Romeo and Juliet act 2

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Romeo and Juliet

In Act 3 Scene 1 of Romeo and Juliet how does Shakespeare make it such an interesting, exciting and important scene?

In Act 2 Romeo and Juliet were married by Friar Lawrence.  This leads into Act 3 Scene 1 because this is why Romeo does not want to fight Tybalt. Tybalt fights Mercutro instead. Romeo comes between them and Mercutro is stabbed.  As Mercutro dies he says “I put a plague a’ both your houses” and we find out that the curses comes true by the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. We do not find out how the ancient grudge started between the Capulet’s and the Montague’s. It’s been going on for many years now and the grudge is not sorted until the end where it takes 2 deaths to do it. Shakespeare wrote this in 1590 and we can see this by the way they fight through out the play. Here are some points how we can tell that in was written in the 16th century: The weapons they used likes swords and the they fists, the arranged marriages and the language what was used.        

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Act 3 Scene 1 is interesting, exciting and important because Shakespeare uses hot weather to show that the characters are tense. We know that Romeo and Juliet are married, but Tybalt and Mercutro don’t and its ironic that Tybalt does not know that he is ask for a with fight his cousin-in-law. Prince Escalus has banned fighting in the streets of Verona because the ancient grudge has coursed too much trouble in town and too many people were getting injury in the conflicts. Also none wanted to fight because they were threatened with death. At the time of Shakespeare ...

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