... • Verona and Mantua (cities in northern Italy) POINT OF VIEW • Insofar as a play has a point of view, that of Romeo and Juliet; occasionally the play uses the point of view of the Montague and Capulet servants to illuminate the actions of their masters. FALLING ACTION • The end of Act V, scene iii, when the prince and the parents discover the bodies of Romeo and Juliet, and agree ... bull; The forcefulness of love; love as a cause of violence; the individual versus society; the inevitability of fate MOTIFS • Light/dark imagery; opposite points of view SYMBOLS • Poison; thumb-b...

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... have not changed. Romeo and Juliet is the ultimate tale of love that is too great to bear. It has often been described as a triumph of dramatic lyricism. Because of this, love is the predominant theme throughout the play. Another theme that Shakespeare uses in the play is hatred. The original play revolves around the conflicts between two feuding families, the Capulet's and the Montague's. The themes of death and violence also enter into Romeo ... to a modern day likeness of the play. At the end of the scene where Prince Escalus says that if the two families fight again there will be de...

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... with it. Shakespeare wrote almost no original plots. He used an English poetic retelling of an old Italian tale: Arthur Brooke's The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet. Despite its Italian setting, the language, attitudes, and customs are generally English. In one respect, Shakespeare altered the story in a way which is shocking to modern audiences: he lowered Juliet's age ... in with Northern European prejudices about hot-blooded early-maturing Southerners. However we imagine her, Juliet is given some of the most brilliant and memorable lines in the play, and is notable for her coura...

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