Prologues are meant to introduce the basic outline of a literary piece. So and so find a murderer in their house and after much despair, get killed. The ideal plot of a story gets emphasized in a prologue, and prologues tend to ruin the anticipation residing upon a reader. The phrase, “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life” is written in the prologue of the classic Shakespeare novel, Romeo and Juliet. This sentence is the representation of the whole story. It manifests the introduction and the conclusion. While Romeo and Juliet tends to rely on the patterns of this “guide”, the novel, Red Queen, does not. The book, Red Queen, does not begin with a preface and is not a play in which the audience knows what will happen. Although Red Queen …show more content…
Whereas, in the novel Red Queen, the story is starting within the middle of a scene. “I hate First Friday. It makes the village crowded, and now, in the heat of high summer, that’s the last thing anyone wants. From my place in the shade it isn’t so bad, but the stink of bodies, all sweating with the morning work, is enough to make milk curdle.” Rather than summing up the plot, this introductory sentence is illustrating only the beginning. It is not demonstrating the outcome of the novel and therefore the audience does not know what will come next. That phrase depicts a life of poverty and frailty, in which leisure is scarce. Work and money is the focus of attention where all of the village’s occupying citizens are in a constant state of a vehement need. They need money, prosperity, and relief from all of the burdensome tasks they are left to accomplish. The two initiatory sentences of Romeo and Juliet and Red Queen differ in patterns and in