Romeo and Juliet

             How does the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet grab the audience's attention?
             How does Shakespeare prepare us for what happens in the rest of the play
             This play is the most idolised love story of all time; it symbolised William Shakespeare's brilliance as a play writer. Throughout time no love story could, or will ever reach the status of 'Romeo and Juliet.' When someone talks about love stories, 'Romeo and Juliet' is the first thing people think of. This play holds all the mysteries of all the emotions of life; this is my theory on why this play is such a wonder. The way Shakespeare brings every word and every feeling of each character even when reading. When given the privilege of reading this masterpiece you expect happy endings and long life to the lovers that is the most common idea of a love story, a happy ever after finish. William Shakespeare revolutionised play writing. The ending of 'Romeo and Juliet' contains hardships, sorrow and death for the main characters.
             This is unique in love story's and opened a whole new chapter for this genre, Shakespeare still manages to give the play a love conquers all feeling about it. I believe this because at the end, the two houses are no longer at war. It takes the death of two innocents lovers to stop the bloodshed caused by a century's long family feud.
             Shakespeare's first scene intrigues us by starting with two hyper characters anxious for a fight, by doing this he leads us into sitting up and wanting to see a fight to start. It is predictable that there will be a fight or the first scene wouldn't capture us as it does.
             The first part of the play introduces Gregory and Sampson to us. These two young men are servants of the by playing around with his words. Sampson appears as someone who house of Capulet, Sampson and Gregory tells about what he plans to do with the members of the house of Montague, whilst Gregory indirectly mocks him is...

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