Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy wrote by William Shakespeare which tells the story of two young in love but, they cannot be together for they belong to opposite families that are rivals. However, they fight for their love until the death. The story takes place in Verona, where live two families who are rivals; the Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo, the only heir of the Montagues, enters without being invited to a party of the Capulets in honor to the future marriage of the daughter of Capulet, and he meets Juliet, and she was his love at first sight. Knowing that their parents never allow their marriage, they marry in secret, with the help of Friar Laurence. The same day of the ceremony, a fight take place between Tybalt and Romeo and the Prince of Verona, who knowing the events, condemns Romeo to the exile or death. Romeo is desperate because he will be separated from Juliet, but Friar Laurence advises escape to Mantua. Romeo flees to Mantua after a last interview with Juliet. Count Paris, a relative of the prince, called Juliet's hand and she refuses his offer and asks for help to Friar Laurence, who advises her to accept the marriage and gives her a little bottle with an elixir that will plunge her into a cataleptic state, like death. Friar Laurence tells her to take it the night before the wedding and he promises her to be with her when she wakes up in the crypt of his family, together with Romeo. Friar sends a messenger to Romeo to come to Juliet at the time of the awakening. However, the messenger did not find Romeo because he was informed that Juliet was dead, and he comes immediately to Verona. Romeo arrives at the Capulet crypt meeting with Paris, which was to lay flowers to his wife. The Count was angry to see Romeo, and both fight winning Romeo who approached to Juliet to kisses her one last time and takes poison and died at the feet of his beloved. At that time, Friar Laurence arrives and he was frightened to see the bodies of Paris and Romeo. Juliet awakens and the Friar tries to convince her to flee with him, but she refuses at the moment she sees her husband dead. Friar Laurence goes out and Juliet approaches to Romeo and kisses him and she hurt herself with a knife of her husband, embracing his beloved dying. The guards take prisoner Friar Laurence and he reveals the truth to the Prince of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets. With the death of Romeo and Juliet, they sealed the peace between two rival families.

September 18th

I think that we died as nation from the day we kill our natives, because after that we were just a copy of another nation, Spain. Besides, sometimes people feel ashamed about being Latin American, for we are discriminated for being an undeveloped country. Native people suffered a lot, but that wasn’t the version teachers told us at schools. Natives were symbols of violence and ignorance, and they were killed about that, because they made the process of productiveness slower. I feel identify with them, because they wanted, want and will want to protect their territory and relatives as the same I want to do, even if other people will try to stop me. I’m not the kind of person who tries to stop someone’s dreams, but here in Chile that seems to be the hobby of majority. However, I must say that Chilean people could be pretty concern about people’s problem, only when an extreme situation happens, for example the earthquake and the miners. Those issues made us create a kind of union, a symbolic union in my opinion. Obviously, there are bad and good points. There are still people who are concern about others and help them whatever they want, people who you trust in, people who you feel as you are special in some way, and for that people I feel proud to be Chilean. “Chilean culture”? What’s that?  We are such a copy, for we wanted to emulate some “better” nation which in my opinion is worse than the culture we had before. Racism, discrimination, competition… those are the words we added to our dictionary the day we let them enter here to change our lives with no return.

Edipo Rey

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The book I read was called “Edipo Rey”, and it is called that way because Edipo is the main character of the whole story and he is called “Rey”, for he became king of a land. Edipo was born in Tebas, and he was the son of Tebas’ king and queen, but he was abandoned for his parents, since an oracle said to Tebas’ king that Edipo will kill him. However, Edipo lived with farmers and when he became older he went to look for his biological parents. On his road, he fought with a mass of people, among them was his father who was killed by Edipo; the prophecy came true. Then, Edipo arrived to Tebas and he destroyed a monster, and that is the reason why Tebas with no king chose Edipo to the throne. He became king of Tebas, he married her mother, and obviously they did not know that they were the same blood. Time passed, and they knew the truth and no one could stand it carrying them to a horrible tragedy; the queen commited suicide and Edipo got blind.

This tragedy was written by Sófocles, he makes his point in the books in terms of the believes that people had on that time, the importance that a king had in a territory, and the importance that religious or magical powers, as the oracles, had as well.

The main lesson of the story is, in my opinion, that even though we really want to change the course of the things we live daily, it is impossible, because our fate is written from the day we were born.

This is the part when you criticize me… xd