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The exposition: Introduces the story in <em>Verona</em>, there are <em>two major families</em> who <em>don’t get along</em> - <em>Montagues and Capulets</em>.
Rising Action: Romeo and Juliet - both from families that hate each other - <em>fall in love and wed in a secret.</em>
Complication of the plot: Romeo is banished from Verona.
Reversal: <em>Juliet takes the poison</em>, Romeo misses her message and when he comes back <em>he sees her apparently dead.</em>
Catastrophe: Romeo <em>takes his own life thinking Juliet is dead</em>. Juliet <em>wakes up</em> and sees what happens. <em>She kills herself with a dagger.</em>
Moment of last suspense: What happens next? <em>Both families make amends</em> and vow not to fight in respect of the dead couple.
Transcendentalism
First published Thu Feb 6, 2003; substantive revision Fri Aug 30, 2019
Transcendentalism is an American literary, philosophical, religious, and political movement of the early nineteenth century, centered around Ralph Waldo Emerson. Other important transcendentalists were Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Amos Bronson Alcott, Frederic Henry Hedge, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Theodore Parker. Stimulated by English and German Romanticism, the Biblical criticism of Herder and Schleiermacher, and the skepticism of Hume, the transcendentalists operated with the sense that a new era was at hand. They were critics of their contemporary society for its unthinking conformity, and urged that each person find, in Emerson’s words, “an original relation to the universe” (O, 3). Emerson and Thoreau sought this relation in solitude amidst nature, and in their writing. By the 1840s they, along with other transcendentalists, were engaged in the social experiments of Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and Walden; and, by the 1850s in an increasingly urgent critique of American slavery.
King Minos demands fourteen Athenian youths each year to pay for his son's life.The princess provides Theseus with a sharp sword and a ball of thread. Theseus slays the Minotaur. Aegeus falls into the sea and drowns
