“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”.
Lady Capulet is upset about the slaying of Tybalt and tells the prince that shed the blood of Montague. I know this because she says:
“Tybalt, my cousin! O my brother’s child!, O prince!, O husband!, O, the blood is spill’d of my dear kinsman. Prince, as thou art true. For blood of ours, shed blood of Montague. O cousin, cousin!”
The Prince fines the head of each house. I know this because he says:
“My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a-bleeding; but I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine that you shall all repent the loss of mine”.
In Act 3 Scenes 5 it is a very early Tuesday morning and Romeo has to leave Juliet. Their parting is interrupted by the nurse and she warns both of them that Juliet’s mother is coming.
Juliet tells Romeo to jump out of the window. I know this because she says:
“Then, Window, let day in, and let life out”
The violence and conflict occurs when Lady Capulet enters and discusses the death of Tybalt. And then she calls Romeo a ‘villain’ and a ‘traitor murderer’. In the text Lady Capulet says:
“Well, girl thou weep’st not so much for his death, as that the villain lives which slaughtered him”
Lady Capulet asked Juliet if she is weeping for her cousin Tybalt’s death. But instead Juliet is weeping for the departure of Romeo. Juliet and her mother start arguing and tells her that she is going to give someone a poisonous drink to give to Romeo. So Romeo could drink it and die. I know this because Lady Capulet says:
“We will have vengeance for it, fear thou not: Then weep no more. I’ll send to one in Mantua, where that same banish’d runagate doth live, shall give him such an unaccusdam’d dram that he shall keep Tybalt company; And then I hope thou wilt be satisfied”
The violence and conflict occurs between Lady Capulet and her daughter Juliet.
This scene is important in relation to the rest of the play because Lady Capulet hates Romeo for killing Tybalt. And she is planning to get Romeo killed by telling someone in Mantua to give him a drink that is mixed with poison. And Juliet is reacting against her mother’s thoughts of Romeo.
Lady Capulet discusses about the marriage. Juliet refuses to marry Paris and even if she does she swears that she will marry Romeo. I know this because Juliet says:
“I will not marry yet, and when I do. I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris”
When Juliet’s father Capulet enters, he asks his daughter he she is proud of her marriage and she tells him that she isn’t. He gets angry and tells her she will marry Paris or he will drag her on a wooden frame on which traitors were dragged through the streets to execution. I know this because Capulet says:
“But fettle your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next, to go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church, Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither”
He calls his daughter green sickness carrion, baggage and a tallow-face. I know this because he in the text he says:
“Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow face!”
In Act 5 Scene 3 Paris is praying at Juliet’s tomb he encounters Romeo, they both start to fight and Paris is killed by Romeo. Romeo swallows the poison that he had bought from Mantua, but Friar Lawrence is too late to save him. Juliet wakes up from her death-like coma and finds Romeo’s body, and then she kills herself.
The violence and conflict occurs when Paris comes to pray at Juliet’s tomb and finds Romeo beside her. Romeo tries to open Juliet’s tomb. Romeo asks for a mattock and wrenching iron from Balthasar. When Romeo begins to open the tomb, Paris calls him a ‘banished haughty Montague’ because he killed his love’s cousin Tybalt. I know this because he says:
“This is that banish’d haughty Montague, That murdered my love’s cousin, with which grief, It is supposed the fair creature died. And here is come to do some villainous shame to the dead bodies. I will apprehend him”.
Paris’ words make Romeo have a duel with him, in which Paris’ is killed. Before Paris’ died his last words were ‘lay me with Juliet’. I know this because he says:
“O, 1 am slain!, If thou be merciful, Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet”
The violence and conflict occurs between Romeo and Paris, because Paris has come to mourn on Juliet’s tomb. Romeo encounters Paris. Paris assumes that Romeo has come to defile the Capulets' crypt and challenges him for a fight.
Romeo kills Paris, and then drinks the poison; he sees Juliet for one last time and drinks it saying:
“O true Apocotheary! Thy drugs are quick! Thus with a kiss I die”
Friar Lawrence arrives in the tomb with a lantern, crow and spade. He finds Romeo and Paris dead. Juliet wakes up and asks about her love, Romeo. She is shocked to hear that he is dead along with Paris. He asks Juliet to come with him, but she refuses.
Friar Lawrence says:
“I hear some noise, lady. Come from that nest of death, contagion and unnatural sleep”
Friar Lawrence is frightened by a noise, and leaves Juliet alone in the crypt. She finds Romeo with a bottle of poison that is empty. She wants to kiss him because he might have some poison still on his lips, so she can die too.
In the text she says:
“O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after? I will kiss thy lips, Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, to make me die with a restorative. Thy lips are warm”
Juliet hears a noise and takes Romeo’s dagger because the poison didn’t work because it was too less. She then stabs herself. She falls on Romeo’s body and dies. I know she stabbed herself because she said:
“Yea, noise! Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die”
The scene is important to the conclusion of the play because everything ends in tragedy. The deaths of Paris, Romeo and Juliet are shocking to everyone. The captain of the watch tells his men to arrest anyone that is around the churchyard because he thinks someone must have murdered them. He tells his men:
“The ground is bloody, search about the churchyard. Go, some of you, whoe’er you find attach”
Friar Lawrence reveals the love and secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet, and the deaths of the children of the two families decide to end their violent feud. I know this because Capulet says:
“O brother, Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more can I demand”
The Prince concludes the play by telling a sad speech of the death of Juliet and her Romeo. The Prince says a poem-like speech:
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings; the sun for sorrow will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished; For never was a story of more woe, Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”
If I had to Direct Act 5 Scene 3 for the stage I would leave out the death of Paris so people could see the grief of Romeo and Juliet. I would do this because Paris could be sad and heartbroken. I would make Paris thoughtful by telling Romeo. “I know you love her and she loves you, I ask you to take her hand and marry her instead”.
But when Juliet gets into that death-like coma, Paris will mourn but Romeo will not fight him. Instead Romeo just tells Paris to ‘kill him’. Paris kills and hides Romeo’s body and leaves the tomb. Juliet awakes and runs out of the tomb shouting “Romeo! Romeo!”
And she meets Paris, but he doesn’t tell her about Romeo’s death. Someone finds his body and tells Juliet the news. Juliet is shocked and in pain to hear about her loves death, and then she commits suicide by jumping out of a high tower. Paris is heartbroken and shocked. He collapses. Romeo and Juliet are buried together and the Montagues and Capulets reunite after a long violent feud because both families have lost their children. Paris will never have a love like Juliet ever again.
I think it is a violent play more than a romantic because there is a lot of fighting and death. Like the deaths of Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris, Romeo and Juliet. Romantic plays don’t contain too much violence. Romantic plays always end in a happy way like “They lived happily ever after”.
I can remember from reading the play is violence because at the very start The Montagues and Capulets are fighting and then Benvolio and Tybalt start fighting and the Prince comes and stops all the fighting that is going on. I found more violent scenes than love. The only scenes of love are of Romeo and Juliet. Like, When Romeo comes in Juliet’s chamber to kiss her and say goodbye because he is leaving for Mantua, and towards the end when Romeo visits Juliet’s tomb and finds Paris and the he challenges him to fight, it shows that both lovers are fighting for one person whom they love which is Juliet. And all at the end of the scene it is tragic to find all three lovers dead.
My favorite scene would be when Romeo and Paris fight; because they are not only showing there anger but they are expressing their love for Juliet. But it is also a sad part which ends the play in a way which Romantic plays shouldn’t end.
I also like this part because it is tragic and full of action; it also has a spooky atmosphere because it is set in a crypt where all of the dead are buried.
