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Discuss Shakespeare's use of the chorus in "Romeo and Juliet" paying particular attention to the language and its dramatisation. The chorus appears at the beginning of act one and at the beginning of act two. In the first chorus in act one they basically say that there are two households that are both arguing lover a long term grudge and that because of this both families children (Romeo and Juliet) are going to die. This happens because they are both madly in love with one another. Shakespeare tells us that our two main characters are going to die at the start because it makes the audience tense and then Shakespeare can focus on how it all happened rather than what happened. In act two the chorus stresses the problems with Romeos new found love and how after all this time of loving Rosaline he just pushes her to one side for Juliet....

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