Romeo and Juliet Journal
Act I:
Hi. I am Roberto Montague, Romeo's cousin. This is the first of five entries to this journal.
Many things happened today. Some of these things are that Sampson and
Gregory were talking, and then Abram and Balthasar entered the room. After
Abram started to quarrel, they started to sword fight, but then Benvolio came in and broke up the fight. After Benvolio broke up the fight, Tybalt entered and started to fight with Benvolio. Soon later, an Officer entered the room with three or four citizens all armed with clubs, bills, and partisans, or spears.
Lord Capulet and Montague with their Ladies entered the room and started to quarrel aswell, but the Prince set them straight.
Everyone, but the Montague's and Benvolio left the room, after the
Prince said what he had to say. Montague started to ask what happened, and who started it, Benvolio replied that the servents of his adversary did. After they had a bit of a discussion, Romeo entered. Lord and Lady Montague left the room to leave Romeo and Benvolio to talk. They soon talked about love, and where they would dine. They talked some more about love then soon left the room and the day was over.
Act II:
This is the second of five entries to this journal.
At the beginning of this day, Romeo and Benvolio began to speak to each other, and then Romeo retires while Mercutio and Benvolio spoke about Romeo's love with Juliet. A bit more into the day, Romeo went to the Capulet house to visit the fare Juliet. They met outside of Juliet's room on the balcony and they start to talk each other. Soon later, the nurse starts to call from within the house for Juliet, she started to leave many times but Romeo kept interrupting. Juliet exited and entered the balcony two or three times, but they gave each other farewells and Juliet went into the house, and Romeo walked off. Friar Laurence, a Franciscan priest, was admiring the day, when Romeo entered his cell. They begin to speak of Roseline and Romeo's new love, Juliet.
He soon dashes off as soon as he got what he wanted. A little later, Mercutio and Benvolio were asking each other where Romeo had gone. Coincidently, Romeo entered minutes later. They began to talk about Romeo's going to the Capulet
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..., whom Friar Laurence sent to Mantua with a letter to Romeo explaining that Juliet is not really dead, returns to Friar Laurence with the news that he was quarantined in Verona because of the suspicion of plague, and he couldn't deliver the letter. The Friar then walks to the burial vault since
Juliet is due to awaken shortly.
At the Capulets' tomb, Paris stews flowers as a memorial to Juliet. His
Page then warned him someone is coming so Paris. Romeo and Balthasar arrive with tools to open the tomb. Paris, seeing Romeo opening the tomb, challenges Romeo.
Paris is killed and as he dies he asks Romeo to lay his body by Juliet's. Then
Romeo sees Juliet's body and kisses her, drinks the poison, and falls by her side. A moment too late the Friar comes in. He approaches the tomb and finds the bodies of Paris and Romeo. Juliet awakens, and asks where is her Romeo. The
Friar tries to get her to come with him, but she refuses to leave. After the
Friar leaves she picks up Romeo's dagger and stabs herself. The Prince, Lord
Montague, and Lord Capulet enter. They have numerous of questions. The Friar answers them and tells his story.
love with Juliet. He is also kind enough to Romeo to agree to help him
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare explores the lives of ‘a pair of star crossed lovers’ from feuding families in the city of Verona. Their love and passion for one another is so great, that even an act of revenge doesn’t prevent them from being with each other. Act 3 Scene 2 is set in Capulets house and entails a conversation between Juliet and her Nurse regarding her cousin, Tybalt’s death and her lover, Romeo’s banishment. Juliet expresses her grief for Tybalt’s death and her abhorrence at Romeo’s deed. Although the Nurse blames Romeo for the death of Tybalt, Juliet’s loyalty and love towards her husband, enables her to overcome the shock.
Juliet strategizes her disastrous plan and worries, “How if, when I am laid into the tomb, I wake before the time that Romeo come to redeem me?” (Lines 30-32 of Act Four, Scene Three). Juliet is desperate to see Romeo, ergo she plans to fake her death. Her thoughts of Romeo finding her lifeless foreshadows their future. Romeo is deprived of the news of Juliet’s real state of health, therefore he says, “Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight. O mischief, thou art swift to enter the thoughts of desperate men!” (Lines 34-36 of Act Five, Scene One). Once again, Romeo’s perception is only focused on Juliet. His mental instability leads him to think Paris is in the way obtaining true happiness, thus he slays him. Romeo acquires poison, stands beside Juliet, and states, “Here’s to my love! (Drinks.) O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.” (Lines 119-120 of Act Five, Scene Three). Romeo observes Juliet’s body and determines that he should die beside her. Juliet wakes to his lifeless body, and determines she should commit suicide, as well. Romeo’s foolish decisions lead to the death of himself and
1. Romeo is so love struck that he compares Juliet to many things that show contrast to one another. For example he says that she stands out against the darkness like a jeweled earring hanging against the cheek of an African. “It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” He also says that she is like a white dove in the middle of a flock of crows; “So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows.” At this point it clear that Romeo has fallen out of love with Rosaline and fell deeply in love with Juliet.
...nd grieving for Juliet. Thinking Romeo’s is defiling Juliet’s grave, Paris and Romeo begin sword fighting. Romeo is extreme with anguish and kills Paris. Consequently, Romeo poisons himself and Juliet wakes up in confusion and heartbreak. Juliet alone and in shock feels her only alternative left is to kill herself and commits suicide.
Juliet wakes up and finds Romeo dead she kills herself. The result of the ignorance of the
middle of paper ... ..." Now must I go to the monument alone; Within these three hours will fair Juliet wake; She will beshew me much that Romeo Hath had no notice of these accidents; But I will write again to Mantua, And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. " The final instance is probably the most tragic of them all. Here we are witnesses to Romeo, whose intentions are to be with his true love forever, shattered when Juliet awakes.
and Juliet both deep in love with each other, die at the end of the
With Romeo banished and Juliet acting as if she was dead in the Capulet family tomb, Paris comes to her grave to mourn the loss of his fiancee. On the path of the family tomb, he spots a torch and puts his own out to listen the stranger, saying:
In the fair city of Verona, two rival families, the Montagues and Capulets were involved in a nasty family feud that goes back years before any of the members were born. Even the townspeople were involved in the dispute, because the families were always fighting in the streets and causing disturbances. They disrupted the streets of Verona and even Prince Escalus tried to break up the fighting. They were given a warning, by him that another public fight would result in death. While this was occurring, Romeo, (a Montague) the main character, was getting over his last love, Rosaline, and was very upset. Juliet of the Capulet household had just been introduced to a wealthy young man, Paris, whom her parents wished her to marry. Yet she did not love him. Romeo goes to a party in an effort to forget about Rosaline. At this party he met Juliet, and immediately fell in love with her. He later finds out that she is a Capulet, the rival family of the Montagues. He decides that he loves her anyway and they confess their love for each other during the very famous "balcony scene" in which they agreed to secretly marry the next day. Friar Lawrence agreed to marry them in an effort to end the feuding between the families. Unfortunately, the fighting gets worse and Mercutio (Montague) a good friend of Romeo ends up in a fight with Tybalt (Capulet), Juliet's cousin. Tybalt killed Mercutio, which caused Romeo to kill Tybalt in an angry rage. For this, Romeo is banished from Verona. At the same time, the Capulet's were planning Juliet's marriage to Paris. Juliet didn't want to marry this man so she arranges with Friar Lawrence to fake her own death with a sleeping potion that would make everyone think that she was dead. Friar Lawrence promised to send word to Romeo to meet her when the potion wears off and to rescue her to Mantua, where Romeo was currently staying. There they would live happily ever after. Unfortunately, Romeo didn't receive the message on time and upon hearing of her "death" went to Juliet's tomb where he drinks poison and dies. When Juliet's potion wears off, she wakes to find her lover's dead corpse. She then proceeds to stab herself with Romeo's dagger. The two families find the bodies and with their shared sorrow, finally make peace with each other.
In the course of the play, Romeo and Juliet immediately fall in love. Also, they know they are meant for each other and therefore decide to get married. After this marriage, there was a brief moment in time where everything was perfect. They are married, in love and there is nothing stopping them from being together. This however quickly changes after a fight that leads to death. Once Romeo is banished from Verona for the penalty of murder, love grows tremendously between the couple and drives the need to be together. The marriage between Romeo and Juliet is hidden from their parents, so Montague decides to arrange a marriage between her and Paris. With all the conflict arising between Juliet’s family, Friar Lawrence creates a plan that unfortunately does not succeed. His plan for Juliet is to tell her father she will marry Paris then go to bed with no one, not even the nurse. After, she will drink a potion to make her seem dead for forty two hours and then have a messenger tell Romeo about it. He will have her put in a vault to wait for Friar to bring her out so she and Romeo can elope. The plan was perfect until tragedy occurs, Benvolio had seen Juliet dead and immediately tells Romeo about it. The result is Romeo and Juliet murdering themselves and the play had a tragic ending. Overall, young, innocent lovers die, through no fault of their own but a simple mistake. “How oft when men are at the
Towards the end of Act III, Romeo receives word that his wife, Juliet has passed away. After arriving at the cemetery, Romeo discovers the Capulet tomb, and decides to go inside. As Romeo begins grieving, Paris enters the crypt to see his late fiancée. Seeing Paris, Romeo reacts and he stabs Paris killing him. With the pain being too much to bare,
corpse and notices that he had never got the message from the friar. "O churl!
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet In act 1 scene 5 Capulet has thrown a party at his house. Romeo and
Juliet cries a lot when she finds out about her husbands fate. Her parents think that she is grieving about the death of her cousin, but instead Juliet is crying for the murderer of her deceased cousin. The nurse brings Juliet the bad news about Romeo (Juliet’s husband) and Tybalt (Juliet’s cousin). She tells Juliet that Romeo has been banished form Verona for murdering Tybalt, who killed Mercutio. Juliet is devastated by this news and starts to mourn about her banished husband (Romeo). Later that day, Paris comes over to the Capulet residence to talk abou...