ROMEO AND JULIET CHARACTER Romeo Juliet Friar Lawrence Mercutio The son and heir of Montague and Lady Montague. Eighteen years old. He lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but he is not at all interested in violence. His only interest is love. At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a woman named Rosaline, but the instant he lays eyes on Juliet, he falls in love with her and forgets Rosaline. The daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet…
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Act 1, Scene 1 Montagues and Capulets fight in the street, which is ended with threat by Prince Escalus. Romeo is questioned by Benvolio about his love for Rosaline. Act 1, Scene 2 Capulet invites Paris to the party, in which Paris wants to marry Juliet. A servant is sent to send the invitations for the party, and gets help from Romeo and Benvolio to read the list, and they decide to crash the party because Rosaline is attending. Act 1, Scene 3 Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris has asked her to marry him…
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Romeo and Juliet Essay Hunter Peratt People all around think they are in love, when actually they are not. True love is being in love with someone even if your parents or other people don’t approve of it and someone you can love forever no matter what happens. Love aspects are love at first sight, passion to be with each other, and being with them no matter what happens. Romeo and Juliet show this in the play. Romeo and Juliet are in love because they follow these aspects and also make each other laugh…
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ROMEO AND JULIET Act 1 Scene 1 The scene opens with a brawl on the streets of Verona between servants from the Montague and Capulet households. While attempting to stop the fight, Benvolio (Romeo's cousin) is drawn into the fray by Tybalt, kinsman of the Capulets. The fight rapidly escalates as more citizens become involved and soon the heads of both households appear on the scene. At last, Prince Escales arrives and stops the riot, forbidding any further outbreaks of violence on pain of death…
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Romeo and Juliet Essay Throughout the world peoples actions are influenced by their environment. Especially by who employs them, employers can influence the way you act and how you make choices. In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the Capulet Nurse changes her perspective on Romeo and Juliet's marriage because of Lord Capulet, her employer. Romeo and Juliet fell in love at a party and even though they love each other, their families do not. The feuding Capulet family influences the Nurse…
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Juliet Capulet, the romantic heroine in William Shakespeare's classic work, Romeo and Juliet, is not just the love interest of Romeo Montague, but is also able to be characterized as impulsive, naive, and clingy. Throughout Romeo and Juliet, Juliet herself says lines that make her seem impulsive, naive and even what some would call clingy. In Act 2, Juliet says, "Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn by my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet" (2.2.36). This line, said by Juliet herself, validates…
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In the tragic love story of “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet” written by William Shakespeare there are multiple literary devices that Shakespeare uses to make the play more interesting. One of the many literary devices that Shakespeare uses is an aside , a short speech directed towards the audience or another character, which is very beneficial to the layout of the play, in Act II, Scene 2 Romeo is presenting an aside. A monologue, is when a character addresses a silent or absent listener in a moment…
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Romeo is a son of Montaque, he is about sixteen years old and he is one of the main characters in the play ‘’Romeo and Juliet’’ by William Shakespeare. He is not hiding his feelings for Juliet and he goes to extremes to prove the seriousness of his love. Firstly he secretly marries Juliet, the daughter of his father’s worst enemy and secondly he happily takes abuse from Tybalt. In scene 2 act 3 Juliet finds out that Tybolt has died and that Romeo has killed him: ‘’Ah weraday, he’s dead, he’s dead…
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Romeo and Juliet, a classic play written by William Shakespeare, is considered both a romance and tragedy combined. This famous love story between “two star-crossed lovers” led to the death of both Romeo and Juliet. There were many factors that led to the death of Romeo and Juliet and amongst these were fate, Friar Lawrence and Romeo and Juliet themselves. Fate plays an important role in both Romeo and Juliet’s death. Throughout the play, fate seems to force both Romeo and Juliet together and apart…
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1. List 4 different themes/ key ideas of the play 4 themes that are about of Romeo and Juliet are love, youth, fate/free will and revenge. Love as it’s a romantic story, youth because it about young people, fate/free will because it just what happen and revenge as it about the history of the competitive two families. 2. What makes this story a tragedy? This story is a tragedy as it involves young children who lose their life over love which was forbidden because of the family’s long rivalry. They…
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