William Shakespeare's classical play "The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet" begins with a prologue. ... This line informs you about whom the characters in the play are and how many. ... The last meaning of civil is civilian which is a normal person, like the people in the families who are just normal people who have disagreements. ... These two rhyming lines mean that, if you listen patiently we will explain again what you have missed, so that you understand. ... The ending pattern of the prologue is different to the rest of the lines in it, which is like how the storyline of the play is stru...

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Doc attempts to get through to Tony by dramatically pleading, "Why do you live like there's a war on? Why do you kill?" ... "Couldn't you see he's one of them?" ... / You won't understand" (2.5). ... Like Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria are of adverse parties, and their doomed love is forbidden. ...

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In 'Romeo and Juliet' William Shakespeare writes about different types of conflict, and how the conflict affects those around it. ... What Shakespeare is trying to show is how easy it is to manipulate someone. All you have to do is use the right words. ... In this play Shakespeare shows how easily conflict can occur. ... Whether you think conflict is noble or childish, it is agreeable that it is horrific, futile, and to sum up, pointless. ...

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Shakespeare's Elizabethan audience created what the setting looked like in their minds by listening to the elaborate description Shakespeare wrote. ... Meaning, "Why are you called Romeo?" ... This means that whatever you call a rose it is still going to smell good. ... Meaning perhaps he would like more, sexually. ... I think that Shakespeare has done this to make Juliet not just seem like a push over to Romeo. ...

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Carton is so disillusioned with his own life, that he can't even like his client [who looks like him], "Do you particularly like the man?" He muttered, at his own image; "why should you particularly like a man who resembles you? There is nothing in you to like- (Dickens 103). ... Shakespeare has Friar Lawrence state [about Romeo's multiple infatuations], "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes" (1.3.67-68). ... He is thoroughly changed from his introductory state of slovenly, cynical drunk, to a man willing to sacrifice his own life for the wo...

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Do you believe in fate? To answer that question, you must first have a correct idea of what fate is. ... Even if their lives were ended by it, like Romeo says in Act II, scene ii, "And, But thou love me, let them find me here. ... They couldn't contradict it, how would you? ... You can't. ...

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In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, much of the conflict within the story was motivated by a sense of pride or honor by the characters, as shown through the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues, the proud familial ties that characters are bound to, the forced marriage between Juliet and Paris, and the conflict between Tybalt, Mercutio, and Romeo. The idea of honor was central to Shakespeare's Elizabethan England, as well as the Renaissance-era Italy portrayed in the play. ... In a situation like this, even the most distantly related members, and even serving men, would try to...

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His Romeo and Juliet released in 1996 is a unique adaptation of one of William Shakespeare's finest plays. ... The film really brings light to how fantastic Shakespeare's plays are and many would agree that it does him justice. ... Tybalt's wearing of black makes him look like the angel of death, and he is. ... Romeo and Juliet are both very plain at their wedding to show that this is true love and you don't have to dress it up. ... In the film bands like Garbage, The Cardigans, and Radiohead update the text and make it more like the original. ...

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Shakespeare shows the different maturity level between the two characters in the play Romeo and Juliet. ... Stand, and you be a man. ... Why should you fall into so deep an O"? ... The characteristics Juliet posses are very advanced and mature, yet the characteristics Romeo posses are fickle and child-like. ...

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