martedì 11 febbraio 2014

Romeo and Juliet

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.


                                                                        Ludovica Mega

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