssey by Homer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

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    In the book of Romeo and Juliet you picture what the characters will look like. The movie shows their point of view of the characters. In the movie it shows the Montagues having a surfers characteristics. They wore a lot of beach shirts with palm trees on them. As we were reading the book I pictured them not as fancy as the Capulets but more casual type of clothing. I visioned Benvolio looking younger than Romeo and Mercutio from how the book described Benvolio. In the movie Benvolio looked a little

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    Dusk of July 1st another brutal brawl between the feuding families of the Capulet and Montague unfolded on the streets of Verona. Tybalt Capulet and Mercutio Escalus were found dead. Since their deaths‚ Romeo the son of Montague has been banished. When both households came to know‚ they were filled with anger and grief and swore revenge against each other. On Tuesday the 1st of July at noon‚ an 18-year-old named Mercutio - a close companion of Romeo Montague- was stabbed with a 67 cm sword in

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