Romeo and Juliet

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ROMEO AND JULIET.
Romeo is in love with Rosaline so he takes a risk and goes to a party given by Lord Capulet, the enemy of his family, the Montagues, to see her. There he meets Juliet, Capulet's daughter, and falls in love with her at first sight. After Romeo goes in the Capulet's garden and sees Juliet on her balcony.
It's night and the moon is in the sky. Romeo understands Juliet loves him from her confession, when she doesn't know that Romeo is hearing her words. He finds the courage to speak out when Juliet offers herself to him when she says: "Take all myself". When he speaks out Juliet is frightened at hearing a man's voice in the garden and fears that someone may have overheard her confession of love. She wishes Romeo did not belong to Montague family. Romeo, to prove his love for Juliet, is ready to give up his name and says that he's not afraid of her kinsmen's swords if they should find him there.
The following day, they get married secretly, but Romeo is involved in a fight in which he kills Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, so he is banished from Verona by the Prince and goes in Mantua in exile.
Juliet's parents want her to get married with the noble Paris the next day; she doesn't want, so she takes a potion which will make her fall into a deep sleep as if she were dead. Meanwhile her confessor sends a messenger to call Romeo back so that he will be present when she wakes up. But the messenger doesn't reach Romeo, who hears about Juliet's death from his servant without knowing the truth. So he buys a poison and return in Verona to kill himself near Juliet's body.
He kisses her and drinks the poison. When Juliet wakes up a few minutes later, she sees Romeo dead and kills herself with his knife. After this tragic event, the two family reconcile.
In the tragedy the most important themes are love and hate.
In this tragedy the fate plays an important role.
Several incidents in the plot can be described as unfortunate events, they are the result of a hostile fate against which the characters are helpless.
Romeo and Juliet are symbols of love, in fact they are real young people, in fact Romeo is bold, passionate, impulsive and courageous, while Juliet is simple, innocent, sincere and concerned about Romeo's safety.
Their language is very rich in images, which have a poetic function and it is different from that spoken in real life.
They are well-rounded characters because from their speeches so many aspects of their personality and behaviour emerge.
The iambic rhythm creates a soft and easy atmosphere.
Shakespeare's metaphors have been said bunches of grapes, because there are some connections between the tenor, which is always the same(Juliet), and the vehicles which are different. Romeo compares Juliet to the sun and this metaphor creates a lot of images that express lightness and brightness. The moon is envious because it is less bright than the sun (Juliet) and the stars are ashamed because they are less light than Juliet's eyes, which are so bright that if they were in the sky they would think it were not night.
Romeo's words suggest Juliet's purity in fact he calls her: "bright angel", "dear saint", "fair maid".