Intro to Lit Hon Midterm Romeo and Juliet

who is Balthasar?

servant to Romeo

who is Benvolio

Cousin to Romeo, known as peacemaker

who is Mercutio?

Friend of Romeo, related to the Prince, known as flamboyant/witty

who is Friar Laurence

Priest in Verona, advisor to Romeo/Juliet

Family name of Juliet

Capulet

family name of Romeo

Montague

How did the Capulet/Montague feud start

doesn’t explicitly say, ancient grudge

Who is nurse

Secondary mother figure to Juliet

who is Tybalt

agressive cousin to Juliet, main antagonist

who is Paris

young nobleman, related to the Prince, seeks to marry Juliet

Who is Prince Escalus

ruler of Verona

who is Friar John

Friar tasked with taking letter of Juliet’s false death to Romeo in Mantua but gets stuck in a quarantined house/is unable to bring the letter

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...

Prologue

What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee...

Tybalt

O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you.

Mercutio

Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.

Romeo

But, soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

romeo

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet...

juliet

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

romeo

These violent delights have violent ends.

friar laurence

Is it even so? then I defy you, stars!

romeo

O true apothecary, 
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die. 

romeo

O happy dagger!

juliet

O, I am fortune’s fool!

romeo

"Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow." 

juliet

"My only love sprung from my only hate!"

juliet

"A plague o' both your houses!"

mercutio

"For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." 

prince

what town is this set in?

Italitan city, Verona

Act 1:

• fight breaks out between 2 Montague and 2 Capulet servants that turns into a huge street fight

• The prince warns that if there is another fight, they will pay for it with their lives

• Romeo is in love with Rosaline (doesn't love him back)

• paris wants to marry Juliet but Lord Capulet wants to wait 2 years

• There is going to be a ball at the Capulet house

• Romeo/benvolio plan to go to the ball even tho they rnt invited

• Juliet is 13 years old

• Nurse has cared for Juliet since she was a baby/cares deeply for her

• Lady Capulet/Nurse both think Paris is a good match for Juliet

• romeo has a premonition/ doesn't wanna go to the ball

• Mercution says his dreams are meaningless

• romeo and Juliet meet

• Romeo and Juliet find out who the other one is

act 2

• romeo sneaks into Capulet orchard after the ball to see juliet

• They share their love sentiments/get married

• romeo asks Friar Laurence if he would marry him and Juliet (he agrees)

• Juliet awaits romeo’s proposal

• Nurse tells Juliet Abt Romeo’s plans of marriage

• romeo and Juliet are now married (only friar Laurence/nurse know)

Act 3

• Tybalt kills Mercutio

• Romeo kills tybalt

• Romeo gets banished from Verona

• romeo hides out in friar Laurence s cell

• Juliet is grieving

• Lord Capulet agrees to Juliet’s marriage to paris/forces it on Juliet

• Romeo and Juliet say their last goodbyes

act 4

• Friar Laurence makes a plan to give Juliet a potion that will make her look dead. He will send a letter to Romeo to inform him and they will meet in the Capulet tomb to run away together

• The plan works

Act 5

• Romeo doesn't get the letter in time and believes Juliet dead

• Romeo buys a potion to kill himself

• Friar Laurence goes to collect Juliet (he knows Romeo didnt get the letter in time)

• paris mourns Juliet’s death in the tomb, Romeo kills him

• Romeo takes him life

• Juliet wakes up and sees Romeo, refuses to go with Friar Laurence, kills herself

• the families find their bodies/end their feud