... tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man". He means that tomorrow he will be dead in a grave. Romeo proclaims that his love for Juliet has made him weak and that he should have fought Tybalt. Tybalt comes to Romeo and the two begin to fight. Romeo kills Tybalt, Benvolio pleads with Romeo telling him to flee. ... will send her to sleep for 42 hours so that she will look as though she is dead to everyone else. And then Paris will come in the morning and think that she is dead. She will then be taken to the Capulet vault where she will lie. Romeo will then be informed about their plan, an...

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... and question marks, "Stand, ho! Who is there?" (1:1:15), which further show the unease of the sentinels and the fact that they are very wary of the situation as well as what is yet to come. The setting of this scene further expands upon the drama of the opening. The play opens in the dead of night on the battlements of a Danish Castle, a harsh and cold image. We are informed by ... Barnardo, "'Tis now struck twelve", a time that can be referred to as the witching hour. An element of the supernatural is hinted at here, almost a ... revealed that what these sentinels fear, is in fact the ...

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... a complicated emotion to define and people often lie about their feelings, or say things that they do not really mean, for example when Romeo plays the part of the tragic lover in Act 1, scene 4 when he says under loves heavy burden I do sink. Very soon after he has declared his love for Rosaline ... , it apparently disappears and showing us that he never could have been in love with her. There is an obvious change in the language Romeo uses after he meets Juliet, when he is talking to and about her and describing his feelings. When telling Benvolio of his love ... untimely death. In Act...

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... already showed changes as he showed where his heart lies and cut himself of from his friends. This suggested that Romeo has been affected after meeting Juliet. After the party Juliet was at her window thinking about Romeo, wishing that he wasn't a Montague. She was talking to herself asking " o Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art ... meant nothing anymore and that they can stop being a Montague and Capulet. So all that mattered was that they loved each other. Juliet doesn't behave the way girls usually did in those times, as she was very opinionated and strong willed after meeting Romeo. She was...

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... young age would confuse and scar her. Robert is a private person and is generally lonely, he would have wanted Barbara's company to take away from the loneliness that he felt and Barbara was used to being with a man then him leaving. Barbara never actually developed real feelings for any man since they always ... , here underneath this lime, we would have broke the pattern. He for me, and I for him. He as Colonel, I as Lady, on this shady seat. He had a whim that sunlight carried blessing and I answered. 'It shall be as you have said.' Now he is dead," (Lowell 64-67, 82-91). Lowell ...

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... for their house is seen virtually in every scene, such as what we see in Act 1 scene 5, when Tybalt is furious with the Romeo's presence at the party at the Capulet house, and is positive he must leave. It is only when he is forced by Capulet to ignore his presence that he does ... Another theme which is constant throughout is one of futility. Wherever in Literature we find conflict, we will almost definitely find futility. In 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' the six hundred know they if they go into battle they will probably not return, so it seems an absurd idea that they would go ... ...

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... Lady Capulet arrives abruptly and immediately assumes Juliet's tears are due to morning of her dead cousin, Tybalt. This is dramatic irony; we, as the audience are able to view the situation from two different positions and anticipate different consequences due to wrong assumptions. Lady Capulet then dictates the situation to Juliet, explaining that although Romeo has been banished to Mantua, they will ... not only for the benefit of Juliet but also for the benefit of herself. The nurse is aware of the dramatic consequences which would be put forward if the Romeo secret was revealed. Th...

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... , "Here's to my love! O true apothecary! / They drugs are pick. Thus with a kiss I die"(V. iii. 119-120). Another occasion that shows the love felt between Romeo and Juliet is when Juliet kills herself when she realizes that Romeo is dead. A quote that shows this is when she says, "Yea, noise? Then I"ll be brief. O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rest ... nothing to live for. Romeo's love is again shown for Juliet is shown when he sees her in the Capulet's vault and notices that she still looks beautiful even when she is dead, as can be seen in the following, since Romeo sees J...

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... as he won't be able to see Juliet any more. Their last night together is their honeymoon. Afterwards Romeo has to leave the city and Juliet is distraught. The friar Lawrence has a plan. It makes Juliet seem dead; all she has to do is take a concoction the friar makes up. Romeo will come and take her away. To let Romeo know Juliet isn't really ... dead he sends a messenger to tell him; the plan doesn't work though, because the guards at Mantua (where Romeo is) don't let the messenger in due to the plague. Romeo then thinks Juliet is dead and in a flourish of anger rushes to Verona to see...

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... this state and join Romeo. A letter had been sent to Romeo, informing him of the situation so that he would not worry from his hiding place. However, again fate takes hold and we know that unfortunately, Friar Laurence's letter was not received by Romeo. So, thinking Juliet dead he returned, went to where she lay and killed himself. So, when Juliet awoke ... and saw him dead she too committed suicide. Both tragically died. Although they killed themselves through love, it was fate that led caused the misunderstanding which resulted in their deaths. I think that fate always stood in the w...

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... : she loves Romeo and she is already married. To end it all, she had to kill herself to live with Romeo for the rest of her life, which is what she wanted. A plan was devised, where Juliet would appear dead, and wake up in Romeo's arms. But with bad communication problems, that was impossible. Juliet faked her death, but Romeo thought she ... was actually dead, so he killed himself. By waking up, Juliet finds out that Romeo died and decided to end her life to be with her Romeo. In this case, it shows the tragedy of human existence because she was not allowed to be with an enemy that she ...

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... Shakespeare's' poems and plays show his love of nature and rural life which reflects his childhood. On November 28, 1582, Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway of the neighboring village of Shottery. Hamnet, Shakespeare's son, died in 1596. In 1607, his daughter Susana got married. Shakespeare's other daughter, Judith, got ... a duel for killing Mercutio. It symbolized that Romeo was a decent person and really did not like to get involved in any of the brawls that the other teens started. When Escalus banished Romeo from Verona rather than putting him to death, Romeo is upset and goes to Fri...

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... so vexed for a kinsman (Romeo) that it is dead." Not long after this incident Juliet goes to Friar Laurence to discuss her troubles. Juliet then finds herself promising to commit suicide in front of the Friar. Once again we can see that Juliet is a confident character because the Friar takes her seriously. In other words, the friar does not underestimate that Juliet does posses ... where she is to take this potion (4.iii) that she shows a sign of depression and weakness. She spends a short time worrying over the potion and what may happen to her, "What if it be a poison which the friar ...

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... ball to "fleer and scorn at our solemnity," meaning that Tybalt feels that the Montagues have come to the party to mock the Capulets. During this scene, the audient is unnerved by their presence as anything could happen. Tybalt is a Catholic character, and as he states "to strike him dead, I hold it not a sin," he is saying that to murder Romeo would not be a sin ... audience would not expect to happen. For example in Act 4, scene 5, the Capulets find Juliet's dead body, as she has supposedly killed herself, as she was getting married to Paris, but the potion was given to her by the fri...

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... , and he may not see Juliet again. Friar Laurence's plan is to give Juliet a potion that makes her feel dead, so when she is pronounced dead and placed in her tomb, Romeo can meet her and they can run away together. I think that the love he feels for Juliet is conveyed because he is confident that they can sort everything out and they ... can live happily together again. In act 5 scene 1 Romeo has had a dream in which Juliet finds him dead which has disturbed him. His servant Balthasar arrives in Mantua from Verona ... Juliet's tomb he Is feeling very sad because he thinks that Juliet i...

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... plan which is; to drink a sleeping potion which will make Juliet sleep for fourty two hours. Everyone would think that she is dead she would be taken down to the Tomb of the Capulets. The Friar would tell Romeo and he would come down there just when Juliet is about to wake up. Juliet thinks this is ... happen and what the possible outcomes of the situation would be. Juliet then thinks if she wakes up before Romeo comes to redeem her then it would be a fearful sight. She would have to see all the dead bodies, skeletons of all her past ancestors and other past members of the family. The na...

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... stop it but Mercutio gets hurt and dies. Romeo then goes crazy with anger and kills Tybalt and runs away. The prince who said if people fight justice will be done and lady Capulet wants Romeo dead because he killed Tybalt but the prince knows Romeo wasn't full to blame so he banish him from Verona instead of killing him. This scene is ... from Verona. So he can't see Juliet and Juliet tries to see him by pretending she is dead but when Romeo gets there he thinks she is dead so he kills himself and Juliet kills herself because of this. This is all because of this scene The main character...

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... taking an evil wife. Haemon not only kills himself to be with his love but also for the love and respect of his father. Haemon's love for Antigone caused him to commit suicide when he found her dead body. Creon's wife's love for Haemon made her kill herself when she found out about his ... over every instant in his life. Othello loves Desdemona deeply, but he lets his possessive love take away everything he feels for Desdemona. Othello lets even the slightest hint of infidelity to destabilize his faith in his wife. Othello allows all of Iago's lies to get to him and ends up murdering his...

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... . Juliet for example says, "Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low, as one dead in the bottom of a tomb." She sees Romeo dead in a tomb, which is where he eventually ends up in the end of the play, beside her. She talks about Romeo being so low in a tomb, he's dead, and she has foreseen it, before it has even happened. How could she have ... , fate may have been trying to do more than bring the two together. In Act V, scene iii, The Prince says, "A glooming peace this morning with it brings..." after the two are discovered dead and their marriage revealed by the Friar. The hatred and fe...

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... of death is always re-occurring. Both Romeo and Juliet dream of death. At the end Romeos shirt opens revealing his wounds when he learns the bad news of Juliet. He seeks refuge in the church and the light at the end of the tunnel is Juliet. Both already look dead and are represented as saints or martyrs. It is ironic that Romeo does not know that ... . There are close ups on both Romeo and Juliet's eyes. When they are dead they are lying on the bed it is the same as their marriage bed but on the deathbed they can now be together forever. The camera gets higher and Romeo and Juliet look a...

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... . Because Mercutio's death is an accidental and everyone but Romeo knows that, Romeo wants to avenge Mercutio's death; therefore, he wants Tybalt dead. This leads to the fated separation of Romeo and Juliet, because Romeo has killed Tybalt, who has already begun a fight with someone so will then be executed ... In Shakespeare's play we can find truth in this statement. Thirdly, Juliet foreshadows Romeo's death to herself. When Juliet is confused and worried about the outcome of her taking the sleeping draught, she has a vision or a premonition as to her love's fate: "Juliet: O, look! me ...

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... triumphs war because of this, as Cupid became the God of Love, not the God of War. Romeo and Juliet's love for each other triumphs their families' hate for the other, as the Capulets and Montagues end the feud only when they see their children dead and hear their story. The truce between the Capulets and the Montagues is not anticipated, as the families have been feuding for a long time ... . All in all, Cupid is one of the main causes for having the excess of passion that will make one do ... different, unanticipated things. To conclude, the motifs in Romeo and Juliet show how too much...

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... fate would have it, Friar John was locked up in a condemned house because of the plague. As a result Romeo received incorrect information. The only information he received from the unsuspecting Balthasar was that Juliet was dead. There are two important points to note in this area of the play. One being the reference to star-crossing, fates out of line by Romeo speaking of love " I fear ... of bad timing neither happened. Coincidence is a controlling element regarding the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. It is more evident than in other areas of the play. The following examples also deal wit...

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... arrangements for him and Juliet. After he left Juliet begged the friar if he could make something up so she could leave her family and go to live with Romeo for the rest of her life. After a while the Friar thought of a potion that would make her look dead for 42 hours. In that time she was to be ... placed in a big vault where all the Capulets dead bodies go to rest in peace, By the time she awoke Romeo would be there ... to take her away from her family and Verona. In the mean time Friar Lawrence sent another Friar with a letter to Romeo saying he must be ... poison to kill himself. J...

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... whereas other critics characterize her as a "spontaneous, passionate child of nature". By others her emotion is described as a sort of magic: "Alike bewitched by the charm of refusing to describe it: But my true love is grown to such excess / I cannot sum up some of half my wealth" (III.i.33- ... to Paris a day earlier. This lead to Juliet drinking the poison the Friar provided for her sooner than 5 planned, throwing their plan off track. The potion was supposed to put Juliet into a deep sleep, but to everyone else she would seem dead. The message did not get back to Romeo in time and ......

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