Romeo and Juliet Comparison
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"Romeo and Juliet"
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is the tragic tale of two lovers who must hide their feelings because of their family's feud. This tragedy is full of iambic pentameters expressing intense feelings in the play. In the beginning a street fight breaks out between Romeo's family, the Montagues, and Juliet's, the Capulet's. The Prince of Verona later comes and seizes the rapiers and bucklers of the two families and breaks up the fight and warns that if one more disruption like this occurs death will be brought to the violator. In the middle of the play Romeo has first seen Juliet at a Capulet party. He cites a sonnet that is his soliloquy of his feelings for Juliet. In the end Romeo is exiled from Verona to a purgatory for killing a Capulet kinsman. Juliet is forced to marry against her will so she fakes her death, and when word reaches Romeo she is dead he runs to her grave and kills Paris, Juliet's fiance and then himself with a poison from the apothecary. Juliet awakes with Romeo dead at her feet so she stabs herself. When her mother finds her she dies of grief...