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“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare


Reviewed by Sota Segawa, Soma Fukuda, Hinata Koba, Tomoka Eura

  1. Summary:                                           Romeo’s family, the Montagues, and Juliet’s family, the Capulets, are enemies. However, one day, the two meet at a ball and fall in love. The two secretly develop a love for each other, but Romeo is banished for murdering Juliet’s cousin, who had killed her friend. Later, Juliet finds out that Romeo has been banished, and in despair, she takes a pill to make it look like he has died. Romeo, who mistakenly believes that Juliet has taken the pill to die, is in despair and kills himself. When Juliet wakes up, she finds Romeo’s body and kills herself out of despair. This is a tragic love story.
  2. convance to modern life

This story is a tragic story but there are many points to learn. For example, it is to fall in love with two people who compete with each other in their family.I think from that point. Every person is equal when they fall in love. That means every person is not be disturbed by any facter. For example, political factors, economic factors, blood relation factors.  Therefore, every person is free to fall in love whatever happens.

Also, I learned that we should not believe until I make sure carefully. Romeo died before making sure her body by his eyes.  If he can realize that she pretended to die, he may not die. I think that it would be a good story without that. From that I think that it is important to make sure with my eyes.

  1. Author

 Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare in 1597. He was born in England in 1564 and died in 1616. His parents could afford to make him take education because of their financial resources, so later, he became a playwright that only people who have much knowledge can be. He went to a grammar school, and studied Latin, classical languages there. At that time, only rich people could go there, so it can be said that he grew up in an affordable house. When he was 18, he got married to Anne Hathaway. He wrote histories, comedies and tragedies in his life such as Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and so on.

  1. Conclisions:

     Juliet didn’t want to marry Paris, so she took the medicine and pretended to be dead. Friar tried to tell Romeo by letter, but it did not reach him. Romeo believed that Juliet was really dead. Therefore, he couldn’t bear the pain of JUliet’s death, and Romeo took poison. Juliet woke up from the poison while Romeo lies dying from it. She was shocked by it and stabbed herself with a dagger. In the end, they both died.

Recommendations:

     The recommended point is that Romeo from the Montague family and Juliet from the Capulet family, who have been enemies for many years, meet and fall in love.

Observations:

     As a result, both of them died, but the marriage couldn’t have been canceled in different ways.     


5 responses to ““Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare”

  1. I think that your review is great. However, I think you have some trouble. It is difficult to read when you did not obey rules on document such as indent. I think you should indent when you write beginning of some sentences. If you do that, many people can understand your opinion.

  2. it is difficult to understand summary. it is because this sentense is too long.So you have to cut this sentences. it make us read easily. In addition, it infuluence to improve your grammer skills.

  3. I found the problem in this report.It is the summary part. I read the summary part but I can’t understand clearly because you are using many “,” to connect the sentences. This is the problem. One way to fix this problem, I think you should reduce using “,” to connect the sentence. If you do that, we can read this part clearly and easily.

  4. I think this contents are very good. However, I found it difficult to read. Because of the different line breaks. If you get the line breaks right, I think it would make it easier to see and understand what you are trying to convey.

  5.  I think there is a problem with this article. The lack of indentation makes the text difficult to read. By adding indentation, I think you can write sentences that are easier to understand for the reader.

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