romeo and juliet

• lord motague is romeo's father
• lady montague is romeo's mother
• lady montague doesnt seem close to her son, romeo. she doesnt like violence
• lady montague dies of grief upon hearing of romeo's death
• mercutio is romeo's friend
• mercutio is clever with his words.
• he's a pervert and teases romeo's love for roslaline
• benvolio is romeo's cousin and like's to keep the peace as he is kind and gentle aswell
• frair lawrence is the secret advisor of both romeo and juliet
• balthasar was romeo's servant
• abram was also romeo's slave
• tybalt is juliet's cousin, hot headed and violent towards romeo
• what happens in act 1 scene 1?

  a fight between the Montagues and Capulets takes place in a public street of Verona
• juliet capulet's servants are
• The Capulet's servants are...

  Sampson and Gregory. WE FIND THEM IN ACT 1 SCENE 1
• Gregory and Sampson are boasting and joking in the street, until they see the Montague servants, Balthazar and Abraham...


  the Capulet servants insult the Montague servants deliberately to start a fight.
• Benvolio...


  sees this and stops their fight.
• Tybalt...


  arrives and decides to fight Benvolio
• officers of the law and citizens try to stop The fight between benvolio and tybalt .


  benvolio is romeo's cousin and tybalt is juliet's cousin, Romeo and juliet's cousins are fighting
• Lord capulet and montague arrive...


  they both want to fight but they're wives try stop them
• prince Escalus threatens the Montagues and Capulets, of their consistent fighting in public places. he sentences execution(death) if they fight again
• lady montague and benvolio talk about romeo, upon noticing how sad he's been looking recently. Benvolio goes to find out why
• Romeo is upset in act 1 scene 1 because rosaline is not interested in him
• Act 1 scene 2 


  Lord Capulet plans for his mask ball. paris asks to marry juliet

  lord capulet tells him to wait 2 more years, for juliet is only 13.
• romeo and benvolio help a servant of a capulet, to read the guest list romeo sees rosaline his 'crush'.


  the servant agreed to let them in if they weren't montagues, but Romeo and Benvolio went to the capulet party anyway.( in masks)
• • Lady Capulet tells the Nurse that Juliet is ready for marriage, as it is only

  two weeks until her fourteenth birthday. The nurse remembers Juliet’s

  childhood well - she raised Juliet.

  • Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris has asked to marry Juliet, and he

  would be an excellent choice of husband.

  • Juliet says she will look at Paris to see if she finds him attractive.
• Act 1, Scene 4

  Romeo and friends on their way to the

  party

  Setting: Street outside the Capulet’s

  mansion
• mercutio tries to make romeo feel better by telling him a story of mab
• Romeo still suffers from the pain of his love for Rosaline. At the end of

  the scene, he feels that something bad will begin that night. Dramatic

  irony is also used because the audience knows from the prologue what

  Romeo doesn’t know.

  • The theme of Fate/Destiny versus free will is stressed.
• Act 1, Scene 5

  The Capulet party – Romeo meets Juliet

  Setting: The hall in Capulet’s mansion
• • Romeo sees Juliet and is immediately attracted to her. He asks a

  servant if he knows who she is, but the servant does not
• Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, recognises Romeo by his voice. He wants to fight

  him. Lord Capulet stops him. He thinks Romeo will not cause trouble,

  and he wants no fighting at his party.
• Romeo and Juliet meet and express their love
• • The nurse interrupts them; Juliet’s mother wants to see her.
• • Later, Romeo and Juliet each learn the terrible news from the nurse that

  their families are enemies
• Act 2, Scene 1

  the 14 lines are divided into 3 quatrains and a

  rhyming couplet. The rhyming pattern is abab cdcd efef gg.
• Act 2, Scene 1

  Romeo is teased by his friends

  Setting: Outside Capulet’s orchard
• Romeo and his friends have left the Capulet party, but Romeo hides

  from them. He climbs over the wall into Capulet’s orchard. He intends to

  go back to find Juliet.
• • Benvolio and Mercutio look for Romeo. Mercutio realises that Romeo is

  hiding. He makes fun of Romeo and makes sexual jokes about Romeo’s

  love for Rosaline. This gives the scene comic relief
• • The friends do not know yet that Romeo is now in love with Juliet. This is

  dramatic irony, since the audience and Romeo do know.