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  1. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › romeojulietRomeo and Juliet Act 3: Scene 5 Summary & Analysis - SparkNotes

    Summary. Just before dawn, Romeo prepares to lower himself from Juliet’s window to begin his exile. Juliet tries to convince Romeo that the birdcalls they hear are from the nightingale, a night bird, rather than from the lark, a morning bird. Romeo cannot entertain her claims; he must leave before the morning comes or be put to death.

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      Later, time seems to move too fast during his wedding night...

    • Setting

      The Verona of Romeo and Juliet seems to be independent and...

    • Antagonist

      Either way Romeo will suffer, and this suffering will drive...

  2. www.litcharts.com › lit › romeo-and-julietRomeo and Juliet Act 5, Scene 3 Summary & Analysis - LitCharts

    In the graveyard outside the church, Paris sneaks close to the Capulet crypt to scatter flowers around Juliet ’s resting place while his page keeps watch nearby. Paris vows to come to Juliet’s grave nightly. When his page whistles, indicating that someone is coming, Paris hides. Romeo and Balthasar enter with torches, a pickax, and a crowbar.

  3. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › romeojulietRomeo and Juliet: Metaphors and Similes - SparkNotes

    Romeo and Juliet. Metaphors and Similes. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs (1.1.181) Early in the play, as he moans about his unrequited love for Rosaline, Romeo uses a simile to compare love to a smoke that arises from the sighs of lovers, perhaps suggesting that it is simultaneously beautiful, potentially suffocating, and difficult ...

  4. interestingliterature.com › 2023 › 05‘A Pair of Star-Cross’d Lovers’: Meaning and Analysis

    By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers’ is a well-known phrase from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The Prologue’s description of Romeo and Juliet as ‘star-cross’d lovers’ has become one of the most emblematic phrases from the whole play, neatly encapsulating the doomed nature of their love affair from the outset.

  5. interestingliterature.com › 2020 › 06A Summary and Analysis of William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

    Jun 4, 2020 · Romeo goes to see a churchman, Friar Laurence, who agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. After the wedding, the feud between the two families becomes violent again: Tybalt kills Mercutio in a fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt in retaliation. The Prince banishes Romeo from Verona for his crime. Juliet is told by her father that she will marry Paris, so ...

  6. www.sparknotes.com › romeojuliet › plot-analysisRomeo and Juliet: Full Play Analysis - SparkNotes

    Romeo and Juliet Full Play Analysis. Romeo and Juliet. Full Play Analysis. Romeo and Juliet is a play about the conflict between the main characters’ love, with its transformative power, and the darkness, hatred, and selfishness represented by their families’ feud. The two teenaged lovers, Romeo and Juliet, fall in love the first time they ...

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  8. www.shakespeare-online.com › plays › balconysceneRomeo and Juliet : Annotated Balcony Scene, Act 2, Scene 2

    O, speak again, bright angel, for thou art. As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven (30) Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes. Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him. When he bestrides the lazy-puffing clouds. And sails upon the bosom of the air. Juliet.