...We all know the story of Romeo and Juliet. They both love each other and die for each other. What if all this could have been prevented? There are a lot of characters who are at fault for Romeo and Juliet death. Maybe their parents should have ended the feud, or maybe Romeo and Juliet shouldn't have gotten that dramatic. However there is one character that sticks out the most. Tybalt is the most to blame because he acted irrationally. Tybalt had a grudge on the Montague’s which explains why he was always angry at Romeo. When Romeo went to the Capulets party, Tybalt was angry that Romeo showed up. Capulet told Tybalt that Romeo was not a foe. Tybalt said “Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe. A villain that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night.” ( I, v, 67-70) This shows that even though Tybalt knew that Romeo was no harm, he was still stubborn enough to believe that he was. Tybalt was trying g to make trouble even though there was no trouble. Tybalt should have just stayed calm and listen to Capulet because then he would realize that he was starting something....
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...Many people are often accountable for all kinds of outcomes. “Romeo and Juliet,” by William Shakespeare, is a darkened romantic tragedy faced by two star-crossed lovers, in which guilt is drawn from each characteristic of the play. While many reasons exist for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, such as fate, certain characters play a key role in their disappointment in love. The characters that are most to blame, for many obvious reasons, are the Capulets, the Nurse and the guiltiest of all, Tybalt, for the unfortunate deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Firstly, the Capulets are partly responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet’s death. As Juliet had developed love for Romeo, she refuses to marry Paris. After hearing this, Capulet...
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...people ask, who is to blame. To figure out who is responsible, you have to know who helped cause the incident. But, when tragic events happen there are many to blame. It is never one person. Moving on, in the play Romeo and Juliet,by William Shakespeare,the two star crossed lovers die. ANd the one to blame for their death are a lot of characters. To add on to that,the character who caused the most commotion was the one and only Romeo. Romeo is the one to blame because,he is hotheaded and his feelings are his actions. Romeo is extremely hot headed because in the book it states,” Alive in triumph,and Mercutio slain!...And now fire-eyed fury be my conduct now”(123,3,1). This quote helps explain why Romeo is hotheaded because, when Mercutio gets slain Romeo...
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...Romeo and Juliet Act 3 Scene 1 Act 3 Scene 1 is a very suspenseful scene, in this scene Tybalt is looking for Romeo so they can fight. Tybalt has not let his grudge go of finding Romeo at the Capulet’s party, Mercutio and Benvolio are walking around in the streets and they find Tybalt and other servants of the Capulets out in the streets. Tybalt sees them and explains to them what is his business with Romeo and Mercutio did not want Romeo to get hurt by him because he is an “Expert Sword Fighter.” Mercutio started fighting Tybalt and Romeo made an attempt to stop the fight and that ended with Mercutio dying, the death of Romeo's friend angered him and picked up a sword and killed Tybalt with all his anger. Romeo flees because he has just realized what he has done, The Caputlets come in play and find Tybalt dead.. The...
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...issues in The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is that of choice. The main question is do the characters have the ability to choose what they want, or are their fates simply left to destiny? There are many pieces of evidence of fate in the play, which greatly affect the plot and characters. Fate is the dominating force that foreshadows the ironic destinies of that protagonist, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. Fate is evident from the very beginning of the play. In the opening prologue it states that Romeo and Juliet “Are a pair of star-crossed lover/…Death marked/…[and] with their death bury their parents stifle”(6-9), which foreshadows their doom and ironically ends their parent’s feud. People say that when the stars are allied lovers meet and fall in love; however, with these two star crossed lovers their stars lined up and than crossed. Showing that the stars and universe are controlling the aspect of their life and are a metaphor for fate. The characters believe that their lives are controlled by destiny and luck, and Romeo is a prime example of this philosophy. When Romeo and his friends go to the Capulet’s ball, Romeo hesitates to go because he has had a bad dream: My mind misgives Some consequences, yet hanging in the sky Shall bitterly begin this fearful date With this night revels and expire the term Of a despised life closed, in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death (1, 4, 116-121). Romeo here states his fear...
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... 2.5 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IV Pre‐reading activity: Read about Dramatic Irony on page 893. Think of an example of it from one of the previous acts. Write your example and tell why you think it is dramatic irony. During reading activity: A. What characteristics do you notice of Paris during his encounter with Juliet in Friar Lawrence’s cell? List his traits, and include textual evidence to support your ideas. B. After reading each scene, use the Act IV Summarizing Chart to give a plot summary for each one. C. The play is filled with images of death. While you read Act IV, write down three examples of death imagery. Roger Text Box mercutio...
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...ROMEO & JULIET Prologue (ACT 1) As a prologue to the play, the Chorus enters. In a fourteen-line sonnet, the Chorus describes two noble households (called “houses”) in the city of Verona. The houses hold an “ancient grudge” (Prologue.2) against each other that remains a source of violent and bloody conflict. The Chorus states that from these two houses, two “star-crossed” (Prologue.6) lovers will appear. These lovers will mend the quarrel between their families by dying. The story of these two lovers, and of the terrible strife between their families, will be the topic of this play. ANALYSIS This opening speech by the Chorus serves as an introduction to Romeo and Juliet. We are provided with information about where the play takes place, and given some background information about its principal characters. The obvious function of the Prologue as introduction to the Verona of Romeo and Juliet can obscure its deeper, more important function. The Prologue does not merely set the scene of Romeo and Juliet, it tells the audience exactly what is going to happen in the play. The Prologue refers to an ill-fated couple with its use of the word “star-crossed,” which means, literally, against the stars. Stars were thought to control people’s destinies. But the Prologue itself creates this sense of fate by providing the audience with the knowledge that Romeo and Juliet will die even before the play has begun. The audience therefore watches the play with the expectation that it must...
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...Poison Shakespeare uses Romeo’s monologue (Act 1, scene 5) with intent of foreshadowing a tragedy upcoming in the play; where he is left to his own devices. The deliberate usage of “dove trooping with crows”, an oxymoron highlights to the reader the bad in something that appears eye-catching. Such as when he first spots Juliet, he’s infatuated by her “beauty too rich” referring to her enticing physical appearance, but loses sight of her kinship. Something that he doesn't question, although it physically destroys him in the end. Moreover, use of the word “crows” is effective in foreshadowing; as crows are thought of as a bad omen according to the Greeks, and indicative of an individual's forthcoming death. Alternatively, “dove trooping with crows” could be referring to Juliet metaphorically. It reinforces the fact that something so elegant and pure such as a “dove” could carry the burden of death caused by the Capulet family name. Thus making this brief encounter symbolizes their tumultuous relationship, that will be made so by the powers that suppress them - their families. The idea of inconsistency in relationships is also featured in The Laboratory, linking with the relationship between the narrator and her poison. In which we learn she feels fondly about at the start referring to it as “exquisite” and soft”, proving her passion for...
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...Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Bloom's Classic Critical Views alfred, lord Tennyson Benjamin Franklin The Brontës Charles Dickens edgar allan poe Geoffrey Chaucer George eliot George Gordon, lord Byron henry David Thoreau herman melville Jane austen John Donne and the metaphysical poets John milton Jonathan Swift mark Twain mary Shelley Nathaniel hawthorne Oscar Wilde percy Shelley ralph Waldo emerson robert Browning Samuel Taylor Coleridge Stephen Crane Walt Whitman William Blake William Shakespeare William Wordsworth Bloom’s Classic Critical Views W i l l ia m Sha k e Sp e a r e Edited and with an Introduction by Sterling professor of the humanities Yale University harold Bloom Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: William Shakespeare Copyright © 2010 Infobase Publishing Introduction © 2010 by Harold Bloom All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher. For more information contact: Bloom’s Literary Criticism An imprint of Infobase Publishing 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data William Shakespeare / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom : Neil Heims, volume editor. p. cm. — (Bloom’s classic critical views) Includes bibliographical references...
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..."is the Fertilizing Room." Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled. Straight from the horse's mouth. It was a rare privilege. The D. H. C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his departments. new students round the various "Just to give you a general idea," he would explain to them. For of course some sort of general idea they must have, if they were to do their work intelligently–though as...
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...Unlucky Cupid ➶ Prologue ★★★ She is smart, HE's intelligent. She's gorgeous, HE's sizzling hot. She's popular, HE has huge resemblance to a world-wide known teen-age superstar. She's snob but somehow nice, while HE is the gentleman every girl will die for. Will rivalry cross their fate? Or Love will play their lives? He was always mistaken for the popular singer, whom She really hates. Will Her high school life end up just like those typical one's? Or will He make the best or even worst out of it? ➶ Chapter 1: Interference /KATHERINE'S PERSPECTIVE First day of school, sigh. Simula na naman ito ng hectic schedule, little time, less fun, and whatsoever bothersome school works. Pero first day of school sometimes is not that bad, kasi usually pupunta ka lang sa unahan at magpapakilala. Orientations, introductions, chit-chats - yeah, that's pretty much it. Kaya on second thought, I'm going to enjoy this first day lalo na dahil makikita ko na ang aking mga hmm, how should I describe my friends? Loud speaker-like? Loquacious? Nah, pero siguro ganyan nga sila - love ko naman. Ew, korni ko.I guess back na kami sa routine namin. Si Lindsay, medyo brat, madaldal (as I've said), okay naman pag dating sa academics, mabait, at sabihin na nating medyo war-freak. Di sya close sa parents nya gawa ng wala lagi sa bahay nila. So ayun, siguro yun ang dahilan kung bakit parang naging "Play Girl" itong si Lindsay, in other way. Hindi naman talaga. Pero all in all she's one of a kind...
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...cover next page > title author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject : : : : : : : : : : : cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i 1100 Words You Need to Know Fourth Edition Murray Bromberg Principal Emeritus Andrew Jackson High School, Queens, New York Melvin Gordon Reading Specialist New York City Schools . . . Invest fifteen minutes a day for forty-six weeks in order to master 920 new words and almost 200 useful idioms < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii © Copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Prior edition © Copyright 1993, 1987, 1971 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner. All inquiries should be addressed to: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. 250 Wireless Boulevard Hauppauge, NY 11788 http://www.barronseduc.com Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 00-030344 International Standard Book Number 0-7641-1365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bromberg, Murray. 1100 words you need to know / Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7641-1365-8 1. Vocabulary. I. Title: Eleven hundred words you need...
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