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A short summary of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Romeo and Juliet.
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The play opens on the streets of Verona, Italy, as a fight breaks outbetween the servants of two powerful rival families: the Capulets and theMontagues. Benvolio Montague attempts to break up the fight but is thwarted bythe hotheaded Tybalt Capulet, who attacks Benvolio. Finally, Prince Escalusappears and breaks up the brawl, condemning the familie...
Romeo exits the Capulet house, yearning for Juliet. He is incapable ofleaving without seeing her again and approaches her house again. Mercutio andBenvolio believe he is pursuing Rosaline and joke about this as they leave.Romeo hangs around the house, just wanting to be near Juliet. He looks up tosee her emerge from her upstairs balcony. Juliet thi...
Mercutio and Benvolio are wandering the streets of Verona. Benvolio has abad feeling and wishes to return home, but Mercutio scorns him for being acoward. Tybalt appears and brushes aside Mercutio’s attempts at confrontation.Romeo appears and refuses to respond to Tybalt's challenge, knowing that theirfamilies are now united by marriage. Neither Me...
Friar Laurence and Paris discuss Paris’s forthcoming marriage to Juliet,though the Friar is careful not to reveal that Juliet is already married.Juliet arrives and fakes pleasantries with Paris. As soon as he leaves,however, Juliet turns to Friar Laurence for advice, vowing that she wouldrather kill herself than marry another man while her husband ...
Friar Laurence learns, too late, that Friar John—the man he had commissionedwith delivering the letter containing the plan to Romeo—never reached him,having been quarantined due to a plague. In Mantua, Romeo hears from a servant that Juliet has died, and determinedto join her in death, he purchases poison and travels back to Verona. When hearrives ...
Jun 4, 2020 · Is Romeo and Juliet the great love story that it’s often interpreted as, and what does it say about the play – if it is a celebration of young love – that it ends with the deaths of both romantic leads?
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy—but the play knowingly wags its finger at the warring Capulets and Montagues, wealthy families who can’t look past their own insularity and haughty self-importance to be good to one another, or to allow their children the chance at real love.
Romeo, surrendering to the circumstances that have trapped him in his tragic role, kills Paris, then enters Juliet’s tomb and kills himself moments before she wakes. When Juliet finds Romeo dead, she stabs herself with his dagger.
Romeo and Juliet Summary. An age-old vendetta between two powerful families erupts into bloodshed. A group of masked Montagues risk further conflict by gatecrashing a Capulet party. A young lovesick Romeo Montague falls instantly in love with Juliet Capulet, who is due to marry her father’s choice, the County Paris.
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