Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet
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A Tragic Pattern How the Play is Built

• Tragedy A narrative about serious and
• important actions that end unhappily.
• Usually ends with the death of main
• characters
• Sometimes innocent characters
• are affected
• Sometimes the main characters
• are responsible for their downfall

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Shakespeares Tragic Plays

• Five-Part Pattern

ACT III Crisis / Turning Point
ACT II Rising Action
ACT IV Falling Action
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ACT V Climax Resolution
ACT I Exposition
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Exposition (ACT I)

• Establishes the setting
• Introduces the main characters
• Explains background
• Introduces the characters
• main conflict

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Romeo and Juliet (Exposition)
Verona, Italy
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Rising Action (ACT II)

• Consists of a series of complications
• Occurs when main characters take action to
  resolve their problems

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Romeo and Juliet(Rising Action and
Complications)
Forbidden Love
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Crisis or Turning Point(ACT III)

• Moment when a choice is made by one of
• the main characters that determines the
• direction of the action
• Upward happy ending (comedy)
• Downward sad ending (tragedy)
• Dramatic and tense moment when the
• forces of conflict come together

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Romeo and Juliet(Crisis/Turning Point)

• Fight between Romeo and Tybalt

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Falling Action(ACT IV)

• Presents events that result from the action taken
  in the turning point
• Events usually lock characters deeper into
  disaster
• With each event we see each character falling
  into tragedy

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Romeo and Juliet(Falling Action)
Juliet taking poison to avoid Paris at all costs
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Climax Resolution(ACT V)

• CLIMAX
• Highest point of emotional intensity of
• the story
• The greatest and final event that takes
• place (death)
• RESOLUTION
• The loose parts of the plot are tied up
• and resolved
• Any questions are answered
• Signifies the end of the play

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Romeo and Juliet(Climax)
O happy dagger!
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Romeo and Juliet (Resolution )
For never was there a story of more woe Than
this of Juliet and her Romeo.