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Romeo And Juliet In The 1500's

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Normally, in a book, a character with only a little bit of dialogue doesn’t have much of a role, but in the 1500’s, they did things a little bit differently. Romeo and Juliet is a romance play written by William Shakespeare that takes place many hundreds of years ago in a place called Verona. Romeo and Juliet are the children of the rival families Montague and Capulet. However, throughout this fight, they manage to find love at first sight, even if it drives them to the end of their lives. They are the main subjects of the play, but the fact that is evident throughout the story is that characters with little show time can have strong impacts on how the future turns out. One example that is shown in the play of a minor character having a great …show more content…

When he delivers this line, Romeo becomes so infuriated and emotional that he wishes to die beside Juliet. Unknown to Balthasar, Juliet is still alive! He causes Romeo to want to end his life even though her death is fake! Even with Romeo in this state, he can’t kill himself until Balthasar makes another blunder when he states, “An if a man did need a poison now. Here lives a caitiff wretch who would sell it to him” (5.1.54). Now Balthasar has given Romeo a reason to drink poison and a way to get illegal poison, all because he didn’t understand what was going on! He only speaks a little, yet he still manages to screw everything up. For these reasons, Balthasar is a character that has little amounts of dialogue but is still able to have a devastating impact on the story. Another character that fits this criteria of being shown a little but having a huge impact is Friar John. Because Juliet is set to marry another character, Friar Lawrence sets up a plan to fake Juliet’s death and then he and Romeo break her out of the tomb. However, he still needs to alert Romeo of this plan, so he tasks Friar John with just delivering him the

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