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Imagine you are directing “Romeo and Juliet”. Who would you want the audience to blame for their deaths and how would you achieve this?

The person to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet is partly Romeo to blame himself. In my opinion I blame him for killing himself and Juliet.

I think Romeo is too hasty and quick on his actions, I think this because he is always running around if for an emergency or needs to talk to someone. This occurs when he says, “O let us hence, I stand on sudden haste”. This shows that he is too quick and running around looking for Friar Lawrence to tell him something. I think that he has to calm down and not be so hasty and plan things instead of being too quick.

If I was directing act 2 scene 3 I would have Romeo being quick and falling and tripping everywhere. I would also have Romeo making the vases and pots falling, with Romeo trying to catch them as they are falling. The music I would have would be quick music such as techno music or music that has lots of instruments playing at once.

Romeo again is fickle and is speedy when he sees Juliet for the first time and falls in love with her. Romeo did not think about knowing Juliet really good and I think it is true love at first sight. His point of view of Juliet is when he says, “…Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!

For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

I say this is true love at first sight because he forgot about Rosaline and now he has moved on so quickly seeing Juliet and has fallen in love with her, but he doesn’t know that Juliet is Romeos’ family’s worst enemy. Romeo says almost the same thing to Rosaline,

“…One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun,

Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”

If I was directing act 1 scene 5 I would have Romeo whispering in Juliet’s ear, “…Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!

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“…One fairer than my love! The all-seeing sun,

Ne’er saw her match since first the world begun.”

If I was directing act 1 scene 5 I would have Romeo whispering in Juliet’s ear, “…Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!

For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.” Later Juliet turning back and seeing Romeo, then Romeo taking Juliet somewhere where they can talk and kiss, here he is to blame because he is doing something wrong and should not be. Whilst they are kissing, the music I would have would be romantic, such as, titanic when Kate Winslet is kissing Leonardo Dicaprio on the front of the boat but here Romeo will be kissing Juliet at the back of the stage. The movement of Romeo and Juliet would be fast, so no one catches them running away together.

Another action showing how Romeo reacts is when he asks Juliet to marry him after knowing Juliet for 1 day after the party. Romeo arranges the marriage getting the nurse involved with the marriage too. This is clearly shown when Romeo walks off the stage as he was struggling to get down the wall of Juliet and says, “By the hour of nine.”

Here Romeo is arranging the marriage at nine ‘o’ clock in the morning while struggling to get down. I think this might lead to tragedy because the nurse got involved and Friar Lawrence for marrying them in the first place. Once their married it will lead to more feuds in the future against the two families, the Montague and the Capulet family.

If I was staging act 2 scene 2, to portray Romeo’s haste I would have Romeo walking up to Juliet, as he was climbing up the wall beside Juliet’s room making sure that someone does not see him. Romeo would be calling Juliet’s name from her window and arranging the marriage, also Juliet giving Romeo lots of hugs and kisses and the nurse helping with the time of marriage. Romeo would be delivering “By the hour of nine” really fast and I will have Romeo walking off stage as he was climbing down the wall of Juliet’s room.

Another place to show his attitude is when he kills Tybalt for killing Mercutio, his attitude here increases rapidly and he gets really angry and stabs Tybalt. His anger is shown when he says angrily

“…And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!”

Here he is extremely angry and should control his attitude and should think about what to do, instead of quickly doing the action. He killed Tybalt because Tybalt killed Romeo’s best cousin, Mercutio. I think anyone would act a bit mad and want to get revenge but you will have to be careful of what you do. Romeo here was a bit too quick on his actions to killing Tybalt, he stabbed him with quick actions by taking his sword and stabbing him without thinking. Once someone has done something bad their body reacts quickly and saying, “what have I done?” such as Romeo thinking about what he has done to Juliet, as Tybalt is Juliet’s cousin.

If I was directing act 3 scene 1, I would have Romeo running to Tybalt to talk to him and say why he killed Mercutio, but Romeo would not give Tybalt a chance to talk and Romeo stabs Tybalt. I would have Tybalt wondering what is Romeo on about. I would have Romeo angrily shouting the line “…and fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!” after shouting the line there will be a dramatic pause and exploding fireworks with loud bangs between it. When Romeo starts saying “Now Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again,” their will be calm music such as a one note sound to show that he has calmed down and ready to talk with Tybalt peacefully. When Tybalt is giving the lines “thou wretched boy, that dids’t consort me her,” this line will be getting Romeo mad and takes his sword out with anger and stabs Tybalt. To show the audience Romeos anger I will have Romeos face projected on to the back of the stage wall to show how angry he really is.

Friar Lawrence is to blame for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because he married them when he should have known that marrying them would bring tragedy and even more feuds in the future between the two families, Montague and Capulet. Others who are to blame is the Montague family, The Capulet family, also the Nurse and fate. The two families feuding made Romeo and Juliet want to run away or kill themselves.

For example fate was to blame because when Friar Lawrence sent a letter to Romeo, it did not reach him and so this lead to problems with Romeo. Friar john knocked on the door but no one answered and the letter held a vital note to Romeo telling him that something had happened to Juliet. This can be clearly shown when Friar John responds to friar Lawrence saying, “I could not send it-here it is again,

Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,

So fearful where they of infection.”

This shows that Friar John was frightened of what the letter held and if it caused any harm. I think Romeo was waiting in suspense to hear what was happening in Verona, especially Romeos wife, Juliet. If Romeo got the letter he would be acting a bit relived to hear from Verona and also a bit emotional to hear about Juliet’s death. I think anyone would act the same if a sibling died or someone really close to them died.

After the play I would want the audience to blame Romeo for his death and Juliet’s because for getting himself into trouble and always trying to feud. I would want the audience to feel that getting into trouble is not the solution to any problems. I would also want the audience to say to themselves that arranged marriages sometimes leads to problems in the future or even tragedy such as when Lord Capulet arranges a marriage for Juliet to get married to Paris when Juliet hardly knew Paris.

MOHAMMED MOHAMMED

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