STUDY QUESTIONS FOR ROMEO AND JULIET The following questions should be used to guide you in your reading of the play and to insure that you recognize important parts of the play. As you read independently‚ try to answer the questions as best you can and plan to come to class seeking the answers you could not get on your own. During our class discussions‚ be sure to record the answers. It is your responsibility to ask what you do not understand. *These lines may be on a test. Be able to
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idea of everything having an opposing truth in his play Romeo and Juliet. Shakespeare’s play reveals that not everything is as it appears through its plot‚ the character’s language‚ and the events that take place. He demonstrates this with two literary devices; Duality and double entendre. The dualities in his play consist of love and hate‚ good and evil‚ and light and dark. With love there comes hate in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. In this play the duality of love is demonstrated through
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Romeo and Juliet Essay- Who is to blame? In Shakespeare’s well-known play write‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ star-crossed lovers suffer a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet come from feuding families that would never allow their love‚ but they love each other anyways. Although‚ when Juliet tried to see her newly-wed husband‚ Romeo‚ things turn for the worse and they both die together. However‚ the question remains‚ who was the main cause of the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Friar Laurence is the main cause of
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The Role of Violence in Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a play which is one of the best known tragedies of all time but at the same time is referred to as the greatest love story of all time. It is about two ‘Star cross’d lovers’ (Prologue 1.6). In other words‚ Romeo and Juliet are governed by fate‚ a movement often linked with the stars. However it has another theme‚ violence‚ which in a way blocks out the love in the play. It presents love and hate as equally potent forces of nature
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Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a play written by William Shakespeare about two star-crossed lovers who are forbidden to love by their families. William Shakespeare’s telling of the setting is nice with giving us the details that there are two families that are serious rivals. Romeo is a teenage boy belonging to the Montague family and Juliet is a girl in the Capulet family. These two families hate each other with multiple fights and murders between them. The main point of the story is that Romeo and Juliet
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literary works‚ writers use counterparts to highlight key traits of characters‚ as well as themes and other literary techniques. Most main characters have foils to show their importance. The more alike two characters are‚ the more their different traits stick out. Whether it is a couple of lovers or villain against protagonist‚ counterparts are important in all literature. In William Shakespeare’s play‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ two star-crossed lovers are similar in their emotional dramatics and impatient mindset
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Romeo changes throughout the play as he is constantly maturing. In the beginning he was an immature boy who thought he loved a girl called Rosaline‚ but was mournful when he found out the feeling wasn’t mutual. He sat under a tree “adding to clouds more clouds with his sighs”; he locked himself in his room and made himself an “artificial night”. It is only when Benvolio‚ Romeo’s cousin‚ asks him to attend the Capulet ball‚ so he may compare Rosaline’s beauty with others to make “thy swan a crow”
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Romeo and Juliet is a play‚ a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is is set in Verona‚ where two families‚ the Capulets and the Montagues have an ancient gruge agains each other. In this essay‚ I am going to discuss how Juliet developes over the course of the play and how she displays different emtions throughout the play. At the beggining of the play‚ Juliet is introduced as a very obedient child‚ especially towards her mother‚ as itt is seen when she says “Madam‚ I am here. What is your will?”
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In "Romeo and Juliet" Shakespeare uses the contemporary superstitious beliefs and plays on them using the main characters Romeo and Juliet. For the duration of the Elizabethan era‚ people rested on their beliefs on God‚ superstition and fate to get through their everyday lives. They contemplated the fact that the world‚ in general‚ had had a stability of both good and evil. There are many specific examples which illustrate how the subject of fate had impacted on the public at that point in time.
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How far does an understanding of patriarchy assist in an interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet? Romeo and Juliet is basically the story of Juliet’s self-development and maturing through her love for Romeo in a city‚ Verona‚ where patriarchy impregnated politics‚ social life and private households at all levels. In this essay I will examine how patriarchy plays a central role in the development of the ‘ancient quarrel’ between the Montagues and the Capulets and how this feud eventually
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