SCENE SUMMARY
Act 3, scene 4
CHARACTERS: Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris
SETTING: Capulets house
Paris is at the Capulets mansion they are talking about tybalts death and asks again to marry Juliet and Capulet arranges them to be married on Thursday meanwhile not knowing that she is already married that morning to Romeo. Lady Capulet is about to go and tell Juliet.
QUOTE: “we were born to die.”
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 3, Scene 2
CHARACTERS: Juliet, Nurse
SETTING: Capulets house
the nurse says to juliet that someone had died and Juliet assumes that Romeo had died and gets angry. the nurse tells her that it was Tybalt that died and Romeo killed him and now is banished from Verona. at the start she is angry at Romeo for killing Tybalt then realises that if he hadn’t killed Tybalt, then Tybalt would have killed Romeo instead. Juliet sends her nurse to find him and get him to come say goodbye to her.
QUOTE: “Can heaven be so envious?”
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 3, Scene 1
CHARACTERS: Benvolio, Mercutio, Tybalt, Romeo, Officer, Prince, Lady Capulet, Montague
SETTING: street/public place.
Tybalt turns up and asks for Romeo to fight him, Romeo comes and tells Tybalt that he will not fight him because he had a good reason. they argue until Mercutio, Romeo’s friend, has had enough and fights Tybalt because of all the insults that he has said to Romeo. Romeo and Benvolio pull them apart but Tybalt reaches out and stabs Mercutio while he is held back br Romeo. Tybalt leaves and Mercutio dies. Tybalt returns and Romeo kills him. The prince comes to the scene and from there he banishes Romeo from the city.
QUOTE: “Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee, Doth much excuse the appertaining rage to such a greeting”.
PROLOGUE:
1. Two households, both alike in dignity,
2. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
3. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
4. Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
5. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
6. A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;
7. Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
8. Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.
9.The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love,
10. And the continuance of their parents’ rage,
11. Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove,
12. Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage;
13. The which if you with patient ears attend,
14. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 2, Scene 4
CHARACTERS: Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Nurse, Peter
SETTING: Verona, a street on Monday
Mercutio, Benvolio and Romeo are talking about Tybalt’s challenge which was a sword fight and how good of a swordsman he was. Juliets nurse came to find them on behalf of Juliet to talk to Romeo about their marriage arrangement.
QUOTE: “if ye should lead her in a fools paradise, as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, as they say.”
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 2, Scene 3
CHARACTERS: Friar Lawrence, Romeo
SETTING: Outside somewhere
Friar Lawrence is out in the churches garden picking plants and herbs for his medicines, when Romeo comes along, he says that he had been up all night. Friar Lawrence assumes with Rosaline but Romeo explains that he wants to marry Juliet, at the start Friar Lawrence doesn’t think it’s a good idea but in the end, Romeo persuades him that it will help bring the families together so he agreed to help marry them.
QUOTE: ‘The sun not yet thy sighs from the heaven clears’
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 2, Scene 2
CHARACTERS: Romeo, Juliet, Nurse
SETTING: In Capulet’s Backyard/garden, Juliet on a balcony above.
Juliet, unaware that Romeo is below her listening to her talk about how she is a Capulet and Romeo a Montague, how a name should no be able to decide the fate of her life and her decisions. She is wondering whether or not they should abandon their families to be together. Romeo speaks and surprises her, they talk about more names and they kiss but get interrupted by Juliet’s nurse.
QUOTE: ‘That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet?’
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 2, Scene 1
CHARACTERS: Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio
SETTING: Late outside Capulet’s orchard
Romeo is outside the Capulet’s orchard, he hides as Benvolio and Mercutio come by scaling the wall, they talk and joke about Romeo’s love for Rosaline, laughing at how much he loved her and mocking him while in the mean time not knowing that he was now in love with someone else, Juliet.
QUOTE: ‘if love is blind, love cannot hit the mark.’
SCENE SUMMARY
Act 1, Scene 5
CHARACTERS: Four Serving men, Capulet, Cousin Capulet, Romeo, Tybalt, Juliet, Paris, Nurse, Benvolio and other party guests
SETTING: Capulet’s house
Romeo arrives at the Capulet’s party, Tybalt recognises Romeo and wants to start a fight but Capulet orders him not to because of the death threats from the prince. Romeo and Juliet meet and it is ‘love at first sight’ Juliet’s mother is looking for her as she wants Juliet to marry Paris. Juliet is dragged away leaving Romeo stunned because he had just found out that Juliet was a Capulet.
QUOTE: ‘and touching her’s, make blessed my rude hand’
STATEMENT (topic, point) – In his play, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, Shakespeare uses a range of metaphors to help the reader understand what’s going on in the characters minds and their inner thoughts. In Act 1, Scene 4 Romeo talked about a bad dream he experienced, which told him that something bad would begin and would begin that night that would continue on to Romeo’s “untimely” death.
EXAMPLE – In this scene, Romeo expresses his thoughts to is friends and says “He that hath steerage of my course, direct my sail”. The metaphor Shakespeare has used draws a picture in your mind that Romeo is like a boat, by using expressive language like “steerage”, “course” and “sail”. Shakespeare suggests to the reader that, by the use of a capital “H” in the word “He”, he is referring to God as the captain of the boat who will determine Romeo’s fate, the course of his life and the untimeliness of his death.