Romeo and Juliet

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   reidalot Teacher
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   At the opening of the play, the audience meets Romeo who is melancholy (sad) about life in general. He seems much like a spoiled boy. We meet Juliet, who has yet to experience life and love. As the play progresses within its short time span of only days, Romeo falls intensely in love, commits murder, gets married, goes into hiding, thinks his true love is dead, and then kills himself by drinking poison. Juliet also falls intensely in love, defies her parents' wishes, gets married, takes a dangerous sleeping draught to pretend she is dead, awakes to find Romeo, her true love, dead, and kills herself. I would say that these two young lovers' characters go through quite dramatic emotional development in this tragedy!

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   Posted by reidalot on Wednesday May 28, 2008 at 6:17 AM
   
   

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