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    Romeo and Juliet is a novel that is a great tragedy written by William Shakespeare. This love story is about two young lovers who wanted to be together, but both of their family’s had a feud against each other and really disliked each other and could never get along. Romeo and Juliet end up getting married but neither of the two family’s are aware of it. At the end of the story the two young lovers tragic deaths ultimately ended their family’s feud. Romeo was truly in love with Juliet. He proclaimed

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    Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare, is one of the most well known and influential pieces in English literature; more importantly, most people recognize it as a story of true love, or star-crossed lovers. This play tells the story of Romeo and Juliet, who are from two feuding families. They fall in love with each other, despite being from rivaling families, and face numerous obstacles because of the feud. After a series of tragic events and miscommunication, Romeo and Juliet end up taking

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    engulf that person, clouding their judgement and causing them to do something bad to themselves or another person. This is what Juliet felt when she woke up next to her dead husband. Her judgement became clouded from her sadness and she killed herself to be with him. This horrible tragedy could have been prevented if Friar Lawrence had made better decisions regarding Romeo and Juliet's conflicted marriage. At the beginning of the play you figure out that there are two families, the Capulets and the

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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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    Romeo And Juliet Rewards

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    In The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, the author, William Shakespeare, argues that love, especially when it’s forbidden, can hurt people, kill people, and even endanger people. In this play, a young teenage boy named Romeo meets a beautiful teenage girl named Juliet and they fall in love. It is destined to end in tragedy, because they are from opposing house-holds, the Montagues and Capulets, and it ends with both Romeo and Juliet dead. The events leading up to this could be explained by modern

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    Romeo And Juliet Parents

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    Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet’s romance filled reputation is oddly deceiving. Even at first glance, Romeo and Juliet’s relationship with each other and their parents is far from perfect. The couple’s love is overly dramatic and immature, and their parents and leaders of the community are as unwise and impulsive as the children. They make greedy, poor thought out choices, giving into anger, fear, and greed. Shakespeare wove many lessons throughout Romeo and Juliet, some glaringly obvious, others

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    over Hate In Romeo and Juliet, these two lovers are faced with many problems. They are forced to feel the guilt of family obedience, stressed between what is right and what is wrong, and fear of death. Following all of these threats, they still risk all of that to be together, proving true love. Romeo and Juliet has broke everything to follow the norm of love. Romeo has been risking has life just to see Juliet. During the party, Romeo met his lover. After Juliet is forced to leave, Romeo starves of

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    William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is one of the most popular and analysed tragedies of all time. And with great popularity, comes even greater film adaptions. “Romeo and Juliet” is the 1968 film by director Franco Zeffirelli. Set in Verona of Italy, the movie follows Shakespeare’s original script almost entirely. Its traditional props, costumes, settins and dialogue give viewers an insight of what times would’ve been like back in the 16th century. “Romeo + Juliet” is the 1996 film by director

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    Both Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, and Luhrmann’s film, Romeo + Juliet, explore the idea of conflict and how it inevitably leads to tragedy. Although situated in the contrasting social and historical contexts of Elizabethan England and the modern world of Verona Beach in Southern California, 1990s, the two texts both represent how conflict directly leads to tragedy by conveying that, the fight between the Montague and Capulets was depicted as long going and did not have meaning anymore yet

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    Throughout the play, both Romeo and Juliet take on the role of being a shadow for one another. Shakespeare reveals shadows only twice throughout the play both of which deal with the concept of love. Romeo and Juliet have a deep love for each other and display it greatly by mirroring each other’s words and paths. There are many exact definitions for the word shadow which include, “a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface”, and to “follow and observe (someone)

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