romeo and juliet’s affair success or failure

Topic: Romeo and Juliet’s affair:

success or failure?

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I. INTRODUCTION:

1. Social background:

There was a development of capitalist relation in Europe in the15th -16th

centuries. The former townspeople became the bourgeoisie who fought against

feudalism because help back the development of capitalism. It was then that great

geographical discoveries of Columbus, Magellan and other travelers as well as

astronomical discoveries of Copernicus, Bruno were made. Universities stopped

being citadels of religious learning and turned into centers of humanist study. The

development of a new class of the bourgeoisie, social order presented possibilities

for man’s creative for man power. The power of church in man’s mind was

defeated

2. Historical background:

There were 6 Kings during the Renaissance (1485- 1625):

 Henry VII: after “the war of Roses”, Henry was able to build a new nation￾state and laid the foundations for one of the most fruitful periods in English

history.

 Henry VIII: he closed these religious institutions and confiscated their riches,

distributing their lands among other landowners and merchants.

 Edward VI: he was too young to reign when Henry died so the country was

governed by a council, composed of members of the new nobility created by the

Tudor.

 Mary Tudor: she was inflexible and imprudent. She died in 1558.

 Elizabeth I: she was a force for peace, for reconciliation, and for prosperity

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