Narrative Text Romeo and Juliet
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Romeo and Juliet
In the town of Verona there lived two families, the Capulets and the Montagues. They engaged in a bitter feud. Among the Montagues was Romeo, a hot-blooded young man with an eye for the ladies. One day, Romeo attended the feast of the Capulets’, a costume party where he expected to meet his love, Rosaline, a haughty beauty from a well-to-do family. Once there, however, Romeo’s eyes felt upon Juliet, and he thought of Rosaline no more.
The vision of Juliet had been invading his every thought. Unable to sleep, Romeo returned late that night to the Juliet’s bedroom window. There, he was surprised to find Juliet on the balcony, professing her love for him and wishing that he were not a “Montague”, a name behind his own. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Romeo was ready to deny his name and professed his love. The two agreed to meet at nine o-clock the next morning to be married.
Early the next morning, Romeo came to Friar Lawrence begging the friar to marry him to Juliet. The Friar performed the ceremony, praying that the union might someday put an end to the feud between the two families. He advised Romeo kept the marriage a secret for a time.
On the way home, Romeo chanced upon his friend Mercutio arguing with Tybalt, a member of the Capulet clan. That qurreling last caused Merquito died. Romeo was reluctant no longer. He drew his sword and slew Tybalt died. Romeo realized he had made a terrible mistake. Then Friar Lawrence advised Romeo to travel to Mantua until things cool down. He promised to inform Juliet.
In the other hand, Juliet’s father had decided the time for her to marry with Paris. Juliet consulted Friar Lawrence and made a plot to take a sleeping potion for Juliet which would simulate death for three days. The plot proceeded according to the plan. Juliet was sleeping in death.
Unfortunately, The Friar’s letter failed to reach Romeo. Under the cover of darkness, he broke into Juliet’s tomb. Romeo kissed the lips of his Juliet one last time and drank the poison. Meanwhile, the effects of the sleeping potion wear off. Juliet woke up calling for Romeo. She found her love next to her but was lying dead, with a cup of poison in his hand. She tried to kiss the poison from his lips, but failed. Then Juliet put out his dagger and plunged it into her breast. She died.
Note: Romeo and Juliet is a famous play by William Shakespeare.
Taken from: http://understandingtext.blogspot.com/ which is written and simplified from www.love-story.com
The possibly new vocabulary for you:
1. engaged: involved in doing something
2. bitter: involving very angry feelings
3. feud: an angry disagreement between two people or groups that continues for a long time
4. hot-blooded: tending to have strong feelings, especially anger or sexual excitement
5. feast: a large meal for a lot of people, usually in order to celebrate something
6. haughty: proud and unfriendly
7. balcony: a place where you can stand just outside an upper window. It sticks out from the wall of a building.
8. professing: to admit publicly that you have a particular feeling or belief
9. begging: to ask for help, an opportunity etc in a way that shows you want it very much
10. friar: a man who is a member of a particular group in the Christian religion. In the past, friars travelled around teaching people about God.
11.chanced upon : to find or see someone or something when you did not expect to
12. arguing: if people argue, they speak to each other in an angry way because they disagree
13. drew: the past tense ofdraw: to pull out a gun, sword, or other weapon so that it is ready to use
14. sword: a weapon with a short handle and a long sharp blade
15. slew: to turn and move suddenly and quickly in a particular direction, or to make something move in this way
16. plot: a secret plan to do something bad, made by two or more people
17. potion: a drink that is believed to be magic, poisonous, or useful as a medicine
18. simulate: to produce the features of something in a way that seems real but is not
19. proceeded: to continue to happen, to go in a particular direction, to make progress by moving to the next stage in a series of actions or events
20. tomb: a grave where a dead person is buried, especially one consisting of a large stone structure
21. dagger: a weapon like a very small sword
22. plunged: to fall quickly from a high position
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