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31 de jul. de 2015 · When the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague arrive, Friar Lawrence gives an account of the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. Their deaths lead Montague and Capulet to declare that the families’ hostility is at an end.
Juliet says that if Romeo’s love is honorable and his purpose marriage, he needs to send word to her tomorrow and tell her where and when they will be wed. She promises to give him her fortune and follow him wherever he goes.
Romeo and Juliet are married by Friar Lawrence just one short afternoon after meeting. They wed in secret, with the bulk of the major players in the story -- Benvolio, Mercutio, and Tybalt...
31 de jul. de 2015 · When the Prince, the Capulets, and Montague arrive, Friar Lawrence gives an account of the marriage of Romeo and Juliet. Their deaths lead Montague and Capulet to declare that the families’ hostility is at an end.
Legally, girls in Elizabethan England could marry as young as 12 with parental consent. Marriage at such a young age was, however, unusual, as indicated by the Capulets’ disagreement about whether Juliet is old enough to get married.
Do Romeo and Juliet have sex? Is Juliet too young to get married? Who is Rosaline? Why does Mercutio fight Tybalt? How does Romeo convince the reluctant Apothecary to sell him poison? Why do Romeo, Mercutio, and Benvolio go to the Capulets’ party? Who seems less impulsive and more realistic—Romeo or Juliet?
Friar Lawurence marvels at how quickly Romeo switched from loving Rosaline to loving Juliet, but he also realizes that a marriage between a Montague and a Capulet just might put an end to the feud between the families, so he agrees to perform the ceremony.
