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The Prologue

What is the prologue?
In Romeo and Juliet the idea of a
prologue is to give a brief introduction and summary of the up coming
events in the play
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Its set in Verona
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What this means is that the conflict
between the two households has
Length of the
gone on for many years, even to a
play
point where they just inherit the
The prologue in Romeo and Juliet lets the audience
conflict and that they may not know
know what's going to happen
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It could It involves
Key Points:
also mean by ‘Mutiny’ that peo- innocent civilple are turning against each
ians and not
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The prologue summarises the events of the play and sets the sceother
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just the two
families
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It occurs right from the start to the finish
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She asks him
to give up his
name
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This then
turns into a mass brawl then it involves of the
civilians around them
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Tybalt says ‘I
hate the word , as I hate all Montagues’
This suggests that both the Montagues and
the Capulet despise the idea of peace and
that they are fuelled by the fighting
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In the section they try to break up the fight and show
no sign of wishing to side with either of the
families
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She is wondering why Romeo has to be a Montague
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She
says things like

One character who could be seen as an agent of fate is
Mercutio
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Without him he wouldn't have
provoked Tybalt to kill him and so Romeo wouldn't have
been banished and there would be no need for the plan,
which causes their eventual downfall
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JULIET
Go ask his name
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If he be married
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In this section Juliet appears for foreshadow her own
death, predicting that her love for Romeo will end
soon
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He agrees to
marry the two and without him they wouldn't have married and the
plot wouldn't have unfolded in the way it did, leading to the death of
Romeo and Juliet
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Fate
ROMEO
I fear, too early, for my mind misgives
Some consequence yet hanging in the stars
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels, and expire the term
Of a despised life closed in my breast
By some vile forfeit of untimely death
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It is
right before he meets Juliet do perhaps him meeting here is
purely down to fate
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Other examples of fate are when Friar Lawrence warns Romeo that people
who rush into things fall
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Another example of fate playing a major role in Romeo and Juliet is when
Peter the illiterate servant is tasked with finding the party guests
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