Romeo and Juliet up to 3.3

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Who kills Tybalt?

Romeo

Who kills Mercutio?

Tybalt

What’s Romeo’s tragic flaw?

He’s in love with the idea of love

Benvolio about

Romeo’s cousin, honest, benevolent, calm

Nurse about

Juliet’s caretaker and confidant; overweight and dim-witted

Mercutio about

**Mercutio** - He is Romeo’s best friend, and while he is allied with Romeo, his relationship with the Capulet family in general is not strained. He is also related to Prince Escalus.

Paris about

ls related to Prince Escalus, he courts Juliet, which suggests more of an alliance or loyalty to the Capulet family, but there is no official loyalty. Here, the character named Paris is courting Juliet and asks Lord Capulet for permission to marry her.  The Paris of Greek mythology started the Trojan War by carrying Helen of Sparta off and marrying her. 

Friar Lawrence about

As the spiritual leader in the community, he takes no sides and looks to end the feud between the families.

Other Montague supporters

Abram - family servingman

Balthazar - Romeo’s servingman

Capulet supporters

Sampson - servingman

Gregory - servingman

Peter - Nurse’s servingman

Petruchio - Tybalt’s friend

Nurse and Lady Capulet

Foil characters, Juliet's caretaker and Juliet’s mother

Romeo and Mercutio

Foil characters, the tragic hero and his best friend

Benvolio and Tybalt

Romeo's calm cousin and Juliet's easily angered cousin

**Tybalt**

From an old fable called Reynard the Fox - Tybalt was the cat. Often mocked and tricked by Reynard.  As a "cat," though, he is nimble and quick - an apt (skilled) swordsman.

**Prince Escalus about**

think of "scales," like the scales of justice.  He tries to keep his town of Verona peaceful.

dost =

doth = 

hast =

hath =

wast =

whence =

wherefore =

dost = do

doth = does

hast = have

hath = has

wast = were

whence = from where

wherefore = why

hence =

yea = 

aught = 

would (he were) = 

marry = 

hie = 

hence = from here

yea = even

aught = anything

would (he were) = I wish (he were)

marry = expressing surprise, indignation, or emphatic assertion

hie = hurry

Two households, both alike in dignity,

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes

A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life;

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.

The fearful passage of their death-marked love,

And the continuance of their parents' rage,

Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;

The which if you with patient ears attend,

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Remember, it is the Prologue that creates the **dramatic irony** that helps evoke the feelings of pity and fear from the audience as they know what inevitably happens to Romeo and Juliet while they do not.

Act 2.1

Mercutio and Benvolio look for Romeo following the feast

Act 2.2

Balcony scene between Romeo and Juliet (wherefore, lets get married (no slow down)

Act 2.3

Romeo asks Friar Lawrence to marry him (Romeo) and Juliet

Act 2.4

Romeo meets Nurse to arrange plans for their wedding night (imma sneak in)

Act 2.5

Juliet awaits Nurse's return to learn of the plans for after the wedding (tell me! tell me!)

Act 2.6

Romeo and Juliet get married (awwwww)

Act 1.5

Romeo’s at the party, they just chill out but tybalt is like ahhh why is he here, and then Lord Capulet is like i dont care its bedtime, and Romeo woos Juliet, later they find out they are nemesi

Act 1.4

Benvolio and Romeo are on there way to crash the Capulet party, with Mercutio (who has actually been invited).

Act 1.3

Lady Capulet and Nurse talk about getting married and Paris and Juliet’s like idk if you want me to

Act 1.2

Paris is like plllease can i marry a 13 year old and capulet is like idk shes 13 ill ask her, lets have a paarrrty tonight to see if you can woo her

Act 1.1

servingman get in brawl and houses are told they can’t fight, we hear romeo is sad bc ROSALINE broke up with him

Act 3.1

Benvolios DEAD tybalts DEAD romeos BANISH-ED oh nooo well we know Benvolio is telling the truth

Act 3.2

Juliets like ohh yaaay romeos coming over maidenhead bye bye and then shes like AHHH HE KILLED Tybalt the evil devil, nurse is like ikr, and Juliet is like DONT SAY THAT BOUT ROMEO I STILL LOVE HIM AHHHHHH IM SAD so nurse is like ill go find romeo and tell him to come and give him a ring

Act 3.3

Romeo is like i will never live again now that im banish-ed and ohhh nooo and then nurse is like hey come see juliet and friar lawrence is like go see her and then leave hidden and come back once we figure these shenanegins out and gives him a stern talking to

Double antandra

Double meaning, shakespeare uses A LOT (other is normally inappropro)

Thou

You (nominative)

Thy

Your (possesive)

Thine

Your (possessive form of you, typically used before a noun)

Thee

you when the object (“Writing liketh thee.”)

Polysyndeton

Repeadetive use of conjunctions (burgers and fries and cucumbers and ketchup)

Asyndeton

Not using conjunctions (burgers, fries, cucumbers, ketchup)

Anaphora

Repeated use of a phrase

Verse

Always capitalized at the beginning of words, Shakespeare does iambic pentameter

Monologue

A character talks for a long time

Sililoque

Character talks for a long time for no one intended but the audience to hear (but they still can… just not intended)

Aside

Character just talks to a few people, not all on stage

Blank verse

Still verse but no rhyming (everything capitalied)

Prose

Normal talking, not capatilizing every line

How does Shakespeare use rhyming?

To express more EMOTION, in your writing potion

Antithesis

Two contrasting words that are seperate

Oxymoron

Two contrasting words that make a different meaning

Metonomy

Changing word to something closely associated with it

Exposition of Romeo and Juliet

Feuding street fight between Capulet and Montague Families Romeo SAD Rosaline is not interested in him

Juliet told to marry Paris (an older man)

Acts 1.1-1.4 basically

Inciting Incident

Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet Masquerade party

Act 1.5

Rising Action

Romeo and Juliet profess their love during balcony scene

Romeo and Juliet MARRY

Romeo runs into Tybalt

Act 2.2-2.6

Climax

Romeo kills Tybalt

Act 3.1