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The story is set in Verona. Juliet is a Capulet and Romeo a Montague but their families are enemies. Juliet's father plans to marry her to Paris. Romeo goes to a party given by Lord Capulet, disguised in a mask. At the party Romeo and Juliet fall in love with each other.

After that they are secretly married by Friar Lawrence. Romeo gets involved in a querrel in which his friend Mercutio is killed by Tybalt, a Capulet, and Romeo in revenge kills Tybalt and because of this crime is exiled to Mantua. Juliet's father prepares her marriage with Paris. Juliet takes a drug to put her in a death like trance, until Romeo come back to Verona. Romeo meets, outside Juliet's tomb, Paris and kills him. Romeo, seeing Juliet apparently death, drinks the poison and dies. After that Juliet wakes and sees Romeo, dead. She stabs herself with Romeo's dagger. Their parents arrive, and agree to stop fighting.

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It is night: Juliet is speaking to herself, leaning out of her window. In literary terms her speech is called a SOLILOQUY or MONOLOGUE. The function of the soliloquy is to reveal to the audience a character's real feelings and intentions - in this case, Juliet's love for Romeo.

The dialogue reveals the characters of the two young lovers. The main speaker is Juliet, who shows herself to be the more conscious and mature of the pair. Juliet asks a direct question while Romeo replies in a rhetorical way, using many of the images typical of love poetry. This underlines the play's main dramatic theme: the "contrast between the rhetoric of love and the tragedy of real life".