conflict in romeo and juliet
Watch the prologue to Romeo and Juliet below. Don't freak out if you don't understand it at first. Most people don't. But when we explore Shakespeare's language more closely we see that it's not so difficult in the end.
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LEARNING GOALS
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PROLOGUE
Under the heading 'Conflict Synonyms', copy down all the synonyms for conflict you recognise in the Prologue.
Prologue
Scene – Verona, Mantua
Enter CHORUS
Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage--
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Exit
Scene – Verona, Mantua
Enter CHORUS
Two households, both alike in dignity
(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-marked love
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children’s end, naught could remove,
Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage--
The which, if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
Exit