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    person who suffers from someone else’s doings. In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the theme is how the two main characters are victimized by their parents and their time. The two lover’s families had a feud going on since they could remember. Romeo and Juliet had lack of communication, and everything was extremely hasty. Romeo and Juliet were most definitely victims of their parents and time. Romeo was a Montague and Juliet was a Capulet, the two family’s names had a feud going on to

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    crows” (Shakespeare 1.5.49-54) When Romeo first laid his eyes on Juliet, he instantly fell in love and his feelings began to pour out. The description of Juliet by Romeo continues, as he compares her to a beautiful dove and all the other ladies around her to awkward crows. Instantly, every women, including Rosaline, became irrelevant to Romeo. All he desired and all he could focus on at that moment was, Juliet, the woman he knew he was destined to marry. Romeo had been trapped in a deep depression

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    One may ask oneself how many parts of a story can be changed until the story itself is different. One can then look at Romeo and Juliet for an answer. The text of Romeo and Juliet may have variations with the passionate 1968 film adaptation “Romeo and Juliet” and the colorful cinematic explosion of “William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet,” but the central idea seems to remain the same. The movies added new methods of characterization to the ones that were present in the original text. The settings

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    Love In Romeo And Juliet

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    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare has been a world famous play for years. Romeo and Juliet are known as star-crossed lovers by the public eye. The play is about two young adults that are part of two families who have a rivalry. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and instantly believe they are in love. Their love is forbidden, but they claim it is too strong to be broken. The next day a secret wedding takes place Shortly after the wedding, Romeo kills Juliet's cousin and is banished from their

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    The demise of Romeo and Juliet began when fate brought the two love struck children together. At the beginning of the play, William Shakespeare writes a line showing the readers and audiences how Romeo and Juliet’s demise was by fate. In the prologue, while giving a background about the play he states, “From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/ A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” (Shakespeare Prologue.5-6). Shakespeare is saying that Romeo and Juliet are born in two separate families

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    throughout the whole play, is the sun and moon and how Romeo and Juliet are associated and get affected by it. As the sun rises, the bright lights cast its shines onto good and peaceful times, which is why Juliet is depicted by the sun (As she is perceived as peaceful, obedient, and righteous). Although, the brightness of the day does not last long until nightfall happens and creates terror and issues for the days to comes. Where Romeo and Juliet, have their end set at the start. Subsequently, when

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    Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two young lovers, both who ended up in tragedy. At the end of this tale, it is often debated on who us to blame in the text, or what caused the final outcome, death. The tragic outcome in Romeo and Juliet was not in control of the main characters, moreover, it was fate. Fate played a large role in the unfortunate ending of the story based on feud and poor timing. As the story progresses, it can be seen that the actions that had caused Romeo and Juliet to commit

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    Romeo And Juliet Summary

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    the book William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, it begins at Verona. When Romeo fell in love with Rosaline, but she didn’t like him back. Romeo cousin Benvolio told him to find a new love beside Roseline. So they both went to a the Capulet costume party that was held at the Capulet house. Romeo went with his cousin Benvolio. Romeo saw Juliet, Lord Capulet only daughter dancing throughout the day, and at the end of the dance Romeo talked to her. When Romeo and Juliet found out their family were enemies

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    For many decades, Their has been an arguement on the tragedy of Romeo&Juliet on who loved who more its really not a hard decisions its obvious in the story.Now i am not being biased but Juliet is the one who truly love in their unfortunate love story. She may have been younger than Romeo but she demostrating way more maturity capacity than Romeo.

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    life. Similarly, in the play, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, the lives of Romeo and Juliet are influenced greatly by their elders. Throughout the play, adults try to give the young lovers advice. It is these people that ultimately contributed to the tragic death of Romeo and Juliet. The first character to change the lives of Romeo and Juliet for the worse is Juliet’s caretaker, the Nurse. Without the Nurse’s influence on Juliet, the two would not have met. The Nurse tells

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