Chorus 

 

Dramatic Irony

 

Pathetic Fallacy

 

Soliloquy

Act 4, Scene 2,3,4
Time: Tuesday afternoon – Wednesday morning
Location: Capulets house
Characters: Capulet, Juliet, Servingman 1 2 3, Nurse, Lady Capulet
Events: Juliet tells her family to go forth with the wedding. Her family are thrilled and decide to bring the wedding closer, so close they want it to be the next day. Later on Juliet persuades the Nurse to let her be tonight and asks the Nurse to not sleep in her room. The Nurse agrees and this meant Juliet could follow through with her plan she decides if the potion doesn’t work she will have a dagger sitting next to her. As night falls and the time has come for Juliet to drink the potion, she starts to procrastinate. She thinks and stumbles upon scenarios that may occur when she wakes up. She worries and worries until she makes the final decision and drinks the potion, making it a toast to Romeo. On Wednesday morning her family is getting ready for the big day. The Nurse gets ordered to go and wake Juliet up.
Quote: “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink-I drink to thee

Scene 1 Act 4
Time: Tuesday morning
Location: Friar Lawrences cell
Characters: Friar Lawrence, Juliet and Paris
Events: Paris is telling Friar Lawrence about his arranged marriage. Himself and Capulet plan to hold the wedding on Thursday. As he continues Juliet enter the room. Juliet dosn’t want to marry 

Act 3 Scene 2
Time: Monday Night
Location: Capulets house
Characters: Nurse and Juliet
Events: The Nurse is horrified to tell Juliet the actions of Romeo. The Nurse tells Juliet about Tybalts death and Juliet is devastated yet she chooses to side with her husband (Romeo). As she finds a way to forgive him she also invites him to spend his last night in Verona at her house.
Quote: O, find him! Give this ring to my true knight, and bid him come to take his last farewell.

 

Act 2 Scene 5:
Location: Capulets House
Time: Midday Monday
Characters: Juliet and Nurse
Events: Juliet is eager to hear the news that the Nurse has got. Although the Nurse is very hesitant to tell Juliet and keeps running of topic. Eventually the news is released to her and she is thrilled and the Nurse explains to her “but you shall bear the burden soon at night”. The Nurse is saying that Juliet now needs to make her own decisions even if they are good or bad. Yet the wedding goes forward and Juliet and Romeo will get married. 

Act 2 Scene 4:
Location: A street in Verona
Time: Monday morning/midday
Characters: Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Nurse, Peter
Events: Mercutio and Benvolio are bantering and are discussing about Tybalts challenge, and Romeo joins their laughter. Mercutio and Romeo start joking with each other but things start to turn unfriendly, luckily Juliets Nurse comes to find Romeo. Romeo explains how they are going to get married today and the Nurse agrees and says that she is unhappy when Paris is talked about.

Act 2 Scene 3
Location: Friar Lawrence’s cell
Time: Monday morning
Characters: Romeo and Friar Lawrence
Events: As Friar Lawrence is talking to himself, Romeo hurries in with no time to waste. He insists that he wants to marry Juliet today. Although Friar thinks this is a bad idea because he can still see the tears on his cheeks from when he was so upset about Rosaline. Friar Lawrence also says to Romeo that “Young men’s love then lies, Not truely in their hearts, but in their eyes”. What he is trying to say here is that Romeo doesn’t really love Juliet and that he just thinks that she is gorgeous. Yet eventually Romeo persuades Friar to marry him and Juliet.

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Act 2, Scene 2
Time: Very late Sunday night/early Monday morning
Location: Capulets Orchard
Characters: Romeo, Juliet and the Nurse
Events: Romeo is in love with Juliet. Juliet is unaware that Romeo is listening as she sighs about her new love for him. Although she says “or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I’ll no longer be a Capulet.” Juliet is basically saying if she does love Romeo will she lose the Capulet title. Romeo then appears after hearing her words. They talk and talk and then finally say they want to marry one and other.

Act 2, Scene 1
Location: Outside Capulets Orchard
Time: Late Sunday night
Characters: Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio
Events: As the three boys, Romeo, Benvolio and Mercutio, exit the party Romeo gets the sudden urge to go back to the party. Although Mercutio and Benvolio still don’t know about his new romance for Juliet and joke about his love for Rosaline. The cousins say that Romeo is a madman and in the words of Benvolio he says, “Blind is his love, and best befits the dark”. In this play Shakespeare keeps referring Romeo to darkness and being blind. As in Romeo keeps jumping into “blind” situations that he won’t know the outcome. He also says, “he best befits the dark” and this isn’t the first time Shakespeare has done this. Because Romeo keeps being referred to darkness something may come up soon in the play that is bad.

Act 1, Scene 5:
Location: Capulets House
Time: Sunday night
Characters: First, Second, Third and Fourth Servingman, Capulet, Cousin Capulet, Romeo, Tybalt, Nurse and Benvolio
Events: Romeo and Benvolio attend Capulets mask party in which no Montagues are allowed. Although straight away when they walk in Tybalt senses and says he is going to kill him. Luckily Capulet forbids him. Romeo sees someone more beautiful than Rosaline and knows that she is the one. They share a kiss before Romeo realising that it is Juliet who is a Capulet. Although to these two star crossed lovers they don’t care. As Juliet says “If he be married, My grave is like to be my wedding bed.”