1. Romeo & Juliet

2. Look for… Puns Allusions Metaphor Personification Oxymorons Paradoxes
Foreshadowing

3. Puns A pun is a humorous play on words.
Mercutio – “Nay, gentle Romeo, we must have you dance.”
Romeo – “Not I, believe me. You have dancing shoes / With nimble soles; I have a soul of lead…” (Act I Sc. 4)

4. Allusions
An allusion is a reference to a well known work of art, music, literature, or history.
“At lovers’ perjuries, they say Jove laughs.” (Act II, Sc. 2)
Jove is another name for Jupiter, the Roman King of the Gods.

5. Personification
Personification occurs when an inanimate object or concept is given the qualities of a person or animal.
Juliet— “For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night / Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back. / Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow’d night” (Act III Sc. 2)

6. Paradoxes
A paradox is statement or situation with seemingly contradictory or incompatible components.
Juliet – “O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!” (Act III Sc. 2)

7. Foreshadowing
Foreshadowing is a reference to something that will happen later in the story.
Juliet – “Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” (Act III Sc. 2)

8. PROLOGUE
Two households, both alike in dignity,     In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,     From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,     Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.     From forth the fatal loins of these two foes     A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;     Whose misadventured piteous overthrows     Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

10. PROLOGUE--cont
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,     And the continuance of their parents' rage,     Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,     Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage;     The which if you with patient ears attend,     What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

11. What can we learn from the PROLOGUE?
Verona, Italy (Setting, 14th Century)
Montagues –VS- Capulets: (Characters)
Generations of Hate
Kids fall in love (Basic Plot)
Secret marriage
*Suicide
Families overcome the hate at a tragic cost
* (Foreshadows the deaths of R & J)

12. ACT I
Purpose
Exposition of the Play
Characters
Setting
Conflict

13. ACT I, scene 1 Old hatreds are rekindled between:
The servants of Capulets and Montagues
Tybalt and Benvolio
The Capulets & Montagues (Fathers)
All it took was one airy word or gesture
“Do you bite your thumb at us sir?”

14. Offensive Gestures

15. Prince of Verona decrees:
“If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace” (I.1.104)
Prince of Verona decrees:

16. ACT I, scene 1 Sycamore = Sick amore (love-sick)
Romeo Montague is heart-sick because he’s been rejected by Rosaline.
He asks his friend Benvolio, “…teach me how I should forget to think!” (I.1.241)

17. ACT I, scene 1
Benvolio encourages, “By giving liberty unto thine eyes. Examine other beauties” (I ) translated: there are plenty more fish in the sea

18. Shakespeare’s Purpose
Introduce the age-old feud between the Montagues & Capulets
Introduce Romeo as a romantic, moody teen who is sulking because of a breakup
Romeo = Romantic

19. You can call me Prince Pedophile
ACT I, scene 2
Paris, a young Count, related to the Prince, asks Lord Capulet permission to marry his daughter Juliet
You can call me Prince Pedophile

20. ACT I, scene 2
Capulet asks Paris to wait until Juliet is a bit older than her present age—almost 14
He then invites Paris to a party at his home to woo Juliet

21. ACT I, scene 2 Comedy Relief
Capulet asks his illiterate servant to deliver invitations to the party
The servant happens upon Romeo and his pals, and asks them for assistance in reading the invitations

22. ACT I, scene 2
Romeo sees Rosaline’s name on the invitation and decides to attend
Thou art cordially
invited to attend the
festivities at the
Capulet castle:
Mercutio
Rosaline
Tybalt

23. ACT I, scene 2 Problem: The Capulets and Montagues are bitter enemies
Benvolio promises that he’ll assist Romeo in comparing Rosaline to other more beautiful women, and “…make thee think thy swan a (I.2.94)
Romeo pouts that he’ll attend but have no fun
crow”

24. Shakespeare’s Purpose
Plot device:
Used to shape the love triangle, bringing Romeo, Juliet and Paris together
Used to bring Romeo into enemy territory—a Montague in the Capulet home

25. ACT I, scene 3
Lady Capulet asks her daughter, Juliet, to “check out” Paris as a potential husband

26. ACT I, scene 3
Juliet respectfully complies, but lets her mother know that marriage is not something she’s been thinking about

27. ACT I, scene 3
We meet Juliet’s nanny (comic relief), the Nurse, who is especially protective of her
We also find out that Juliet’s 14th birthday is approaching in a fortnight—Lammas Eve

28. Shakespeare’s Purpose
The audience knows that Juliet is aware of Paris’ intent to marry her—love triangle
They also know that
there may be a brawl
at the party b/c Romeo
and his friends are in
enemy territory

29. ACT I, scene 4
Romeo, Benvolio, & Mercutio are about to crash the Capulet party
Romeo vows he won’t have any fun because he’s depressed about Rosaline’s rejections
She has vowed to remain chaste (he’ll get nun)

30. ACT I, scene 4 Pun—a play on words
“You have dancing shoes with nimble soles; I have a soul of lead” (I )
“I am too sore enpierced with his (Cupid’s) shaft to soar with his light feathers…under love’s heavy burden do I sink” (I )
Pun—a play on words

31. ACT I, scene 4 Foils A discussion about love ensues
Romeo’s interpretation of love:
Emotional & Spiritual
Mercutio’s interpretation of love:
Physical & lusty
Foils

32. ACT I, scene 4
Romeo begins to tell his pals about a portentous dream he had
Mercutio mocks him with a fairy tale about Queen Mab who visits people in their dreams

33. ACT I, scene 4
Romeo rebukes him, and then tells Benvolio about his dream, which makes him reluctant to go to the party
Foreshadowing

34. ACT I, scene 4 In other words:
Romeo feels Fate has predetermined that some event tonight will cost him his life
More foreshadowing

35. ACT I, scene 5 Love at first sight
Lord Capulet begins the party, inviting all to dance
Romeo spies Juliet, and immediately falls heavily in love with her, instantly forgetting about Rosaline
Love at first sight

36. ACT I, scene 5
“O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night as a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear—Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! (I )

37. ACT I, scene 5
Hot-tempered Tybalt, Lady Capulet’s nephew, overhears Romeo’s voice, recognizes him as a Montague and prepares to kill him
Lord Capulet orders Tybalt to “endure” Romeo’s presence, recalling the Prince’s decree.
Tybalt obeys grudgingly, but will seek revenge at another time:

38. ACT I, scene 5 Tybalt remarks after Lord Capulet has exited:
“I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall, now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall” (I.5.101)

39. ACT I, scene 5
The Infatuation
The Kiss
The Enemy

40. ACT I, scene 5
Romeo and Juliet’s attraction is immediately electric—love at first sight!
Yet, when they kiss they do not know each other’s identity

41. Yo, Baby. What’s
your
name?

42. ACT I, scene 5 Juliet’s nurse breaks the news to each
Romeo’s reaction:
“Is she a Capulet? O dear account! My life is my foe’s debt” (I )
Juliet’s response:
“My only love, sprung from my only hate!...
Prodigious love it is to me that I must love a loathed enemy” (I )

43. Shakespeare’s Purpose
Foreshadow the death of Mercutio at the hands of Tybalt
Introduce the conflict that sets the plot in motion
Ironically Romeo & Juliet, whose families are embroiled in a bitter feud, fall madly in love

44. Prologue----pg. 1020 ACT II Summarizes Act I
Hints that Romeo and Juliet will find a way to be together

45. ACT II, scene 1
Romeo’s friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, go looking for Romeo
They think that
Romeo is still in
love with Rosaline

46. ACT II, scene 1 & 2
After much joking around, Mercutio and Benvolio give up and go home to bed
Scene 2
Romeo climbs over the Capulet garden wall and hides in the garden below Juliet’s window

47. O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?
I’m down here!

48. ACT II, scene 2 He overhears Juliet talking to herself
Juliet says that she will disown her family so she can be with Romeo
Juliet hates the name “Montague” not the person “Romeo”
…a rose/by any other name would smell as sweet

49. a rose/by any
other name
would
smell as
sweet

50. Romeo ACT II, scene 2 Romeo answers
He is willing to change his name just to be with Juliet
“Had I it written, I would tear the word”
Juliet says that she is afraid that her family will kill Romeo if they find him
Romeo

52. ACT II, scene 2
Romeo says he would rather die than live without Juliet
After hearing Romeo speak words of love, Juliet:
Believes that Romeo loves her and
Wonders if their love came too quickly and easily (Remember, they have only just met)

53. ACT II, scene 2 Romeo proposes & Juliet accepts
Juliet says that if Romeo is
serious about marriage, he
must arrange the wedding—she
will send for his answer tomorrow
at 0900 hrs
Romeo goes to Friar Laurence
to arrange the marriage

54. Parting is such sweet sorrow

55. STOP

56. ACT II, scene 3 Soliloquy: Friar Laurence is alone in his garden
He says that nothing is completely
good or evil. It is how it is used. They
can heal or kill.
This speech shows his knowledge of
herbs and drugs

57. ACT II, scene 3 Romeo arrives and explains that
He no longer loves Rosaline
He is now in love with Juliet
He asks Friar Laurence to marry them

58. ACT II, scene 3 Friar Laurence tells Romeo Young men love with their
eyes not with their hearts
He still has tear
streaks on his face
from Rosaline

59. ACT II, scene 3 Friar Laurence isn’t sure this is a good idea but
He only agrees to marry them
Because he thinks it will stop the feud between the two families

60. ACT II, scene 4
Mercutio and Benvolio are out walking in the town square. They discuss:
That Tybalt sent a challenge to Romeo to duel
They say that Tybalt is an expert at dueling (fencing, sword fighting)
Prince of Cats

61. ACT II, scene 4
After arranging the marriage, Romeo meets them and he is in a much better mood
Nurse (and Peter) comes
and finds Romeo at noon
not 0900 a.m.

62. ACT II, scene 4 Romeo tells the nurse about the plan for the wedding
Juliet is to go to shrift (confession) at Friar L. cell that afternoon
They will be married there
Romeo’s servant will give a rope ladder to the nurse
Romeo will use it to climb into Juliet’s room for their wedding night

63. ACT II, scene 4 and 5 The Nurse tells Romeo that Act II, scene 5
She thinks that Paris would make a better husband
Juliet doesn’t agree with her
Act II, scene 5
Juliet is very nervous as she waits for the nurse to return from meeting Romeo. She is 3 hours late—12:00

64. ACT II, scene 5
Nurse teases Juliet by not giving her Romeo’s message immediately
Juliet goes to Friar Laurence to get married

65. ACT II, scene 6 Before Juliet arrives, Romeo and Friar L talk
Friar L prays that God will bless the wedding regardless of what else happens to the couple
Warns that “things” that happen so fast often end just as quickly (and explosively)

66. ACT II, scene 6
When Juliet arrives, Romeo uses a lot of poetic words to describe her and their love
Juliet
--worries that Romeo only talks about love;
--is afraid that he doesn’t really understand love
Romeo and Juliet get married

67. Start here

68. Act III: Banishment Central Issue: Theme:
Romantic love –vs.- family loyalty
Theme:
Love as a brutal emotion, leading to defiance of family, religion, & society

69. Act III, scene 1 Mercutio baits Tybalt who’s looking to duel Romeo
I love you, man.
Romeo arrives but will not duel Tybalt because he is now his kinsman through his secret marriage
“I never injured thee, but love thee better than thou canst devise (understand)…”

70. Act III, scene 1
Tybalt is unaware of the marriage, so he rejects Romeo’s peace offering
Mercutio steps in to duel Tybalt
As Romeo tries to break up the fight, Tybalt slays Mercutio
Ratcatcher!

71. Act III, scene 1 As he is dying, Mercutio curses both the warring
families, saying:
“Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man” and “A plague on both your houses”

72. Act III, scene 1
Romeo is irate that he has allowed his love for Juliet to make him “effeminate”
He savagely avenges Mercutio’s death

73. “O, I am fortune’s fool!” Act III, scene 1
Recognizing what he has done (murdered his wife’s cousin) Romeo blames his actions on Fate:
“O, I am fortune’s fool!”

74.                             
                            
Act III, scene 1
The Prince banishes Romeo from Verona, a penalty much less severe than he decreed

75. Act III, scene 1
If Romeo is found in the city, he’ll be killed

76. Act III, scene 2 Juliet’s soliloquy:
She impatiently awaits Romeo, so they may consummate their marriage
Come, night: come, Romeo, come: thou day in night: For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow on a raven’s back.

77. Act III, scene 2
Juliet’s nurse finally tells her the sad news about Tybalt’s death at the hands of Romeo
At first Juliet is angry with
Romeo, then elated that he
is alive, and finally suicidal
because she fears she
cannot live without him

78. Act III, scene 2
Juliet declares that, although married, she will die a maid (virgin)
And that death will be her husband
(Personification)

79. Act III, scene 2
The Nurse assures her that Romeo, who is hiding in Friar L’s cell, will be with her tonight
Juliet asks Nurse to take a ring to Romeo, as a symbol of her undying love for him
Notice that Juliet sees no middle ground in her life. She lives with Romeo, or she will take her life.

80. Start Here

81. Act III, scene 3
Friar Lawrence explains to Romeo that the Prince has banished him from Verona for killing Tybalt, an act of mercy
Romeo see banishment as a
punishment worse than death

82. Act III, scene 3
What does “Thou cuttst my head off with a golden axe” mean? Or “You’d complain if you were hung with a new rope”?

83. Act III, scene 3
Friar Laurence: “O, then I see that madmen have no ears.”
Romeo: “How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?”

84. Act III, scene 3 Juliet’s nurse arrives at Friar’s cell
Romeo is so sickened by his
actions (destroying his marriage)
that he attempts suicide
Friar scolds him for his rash,
weak response, chiding him to
stop whining like a wench and to
act like a man

85. Act III, scene 3
Friar Laurence (the optimist) reminds Romeo of the “…pack of blessings” he has
Juliet is alive and waiting for him
Romeo has killed Tybalt, an enemy bent on killing him
The Prince has spared his life

86. Act III, scene 3 Romeo, too, sees no middle ground in life.
Friar reveals his plan to Romeo and Nurse:
Romeo will sneak to Juliet’s room tonight
Consummate their marriage
Escape to Mantua until their
Make their marriage public
Seek a pardon from the Prince
*Nurse gives Romeo the wedding ring from Juliet. His spirits lift—for now

87. Hey, Baby. Watch' a doing after the funeral?
Act III, scene 4
Capulet and Count Paris again discuss the possibility of marriage (Thursday?)
Paris: “These times
of woe afford no time
to woo”—(poor timing
to pick up chicks)
Paris is excited
Hey, Baby. Watch' a doing after the funeral?
ited

88. Act III, scene4
Lord Capulet asks his wife to let Juliet know that she’ll be marrying Paris on Thursday morning. It’s currently Monday evening
Ironic: Sunday (yesterday), Lord Capulet denied Paris’ request to marry Juliet because she was too young

89. Act III, scene 5 It is dawn. Romeo & Juliet
have spent their first night
together as a married couple
Warning: Nudity Alert!
Juliet is reluctant to let
Romeo go to Mantua,
teasing him that it is only
the nightingale, not the lark.

90. Act III, scene 5
Romeo replies, “I must be gone and live, or stay and die” (3.5.11)
As he departs a Juliet has a premonition, “Methinks I see thee…as one dead in the bottom of a tomb” ( )
Ironically, this is the last time the two will see each other alive
Foreshadowing

92. Act III, scene 5
As Romeo sneaks away, Lady Capulet enters Juliet’s room
She brings news that Thursday Paris will make her a joyful bride
Juliet rejects this, telling her mother that if she marries, it will be Romeo (her enemy)

93. Act III, scene 5
Upon hearing this, Lord Capulet is furious and swears that if Juliet refuses this secure marriage to Paris:
“…you (Juliet) shall not
house with me…hang, beg,
Starve, die in the streets,
for, by my soul, I’ll ne’er
acknowledge thee”
( )

94. Act III, scene 5
Desperate and suicidal, Juliet appeals to her mother for help, but Lady Capulet replies:
“Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee”
Next Juliet appeals to her Nurse,
who advises her to take the secure
option and marry Paris

95. Act III, scene 5
Juliet feigns agreement and pretends to go to Friar Laurence to make her (confession)
In her soliloquy, Juliet reveals her thoughts:
She no longer trusts her nurse and will not confide in her again
She’ll seek advice from Friar Laurence
If he cannot help her, she can always take her life
Backup Plan

96. Purpose
Shakespeare has moved Juliet from childhood into adulthood, both sexually and socially (all in two days)
She’s exerting her independence from her parents and her nurse (love-vs.-family)

97. STOP

98. ACT IV
A Wedding
Becomes a
Funeral

99. Dramatic Irony
A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true
Example: Act II, scene 4: Lord Capulet announces that Juliet will wed Paris on Thursday, unaware that she married Romeo on Monday

100. Dramatic Irony
Another Example: Act III, scene 1, Romeo will not duel Tybalt because the two are now kinsmen through marriage. However, Tybalt is unaware of Romeo and Juliet’s’ secret marriage
Purpose:
Create suspense & tension
Draw the audience into the action of the story

101. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday
Paris confides to Friar Laurence that Lord Capulet has hastened the wedding date to cheer Juliet, who continues to mourn “Tybalt’s” death
(dramatic irony: Why does Juliet weep?)

102. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday
Juliet arrives at Friar’s to “make her confession.”
She and Paris exchange polite but guarded words
He promises to wake her Thursday morning, then leaves

103. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday
Juliet pleads with Friar for a way out of Thursday’s wedding to Paris (prefers bears to Paris). Her desperate plea is laced with threats of suicide:
“If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise and with this knife I’ll help it presently” ( )

104. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday
“…Out of thy long-experienced time, give me some present counsel: or, twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife shall play the umpire…” ( )
“Be not so long to speak. I long to die…”(4.1.73)

105. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday Juliet’s desperate plea leads to a risky plan:
Friar Laurence proposes:
“If rather than to marry County Paris, thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, then it is likely thou wilt undertake a thing like death to chide away shame…” ( )
(recall the potion Friar made from
the flower in Act II, scene 3)

106. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday Friar Laurence’s Plan:
Juliet will return home & happily consent to wed Paris
Wednesday evening she will drink the potion, which causes her to appear lifeless
Paris will arrive Thursday morning to find her dead
Her body will be taken to the Capulet vault

107. Act IV, scene 1-Tuesday Friar Laurence’s Plan:--cont.
Meanwhile, Friar will send word of the plan to Romeo in Mantua
Friar & Romeo will meet in the vault and await Juliet’s awakening (42 hours)
Romeo & Juliet will escape to Mantua (and live happily ever after)

108. Act IV, scene 2-Tuesday This is what actually happened:
Juliet returns home, apologizes to her father and happily agrees to marry Paris
She tells her father that Friar has set her straight
Capulet praises Friar L. for his sage advice and moves the wedding to Wed

109. Act IV, scene 3-Tuesday
Juliet asks for privacy from her mother and Nurse on the eve of her wedding night to atone for her disrespectful behavior
Lady Capulet and Nurse exit

110. Juliet’s soliloquy
“Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills though my veins that almost freezes up the heat of life” ( )

111. Juliet’s soliloquy She fears that the potion may be poison
She imagines she sees Tybalt’s corpse pursuing Romeo

112. Act IV, scene 3-Tuesday
She fears that she’ll wake up before Romeo arrives and suffocate from the stench of Tybalt’s rotting corpse
Frantic with fear, Juliet drinks the potion

113. Act IV, scene 4
Capulet household cheerfully bustles with wedding preparations (mouse-hunt = woman chaser)
Paris arrives to wake his soon-to-be bride
(dramatic irony—happy household / dead daughter and Paris coming to wake her)

114. Act IV, scene 5-Wednesday
Nurse discovers Juliet’s “dead” body
Lady Capulet’s reaction: “…My child, my only life, revive, look up, or I will die with thee” ( )
Lord Capulet’s reaction: “Death lies on her like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field” ( )

115. Act IV, scene 5-Wednesday
Capulet tells Paris of the Juliet’s death:
“O son, the night before thy wedding day hath death lain with thy wife (personification). There she lies flower as she was, deflowered by him:

116. Act IV, scene 5-Wednesday
Capulet laments that the wedding celebration has turned into a funeral feast
Friar Laurence blames the Capulet’s for the death of their daughter
“The heavens do low’r upon you for some ill; move them no more by crossing their high will” ( )

117. Act IV, scene 5-Wednesday
Scene 5 ends with Peter and a musician arguing over which song to play for this tragic situation
They make musical puns (fa, re, silver sound and sound for silver)
Example of Comic Relief

118. Start Here

119. Act V, scene 1 Takes place in Mantua
Romeo Has Not received a letter from Friar L
Balthasar brings the news of Juliet’s death to Romeo
Romeo wants to leave immediately for Verona
Balthasar tries to get him to wait for more news

120. Act V, scene 1 Romeo Plans to go to Verona Kill himself and
Lie forever in the Capulet tomb with Juliet

121. Act V, scene 1 Romeo needs to get some fast acting poison
The poison is illegal in Mantua
Anyone who sells it can be executed
The very poor and desperate apothecary will probably sell this illegal poison
Romeo tries to buy the poison but
The apothecary doesn’t want to break the law

122. Act V, scene 1
Romeo points out that the apothecary is already starving to death, so what is there to be afraid of
Apothecary needs the money so he sells the poison to Romeo
Romeo pays the man
Romeo says that the “gold” is a poison that kills men’s souls

124. Act V, scene 1 So “gold” is worse than the poison
Romeo says that he is the one breaking the law by selling a deadly “poison”
Romeo equates the poison to a cordial (a drink believed to be good for the heart)
He sees his death as something joyous, not evil

125. Act V, scene 2 Takes place in Verona
Friar John was suppose to deliver a letter to Romeo
He did not go to Mantua because
He was quarantined in a house
He couldn’t even give the letter to anyone else to deliver

126. Act V, scene 2 Friar Laurence realizes that
Juliet will wake in 3 hours, so
He must go and free her
Friar Laurence plans to send another letter to Romeo, telling him
That Juliet is alive
Hiding in Fr. Laurence’s room, and
Romeo must come and get her

127. Act V, scene 3 Paris and a servant go to the graveyard
Paris want to put flowers at Juliet’s tomb
Paris tells his servant to hide and watch for anyone who might be coming
The servant signals (whistles) that someone is coming
Paris hides and waits to see who it is

128. Act V, scene 3 Romeo and Balthasar arrive Romeo tells Balthasar that
Balthasar is to forget everything he sees and
To not interrupt Romeo
Give a letter to Romeo’s father
Romeo tells Balthasar that
Romeo is going to open the tomb to retrieve a very important ring
Romeo tells Balthasar to leave or he will tear him to pieces

129. Act V, scene 3 Balthasar Paris sees Romeo enter the graveyard
Doesn’t believe Romeo’s excuse for opening the tomb
In an aside, we learn that he plans to hide and wait
Paris sees Romeo enter the graveyard
He thinks that Romeo is responsible for Juliet’s death
is there to desecrate the tomb
Paris tries to stop him

130. Act V, scene 3 Romeo says Paris refuses and fights Romeo
He is there to kill himself
Paris should leave the graveyard and live
*Romeo does not recognize Paris at this point
Paris refuses and fights Romeo
Paris’s servant
See the fighting and
Goes to get the guards

131. Act V, scene 3 Romeo kills Paris Romeo Friar Laurence arrives
Recognizes Paris and decides to bury him with Juliet
Romeo
Enters the tomb with the crow bar
expresses the beauty of Juliet
Drinks the powerful poison and Dies
“Thus with a kiss I die”
Friar Laurence arrives
Balthasar tells him that Paris and Romeo fought

132. Act V, scene 3 Friar Laurence enters the tomb
Finds Romeo and Paris dead
Juliet wakes up
He tries to get Juliet to leave the tomb because the guards are coming
He plans to hide Juliet in a convent
Juliet refuses to leave
Fr Laurence leaves and hides

133. Act V, scene 3 Juliet stays with Romeo She finds the vial
She tries to drink from the empty vial
She kisses Romeo hoping that some poison remains on his lips
None of this works
She hears the guards
She grabs Romeo’s dagger and
Stabs herself
She dies (Climax)

135. Act V, scene 3 The Guards arrive They find three dead bodies
The Chief Guard sends another guard to find the Prince and the families
The other guards find Balthasar and Fr L.
They are to be held until the Prince arrives

136. Act V, scene 3 Juliet’s parents and the Prince arrive
The Prince wants to know what happened
Lord Montague arrives and tells them that his wife died of grief b/c Romeo was banished
Friar Laurence knows what happened
He also says he is both guilty and innocent for the deaths
He tells the entire story of Romeo & Juliet

137. Act V, scene 3 Balthasar Fills in the holes in the story
He gives Romeo’s letter to the Prince
The letter confirms everything that Friar Laurence said

138. Act V, scene 3
The Prince
Tells both families that they are responsible for the deaths
Their hate caused this
The Prince also blames himself because
He should have enforced the law and stopped the feud

139. Act V, scene 5 Lord Capulet and Lord Montague
See what damage they have caused
They end their feud
Lord Montague will build a pure gold statue of Juliet so that all may know of her love and loyalty