How does "catastrophe" relate to "Romeo and Juliet"?
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What??? It's not like their relationship was a success...
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"Come, cords, come, nurse, I'll to my wedding-bed,\nAnd death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"\nJuliet, Act III, Scene ii, Lines 136-7\n\n"O, tell me, friar, tell me,\nIn what vile part of this anatomy\nDoth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack\nThe hateful mansion."\n[Romeo takes out his dagger and offers to stab himself.]\nRomeo, Act III, Scene iii, Lines 105-8\n\n"If all else fail, myself have power to die."\nJuliet, Act III, Scene v, Line 242
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the "stars" are a symbol of fate. the play starts w/ 2 "star-crossed" lovers. no matter how they try and plan to deny their fate- and fall in love/ live happily ever after- they are doomed.
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Well I honsetly think that you should read Romeo and Juilet. It is one of the best from Shakespear. I know that sometimes Shakespear is hard to read because it is in old english, but I have become good at deicphering Shakespear so...\n1. In act 3, the tension between the 2 familes comes to a climax. Romeo and Tybalt fight and Tybalt and Mercutio die. \n2. Romeo tires to ignore Tybalt because he doesnt want to be in trouble. Ironically, thats what happens. Also he doesnt want to disgrace Juliet. \n3. Romeo is angry about the fight because first, he killed Tyablt and he is banished from the city. That means he will never see his beloved Juliet again. \n4. The nurse is cruel to Juliet because she wants her to get over Romeo and his departure. The nurse always knew what would happen if Romeo and Juliet were to marry.\n5. Well the nurse and the friar arrange to have Romeo sneak into Juliets room for one last night together. \n6. Juliet believes that Romeo will die\n7. Lady Capulet says that she needs to continue to mourn her cousins death, although that is not what she is really mourning. Lady Capulet also thinks that Juliet needs to move on with life.\n8. Romeos departure\n9. I dont know that reason. \n10. Juliet is devistated and does not want to marry. She refuses to and her father disowns her. \n11. To go to Friar Lawernce and figure out a plan\n12. To drink potion that would make her sleep deelpy and long enough to convince people that she is dead. Once she is placed in the tomb, she will run to whereever Romeo is staying.
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The Metaphysics of the story are the theory of life and death and the contrast of the two, it also deals with the concept and contrast of love vs Hait. \nRomeo and Juliet love each other where in contrast their family's hait each other so much that it causes a war between the two,it is only after their deaths that their family's learn to accept one another thus learning to LIVE with them self's and each other
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Consistent use of tense, in a summary of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, quoted from Strunk & White's Elements of Style:\n\n"An unforeseen chance prevents Friar John from delivering Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo. Juliet, meanwhile, owing to her father's arbitrary change of the day set for her wedding, has been compelled to drink the potion on Tuesday night, with the result that Balthasar informs Romeo of her supposed death before Friar Lawrence learns of the nondelivery of the letter."\n\nNotice that the summary keeps all its verbs in the present tense. It's easy to accidentally slip into past tense, especially when you're summarizing the events of a novel or play, but keeping  the verbs all in the present tense (or, if you're writing about an event from history, all in the past tense), makes the writing smoother, more consistent, and easier to understand. \n\nThe same goes for keeping pronouns in the same person. A very  common way writers are inconsistent with person is by switching between "one" and "you" (3rd and 2nd person). For example:\n\nError: One must always wash the dishes or your roommates will get angry.  (changes from "one" to "you")\n\nBetter: One must always wash the dishes or one's roommates will get angry. (or, You must always wash the dishes or your roommates will get angry.)
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Nice. Juliet was the sense to Romeo's romance. I like.
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Strictly speaking, this does not answer your question, but it might be fun to keep in mind that Shakespeare (whoever he was) basically ripped off the story of Romeo and Juliet from some French novel or something that ripped it off from some other source that was an adaptation of an old Greek story (or something like that).  It might be better to judge Shakespeare by some of his other works, rather than the admitted fluff that is Romeo and Juliet.
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in shakespeare's tragedy of julius caesar, the omens (such as the entrails of the slaughtered animal and the nightmares) emphasize that caesar is ignoring all the signs that he should be paying attention to. they act as blatant foreshadowing and also serve to make the reader more sympathetic to the idea that he "had it comming"
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Hmm... I blame the feud between the houses of Capulet and Montague.  Without the fighting, Romeo might not have been banished, and then he wouldn't have heard that Juliet died and he wouldn't have killed himself and therefore Juliet wouldn't have killed herself.  Lady Montague wouldnt have died from heartache of Romeo's banishment.  Tybalt and Mercutio wouldn't have died from a swordfight.  Lots of trouble from that feuding...
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In the play it refers to Mercutio as a kinsmen to Romeo.  I think they were supposed to be cousins.
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Romeo and Juliet is a great love story. Basically they fall in love, but their families forbid them to marry because they're from too very different families. They go through alot of triumps to get together, but in the end she thinks he was poisoned and then she satbs herself in the gut.....but he wasn't dead and then I believe he kills himself after he notices she is dead. If you want a more detailed version I would google it....and see what you find.\n\nps. If you have time rent the movie Romeo and Juliett with Leonardo dicaprio and Claire Danes...good movie!!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet\n\nhttp://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/
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The Notebook, Serendipity, Just Like Heaven, Titanic, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, i could go and on. I love most of them . .\nbut out of ur choices, Id pick titanic. Romeo and juliet was good but the end annoys me. THey could have done things differently, where as in titanic he died to save her.
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It's been a while since I analyzed that. I'll just have to go off the cuff here. Darkness seems to be a common setting for the Capulet party at night, the sneaking around between major scenes, going to see the Friar, inside the family tombs, etc. Darkness itself does not necessarily mean evil in this play, but more of the fact that due to miscommunication and violent grudges, people keep acting while being left mentally "in the dark" as to what other options would be available. Darkness may also serve as a sort of foreshadowing of a sad and dark ending to this tragedy.
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Romeo and Juliet Quotes\n\nACT II\n\nBut soft!  What light through yonder window breaks?  It is the East and Juliet is the sun!  Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon. \n \n\nDeny thy father and refuse they name!  Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet. \n \n\nI know not how to tell thee who I am.  My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself, because it’s an enemy to thee. \n \n\nO, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. \n \n\nO, wilt that leave me so unsatisfied? \n \n\nGood night, good night!  Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it be morrow. \n \n\nThese violent delights have violent ends.
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DISASTER---\n1.  damaging or destructive event: an event that causes serious loss, destruction, hardship, unhappiness, or death  \n2.  somebody or something unsuccessful: somebody or something that fails completely, especially in a way that is distressing, embarrassing, or laughable (informal) \n\nCATASTROPHE--- \n1.  disaster: a terrible disaster or accident, especially one that leads to great loss of life  \n2.  humiliating total failure: an absolute failure, often in humiliating or embarrassing circumstances  \n3.  theater resolution of plot: the concluding part of the action in a drama, especially a classical tragedy, when the plot is resolved  \n4.  geology violent seismic change: a sudden and violent change in the earth’s crust caused by an earthquake, flood, or any other natural process. \nAlso called cataclysm \n\nthat's what i know!! but that is a correct answer! i'm a vocabulary woman! =)