Transcript Romeo and Juliet - Mrs. Carvajal english chs

Romeo and Juliet
Act III
Scene 1 – Rising action
▪ Mercutio, his page, and Benvolio enter
▪ Audience assumes that Romeo and Juliet and are now married (based on
previous scene, Act II, Scene 6)
▪ Setting: hot day in Verona—indicates the natural instinct that people
become angry during hot days.
▪ Mercutio is blaming Benvolio for being a hot headed fighter:
– “Come, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood as any in Italy, and as soon moved
to be moody, and as soon moody to be moved.” (line 11)
▪ Example of antimetabole (why?)
▪ emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in
reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause; an inverted order of repeated words
in adjacent phrases or clauses (A-B, B-A).
▪ Mercutio recites several instances of Benvolio’s fights. (common factor: Shakespeare often
uses narrative ‘lists’)
Scene 1 continued
▪ Confict quickly arises: Tybalt, Petruchio, other Capulet family
members enter scene. Tybalt wants to speak with Romeo.
▪ Audience makes inference that perhaps Tybalt knows about Romeo’s
contact with his cousin Juliet based on these lines:
– “ Mercutio, you hang out with Romeo.” (line 41)
– “Here comes my man.” (line 52)
– “Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford
No better term than this: thou art a villain.” (line 56-57)
- “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries
That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.” (lines 61-62)
Scene 1 (continued)
▪ Tybalt starts the fight, “So now turn and draw your sword.”
(line 62)
▪ Romeo tries to reason with Tybalt now that he is “family” :
“And so, good Capulet---which name I tender
As dearly as my own---be satisfied.” (line 68)
▪ Repeated allusion: “Good King of Cats, nothing but one of
your nine lives, that I mean to make bold withal, and, as you
shall use me hereafter, dry-beat the rest of the eight…”
(lines 73-75)
▪ Mercutio taunts Tybalt, Tybalt draws sword and fights
Mercutio, accidentally stabbing Mercutio under Romeo’s
arm while Romeo is trying to break up the fight.
Scene 1 continued
▪ Emphasis on motif: FATE (After Mercutio is slain)
Example
Romeo: “This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.” (line 115)
▪ Romeo changes mind and lets “fire-eyed fury be my conduct now.” (line
120) avenging Mercutio’s death.
▪ Prince hears Benvolio’s honest account, but Lady Capulet demands
justice, “I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give.
Romeo slew Tybalt. Romeo must not live.” (lines 176-177)
Act 3, Scene 2
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Beginning: Juliet’s Soliloquy
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Allusions: Phoebus (Apollo- Sun god) Phaeton (son of Apollo)
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Repetition of “night” (lines 4, 5, 10,17, 18, 20, 24, 29)
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Repetition of “black” (lines 11, 15, 17, 18)
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Mention of ‘maidenhoods’ ‘modesty’ ‘amorous rites’ indicates Juliet is both happy but anxious about her wedding night.
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Nurse breaks news to Juliet about Tybalt’s death. Notice Juliet’s dialogue here:
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“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! Fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show,
Just opposite to what thou justly seem’st.
A damned saint, an honorable villain!
O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
(Notice the oxymorons above) (lines 74-82)
Act 3, Scene 2 (continued)
▪ Juliet soothes herself by questioning whether she should speak “ill
of [her] husband?” but justifies Tybalt’s death because he would
have slain her husband Romeo.
▪ The Nurse agrees to help by finding Romeo and giving him Juliet’s
ring; he apparently is hiding out in Friar Lawrence’s cell.
▪ Here, the Nurse seems very caring, understanding; a
mother/mentor archetype.