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    Fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, as determined by a supernatural power. Two young lovers were destined with a fate that caused a terrible end to their lives, and with their destiny they brought death to the ones around them. In the play, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two teenagers from feuding families hide their forbidden love. After Romeo and Juliet marry in secret, Romeo is banished for taking the life of Juliet’s cousin, and a new man had been arranged…

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    Romeo and Juliet In Romeo and Juliet many decisions made by the characters result in the death of two young lovers. Romeo, Juliet, and Friar Lawrence make some questionable decisions throughout the play. Juliet decides to get married too quickly, Romeo kills Tybalt, and Friar plans Juliet’s death too suddenly. If even just one choice was different than the play would have ended differently and more characters could have survived. The hasty decisions from Romeo and Juliet result in their…

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    ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is the most popular and tragic love-story, written by William Shakespeare in 1599.Romeo and Juliet is the tale of two lovers, Romeo and Juliet, who take their lives for each other when their love get hinder from their quarreling parents. Many , all over the world consider and hail the play as the most touching story of all time ever told .Probably, that is why the play has gotten translation into so many other languages. Despite the play is still considered as a role…

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    Everyone has heard of the tragic ending of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, but do we really even know who was at fault of that? In the play, Romeo and Juliet were star crossed lovers that Friar Laurence married off and were happy together. They got separated when Romeo got banished from Verona and it took them both very harshly. They both told their sad stories to Friar Laurence and poured their hearts out to him. Was Friar Laurence really helpful to them when they desperately needed…

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    Shakespeare expresses through Juliet that love can be so powerful it can ruin families. He shows this through Juliet after she meets Romeo for the first time and learns he’s a Montague. Juliet thinks,“My only love sprung for my only hate!/ Too early seen unknown too late/ Prodigious birth of love it is to me/ that I must love a loathed enemy” (1.5.136-143). As she says, “My only love sprung from my only hate” she explains that the only man she loves is the son of the only man she is forced to…

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    Rithvik Asani Mrs. Miller English 1, Period 1 28 February 2017 Act II In Act 2 Scene 2, Juliet wants to slow things in the relationship between her and Romeo and wants to take things at a steady and unhurried pace, displaying her more reasonable nature, as seen through the use of a simile. In this part of the scene, Juliet starts to show her more rational character and nature, as Romeo starts to swear and makes many ignorant promises to always love and adore Juliet, because he is unaware of the…

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    keeps a focus on literal vampirism, an extremely cliché concept. An attractive man laced with evil, bites and leaves a mark on a pure woman, taking away her innocence. Literal vampirism is a non-stop cycle of life. One bloodsucker turns a moral person into a vampire and then they continue the cycle by searching for victims. A similar motif that many compare to vampirism is sex implications. Some authors used vampirism to indirectly discuss sex. Their characters use alluring and mysterious…

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    In Chapter 21, Dracula is bolder than ever. I can now see why he is looked at as the enemy of the Christian church. He neglects traditional norms, in this case marriage, when it comes to preying upon women. As written in Dr. Seward’s diary, Dracula said to Mina “[a]nd you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin; my bountiful wine-press for a while; and shall be later on my companion and my helper…[n]ow you shall come to my call,” (Stoker p.…

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    dedication reach? In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to work for Count Dracula at his castle. He realizes that there is something off about the Count, and eventually finds out that Dracula is of the undead, a vampire. Jonathan eventually escapes the castle to be with his friends and fiance, Mina. Mina’s best friend, Lucy Westenra falls ill, and eventually dies because she was bitten by Count Dracula. She is found to be “alive” in her grave, also as a vampire. Arthur,…

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    Bram Stoker is the author of one of the greatest genre-changing novels of all time, Dracula. Throughout the writing process, there are many factors to take into account that affect an author’s writing style. Bram Stoker chose to follow the genre of gothic horror/ historical fiction in Dracula because of his interests in vampiric mythology. Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland during the Irish potato famine. He was the third of seven children of his father, whom worked at…

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