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Monday, October 09, 2006

Romeo And Juliet...

Romeo and Juliet is a touching yet tragic tale which Shakespeare weaves beautifully using his tremendous language skills.

PLOT SYNOPSIS: Set in Verona, Italy, the story is about two feuding families, the Capulets and the Montagues. These two families are very rich and influential and when the feud erupts on to the streets in a street brawl, they are informed that anyone who is caught fighting will be sentenced to death.
The Capulets have a daughter called Juliet, her mother is trying to persuade her to marry Count Paris, a wealthy and eligible bachelor. Romeo is the son of the Montagues, and he and his friends sneak into a masked ball at the Capulets. Here he meets Juliet for the first time and is besotted with her, however he does not yet realise that she is a Capulet.When he discovers that she is a Capulet, he realises that nobody must find out about their relationship. Juliet is also now engaged to marry Count Paris, but really wants to be with Romeo.However, Romeo gets into a fight with the Capulets and kills Juliets cousin. He has to escape from Verona otherwise he will be killed.
He and Juliet get married secretly and spend the night together, Romeo then leaves Verona. Juliet is supposed to be marrying Count Paris but her parents do not know she is already married. She goes to see the friar who married them, and he gives her a potion to drink which makes her appear dead but really sends her into a deep sleep for three days. Her family will bury her in the family tomb but she will awake and Romeo will meet her. The friar arranges to send the message to Romeo and Juliet takes the potion. She is buried in the Capulet tomb and is asleep, waiting for Romeo.
However, the message never gets to Romeo and he hears that Juliet is dead, he buys some poison and goes to the tomb where he believes she is dead. Juliet is lying there and looks dead, Romeo commits suicide to be with her and takes the poison. Moments later Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead beside her, she is distraught and stabs herself. Both die so that they can be together.


They remained together even after death..,

That was Romeo and Juliet for U..,
Me signing off till next time,,

Cya..

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