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    How does Shakespeare help the audience understand the changes in Juliet’s Character in Romeo and Juliet? Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is undoubtedly one of the greatest romantic tragedies of all time, expressing the story of two passionate and unique star-crossed lovers. However, beneath all the layers of love and Veronese 15th century culture, the reader is plunged into an unfamiliar environment where the two genders are treated and expected to behave in a completely different manner. Whilst…

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    After reading William Shakespeare’s possibly most famous play, Romeo and Juliet, one may think to themself; “Whose is at fault for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?” In the play, a young man named Romeo Montague and a girl named Juliet Capulet find themselves falling in love and marry shortly after they meet. However, their families are in the midst of a generation’s-old feud. The feud leads to Romeo killing Tybalt Capulet in order to avenge his best friend Mercutio’s death. In response to this,…

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    The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, has fate as the overlying theme since the audience already knows the lovers, Romeo and Juliet, will die. Their fate was given to the audience right from the Prologue, but what Shakespeare intended was for people to understand how the lovers ended up fulfilling this fate. In the early acts, Romeo meets Juliet and their love seems unbreakable, but fate continues to place obstacles in their path making it so that they fulfill…

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    Lessons in Love In the play everyone knows the main characters develop in many ways, one way they develop is they mature during the play. During the play both Romeo and Juliet mature, but they mature in different ways they both become more like adults and realize and conquer the tough choices they have to make. By the end of the story they are both forced to make the toughest choice of all death. Now, let’s look at how both characters mature and the exact moment when they make that…

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    Is the love of Romeo and Juliet so strong it would give you the erg to kill people to stay with the love of your life? They just met and they are really young, do they really know what love is? Romeo is too petty and only thinks of himself and what would benefit him. Was killing three people really the right thing to do? The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a cheesy funny play, but who was really at fault of the tragedy? Romeo found the love of his life, but there was one issue she was a Capulet.…

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    Adolescents and Inexperience cause an Untimely Death Romeo and Juliet are children when they fall in love, and too young when they decide to take their own life. The story of Romeo and Juliet and their “untimely death” is caused by their inexperience, their eagerness, their curiosity and mainly their youth. Every action they undergo they are just too young to for. It is understandable though, they are teenagers and teenagers are very spontaneous, but their age is not the only thing to blame.…

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    The Phantom of the Opera slot review NetEnt is bringing back the famous romantic villain character from the Gaston Leroux story I the new slot The Phantom of the Opera Universal Monsters™ which is coming out on the 24th July 2017. While there were many versions of the famous love and horror story throughout the years, the new NetEnt game is actually based on the Universal Studios’ 1943 horror film. With Re-Spins, Pick and Click and free spins feature, this win both ways slot looks extremely…

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    business trip to the devils house in Transylvania where he is held prisoner by his host: Count Dracula. Harker finally escapes his captor but is very ill and ends up resting in the countryside of Hungary. Meanwhile back in England, Harker’s wife’s friend, Lucy, has become pale and very ill, started to sleepwalk. Lucy dies but is later found to be attacking viciously on little children. The people notice that Count is a vampire and he had infected Lucy and plans to harm more people.…

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    Corruption In Dracula

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    In the beginning of time, in a paradisal world of sustained perpetual bliss, man was unflawed, an “infallible” construct, created and contrived by and in the image of an omnipotent being. However, a malevolent serpent—an embodiment of mankind’s insatiable gravitation to depravity—tempted man into partaking the forbidden fruit, considered to be a manifestation of corruption’s scarlet allure. As soon as the first man and woman of creation partook in the fruit, the souls of humanity were mauled,…

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    Dracula himself. Written by Irish author Bram Stoker in 1897, Dracula unknowingly became the most well-known vampire in history having 272 on screen appearances alone making the vampire the most filmed character. Due to various visual depictions of Count Dracula it is almost impossible to create your own image of him while reading without being deeply influenced, this being noted by Christopher Frayling in his preface for Dracula, mentioning “Bela Lugosi in Dracula or Christopher Lee in The…

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