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The famous Romeo & Juliet song.

Forgive me for my sucky playing up there. The song was in its 3 days old in my hands. I wanted to play this tune when I heard it from the Funeral advertisement that I posted up not long ago.

On the 2nd day after playing it, I thought to myself how could somebody create such a tune which is full of emotion and express it in such a short time (only a bit more than 1 min)?

3rd day I start to wonder what Romeo and Juliet all about anyway. I know they are some characters in some play but I never know the real story.

So I googled :)

Romeo & Juliet, by William Shakespeare

It all started with an on-going feud between the Capulets and the Montagues (2 families), which is creating much havoc in the city of Verona, Italy. They couldn’t seem to get along and arguments always leads to duel and death. Prince Escalus of Verona warned the 2 families to end their feud or else punishment will be given.

Romeo Montague was recently rejected by Rosaline. So his cousin, Benvolio decided to cheer him up and show him that there are other pretty women around (so kind of him) by bringing him to the brothel Capulet feast in disguises (so that the Capulet family members will not notice them and kill them).

At the feast, Romeo met Juliet (daughter of Capulet) and fell in love with her. After the feast (damn fast progress), Romeo sneaks into Capulet’s orchard and both of them proclaim their love for each other. They decided to marry the next afternoon (cepat giler sial).

Romeo then seeks the help of Friar Laurence to marry them, at the same time hoping that their marriage will end the feud between both families.

Later that noon, Tybalt (nephew of Lady Capulet), found out that Romeo was at the Capulet feast and started a fight with him. Romeo’s friend, Mercutio, challenged Tybalt to a duel and was killed by Tybalt. Romeo in response, killed Tybalt, and has to flee Verona as the Prince has exiled him.

Romeo hid in Friar Laurence’s cell, and tried to commit suicide but was stopped by Friar. Laurence convinced Romeo to go see Juliet to say goodbye.

In the next scene, Capulet arranged for Juliet to marry Paris in 3 days. Juliet refused and her father threaten her by disowning her if she doensn’t comply. Juliet went to the friar and he gave her a potion that could fake her death (faking her death for sometime). She went home and agreed to marry Paris. Her father was so happy he moved the wedding earlier by a day.

On the wedding day, nurses found Juliet dead on bed. The news reached Romeo. He doens’t know about the fake death. He then proceeded by buying some poison and returned to Verona. He entered the Capulet tomb and saw Juliet dead. Paris challenged Romeo and was killed by Romeo. AAfter killing Paris, Romeo drank the poison and died. Juliet woke up from her fake death, saw Romeo dead next to her, stabbed herself with Romeo’s sword and died.

Sad story but medically not logic.

Here is the full version of the song.