Introduction

We hope you enjoy this tribute to The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet; this is a magazine expressing the detailed sequence of events that lead the huge tragedy of Romeo and Juliet that struck everyone’s hearts. In this magazine you will find everything from the hot gossip of Romeo’s and Juliet’s love affair, to the fashion and occurrences that were happening at that time. This magazine will introduce you to the behind the scenes actions that were happening at the time, things will become clearer, and you will realize why some characters made the decisions they made. The magazine is like a secret doorway to everything the people did not want you to do, so open it fast before it will no longer be available to you! Don’t be intimidated by the length, trust me once you start you will not leave your seat until it is done. We can’t promise that you will fall in love with this magazine, but we can promise that you will know the true story of Romeo and Juliet from the top of your head.

The Characters

Character Analysis

Romeo: Romeo is the main character of this truly remarkable love story. He is extremely young in this play. Romeo is said to be a teenager that falls in love with the beautiful Juliet. Both characters are very young. Romeo’s character is part of the Montague’s, he is an only child. The Montague’s are a wealthy household within Verona. Romeo is shown to be a courageous character in Romeo and Juliet. He is young and rebellion. Romeo is a fascinating character in this extraordinary play.

Juliet: Juliet is one of the main characters from Romeo and Juliet. Juliet is a young teenager of the age of 14. She falls desperately in love with Romeo after their acquaintance at a Capulet ball. Juliet is daughter of Capulet. In this play Juliet is forced to marry someone that she does not love. As the plot unravels, so does Juliet’s true colors. Juliet takes drastic action to avoid marrying Paris, her betrothed. Juliet was a vital character in this play.

Mercutio: Mercutio was an interesting character. Mercutio symbolizes a character in which has a constant change in attitude. Throughout the play Mercutio is proven to be an unstable character because of his continuous change of attitude. This change of attitude brought his death. However, Mercutio was also proven to be a trustworthy character that kept his honor, as well as Romeo’s. Romeo was challenged to a duel, although he refused, to prevent disgrace to Romeo. Mercutio fought Tybalt and died during the duel. He stood after Romeo which made him a trustworthy friend.

Tybalt: Tybalt was cousin to Juliet. Tybalt was an intriguing character. Tybalt was a character in which was very angry throughout the entire play. He was extremely angry at Romeo; his anger drove him to challenge Romeo to a duel, claiming that he was a villain. During that time calling an individual a villain was a huge offense. Tybalt was slain by Romeo after Tybalt killed Mercutio.

Friar Laurence: Friar Laurence was a holy man in the play of Romeo and Juliet. Laurence celebrated the secret engagement between Romeo and Juliet. Laurence also planned the supposable “death” of Juliet. Laurence was the man in which gave the potion to Juliet. Throughout the play Laurence has created a huge impact, he consoled Romeo during his banishment, and he proposed a plan for Juliet to escape her arranged marriage.

Nurse: The Nurse was nurse to Juliet. The Nurse was continuously with Juliet throughout the play. The Nurse planned some of the meetings between Juliet and Romeo. Also, after Juliet discovered Romeo’s banishment she asked the Nurse for advice, meaning that Juliet trusted the nurse. The Nurse told Juliet to select Paris merely because Juliet will most likely never see Romeo again because of his exile.

Paris: Paris was a minor character in this play. Paris was a nobleman who was a kinsman to the prince. Paris did care for Juliet. However, he believed that marrying Juliet only served to console her in her time of need. Paris was killed by Romeo after visiting Juliet in her death bed.

Capulet: Capulet was father to Juliet. Capulet hosted the party in which Romeo and Juliet meet. Capulet arranged the marriage between Juliet and Paris as a way to comfort her after the loss of her cousin. Capulet’s mortal enemy is the Montague household.

Montague: Montague was father to Romeo. Montague was not a major character.

Fashions That Are Exquisite

In the mid 1500’s the style of clothing was very different then what it is today. The girls of the story, both the Montague’s and the Capulet’s wore long dresses that reached their toes, nice and straight forward no puffiness. They had shiny stones on them to shine and show the dresses beauty. The girls usually had something on their hair, not to keep it completely up, a lot of it was down, but it kept a couple of strands of hair in it. The usual hair utensils are shiny and small but big enough to be recognized. They whore small flats to walk around more swiftly. The guys of the both houses wore tights that covered their whole legs. Then they wore some flat shoes that would cover some of the tights. Then they had a shirt with a nice jacket on top of it. The jacket was tight, and very shiny, it seemed so royal when looking at it. The men also sometimes wore a small hat to compliment what they where wearing.

You see, in that time, what people wore where very important; all they cared about was how they looked. They made sure everything matched; they made sure everything complemented each other. The hair materials matched the shoes and the top clothing matched the bottom. Then the diamonds or shiny utensils were used to make them look more flawless. The two households always wanted to look better then each other, so they used more jewelry to show their royalty. They where very competitive and always wanted to look better then each other. And you thought our generation was obsessed with fashion?

Advice Column =)

Dear Advice Group,

I am having some issues with some decisions I’ve done in the past. You see there are these two people and they are madly in love, sense they first met they have been inseparable. But their love has sprung from the most profound hate I have ever known. Both their families would kill each other is they had a chance to, yet now their only children are madly in love. They came to me in need, they wanted to get married, a marriage with no one knowing, all they wanted was to have their lives connected to one another. I gave it to them. I married them two not a long while ago. Now Tybalt and Mercutio got in a fight, Mercutio died, Romeo in rage killed Tybalt and now he is going to be banished!!! Juliet is broken and scared and Lady Capulet miss understanding the concept of their love believes that the only way to relieve her sorrow is if she marries Paris right away! She asked me of all people to do it. But I already married Romeo and Juliet, I can’t remarry her. Now Romeo is going to be banished, Juliet needs to get married again, and I don’t know what to do! I don’t know how to let a love like theirs go to waste. Please help me…

With much confusion and desperation,

Friar Laurence

Dear Friar Laurence,

The first thing you have to do is stay calm; you don’t need to do anything irrational that can cause problems to yourselves and others. You need to make some plans to not have the wedding between Paris and Juliet to occur, but you have to measure the consequences of what you are doing, you can’t just decide to anything too crazy. If We where you, We would try to get Romeo and Juliet alone, so they can talk out what they want to do, if they want to run away or face their parents and expose their love. You need to get them, and help them devise a plan, but in the end it’s all on them, so you need to let them talk about it. You can’t just talk about a plan with one and expect the other to find out, it will be too complicated and confusing and many things can go wrong. In this plan that you have to be very précised there are no room for mistakes, or else many bad things can happen. So right now you can’t do anything so relax, breathe, and start thinking of a plan, but remember to plan out every single detail, and explain it to Romeo and Juliet at the same time. Once that’s done, you really can’t do anything, you have to let them go about their lives. So good luck, best wishes, we have faith in you.

We have much faith in you,

Advice Group

Important Conflicts

Will You Be Protestant or Catholic?


One major thing that has been going on for years is the battle of religions. The battles of the religion weather its Protestant or Catholic. Catholicism is one issue I don’t think will ever be resolved. In all the kingdoms we have been changing religions like no tomorrow. If you don’t change religions with the religion that your kingdom is you will get execute. Do you think this right? You might, but it is the law so you should obey it. Since you are under rule by someone other then you, you must give your up most respect for them. If your choice to live in that one kingdom, so if you are going live there so have to ad bade by those rules, laws, etc. These contrivers have always been around so I don’t think we will be hearing an end to this any time soon. The best advice that I can give you is to keep the same religion as your kingdom has.

The Renaissance Time

This time is a very hard time for us. This time is about rebirth. This is the time for you to start over. Some people have come up with different theories. Nicolaus Copernicus is claiming that the planets revolve around the sun. Leonardo da Vinci is trying to come up with some sort of flying device, but we aren’t too sure how that is all going to turn out. Johannes Gutenberg is working on the first ever printing press; so far so good for him. Christopher Columbus is working on a deal to set sail to prove to us that the world is round. Do you agree with him or not? While Amerigo Vespucci in claiming that the land we live on isn’t one vast piece, but a few pieces. And Martin Behaim is working on inventing a thing he calls a globe; it is supposed to map the world or something of that sort.

GOSSIP! GOSSIP! GOSSIP!

Obituary

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omeo Montague was the only son of the Montague’s. He was an adolescent and fun teenager, which died at an extremely young age. Romeo was a fun and playful child. He enjoyed playing with his two cousins Benvolio and Mercutio. Romeo was loving and caring, and a hopeless romantic. Romeo fell in love with both Juliet and Rosaline. Romeo was very handsome and brave proving that he will stand up for a friend under any circumstances. He was extraordinarily courageous when Mercutio died and he fought Tybalt for Mercutio. Romeo gave his life for his true love Juliet. Romeo was a brave soul and he will always be remembered in Verona.

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uliet Capulet was the daughter of Capulet. Juliet was 13 going on 14. She was beautiful and very young. Her desire to love was what brought her sudden death. Juliet was very proper. She enjoyed going to parties and dancing. However, Juliet was faced with the dilemma of marrying a man she did not love. Juliet was desperately in love with Romeo which brought her to the depths of marrying Romeo in secret. This marriage signified her happiness. Juliet loved Romeo and that was what caused her death. A potion was given and taken by Juliet. This potion was her downfall. All of Verona will miss Juliet.

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ercutio Montague was the cousin of Romeo. Mercutio was a loving cousin. He was intelligent and compassionate. He helped Romeo during his time of despair. This time was when Romeo was hopelessly in love with Rosaline. Mercutio was a brave soul that fought for honor, and the dignity of his household. Mercutio stood up for Romeo’s honor when he was challenged to a duel with Tybalt. Mercutio cares about his family and he will be remembered throughout Verona.

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ybalt Capulet. Tybalt Capulet was cousin to Juliet. Tybalt is known as the cousin that is attracted to disagreements as well as argument. Tybalt’s drawing towards trouble was the cause of his death. Tybalt is a man that gets anger very easily. Romeo’s uninvited visit to the Capulet party caused tension between Tybalt and Romeo. Tybalt challenged Romeo which resorted in Tybalt killing Mercutio. However, Romeo fought for Mercutio and in turn Tybalt died. Verona will have fond memories of Tybalt.

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aris was a man that desired love and he found it in Juliet. Paris was engaged to be married to Juliet, although Juliet’s love was not in Paris but in Romeo. Paris viewed marriage as an arrangement. He believed that marriage would soothe Juliet’s pain for Tybalt’s death. Also, Paris believes Juliet is extremely young and naïve. He was killed while visiting Juliet in her chamber. Verona did not know Paris as good as it should, but he will always be remembered as the man that almost married Juliet.

Epilogue

In a far off place

Two hearts are a glow

Of prestige and grace

Bodies dance and flow

Families of the highest power

Together they are at odds

Love finds each other at the tower

Cousins fight with rods

Thoughts are very sour

The boys gather like beasts

Two lovers join at the final hour

Big gathering for everyone to feast

In the end there was tragic

And there was no magic.