Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
SUBGENRE: tragedy
SETTING: indefinitely
SITUATION: It speaks about two lovers that love each other but they
can't stay together because their families are eanimies.
They meet each other during a party, so they fall in love.
Then Juliet's family decides to give in marriage their daughter to Paris, a
gentlman of Verona. Juliet doesn't want to marry this man,so she decides to marry Romeo secretly. Then when Romeo was exaild, Juliet sends him a letter in which she
explains her plane.
Juliet pretends to be died and when Romeo knows that she is died, he kills
him self. When Juliet wakes up, finds him died and decides to kills herself
too.
CHARACTERS: Romeo and Juliet; Romeo's family; Juliet's family; Benvolio,
Mercutio, Abram (Romeo's friend), Paris, Friar
Lawrence, Tybalt.
POINT OF VIEW: narrator's
THEMES: true love, jealousy.
STYLE: realistic description.
PERSONAL COMMENT:
I like this book because it is the most important tragedy written by
William Shakespeare. This story is know all over in the world, and it has marked the history of English literature.
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