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Questions on Romeo and Juliet Explain the plot of Romeo and Juliet. Summarize what happens in Act II, scene 2. In this scene, Romeo has employed three comparisons to express his admiration for Juliet. Find out them and illustrate. Explain the theme of this play. Drama is a performance text, a story told through the dialogues of its characters and presented in front of a live audience. The setting of the play is Verona, a city in Italy. The main characters are Romeo and Juliet, who belong to two hostile families. Romeo and Juliet belong to two hostile families, the Montagues and the Capulets. Each is devoted to each other, but union is impossible. Romeo kills a Capulet and is banished; Juliet is engaged by her parents to someone else, for whom she has no affection. Juliet consults Friar Laurence, who suggests a daring scheme to relieve her from the forced marriage and to give Romeo an opportunity to take her away. She takes a sleeping drug and appears dead for forty-two hours. She is taken to the tomb. Romeo hastens back, goes to the tomb, and kills himself just before Juliet wakes. Finally Juliet wakes, only to find Romeo dead and she also kills herself. She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it.I am too bold, tis not to me she speaks:Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,Having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. 天上有两颗最亮的星星，有事儿要离开一会儿，只得去求她，由她那一双亮晶晶的眼睛，替代着在天穹闪光。 What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night. 她满脸生辉，遮盖了星光—正像大白天的亮光压倒了星光，她那双眼睛，在天上，大放光明，小鸟唱起歌来，以为黑夜消逝了…… Juliet, on her balcony above Romeo, is said to be like the sun. Romeo also compares her eyes to twinkling stars, she says if they were set in the heavens, night would seem to be day. She is also compa