Comparing Romeo And Juliet 'And The Gift Of The Magi'
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Question One: Identify the character/story and the nature of the ironic or difficult situation – What happened? Why was it surprising?
Per the story of “Romeo and Juliet” Everyone expect that Romeo and Juliet will surplus all odd, get married and live happily ever after but this changes when Juliet after learning that her father wants her to get married to Paris she takes sleeping portion to pretend that she is dead then Romeo arrives and on seeing Juliet unconscious he thinks she is dead and he kills himself only for Juliet to wake up and finds Romeo dead and she kills herself too. The surprising thing is that Juliet is supposed to fool her father with the portion prank to avoid her marriage to Paris as she waits for her true and only love Romeo for them to get married but instead, she ends up dead, and her lover too. …show more content…
So, on Christmas Eve they both unknown to one another decided to sacrifice their precious possessions to afford to get gifts for each other. Della, Jim’s wife, decides to cut off her long hair to sell so that she can buy a platinum pocket watch chain for her husband watch and the husband sells his watch to buy his wife a hair comb for her hair. They both showed their great love to one another, but the surprising is that they both had the gift they did not need any longer despite their sacrifices.
Question two: Explain how the ironic or difficult situation arose; was the character partly the cause of it, or did he or she contribute to the outcome directly or indirectly?
Name:
Course:
Institution:
Question One: Identify the character/story and the nature of the ironic or difficult situation – What happened? Why was it surprising?
Per the story of “Romeo and Juliet” Everyone expect that Romeo and Juliet will surplus all odd, get married and live happily ever after but this changes when Juliet after learning that her father wants her to get married to Paris she takes sleeping portion to pretend that she is dead then Romeo arrives and on seeing Juliet unconscious he thinks she is dead and he kills himself only for Juliet to wake up and finds Romeo dead and she kills herself too. The surprising thing is that Juliet is supposed to fool her father with the portion prank to avoid her marriage to Paris as she waits for her true and only love Romeo for them to get married but instead, she ends up dead, and her lover too. …show more content…
So, on Christmas Eve they both unknown to one another decided to sacrifice their precious possessions to afford to get gifts for each other. Della, Jim’s wife, decides to cut off her long hair to sell so that she can buy a platinum pocket watch chain for her husband watch and the husband sells his watch to buy his wife a hair comb for her hair. They both showed their great love to one another, but the surprising is that they both had the gift they did not need any longer despite their sacrifices.
Question two: Explain how the ironic or difficult situation arose; was the character partly the cause of it, or did he or she contribute to the outcome directly or indirectly?