SCENE SUMMARY

Act 4, Scene 2&3

CHARACTERS: Capulet, Servingman, Nurse, Juliet, Lady Capulet

SETTING: Capulet’s house

Juliet arrives back from Friar Lawrence  to discuss the wedding, she acts like she is happy for it to go on and apologises so Capulet decides to move it forward a day. now the wedding is the next day. she goes to her room, gets Nurse and Lady Capulet to leave her alone, she thinks to herself that when she wakes up in the tomb, Romeo might not have arrived yet and she thinks about what might be lurking. she trusts that Friar Lawrence is truthful and will keep his promise then drinks the potion.

QUOTE:”all my bloodied ancestors are pack’d, Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth, lies fest’ring in his shroud.”

SCENE SUMMARY

Act 4, Scene 1

CHARACTERS: Friar Lawrence, Paris, Juliet

SETTING: Friar Lawrence’s cell

PLAN:

Juliet is to go home and sleep alone in her room and when she goes to bed she will take the potion that lasts for 42 hours. her heart beat will go quiet so she looks like she is dead, she will go cold and pale and look dead. when Paris comes to wake her up on Thursday morning, the morning of their wedding, he will think Juliet is dead and she will be taken to the Capulet’s family tomb while in the meantime Friar Lawrence will send for Romeo telling him their plan and they will be with her when she wakes up.

Scene summary

Act 3, scene 5

CHARACTERS: Juliet, Capulet, Romeo, Lady Capulet, Nurse

SETTING: Juliets room

romeo leaves Juliets room and her mum comes in and tells her that she is to marry Paris that Thursday. Juliet tells her that she won’t so Lady Capulet gets Capulet who threatens her that if she doesn’t marry Paris then she wouldn’t be allowed in their house ever again. She asks her mum to change his mind or postpone the wedding but she will not talk to her. Then she turns to her nurse who agrees that Paris is a good man and Romeo is gone. Juliet decides that she will go to Friar Lawrence and if he has no good ideas on what to do then she will turn to the only option she has left. To take her own life because life without Romeo is not worth living.

QUOTE: “

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?’