Romeo & Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

In the first scene of the play, Romeo comments, “Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love”. How far do you consider this to be a fair assessment of ‘Romeo and Juliet’?

Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular play it was ever written by William Shakespeare in 1595. It was set in Verona, Italy.

This play is about how the two families, the Montague and Capulet have finally come to their realisation that envy is not everything by the sacrifice of their beloved children, Juliet Capulet and Romeo Montague, also known as

“Star crossed lovers”.

In Verona, the climate is very hot during most times so its people will get tempered up easily because of the hotness.

At the beginning of the play, it was said that Romeo was deeply in love with a lady called Rosaline. He was sad that she didn’t love him back, but the only reason why he feels for her was because of her appearance, he didn’t know her at all. But then came along Juliet, the lady who Romeo met at the Capulet’s party. It was like love at first sight. Juliet fell in love with Romeo too, but after they had discovered their families are enemies, they got worried but it didn’t stop them from being with each other.

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As the play goes on, Juliet is starting to show her maturity and self-control she has. She ordered the nurse to leave her be on the night before the wedding, also the night where she was going to drink sleeping potion to fool others. “I pray thee leave me to myself tonight” and “let me now be let alone”.

Before Juliet drank her potion, she had a long speech (soliloquy) about her feelings. It was shown that she was scared about what would happen if the potion from Friar Lawrence didn’t work. “I have a faint cold fear thrills ...

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