Juliet has her own problems because her father wants her to marry Paris, a kinsman of the prince, preferred by the Capulet’s. In those times you had to obey your parent’s wishes even if it means marrying a man she doesn’t love but she agrees to marry Paris and she says she will try and love him and will obey his orders.
At the Capulet’s party is when Romeo and Juliet first meet. Romeo and his trouble making friends decide to gatecrash the Capulet’s party and to get in they wear masks. Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin see’s Romeo in the main hall and goes and tells Lord Capulet straight away and Lord Montague just tells Tybalt to enjoy the party and do not worry. Romeo see’s Juliet for the very first time and falls in love with her forgetting all about Rosalind. Juliet catches Romeo watching her and is trying to get a better look at him. They finally look in each others eyes behind the curtains in a separate part of the party. They have no idea that they are from the families of each others sworn enemy’s. Shakespeare uses religious language to show the devotion between Romeo and Juliet. Romeo uses light related words to describe Juliet and he says that Juliet lights up his world. They touch hands and kiss for the first time but when Romeo leaves the party, Juliet asks the nurse for his name and she delivers the bad news that he is a Montague and Romeo finds out that Juliet is a Capulet.
Romeo goes on the Capulet’s premises and if he is caught then he will be killed. He manages to find Juliet’s balcony and Juliet is thinking out loud and Romeo doesn’t want to scare Juliet so he stands there listening. Romeo asks her to speak again bright angel, again Shakespeare uses light related words to describe Juliet like bright angel, winged messenger of heaven. Romeo disturbs Juliet and he starts climbing up the tree to come to Juliet’s level on the balcony. Romeo & Juliet exchange vows and tell each other they love each other. Juliet asks Romeo how he found her and Romeo replied ‘By love’. Romeo says that love brought him to Juliet. Romeo wants to swear to Juliet that he loves her, so Romeo swears by the moon. Juliet sys no, do not swear by the moon because the moon is always changing, th’ inconstant moon.
Romeo and Juliet plan to get married but secretly and ask’s the Friar to marry them. They use the nurse to be a messenger to arrange the secret marriage even though Juliet is arranged to marry Paris in only a few weeks. The Friar agrees to marry them and arranges the time. The lovers spend their first night together after getting married and Romeo hears the lark to signal its morning, but Juliet don’t want him to leave and says it was the nightingale to signal its night. Romeo says ‘More light and light- more dark and dark our woes!’ so he is saying the light it gets the worse their problems get. They finally say goodbye with a kiss. Juliet hopes he will come back soon.
The Friar gives Juliet a potion to make her look like she is dead so she doesn’t have to marry Paris. The Friar sends a note to Romeo but it never gets to him and Romeo finds out that Juliet is dead and goes to the tomb and kills him
self but just after that Juliet wakes up and finds him dead next to her so she decides to kill her self. This show’s that they truly love each other as their give their own lives for each other.
