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Moses Bernard C. Velano
Hornby High School
English Recount


                                                Romeo And Juliet 
By: William Shakespeare

So the story begins with an enormous fight between the Capulets and the Montagues, two prestigious family from Verona, Italy. These family have been fighting for a long time, and the Prince of Verona declares that the next public brawl will be punished to death. when the fight is over with the two family, Romeo's cousin Benvolio tries to cheer him of his sadness but Romeo reveals that he is in love with this girl named Rosaline, but she has chosen to live a life of chastity meaning that she does not want to have a sexual intercourse with Romeo which makes him downhearted. One day the capulets wanted to throw a party because they wanted to comfort Paris which was Juliet's future fiance, so the capulet gives a guest list to a servant named Peter and got told to invite the people in the list.When peter was no longer feeling distress from the capulets family he decided to invite this two young men from the Montagues family. So when Benvolio and Romeo got invited to their enemies party the "Capulets," Romeo refuses to go but his cousin keeps convincing him to come. At the party Romeo locks his eye with this young woman named Julie they both instantly fall in love with one another. But when Juliet realized that their families were fighting they both got devastated, but they cannot control the way they feel with one another. So everyday Romeo keeps sneaking in Juliet's backyard house and proclaiming his love for her so one day they decided that they would secretly marry each other, they got married by Friar Laurence an event witnessed by Juliet's nurse and Romeo's loyal servant, Balthasar.

When Romeo visited his best friend Mercutio and his cousin Bonvolio but his good mood is curtailed "reduce." Juliet's cousin Tybalt starts a verbal argument with Romeo, which soon turns into a duel with Mercutio. When Romeo tries to stop the fight but it was too late for him Mercutio got killed by Tybalt which made him enraged, retaliates "made an attack by killing Tybalt. Once Romeo realizes the consequence of what had happened he remained hiding at Friar Laurence's cell. He informed Romeo that he has been banned from Verona and will be killed if he stays there, the friar suggested romeo to stay in the night with Juliet then leave for Mantua in the morning. Juliet's mothe Lady Capulet was completely unaware of her daughter's secret marriage with Romeo, but her mother keeps informing juliet that he will marry a man named Paris in  a few days, she outraged and refuses to comply. Her parents retain that she must marry Paris and her nurse agreed with them so Juliet asked Friar Laurence for an advice, insisting that she would rather die than marry Paris so Laurence gave her a potion which will make her appear dead and tells her to take it the night before the wedding. He promise that he would send a word to Romeo about her taking the potion.

Juliet drank the potion and everybody assumes that she is dead including Bathlasar who immediately tells Romeo about it. Friar Laurence's letter fails to reach Romeo, so he assumes that his wife is dead. He rushes down to Juliet's tomb and in deep grief, he decided to drink a vial of poison. Moments later Juliet wakes to find but he found Romeo dead so she also killed herself due to grief. Once the both family discovered what happened, they finnaly end their bitter feud because of the youngster's death bring the families together. So this is the story about Romeo and Juliet love story