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The masked ball comes in early in the play and from the prologue the audience know that Romeo and Juliet will meet and fall in love even though they are from feuding families. This allows dramatic irony throughout the play. For example: 'A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.' (Narrator, prologue, line 6) This means that they meet by chance and that they will die together. After they meet at the ball they do not know who oneanother is and after enquiring they find they are from the rival families. After Juliet finds out Romeo is a Montague she says to herself: 'My only love sprung from my only true hate!'(Juliet, Act 1 scene 5, line 139) This means that Juliet thought she had found her true love yet she cannot love him as he is a Montague. The themes that can be found in this scene are: love, marriage,...

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