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This essay will contain the developing awareness of Romeo and Juliet throughout the play. It will relate to both characters feelings towards each other, it will also show how other characters are portrayed as they relate to one another and to Romeo and Juliet. The essay will describe the levels of society who came to watch Shakespeare's plays from the groundlings to the aristocracy. It will also portray Romeo and Juliet's reactions to different situations. Shakespeare opens the play with a disagreement between the Montague servants and the Capulet servants, which starts off with a relatively minor insult where Sampson, a Montague, bites has thumb at the Capulet servants, which in those times was a 'disgrace to them if they bear it'. It then went on to develop into a fight. Starting the play in such a profound way would have shown the audience the degree of rivalry between...

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