generation and their roles in the play’s tragic conclusion? Romeo and Juliet is a play set in Renaissance Verona with a tragic conclusion of the two young lovers‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ dying. The whole play is about the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets and how their children‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ have to pay the price for their actions and hatred to each other. As a result‚ the older generation play key roles in the play’s tragic conclusion due to their actions and decisions. Juliet’s death in particular
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He felt he was only trying to make things better between the Capulets and Montagues. For instance‚ when Friar Lawrence says “Come‚ come with me and we will make short work. For‚ by your leaves you shall not stay alone. Till holy church incorporate two in one.” (Act II‚ Scene VI‚ Line 35-37) Friar Lawrence secretly marries Romeo and Juliet in hopes of stopping the family feud between the Capulets and Montagues. This shows that Friar is trying to make peace in Verona‚ but it is
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ended in a terrible tragedy‚ the death of the lovers. "... a pair of star-crossed lovers take their life..." (Act. I‚ Sc. I). Even before the play has begun‚ the prologue expresses one of the conflicts‚ between the two head families of Verona‚ the Capulets and Montagues. "Two households‚ both alike in dignity‚ in fair Verona (...) where civil blood makes civil hands unclean..." (Act I‚ Sc. I). Other conflicts which arise throughout the play include: status and love‚ peace and war‚ love and hate‚ amongst
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‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the story of two "star-crossed lovers who take their life". Their families‚ Capulet and Montague‚ are at a great‚ ancient feud; however Romeo and Juliet fall passionately in love ignoring the fact that they are‚ by household‚ enemies. The play was written in 1595‚ for an Elizabethan audience‚ and was performed at the Globe Theatre. Romeo and Juliet is set in Verona‚ Italy; Italy being a common setting for plays around the time for the great interest in Italian culture and an
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The Capulets and the Montagues are both responsible for his death because of the longstanding family feud‚ Mercutio being in the wrong place at the wrong time‚ and the relationship between Romeo and Juliet. {{Good job!}} The longstanding family feud between the Capulets and the Montagues caused a lot of fighting between the two families for years. Mercutio was not a Capulet or Montague‚ but a friend of Romeo who was a Montague. So by association‚ Mercutio is an enemy to the Capulets. When
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Juliet fall in love.Then they plan a secret marriage because of their families’ relationship‚ the Capulets and the Montagues always fighting in the streets of Verona the city of Italy. They are married by Friar Lawrence‚ the priest of Verona. Then there is a fight between Tybalt from the Capulets and Mercutio the cousins prince‚ then Romeo from the Montagues enters and interferes the fight and then Tybalt stabs Mercutio and dies. Then after this happens more and more deaths begin to follow including
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be caused when the rage of past generations is carried over to a younger generation. The key factor that demonstrates this theme is the constant feud between the Capulets and the Montagues. The rage between the two households directly relates to the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. 	A major dispute is going on between the Capulets and the Montagues. These two households‚ "both alike in dignity‚" (1.Prologue.1) have been feuding for so long that they even forget the reason they are feuding
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By examining‚ conflicts‚ weaknesses of humanity and deaths‚ common elements of tragedy are demonstrated. The first tragic similarity in Romeo and Juliet and To Kill A Mockingbird is they both have conflicts. For example‚ the conflict of the Capulets and the Montagues is stated at the very beginning of the play. These two families are of equal noble rank‚ “[i]n fair Verona‚ break to new mutiny‚ where civil blood makes civil hands unclean ”(Shakespeare I pro 1-4 ). Both families obtain similar
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watches the play with the expectation that it must fulfill the terms set in the Prologue. The structure of the play itself is the fate from which Romeo and Juliet cannot escape. Act 1‚ scene 1 Sampson and Gregory‚ two servants of the house of Capulet‚ stroll through the streets of Verona. With bawdy banter‚ Sampson vents his hatred of the house of Montague. The two exchange punning remarks about physically conquering Montague men and sexually conquering Montague women. Gregory sees two Montague
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Effective At the start of Act 1 Scene 5 the guests at the Capulets’ ball have just finishes dining and Sampson and Gregory‚ the two head servants‚ are complaining that a number of the servants‚ especially Potpan‚ are not helping to clear up: "Where’s Potpan that he helps not to take away?" Most of the servants are trying to clean up quickly because they want to have their own party later. The scene then moves on to Lord Capulet inviting all of the guests to come and dance‚ he is making jokes
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