The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

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The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

• Act III
• Review

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Act III. scene i

• Setting Public place in Verona
• Monday Afternoon
• Conflict Tensions are high between Montagues and
  Capulets after last nights party
• Revenge (for insults murder)
• Characters
• Benvolio
• pleads with Mercutio to go home
• knows something bad could happen
• And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl, for
  now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring.
• when tension rises with Tybalt, he asks them to
  take it elsewhere
• tries to tell the Prince the truth
• Mercutio
• believes Benvolio is just as likely to fight as
  any other
• fights with Tybalt
• dies after issuing a plague a both your
  houses!

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Characters Cont.

• Tybalt
• comes looking for Romeo
• provokes Mercutio by insinuating he consorts
  with Romeo
• challenges Romeo for his insult at the party
  (really prompted by his scolding from Lord
  Capulet)
• kills Mercutio
• returns only to die from Romeos sword
• Romeo
• tries to get out of the challenge
• speaks of his love for the Capulets
• steps between Mercutio Tybalt
• challenges Tybalt to avenge Mercutios death

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Blame

• Mercutio blames Romeo
• Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt
  under your arm (88-89)
• Romeo blames Juliet
• O sweet Juliet, / Thy beauty hath made me
  effeminate, / And in my temper softned valors
  steel (99-101)
• Romeo blames fate
• O, I am fortunes fool! (122)

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Aftermath

• Lady Capulet wants Montague blood (Romeo) for
  Tybalts death
• She cant believe Benvolios story because he is
  a Montague
• Montague believes Tybalts death in reaction to
  Mercutio makes them even (eye for an eye)
• Prince sentences Romeo to exile- if he does not
  leave, he will be killed

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Act III. scene ii

• Setting Capulets house
• Characters
• Juliet
• Spends the early afternoon dreaming of love and
  Romeo. Her heart breaks at news of the death
  (first Romeo, then Tybalt). She cannot speak
  against her love, her husband.
• Nurse
• Returns from getting cords for the rope ladder
  and says, hes dead, hes dead, hes dead!
  (meaning Tybalt, but Juliet believes she means
  Romeo)
• Juliet wants to spend her wedding night with
  Romeo before he is banished.
• She believes herself to be a widow already

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Act III. scene iii

• Setting Friar Lawrences cell
• Monday night
• Conflict Romeo awaits news of his punishment and
  his bride
• Characters
• Romeo
• believes death would be better than banishment
• asks the Friar for ways to end his life
• Friar Lawrence
• brings Romeo news of his banishment
• counsels Romeo to be patient sees the Princes
  decision as merciful
• cant believe Romeos childish, foolish
  over-reaction
• Thy tears are womanish, thy acts denote/ The
  unreasonable fury of a beast. (111-112)
• Nurse
• comes to the friar to find Romeo
• cant believe Romeo is weeping like Juliet, calls
  him out
• Stand up, stand up, stand, and you be a man.
  (89)
• gives Romeo a ring from Juliet

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Act III. scene iv

• Setting Capulets House
• Monday night
• Conflict Paris continues to push for Juliets
  hand
• Characters
• Capulet
• cant believe Paris would come again at this hour
  on this day
• decides marrying Paris on Thursday might life
  Juliets spirits
• Paris
• we see his persistence here
• could greed be an issue?

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Act III. scene v

• Setting Capulets orchard
• Late Monday/ dawn Tuesday
• Conflict After her time with Romeo, Juliet
  learns of her fated (second) marriage
• Characters
• Juliet
• doesnt want Romeo to leave
• doesnt want day to come, but knows Romeo must
  leave before he is caught and killed
• wants letters from Romeo daily
• asks fortune (fate) to return Romeo quickly
• says marrying Paris will not make her happy,
  shed rather marry Romeo (taken as an insult)
• feels isolated at the end
• Romeo
• tells Juliet he would rather die than be without
  her
• does not doubt he will see Juliet again

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Characters cont.

• Capulet
• cant believe Juliet would refuse his plan
• ultimatum marry , or well kick you out
• speaks terribly of her they are cursed to have
  her
• Lady Capulet
• believes Juliet continues to mourn for Tybalt
• IRONY- she thinks Juliet should weep for Tybalts
  killer, Romeo
• plans to send someone to Mantua to kill Romeo
• tells Juliet of the plan to marry Paris
• Nurse
• advises Juliet to do what she is told because
  Romeo will not be back

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Important Quotes

• Who are the speakers? Why are these lines so
  significant?
• More light and light, more dark and dark out
  woes!
• And trust me, love, in my eye so do you/ Dry
  sorrow drinks our blood. Adieu, adieu!
• Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!
• Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend!
• Ill to the Friar to know his remedy
• If all else fail, myself have power to die.