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1. • • “Take their life” is a pun: it means that the lovers were born from the “fatal loins” of their parents, and it also means that the lovers will kill themselves. Their births and deaths are described in the same short phrase, which again suggests that their deaths were fated from the moment they were born.
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   Why does Romeo & Juliet have a prologue?

   • Stars were thought to control people’s destinies. But the Prologue itself creates this sense of fate by providing the audience with the knowledge that Romeo and Juliet will die even before the play has begun. The audience therefore watches the play with the expectation that it must fulfill the terms set in the Prologue.

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   Did Romeo and Juliet fall in love?

   • A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows Doth, with their death, bury their parents’ strife. The fate of Romeo and Juliet is in the stars. They were destined to fall in love. They were destined to meet tragedy. They had no control over the actual events themselves.

   The portrayal and significance of Romeo and Juliet as "star-crossed

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   Does Romeo & Juliet spoil a lot?

   • When reading the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, one realises that it does not really "spoil" that much. It does not tell you why or how those two families revive their feud, whether the deaths of the two lovers is related to the feud, why exactly they take their own lives, let alone how and under what circumstances.

   What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and

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   What does Romeo say to Juliet in Romeo & Juliet?

   • Romeo speaks to Juliet of his intention to spend eternity with her, describing himself as shaking “the yoke of inauspicious stars / From this world-wearied flesh” (5.3.111–112). He kisses Juliet, drinks the poison, kisses Juliet again, and dies. Just then, Friar Lawrence enters the churchyard.

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   What happens in Act 1 of Romeo & Juliet?

   • In the Act 1 Prologue to the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

   What is the benefit in the Prologue "spoiling" the play in Romeo and

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   What happens in Romeo & Juliet?

   • Troubled, the friar enters the tomb, where he finds Paris’s body and then Romeo’s. As the friar takes in the bloody scene, Juliet wakes. Juliet asks the friar where her husband is. Hearing a noise that he believes is the coming of the watch, the friar quickly replies that both Romeo and Paris are dead, and that she must leave with him.

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   May 13, 2017 · When reading the prologue of Romeo and Juliet, one realises that it does not really "spoil" that much. It does not tell you why or how those two families revive their feud, whether the deaths of the two lovers is related to the feud, why exactly they take their own lives, let alone how and under what circumstances.

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   But why are Romeo and Juliet ‘star-cross’d’ and why does ‘star-cross’d’ mean ‘doomed’? In short, it is because it is written in the stars that Romeo and Juliet’s love for each other will be thwarted. Their romance is doomed from the outset.

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   2 days ago · 1. “A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life” - The Chorus. The Prologue informs the audience of Romeo and Juliet’s fate in the play. 2. “But He that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail” - Romeo. Romeo entrusts his life to fate, suggesting that he is powerless to control events. 3. “O, I am Fortune’s Fool!”.

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   Juliet acknowledges the role fate plays in her life—she knows she is a pawn of the “heaven [s]”—and yet her actions over the course of the rest of the play show that she longs to fly in the face of heaven’s decrees. “O, I am fortune’s fool!”.

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   Why does the Prince exile Romeo? Why does Juliet feel torn when she hears of Tybalt’s death? At the end of Romeo and Juliet’s wedding night together, why does Juliet first deny that it is day and then change her mind? Why does Friar Lawrence’s plan to help Romeo reunite with Juliet fail?

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   A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. . . . As a prologue to the play, the Chorus enters. In a fourteen-line sonnet, the Chorus describes two noble households (called “houses”) in the city of Verona.

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    A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows. Doth, with their death, bury their parents’ strife. The fate of Romeo and Juliet is in the stars....