Romeo and Juliet

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The usual plot scenario of a typical love story starts with boy meets girl Most of the time they meet unexpectedly across a room and they instantly fall in love at first sight. However, usually there is more to the story Shakespeare ads conflict to make the story more exciting this conflict usually is a battle, war or an ongoing argument. To add to the conflict there are bound to be complications. This could be in the form of fate where things go wrong and it was destined to happen. Towards the end of a typical love story, there normally is some kind of resolution such as living happily ever after or tragedy.


At the start of the play, Romeo attends a Capulet’s party. Due to the families feud he was not meant to be there. Unknown to him he was to fall in love with Juliet. Romeo says “one fair than my love? The all-seeing sun ne’er saw her match since first world began” Here we can see the unexpected love at first site as Romeo sees Juliet. Juliet sees Romeo and says, “My love sprung from my only hate, too early seen unknown and known too late!” Also here we can see Juliet’s unexpected love at first sight for Romeo this conforms the Literary tradition of Unexpected love at first site.

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The feud between the Montagues and the Capulets is an ongoing feud throughout the story, the reason behind the feud is unknown. After Tybalt killed Mercutio Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished from the city of Verona by the prince “…… let Romeo hence in haste else, when he’s found , that hour is his last” This adds (more) conflict to the feud as both the Montagues and the Capulets have lost a family member. At this point, we can really begin to see how bad the feud is between the families. Unknown to Lord and Lady Capulet Juliet ...

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