Romeo then comes out of the bushes and returns love vows.
‘With loves light wings did I o’erperch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out’
Romeo then asks if they could become more intimate
‘What satisfaction canst thou have tonight?’
Juliet is not sure whether or not to accept Romeos offer of marriage, she starts to think that arranging to get married on the first day that they met would be ridiculous. But then she decides that Romeo is her true love and accepts his offer .She says she will send a messenger to Romeo to decide a time and place.
‘By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite’
This scene is very important to the play as it sets up the rest of the play. With Romeo and Juliet making preparation to marry, Friar Lawrence’s plan to bring the two families together is now working out at this stage although the ‘ancient grudge’ might have been seen to be to deep-seated to overcome a simple idea.
Another turning point in the play is Act 3 Scene 1 when Romeo is returning from his wedding with Juliet, Tybalt starts to taunt Romeo trying to provoke him to fight. But because Romeo is now related to Tybalt he is reluctant to fight him.
‘I do Protest I never injured thee, But love thee better than thou canst devise.’
Mercutio seeing Romeo so reluctant to fight sees it as a act of cowardliness and takes up a fight with Tybalt himself. Romeo then tries to break up the fight, then in the confusion Tybalt stabs Mercutio fatally.
Romeo now enraged by the death of his friend Mercutio by Tybalt charges after him and kills him in a frenzy. Then realising what he has done he runs away to Friar Lawrence’s cell. The two bodies are taken away to the Prince who asks Benvolio for his view on the two fights.
‘O noble Prince, I can discover all the unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, That slew thy kinsman, brave Mercutio.’
After hearing a lengthy description of the fight the Prince passes judgement that Romeo should be banished.
This is extremely important to the play and is probably the most vital scene. As Romeo was banished this prevents Juliet and himself not to be together. So Juliet is asked by her father Capulet to marry Paris. This is awkward for Juliet because she does not have Romeo to run away with or confront her father about their marriage. Romeo being in Mantua does not help as when Friar Lawrence has the plan to pretend that Juliet is dead, and asks another Friar to deliver a note to Romeo explaining the plan he is held up by a town the is under quarantine because of the plague.
The final turning point in the play is Act 4 Scene 2 where after hearing of Juliet’s agreement to the wedding of her and Paris, Capulet is so excited that that he moves forward the day of the wedding. Capulet likes to think that Juliet will do anything that he tells her to do so when at first she disagrees to marry Paris he is very annoyed, but then as she accepts his proposal he is very happy and so cant wait for the marriage that’s why he brings that day forward.
‘Why I am glad on’t; this is well. Stand up. This is as’t should be. Let me see the County. Ay marry go, I say, fetch him hither. Now afore God, this reverend holy friar, All our whole city is much bound to him.’
Juliet after being determined not to go along with the wedding to Paris, has been given the potion by Friar Lawrence that should make her fall asleep for long enough for people to think she is dead and bury her. Then Friar Lawrence will go down into the tomb and would help her out then she and Romeo could live together.
‘Through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse shall keep his native progress but surcease; no warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;’
Then as Juliet tells her father, He is so jubilant of her agreement to her consent for the marriage he brings the day of the wedding forward.
‘Send for the County, go tell him of this. I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.’
This bringing forward of the wedding day, combined with the trouble with the plague, Friar Lawrence’s letter does not reach Romeo explaining the plan. As he does not know the plan when he gets to Juliet’s tomb he kills himself with a potion.
‘O here will I set up my everlasting rest’
This scene is important because of the letter not reaching Romeo, but it is not the main turning point in the play.
To conclude Act 3 Scene 1 is probably the key turning point in the play as when Romeo kills Tybalt in his frenzy, he takes himself away from Verona and Juliet. This in turn leads Juliet to take up Friar Lawrence’s plan, which leads to the letter being sent. The wedding brought forward and Romeo not receiving the letter, Thus Romeo comes hastily back to Verona where lies ‘dead’ Juliet. So Romeo kills himself. Juliet wakes up and then proceeds to kill herself.
The other scenes are important they give the play its shape and help it move along to this scene but when Romeo becomes separated from Juliet there love affair goes wrong and things become out of hand for them to deal with, Juliet is believed to be dead and because of this Romeo kills himself, then Juliet wakes up and comities suicide as well.
The play then comes to its tragic end when both the young lovers dieing because of an ‘ancient grudge’ between two families. This takes us back to the prologue when all the predictions made then have come true.
