Benvolio wants to avoid a fight with the Capulets and he suggests to Mercutio that they should go home. He exactly says “I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire: the day is hot, the Capulets are aboard”.
This shows us that Benvolio is sensible and doesn’t want to fight. But Mercutio is in a mischievous mood and wants to play up with the two families.
When Tybalt arrives, Mercutio says “by my heel, I care not”. This shows us that Mercutio is in an Aggressive and a mischievous mood and wants to fight.
When Tybalt and Mercutio speak to each other there are tensions between them. When they are speaking to each other they say:
Mercutio: “and but one word with one of us? Couple it with something; make it a word and a blow”
Tybalt: “you shall find me apt enough to that, sir, and you will give me occasion”. After that Mercutio adds “I will not budge for no man’s pleasure”. This tells us that Mercutio is a stubborn man and he will not back down.
When Romeo arrives Tybalt tries to provoke Romeo into fighting. Tybalt tries to start a fight on Romeo by saying “thou art a villain”. This is a great insult to Romeo who is of noble birth. Romeo tries to apologise for being a Montague and calms the situation down, by saying “I do not want a fight”. Then Tybalt orders Romeo to take out his sword and fight.
Tybalt wants to fight Romeo because he is a Montague and gate crashed Capulet party.
Mercutio: “tybalt, you rat-catcher, will you walk?”
Tybalt: “what wouldst thou have with me?”
Mercutio: “make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out”
Tybalt: “I am for you”
(This is what Tybalt and Mercutio say to each other that cause them to fight).
Within this strenuous and dangerous battle Mercutio is stabbed. While Tybalt and Mercutio were fighting; Romeo tries to split them both up then Tybalt stabs Mercutio at the side of him, while Romeo was in the middle of them.
After Tybalt murders Mercutio, Romeo sees that his friend Mercutio is dying his mood changes. Romeo becomes scared and worried; this is shown when Romeo says “O, I am fortune’s fool”.
Then, he runs away from the scene were his friend Mercutio was killed. Romeo then goes after Tybalt and kills Tybalt, because of the anger of killing his friend. This is very unusual for Romeo, because throughout most of the scenes he has been very calm and sensible in his behaviour and attitude.
As a result of the deaths of Mercutio and Tybalt, the Prince asks Benvolio what happened. He said, “Romeo sol him”. These consequences are terrible for Romeo because it means that he will not see Juliet again.
This again is very important because you need to find out if Romeo sees Juliet again after this tragic event.
I think, the mostly to blame for the killings are the two families and Mercutio and Tybalt themselves. The two families are to blame for this because if they weren’t arguing in the first place, Mercutio and Tybalt wouldn’t have reasons to fight in the first place.
Mercutio is partly to blame for his own killing because if he had retrieved and if he didn’t make fun of Tybalt, he wouldn’t have got into a fight with Tybalt in the first place.
Tybalt is also to blame for Mercutio and his own death. This is because if he had controlled his temper and didn’t provoke Mercutio to fight him nothing like this would of every happened.
Then the prince gave the CAPULETS and the MONTAGUE’S warning, which was if they don’t stop fighting he will kill them. After the prince’s warning they didn’t stop fighting, they carried on.
This again showed the aggressive attitudes and bitter rivalry between each other which had to lead to death.
So I think the two families, Mercutio and Tybalt are two blame for the killings.
Act 3 scene 5 is the scenes were Juliet refuses to marry Paris. These scenes are mainly set in the Capulet house. This is a very dramatic scene. Lord Capulet is very furious at Juliet and Juliet is desperate to see Romeo.
The scene starts when the nurse tells Juliet that Tybalt has been killed and Romeo has been banished. Later that night, Lord Capulet tells Paris that he can marry Juliet in the next few days.
From hearing this new Juliet feels very sad and heart broken, as the man she loves is no more. She continuously starts crying, however suddenly she realises that Romeo is well, in excitement she shouts, “oh, Romeo”
Early the next morning after Romeo and Juliet had spent the night together; Romeo had to leave before someone had seen him. Romeo slowly went out of Juliet’s bedroom window. As soon as Romeo had left Lady Capulet came into her bedroom and told Juliet that she has to marry Paris in the next few days. Juliet was horrified when Juliet heard the news of her father’s plans, but she didn’t what to get married to Paris.
Lord Capulet asks Lady Capulet, “have you delivered to her our decree?” What he is saying is, if she has told Juliet about her marriage. Then Lady Capulet reply’s by saying “but she wills none, she gives you thanks. I would the fool were married to her grave” she says that Juliet is refusing to marry Paris. At this point Lord Capulet anger is raising and tells Juliet that she has to marry Paris.
Juliet begged her father not to make her marry Paris. But, Lord Capulet wouldn’t listen to Juliet. He also told Juliet to be at the Saint Peter’s Church on Thursday to marry Paris or she will not look at her fathers face again.
Juliet’s father is doing this so his daughter can be safe and also to keep his reputation on high standards. He has also done this to make her daughter feel better and most importantly is to get money. After all this, the nurse told Juliet to forget Romeo and marry Paris. At that point Juliet thought that she can not trust her again.
She can’t marry Paris because she is already married to Romeo!
This scene is important because you need to know if Juliet will marry Paris or not. Also this scene is important because you need to find out, what will happen to Romeo or how he will treat this shocking news.
If I had to direct Act 3, Scene 5, I would make the sets more modern and a lot richer.
Using modern sets, make the sets look colourful and able to show and use much richer props. I would use furniture, tables, flowers, expensive kitchen furniture and also lounge room furniture which will be very expensive and which will look very posh.
The audience will see a lot of expensive and colourful props. Which will also stand out?
I will also use modern and expensive props in the upper part of the house. Such as new and colourful curtains, silk bedding material, pictures and painting all around the room and stairs.
I have decided to use an expensive and modern look because, I feel as the family have a very high standard, they will have the money to spend and show. This setting will be admired because the audience will expect the final scenes to be very different and glamorous, because the wedding ceremony between Juliet and Paris is important.
However as the 16th century tradition will be suitable for this type of setting. To the audience the conflict between Juliet and her father, pictures a very interesting situation. As the sets will be very modern and glamorous it will be compared to the mood and the theme being very sad and depressing, because Juliet is not happy with the marriage.
As in the scene Juliet makes it very clear that she doesn’t want to marry Paris. Her father is not a happy man and is so angry about her daughter speaking against him.
This scene will start in Juliet’s room, on the Upper Left Downstage of the stage. Her father will enter her room and both will come out to face the audience and continue the scene. The act will end up outside her room based near the left and centre stage of the downstage area. Later the nurse will travel up the stairs to approach Juliet, whilst she is on the floor crying. The stairs will start from the central upstage are of the stage toward the central upstage area.
I feel the scene where Lord Capulet says “my fingers itch”, he would grab Juliet from the neck, shouting loudly at her and then she would fall on the floor crying her eyes out. This scene will take place, just on the top of the stairs. I will do this so the audience will feel for Juliet.
The scene were the nurse says “god in heaven bless her!” the nurse will say this in a quiet voice. This scene will take place, just on top of the stairs were Lord Capulet says “my fingers itch” to Juliet. He will say this in a loud and an angry voice.
The other scene will also take place on top of the stairs were Lady Capulet says “you are too hot” to Lord Capulet. She will say this in a loud and in a panic voice.
This also will show the audience the contracts between money and sadness, because Lord Capulet will be more worried about his image and wealth, ignoring Juliet’s Love for Romeo.
I think this play is a violent play because deaths and conflict within the scenes have shown dramatic consequences in the play. For example: the play starts with a fight, in Act 1, Scene 1, where the two rivals meet each other and fight for no real moral reason.
The next violent scene is in Act 3, Scene 1 is however very different and remarkably frightening. In this scene we see the exiting quarrel between the rival families, which leads to the death of Mercutio, who is a MONTAGUE and Tybalt who is a CAPULET.
The final violent scene occurs in Act 3, Scene 5 were the scene involves Lord Capulet and Juliet. This is when Lord Capulet gets violent with his daughter Juliet.
Yes overall I think Romeo and Juliet is a violent play.
From reading and watching the play I mostly remember the hatred of the two reviles and the romantic scenes between Romeo and Juliet. So I remember a bit of both, the hatred and the love.
From the hatred scenes I mostly remember the scene were Mercutio and Tybalt were killed. I remember when the MONTAGUES were sitting down and then the CAPULETS arrived. Just before the CAPULETS came closer Benvolio said lets go home, but Mercutio refused to leave. Then the CAPULETS were starting trouble with the MONTAGUES.
As soon as they were going to fight Romeo appeared and then Tybalt started to fight Romeo. Tybalt was provoking Romeo to fight him, but Romeo wouldn’t fight him. When Tybalt was beating up Romeo, Mercutio couldn’t see his friend taking any more punishment, and then Mercutio started beating up Tybalt. Romeo tried to split them up; just before he could Tybalt stabbed Mercutio at the side of him, while Romeo was in the middle of them both.
While Mercutio was slowly passing away Tybalt and his friends ran away from the scene. When Mercutio died Romeo chased after Tybalt and killed him.
From the love scenes I mostly remember when Romeo and Juliet first met. They first met at the Capulet’s party. I don’t remember where in the house they first met, but I know how they met. They were at the party were they were looking at a tank full of water, Romeo was on one side of the tank and Juliet was on there other. Just in that one look at each other, in just few seconds/minutes they fell in love with each other.
After that Romeo was looking for Juliet and I think she was looking for him too. When Romeo had found Juliet they were both happy and at the same time they were scared. They were scared because what will happen to them if someone had seen them.
After that Romeo had to leave just in case he got court, but he still came back to see Juliet and didn’t care if he got court. He only had one thing on his mined, which was to get to Juliet.
He got to her and he was happy to see her again and so was she. They were both happy together. Romeo had to leave because the nurse saw Juliet wasn’t in her room. Just in case the nurse had seen Romeo and Juliet together, Juliet told Romeo to leave.
My favourite scene from the play was Act 3, Scene 1 which was the scene where Mercutio and Tybalt are killed.
This is my favourite scene because I was excited, what was going to happen to Mercutio, Romeo and Tybalt. This is also my favourite scene because it was a lot more exciting and entertaining than all the other scenes.
But, I wasn’t too excited because I all ready knew what was going to happen to Mercutio and Tybalt. I knew this because I already went over the play in class. So I wasn’t too surprised what had happened to Mercutio and Tybalt.
