The Role Of Minor Characters Many minor characters played very important roles that influenced the outcome of the play to occur. ... The most important minor character that has influenced the final tragedy of the play was Friar Lawrence. The roles that these characters play set the mood, influences the ending and reveals important information about themselves or other characters. ... The Minor Character that has affected this play the most is Friar Lawrence. ... These minor characters affected the play in different ways. ...

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Friar Laurence, Lord Capulet, and Prince Escalus are minor characters that had a strong influence on the direction of the plot. Of the many minor characters that influenced the direction of the plot, Friar Laurence was the most significant. ... Therefore, Friar Laurence was a minor character that greatly affected the direction of the plot. ... Thus, Lord Capulet was a minor character that played a big role in influencing the direction of the plot. The third and final of the three minor characters that influenced the direction of the plot was Prince Escalus. ...

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In his tragic play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare illustrates the clash between fate and free will through a character by the name of Mercutio. Mercutio is a comic character, depicts Philia, and he helps to advance the plot. ... The comic genius of Mercutio's character is definitely brought to life in the Franco Zepherelli film version of the play. ... In the end, Mercutio can be proven to be more than a minor character. ... Yes, he is a minor character with major significance....

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"It is not so much the central characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet themselves, as the minor characters that are responsible for their tragic end." ... However, the over-looked, minor characters play an important role in the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. ... The minor characters had a big portion in the deaths. ...

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"It is not so much the central characters of the play, Romeo and Juliet themselves, as the minor characters that are responsible for their tragic end." ... However, the over-looked, minor characters play an important role in the downfall of Romeo and Juliet. ... The minor characters had a big portion in the deaths. ...

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The Women of Shakespeare Women in Shakespeare's plays were not of importance, compared to the male characters. Though, the women had a minor role in the plays, they played a big role in the lives of others in the play. ... In Romeo and Juliet, Juliet Capulet to me seems to be the most tragic of all Shakespeare's women characters. ... Each of the women in the four plays that we have read, each had a minor role, but that minor role turned out to be one of the important key factors in the conclusion of the play itself. ...

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A Character Most Like Me Tyler Brown In Romeo and Juliet , by William Shakespeare, there are several minor and major characters. Out of all the characters I had to pick from, I chose Romeo. ... Even though I like Romeo and the way his character works and thinks, I totally lost respect for him during this scene. ...

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I think that this was a minor fault in the movie because nobody really has any idea of what the biting of the thumbs actually meant and Baz Luhrmann didn't explain it at all. ... The use of camera angles is extremely good in the fight scene, with fast and slow motion mixed together as each character is shown. Just as the fight scene begins, the camera zooms up to each of the main characters, freezes and uses text to introduce the character. After the character has been introduced, the screen is un-freezed and the fight returns to the fast speed it was before. ... I think the way in which ...

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Since William Shakespeare wrote tragedies in which the main characters die, the star-crossed lovers in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet had to die, but some significant events led up to their death and someone made these incidents to occur. ... Although Friar Lawrence could be considered a minor character, he is the most responsible for the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; he married the title characters despite their feuding families, he had a risky plan to save Juliet from a second marriage and his fear of committing sins. ... Therefore, Friar Lawrence was the mastermind in Romeo's ba...

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The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world effects more than just their own lives. ... Juliet is Independent, Courageous, and Heroic in Romeo and Juliet After reading William Shakespeares' Romeo and Juliet, you have abetter understanding of the characters then when we are first introducedto them. Juliet Capulet, who is one of the main characters, is placed in acruel and vicious adult world. ...

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Shakespeare's portrayal of both minor as well as major characters in all of his plays is intricate and inclusive. ... Such detailed development in terms of plot and character has so far not been rivaled. ...

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This minor coincidence does not have much bearing on the course of the play, but changes the way we think of "toasting" to someone. ... Then why did the friar behave out of character and leave the tomb when he heard the call of the watch. ...

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