Loyalty In Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet

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The famous Romeo and Juliet, thinking that it could be a tragic love story that existed in the past, yet the Tomba di Giulietta is not true. William Shakespeare’s play is famous, but famous to the point where people speculate Juliet’s tomb is an actual tomb of Juliet because Verona is an actual city. If the tomb of Juliet is an actual burial of Juliet, then why would it be accessible to the public. The tomb of Juliet doesn’t seem right because someone could be actually profiting off of the tourist attraction, yet the evidence of Juliet’s tomb is too vague. Verona, Italy is a city in europe. Verona is the setting of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet the play took place in. The play is renown for it’s tragic love and how it’s put together by Shakespeare. “Unknowingly he was about to set the stage for the biggest fake attraction in history.(Dioni, Wandering Mee)”. If Shakespeare’s setting of Romeo and Juliet was a fictional city, the tomb of Juliet in Verona wouldn’t exist. For example, imagine if I made the most known story about two …show more content…

It would be most certainly that the mansion of where Romeo and Juliet had originated is being profited off of for money from believing tourists thinking that they’re visiting a famous and good masterpiece of history in reality. Yet only if it was possible to the tell the truth, but they don’t want to see the truth. The evidence of Juliet’s house being a legit piece of Romeo and Juliet, is too little to understand it’s the legit mansion of the capulets. The Del Capello family was thought to be related to the Capulets due to their names almost being the same (Zainoo). We humans make mistakes, and those mistakes sometimes result in misconception filled with fame. Casa di Giulietta or the self proclaimed Capulet house is one of them, believing that the Del Capello is related by its

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