the assignment don bosco

by Ahmad issa

Joined Dec 2016
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Introduction

romeo and juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world.today, more than four handred years after it was written, it is as popular as shakespear’s time. perhaps this is because the play play is more than a great love story. it is also about murder, life and death, happiness and sadness, problems between two great families. there are six death in romeo and julite! some parts of the play are quiet and romantic, some are exciting, some are funny and some are very sad.

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Romeo and Juliet Summary

Verona is home to two feuding noble houses, the Montagues and the Capulets. In response to the constant brawling between members of these families, the Prince of Verona has issued an edict that will impose a death sentence on anyone caught dueling. Against this backdrop, young Romeo of the house of Montague has recently been infatuated with Rosaline, a niece of Capulet. Rosaline is quickly forgotten, however, when Romeo and his friends disguise themselves and slip into a masque ball at Capulet’s house. During the festivities, Romeo catches his first glimpse of Juliet, Capulet’s daughter. In one of Shakespeare’s most memorable scenes, Romeo steals into the garden and professes his love to Juliet, who stands above on her balcony. The two young lovers, with the aid of Friar Laurence, make plans to be married in secret.

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Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, later discovers that Romeo has attended the ball, and he sets out to teach the young Montague a lesson at the point of his sword. Romeo is challenged by Tybalt, but tries to avoid a duel between them since he is now married to Juliet (making Tybalt a kinsman). Mercutio, Romeo’s best friend, takes up Tybalt’s challenge and is killed in the ensuing fight. Enraged, Romeo slays Tybalt in turn. As a result of this bloodshed, the Prince proclaims that Romeo is to be banished from Verona for his actions. Romeo has time to consummate the marriage and bid farewell to Juliet, though he hopes to be reunited with her once the Capulets learn that they are man and wife.

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The Capulets, meanwhile, press for Juliet to marry Paris, a cousin to the Prince. Juliet, relying again on Friar Laurence, devises a desperate plan to avoid her parent’s wishes. She obtains a drug that will make her seem dead for forty-two hours; while she is in this state, Friar Laurence will send word to Romeo of the situation so that he can rescue her from her tomb. Unfortunately, fate will not be so kind; the letter from Friar Laurence is delayed. Romeo instead hears second-hand news that Juliet has died. Grief-stricken, Romeo purchases poison and hastens to Juliet’s tomb to die at her side. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence has discovered to his horror that his letter did not arrive, and he means to take Juliet away until he can set things aright.

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At the tomb, Romeo encounters Paris, who mourns for Juliet. Romeo slays Paris, then enters the tomb and downs his poison. As Friar Laurence comes upon the scene, Juliet awakens only to find the lifeless body of her beloved Romeo laying beside her. Juliet takes the dagger from Romeo’s belt and plunges it into her heart. Upon this scene, the Prince arrives—along with the Montague and Capulet parents—demanding to know what has happened. Friar Laurence relates to all the tragic tale of Romeo and Juliet’s secret marriage and their senseless suicides. The Montagues and Capulets, when faced with the terrible price that their feud has exacted, vow to put an end to the enmity between their two houses.

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Character:

Romeo- is the only son of the Montague family of Verona.

He is well-versed in Petrarchan-style poetry, which forms the essence of his speaking style. He seems to take little part in the feud with the Capulets, being far too busy mooning over Rosaline. Even when he comes across evidence of yet another brawl, though he laments that it should have occurred, he quickly turns it into a commentary for his love for Rosaline. Said love is washed quite clean from his mind the moment he meets Juliet, Capulet’s daughter. Sneaking into her garden and speaking with her, he is forced by her common sense and the reality of her existence to cease using the fake, stylized language he used about the unobtainable Rosaline. Convinced by his confessor Friar Laurence that his marriage to Juliet may help to reconcile the two warring families, he refuses to respond to Tybalt’s taunts and challenges, leading his best friend Mercutio to consider him a coward. Attempting to stop the fight between Tybalt and Mercutio, he merely causes the latter’s death, which is enough to make his pacific disposition crack and for him to kill Tybalt in return. The fact of exile brings him to the brink of suicide at the thought of never seeing Juliet again, refusing to see all the ways in which he is lucky. Waiting for news in Mantua, he hears of Juliet’s death and rushes to her grave to kill himself to be with her.

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juliet- is the only child of the Capulet family. A fortnight shy of fourteen, she is an obedient child, but reveals herself to be passionate and willing to betray all that she has been brought up to when she falls in love with Romeo.

Though she can play Petrarchan word-games as well as Romeo, she has little patience for them once she has completely fallen for him. She is a practical girl, arranging for such things as meeting-times, secret messages, and marriage plans, things that Romeo simply doesn’t think of. She is also impatient (a quality her nurse plays on) and physical: her love for Romeo is not merely spiritual, and she impatiently looks forward to her wedding night. When only a few hours after her marriage she discovers that Romeo has killed her cousin Tybalt, she is at first torn, but quickly dismisses Tybalt from her thoughts to concentrate on Romeo’s banishment. He sneaks in for the night, and she does not want him to leave in the morning, but soon has to force him to go, at which time she is taken by a terrifying premonition of their deaths. Believing that her grief is over her cousin’s death, her parents attempt to mend it by bringing her wedding to County Paris forward. Standing up to them, Juliet finds herself cut off from her parents’ love; her last comfort, the Nurse, betrays her by suggesting that she go ahead with marrying Paris. Ready to kill herself if all else fails, she accepts Friar Lawrence’s plan to fake her death, and takes his sleeping potion despite her fears. Waking to find Romeo dead beside her, she refuses to leave with the Friar, she stabs herself before anyone can reach her.

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Chorus- introduces each of the first two acts, setting both the theme of the play and its style. Speaking in sonnet form, he accustoms the ear to listen for echoes of that style.

Prince Escalus- of Verona has the misfortune of ruling over a state where two major families are locked in an unending war.
County Paris- is a nobleman of Verona, close kin to the Prince and to Mercutio.
Montague- is the head of an old family of Verona.

Old Capulet- Capulet’s cousin, is an old man, possibly even his uncle. He sits with Capulet at the feast and gossips of old times and people they know.

Mercutio- is a kinsman of the Prince’s, and a close friend of Romeo’s.

Benvolio- is Montague’s nephew. By nature law-abiding and peaceful, he attempts to break up the opening quarrel only to end up embroiled in it.

Tybalt- is the nephew of Capulet’s wife, and that family’s chief troublemaker.

Petruchio- is one of Tybalt’s friends. He is present at the Capulets’ feast and accompanies Tybalt when the latter goes seeking Romeo the next day.

Friar Laurence- is a Franciscan friar who is confessor to both Juliet and Romeo, and whom Paris immediately thinks of when he requires a priest for his wedding.

Friar John- is sent by Friar Laurence to Mantua, with letters informing Romeo that Juliet is not in fact dead.

Balthasar- is Romeo’s manservant.

Sampson- is one of Capulet’s servants.

Gregory- is one of Capulet’s servants. He has a tendency towards wordplay, and plays this well with Sampson.

Peter- is a servingman of the Capulets’ who accompanies the Nurse when she goes out of the house, partly as her protection and partly to carry her fan.

Paris’s Page- accompanies his master to Juliet’s grave. Frightened of graveyards at night, he stays all the same, until he sees his master in a fight with some unknown man, and runs to fetch the Watch.

Apothecary- is a poor, starving, skeletal man with massive eyebrows whose shop does little business.

Lady Montague- tries to hold back her husband from doing any actual fighting, and is worried that her son Romeo might have joined in.

Lady Capulet- is approximately 28, and makes mock of her aged husband’s pretensions to fighting.

Nurse- is Juliet’s closest companion, the woman who in essence brought her up.

Citizens of Verona- are thoroughly fed up with both Capulets and Montagues, and come out armed with clubs to beat them all up in the hopes that they’ll stop fighting.

first Servingman- is a superior servant in the Capulet household, with permission to address Lady Capulet directly. He orders others about as they serve the feast, and has a taste for marzipan.

Second Servingman– is unable to read, which does not prevent Capulet from sending him out to deliver the invitations to his feast.

The Third Servingman- is unaware of Juliet’s identity, and is therefore likely to have been hired just for the night of Capulet’s feast.

Anthony- is a servant of Capulet’s, overworked the night of the feast. He is sent to invite the guests to Juliet’s wedding.

Potpan- is a servant of Capulet’s, overworked the night of Capulet’s feast.

First Musician- is hired for Juliet’s wedding, and after her death refuses to play a merry song for Peter, particularly as he cannot pay. He most likely plays a lute, or other plucked-string instrument.

Second Musician- plays the rebec. He attempts to have Peter calm down and put his dagger away. Like the first musician, he will not play without pay. He convinces his fellow musicians to stick around to profit from the food.

Third Musician- is a singer. He does not quite know how to react to Peter.

First Watchman- is brought by Paris’s Page to the Capulets’ monument.

Second Watchman- arrives at the graveyard with the First Watchman. He is sent to search for anybody who may be around, and finds Balthasar.

Third Watchman- arrives at the graveyard with the Chief Watchman. He is sent to search for anybody who may be around, and finds Friar Lawrence.

Mercutio’s Page- runs to fetch a doctor after his master is wounded.

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