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Overviews from Holt McDougal Literature Book, Grade 9
- The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (McDougal, 1035). |
We meet the Montagues and the Capulets, two long-feuding families in the Italian city of Verona. At the beginning of the play, Romeo is in love with Rosaline,. Juliet is asked by her parents to consider marrying Paris. Romeo and Juliet meet at a masked ball and fall in love each later realizing that the other is from the enemy family.
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Forced to meet in secret, Romeo and Juliet declare their love to each other and decide to get married. Romeo visits Friar Laurence and asks him to perform the wedding. Aided by Juliet's nurse, Romeo and Juliet marry in secret.
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During a street fight, Juliet's cousin Tybalt kills Romeo's friend Mercutio. Romeo loses his temper and kills Tybalt; he then flees, realizing with horror what he has done. Romeo is banished from Verona under pain of death. Juliet grieves the double loss of her cousin and her husband. With the help of Friar Laurence and the nurse, Romeo and Juliet make plans to flee to Mantua, another city. Her parents, not knowing she's already married to Romeo, order Juliet to marry Paris.
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A distraught Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help and threatens to kill herself. He gives her a potion that will not kill her but put her into a deathlike sleep for two days, with the plan that Romeo will rescue her from the family tomb when she awakens. Friar Laurence sends a letter to Romeo in Mantua, describing the plan. Juliet takes the potion. Her family finds her and prepares her burial, believing her dead.
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Romeo dies not get Friar Laurence's letter before he hears of Juliet's death and believes it is real. Grief stricken, he returns to Verona. He finds Juliet in her deathlike sleep, takes real poison, and dies. Juliet awakens and, finding Romeo dead, kills herself with his dagger. When the families realize what has happened, Lord Capulet and Lord Montague agree to end their feud.
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