When reading Romeo and Juliet, blame arises. Who do you blame? Friar Lawrence/Romeo&Juliet/Chance/Fate? Why?
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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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Shakespeare is supposed to have written Romeo and Juliet around 1596 in England. I am no expert in this but the story seems to evolve during this 15th-16th century era in Verona, Italy
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I dunno if this'll help, but I thought I'd give it a try . . .\nI just read through Macbeth with my lil' bro a little while ago, and I'm rereading Othello now, and it's funny that you ask about the inevitability of prohecies and the first prophecy he gets, because even though there are no prophecies in Othello, Iago does say something about deals with the devil.\nI don't have the book on me, so I can't give a direct quote, but, Iago compares himself to a devil and says that the reason he tells the truth in the beginning of his evil scheme to bring about Othello's downfall is because a demon (or in Hamlet's case a witch) will give you bits of the truth in order to lure you into dealing with them.  That way you will think that they aren't evil, because an evil being would lie.  Does that make sense? \nSo when he saw the first prophecy come true without any action on his part, he thought it would be okay to help the rest of them along, because it was his destiny and not evil magic.  I think the irony is that whether or not he killed Duncan the prophecy should have come true.  Or maybe it was foretold that he would kill Duncan, and the witches just neglected to tell him that part, and knowing that he would, let Lady MacB goad him into it.\nI never read "The Bottle Imp", but it sounds interesting, I think I'll give it a try.\nHope that helps!
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I just completed a research paper for my 1002 class on MND. (Got a 98% on it, btw).  I used Puck as my subject.  Just think of it this way:  if Oberon had not asked Puck to go get the love juice out of the flower, and had done it all himself, then we would not have had the comic aspect of the play at all.  It would have been just another boring old play.  What I liked best about it was the ending scene when Puck addressed the audience.  He was basically telling them that if they did not like the play, not to worry about it because it was all just a dream.  Great play.
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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boy and girl from opposing families fall in love. family feud breaks out and Juliets cousin tybalt dies. Romeo is forced further away from Juliet as he hides from the law. in their wish to see each other Juliet plans to fake death so involves the friar. She taked a medic which simulates the symptoms of death. unfortunately poor Romeo does not recieve the message of her plan and upon see her 'dead' body attempts death. He succeeds in drinking poison and dies at her grave. Upon his death she wakes. Realising the circumstances she tragically stabs herself and they are both dead but together forever. Therefore utimately acheiving their aim. 'Star crossed lovers' that shall meet in the 'star crossed' skys i.e. heaven.
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When we meet Romeo he is sad because the woman he loves (Rosaline) does not love him back. Although a Montague and is suppose to hate the Capulets, Romeo does not hate anyone. He is seen in the early scenes to be blissfully pinning away about Rosaline to even concern himself with the matters such as the events between the Montagues and Capulets that was engaged in Scene 1.\n\nWhen we meet Juilet she is baded by her mother and nurse and told whether she would like to marry Paris. Juilet is no more than a child and does not understand the difference between love(simply married to someone) and love(in terms of passion in which she experiences later on with Romeo). She is obedient in her parent's wishes, without much thought. Compared to Romeo's lust of love...Juilet's naitivity is strangly juxtaposed when she meets Romeo and it is Juilet who expresses the desire to marry the following day. \n\nHope this helps
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William Shakespeare authored Romeo and Juliet and it was one of his most famous plays alongwith Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer's Night Dream etc. It was extensively potrayed during his time.
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Please don't take those responses of "sex before marriage" and illicit love as the breach of innocence in R & J.  The love of Romeo and Juliet is in itself representative of innocence.  The breach comes with the societal folly surrounding them.  It is through that imposition that they seek to consummate their love in a clandestine way, and that may indicate a breach of innocence, but the essence of their romance keeps its integrity.  The death of the two lovers is evidence that the innocnce is not broken; for both Romeo and Juliet would rather take on death than destroy what they have together.
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Well, I'm not sure which Act and Scene you're asking for, so I'll give you one from Act I's prologue. "From forth the fatal loins of these two foes / A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life." (line 6) The two foes are the Montagues and the Capulets, and what comes from loins? Babies! It's saying the children of these two deadly enemies will take their own lives (kill themselves) because of their star-crossed love (which was predetermined by fate).
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They end up dead.\n\nOkay, seriously, Juliet goes from being a meek submissive girl who is afraid of her mother and her nurse to a strong-willed girl who fakes her own death, deals with the death of her cousin and manages to go behind her parents back to get the man she loves.\n\nTrue, an accident botches it all, but Juliet matures immensely throughout the course of the play.
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Shakespeare\n\nHamlet
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Friar Lawrence is the easiest place to start - he hides the wedding from their families in the hope that this will 'turn your households rancour into pure love' - think about his job as a (catholic) priest - he should be trying to bring the families together as soon as possible and not enabling the children (Juliet is only 13) to go behind their parent's backs. Once again he shows himself in the guise of a deceiver by proposing the sleeping potion in order to fake Juliet's death - surely he would have done better to go and tell the families of the marriage then?\n\nRomeo marries Juliet days after being spurned by another girl - Rosaline - scientists now suggest it takes a year t fall in love with someone so surely he is just marrying Juliet out of lust.\n\nBoth Romeo and Juliet allow themselves to be controlled by others - Shakespeare in the opening chous refers to them as star crossed - suggesting they are controlled by fate but then is that what you expect from a hero and heroine? Our hero's are people who we admire for their strength and courage - do Romeo and Juliet's actions fit with this?\n\nPerhaps the central flaw is` that the characters allow themselves to be controlled by others - just as Shakespeare himself was controlled by his patrons.
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Go to sparknotes.com.\n\nRomeo is dumped...He meets Juliet...Mercucio dies...R & J are married...Romeo is banished...Juliet fakes her death...Romeo doesn't get the message and poisons himself...Juliet wakes up and stabs herself.
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Romeo, Juliet, and Paris are found dead shortly thereafter by a squire, who runs off to alert others. As word spreads throughout Verona about the deaths, the two feuding families (except Lady Montague, who had died of grief for her son) and the Prince converge upon the tomb. They are horrified to find Romeo, Juliet, and Paris all lying dead, and Friar Lawrence (who has hurried to the crypt but is too late to prevent the tragedy) reveals to them the love and secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet. The feuding families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud, as explained by the prologue. The play ends with the Prince saying, "A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
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Nice. Juliet was the sense to Romeo's romance. I like.
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Shakespeare really  came up with his plays, however   Nicholas Rowe and Alexander Pope, were responsible for publishing/editing the plays, so it is hard to say what Shakespeare's original words really were. There is also speculation that Shakespeare was not "smart" enough to come up with the plays that he did. Some believe it could be different Earl's and auhtority figures, but I hardly believe it.