SCENE SUMMARY

Act 1, Scene2

CHARACTERS: Capulet, Paris, Servant, Romeo, Benvolio

Paris wants to marry Juliet, Old Capulet wants Juliet to decide if she loves him herself so he invites Paris to meet her at a family ball. Old Capulet the invitations to a servant who is supposed to deliver them but can not read so asks some people on the street which happen to be Romeo and Benvolio to help him (meanwhile not knowing That they are from the house of Montague), this gives Benvolio an idea to Distract Romeo from his grief and and find him someone else.

KEY QUOTATION:

Romeo: “One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match since the world begun.