9th Romeo and Juliet Acts 3-5

Acts 3-5

Compare Character: Actions and Motivations

Romeo - Tybalt - Mercutio

What are other character's opinions on Juliet's well-being?

Nurse - Capulets - Paris - Friar

Do any ask her opinion?

What is the Friar's true duty?

Was the price worth the outcome?

Tybalt fights and kills Mercutio.

Romeo fights Tybalt and kills him.

The Prince banishes Romeo from the city.

Romeo hides in Friar Lawrence's cell.

Dramatic Irony - when the audience knows something the characters on stage do not know

Ex. Juliet thinks Romeo has died in the fight

Capulet decides to allow Juliet to marry Paris.

Juliet defies her parents through the negative rejection of the idea.

The nurse suggests she try to live a normal life and marry Paris so Juliet goes to the Friar for comfort.

Friar gives her a potion that will help her fake death.

Juliet's Fears revealed in her monologue

1. Mixture will not work and she will have to marry Paris
2. Friar gave her a deadly poison to cover his honor
3. She will wake in the vault before Romeo returns

Juliet is discovered dead so instead of a wedding, funeral plans are made.

Romeo is misinformed of Juliet's plan and believes she is actually dead.

He buys a deadly drug and travels back to Juliet's grave.

He meets Paris outside, fights and kills him.

Takes the drug and dies before Juliet wakes.

When she wakes, she finds him dead and stabs herself with his Dagger.

Prince harshly condemns the two families for paying the price of the most dearly beloved.

Quotes:

"A plague o' both your houses!"

- 3.1 Mercutio

"Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here

Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog

And little mouse, every unworthy thing,

Live here in heaven and may look on her,

But Romeo may not."

• 3.1 Romeo

"Is there no pity sitting in the clouds

That sees into the bottom of my grief?

O sweet my mother, cast me not away!

Delay this marriage for a month, a week,

Or if you do not, make the bridal bed

In that dim monument where Tybalt lies."

• 3.5 Juliet

"No warmth,  no breath shall testify thou livest"

• Act 4 Friar

"For never was a story of more woe

Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."

• Act 5