Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare By: Jayme Ferguson

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Romeo is a young 16 year old boy who is the son of Montague and Lady Montague. He is seen to be intelligent, warm-hearted, and very handsome. He

lives in the middle of a violent feud between his family and the Capulets, but his interest doesn’t

rely on violence. At the beginning of the play he is madly in love with a woman named Rosaline, but immediately as he lays eyes on Juliet, he falls in love with her and forgets he ever had a past with Rosaline. Romeo goes to the extreme to show his compassionate and seriousness of his feeling by

secretly marrying Juliet.

A beautiful thirteen year old girl who is the daughter of Capulet and Lady Capulet. Juliet begins the play as a naïve child who has thought

little about love and marriage, but she grows up quickly upon falling in love with Romeo, the son of her family’s great enemy. Juliet is a part of

an Aristocratic family, meaning she doesn’t have the privileges that Romeo does.

(some of those privileges include: roaming the City, climbing over walls, and swordfights)

Juliet’s nurse, the woman who breast-fed her when she was a baby and has cared for Juliet her entire life plays an important role in Juliet’s life, but that soon comes to an end when the Nurse tells Juliet she doesn’t

like Romeo and doesn’t feel that she should love him. Juliet, going with her heart, chooses Romeo over the Nurse.

“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious

moon,Who is already sick and pale with

griefThat thou, her maid, art far more

fair than she. . . The brightness of her cheek would

shame those starsAs daylight doth a lamp; her eye

in heavenWould through the airy region

stream so brightThat birds would sing and think it

were not night.”

Loving Words from Romeo….

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"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse thy name.

Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my loveAnd I'll no longer be a Capulet."

Loving response from Juliet....

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This quote is basically saying that Juliet does not care that she is a Capulet and their two families are fighting. She wants to be with Romeo no matter what, and so with Romeo she will be.

On normal circumstances, the two love companions must plan strategically how to meet and see each other on a day to day basis without one another’s parents finding out.

“Parting is such sweet sorrow

that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow…”

Location: Masquerade Ball

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• Romeo and Juliet have a strong compassionate love for one another

• They are not allowed to see each other on their parents behalf

• The two must do everything they can to keep in touch and see each other

• The Capulets and the Montagues are enemies and forbid their children to see one another because of the grudge the two families have been

holding

• The Friar gives Juliet medicine/potion to help her fall asleep and pass out for a while. Romeo soon returns and finds her lying there.

• Romeo then believes she is dead, and she feels that he cannot go on without Juliet

• Romeo drinks actual poison and dies immediately

• After Juliet's potion wares off, she sees Romeo truly dead and decides she cannot live without him either, so in result, she stabs herself.

About Romeo and Juliet

Love- Romeo and Juliet is sometimes considered to have no unifying theme, but many agree on young love. By using metaphors of saints and

sins, Romeo was able to test Juliet's feelings for him in a non-threatening way. In the later

balcony scene, Shakespeare has Romeo overhear Juliet's soliloquy from atop the balcony.http://arizonakate.com/hearts/azk14-valentine-glitter.gif

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“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. . . . O, I am fortune’s fool! . . . Then I defy you, stars.”

This quote explains how one of the themes in this play is Fate. Fate often refer to the description of the lovers as

"star-cross'd".

“O, I am fortune’s fool!” illustrates the fact that Romeo sees himself as subject to the ideas of fate. When he cries out “Then I

defy you, stars,” after learning of Juliet’s death, he declares himself openly opposed to the destiny that continues to grieve

him

Works Cited"SparkNotes: Romeo and Juliet." SparkNotes: Today's Most

Popular Study Guides. 27 May 2009 <http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/>.

"Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Search, Read, Study, Discuss." The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems,

and quotes. Essays & Summaries. 27 May 2009 <http://www.online-literature.com/shakespeare/romeo_and_juliet/

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