Romeo and Juliet Prologue Meaning – Flashcards
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Two households, both alike in dignity
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2 houses that are alike in the levels of social class; both very wealthy
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In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
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setting/place is Verona, Italy
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From ancient grudge break to new mutiny
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Past/old arguments form into new arguments
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Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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where civilian murder makes civilians guilty
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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
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children of these enemies family's
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A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life
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2 people from opposite households kill themselves
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Whose misadventure'd piteous overthrows
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whose bad choices in parental disobedience
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Doth with their death bury their parents' strife
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causes their deaths, their parent's rival/arguments comes to an end
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The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love
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their relationship that caused their deaths
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And the continuance of their parents' rage
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the continued anger of their parents
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Which but their children's end naught could remove
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which only the children's deaths could stop
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Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage
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it is now the subject of the play that takes place on the stage
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The which, if you with patient ears attend,
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the subject, if you will pay attention
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What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
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we shall perform and demonstrate for you
