Romeo and Juliet help!?!?!?!?!?!


Question: Okay, so I decided to be a smart cookie and read Romeo and Juliet. Well, I'm only on the prologue and I can't understand it. Can someone please tell me what this means line by line?

Thanksss :D

Here it is:

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 and 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.

Thanks again!!


Answers: Okay, so I decided to be a smart cookie and read Romeo and Juliet. Well, I'm only on the prologue and I can't understand it. Can someone please tell me what this means line by line?

Thanksss :D

Here it is:

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 and 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.

Thanks again!!

two families, similar in class standing

in the beautiful city of verona, where the play begins

they had a fight long ago, now they are fighting again

citizens stain their hands with the blood of their fellow citizens.

Two unlucky children of these enemy families

become lovers and commit suicide.

Their unfortunate deaths put an end to their parents' feud.

For the next two hours, we will watch the story of their doomed love and their parents' anger

which nothing but the children's deaths could stop.

If you listen to us patiently, we'll make up for everything we've left out in this prologue onstage.

just read it line by line......it is easy enough to understand. and get the cliff notes

there are two familes that have the same pride, in verona
and i cba t translate the rest

Hope this helps!

Two similar households,

In beautiful Verona where our scene begins,

An outbreak of fighting from an old grudge,

Has caused citizens to have each other’s blood on their hands.

From these two enemies,

Two unlucky lovers commit suicide,

Their untimely end overthrows,

With their death their parents’ hatred is taken away.

The time of their doomed love,

And the continued hatred between their parents’,

Could not be removed except for with the death of their children,

This is what will be on our stage for two hours,

For those of you who are patient,

We will fill you in on more details.

Got this off some website..hope it helps...had to read this my senior year but cant remember any of the meanings.

CHORUS
In the beautiful city of Verona, where our story takes place, a long-standing hatred between two families erupts into new violence, and citizens stain their hands with the blood of their fellow citizens. Two unlucky children of these enemy families become lovers and commit suicide. Their unfortunate deaths put an end to their parents' feud. For the next two hours, we will watch the story of their doomed love and their parents' anger, which nothing but the children's deaths could stop. If you listen to us patiently, we'll make up for everything we've left out in this prologue onstage.

It's setting the scene telling you that the two families have an ancient feud and two teens in love in these families take their lives because of the feud. The deaths end the feud.

It means two families in Verona who have always been enemies. Each house has a child, and the two are in love and they died for their love, which ended their parents feud.
I think. It's basically summarizing what's going to happen.

In short, sit back and listen as I tell you the tale of a boy and a girl who died for their love because their families hated each other and in the couple's death the pair did finally give their families a common bond, the couple's death. That is what you have copied in a nutshell. I hope this helps.



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