A summary of Romeo and Juliet

A summary of Romeo and Juliet must contain the information that the play, written by William Shakespeare, is a romantic tragedy.

Two families live in a historical conflict: the Capulets and the Montecchios.

Romeo, son of the Montecchio family, and Juliet, of the Capulet family, fall in love at a masked ball.

Romeo cancels his commitment to Rosalina after falling in love with Juliet. Just like Julieta cancels her plans with Paris, boy from Verona. Romeo and Juliet, living a forbidden love, get married hidden from their families, in a celebration made by Friar Lourenço.

In a fight that leads to the death of Teobaldo, Juliet's cousin, and Mercury, the prince of the city of Verona decides to exile Romeo.

The final idea is for Juliet to take a potion that makes her look dead. Romeo, hearing the news of his wife's death, buys a substance and causes his own death. Juliet, when she wakes up, sees her beloved dead and, with a dagger, kills herself.

After the tragedy, the two families decide to make peace and live in peace.

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Sonnet XVIII - William Shakespeare

Sonnet XVIII - William Shakespeare 

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,

   So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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Commentary

In William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18" and David Donne's "Death", both poems describe how fatality is avoided. Both authors suggest that we should not fear death, because with death comes lifestyle. The use of imagery, metaphors and personification is used to develop these themes from the sonnets. However, each sonnet addresses how they view immortality in different methods. While "Sonnet 18" focuses on immortality by capturing natural beauty, immortality in "Death" is viewed from a religious point of view.

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