What is revealed about the Chorus in this excerpt from the
prologue of Shakespeare's Romeo and Julie?
CHORUS: Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we
ay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to
mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the
fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their
ents
The
fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is now the two hours traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.
The Chorus is omniscient about what happens in the play.
O The Chorus is sympathetic to the lovers' plight.
CD The Chorus finds honor in the feud between the families.
C The Chorus is sympathetic to the lovers families, who lose their children.
1O
The Chorus does not support the lovers' betrayal of their families. of