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Romeo's age isn't implicitly stated in the play, but it's assumed he is just a bit older - perhaps fifteen years old. Their youthfulness may explain some of their hasty decision-making.
- The Six Deaths of Romeo and Juliet
- The Events That Take Place Before The First Death
- The First to Die: Mercutio
- Innocence Lost
- Tybalt Slain
Romeo and Juliet, a couple fated by the stars to join in sweet matrimony, but whose romance was tragically cut short and, as we all know, who both died. The play is often taught to junior high students as an introduction to Shakespeare. There have been countless reproductions of the famous play, as well as movies, TV shows, ballets, and symphonies ...
The first act of bloodshed takes place in Act III, scene I. This comes after the play has laid down the foundation of the Capulets and Montagues as rival families. The animosity between the two families is ancient. It's unclear what is at the heart of their feud, but the families don't cooperate with each other. They're both privileged families wit...
At the beginning of Act III, Tybalt runs into Mercutio and Benvolio. Tybalt aggresses Mercutio for being a friend of Romeo. Mercutio takes offense at Tybalt's insinuations. Benvolio tries to calm them down. Romeo comes onto the scene and Tybalt finally gets his desired confrontation with the young Montague. But Romeo wants no part in Tybalt's chall...
The death of Mercutio is a major plot point in the play. It sets off a domino effect that ends with Romeo and Juliet's unfortunate demises. Mercutio's death signals the end of innocence. The play is lighthearted until the duel scene. When Romeo's closest friend dies, and in his final words wishes a pox on both houses, the seriousness of the conflic...
Moments after Mercutio's death, Tybalt returns to the scene. Romeo can only see red. He is consumed with anger. Any love from Juliet that could have softened Romeo's heart and prevented him from doing something incredibly foolish is gone. Romeo demands that someone must die to keep Mercutio company: Tybalt finally gets his duel with Romeo, and it c...
Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison (née Chloe Ardelia Wofford; February 18, 1931 – August 5, 2019), known as Toni Morrison, was an American novelist and editor. Her first novel, The Bluest Eye, was published in 1970.
Aug 6, 2019 · The grandmother, Baby Suggs, was dead, and the sons, Howard and Buglar, had run away by the time they were thirteen years old — as soon as merely looking in a mirror shattered it (that was...
Dec 23, 2019 · After long claiming that he was born in 1938, he changed it to 1936 in his best-selling diet book, “The Karl Lagerfeld Diet,” and then, years later, announced that it was in fact 1935.
Aug 10, 2019 · Born February 18th, 1931; Died August 5th, 2019. Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the only African American writer and one of the few women to have received the Nobel Prize in...
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Aug 5, 2019 · Biographical. Born Chloe Anthony Wofford, in 1931 in Lorain (Ohio), the second of four children in a black working-class family. Displayed an early interest in literature. Studied humanities at Howard and Cornell Universities, followed by an academic career at Texas Southern University, Howard University, Yale, and since 1989, a chair at ...
