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Romeo and Juliet
Comprehensive Storyform
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Story Dynamics
viii of the 12 essential questions
- Steadfast
- Primary Grapheme Resolve
Romeo remains steadfast in his love for Juliet and want to remain at her side—to the indicate of post-obit his wife in death.
- First
- Main Character Growth
Romeo has to start interim similar the human being that Juliet is certain he can be.
- Be-er
- Main Graphic symbol Arroyo
Romeo's first preference in budgeted a conflict is to accommodate himself to the surroundings, for example, he lacks interest in the (contentious) " . . . activities of his gang of friends, whom he accompanies only reluctantly to the Capulet feast: 'I'll be a candle holder and look on'" (1.4.38) (Paster 258); After making Juliet his wife, he tries to placate Tybalt rather than fight him; and and so along.
- Male
- Main Character Mental Sex
Romeo uses cause and outcome problem solving techniques. Equally an example, in his first scene with Benvolio, he explains Rosaline's cold middle is the cause of his morose behavior—he does not look across this to determine the real reason for his unhappiness—that he has not yet establish truthful love.
- Action
- Story Commuter
The "three civil brawls" (ane.1.91) the Capulets and Montagues take engaged in force Prince Escalus to make up one's mind: "If you e'er disturb our streets again,/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (ane.one.98-99), thus driving the story forwards. Gibbons asserts: "In Romeo and Juliet the play's decisive events occur with instantaneous suddenness: servants brawl on sight, the lovers fall in dearest at first sight, the shock of the tragic catastrophe converts the parents of a sudden and completely from hate to beloved" (lxx).
- Optionlock
- Story Limit
With their two only children dead, the Montagues and Capulets come to their senses and reconcile.
- Success
- Story Upshot
The grief stricken Capulets and Montagues reconcile, horrified the aboriginal grudge has resulted in their children's deaths:
PRINCE
A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun for sorrow will not bear witness his head (v.3.316-317). - Bad
- Story Judgment
Romeo ultimately fails in his efforts to live happily ever afterward with his "centre'southward love dearest" (two.3.61)—"For never was a story of more than woe/Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (5.iii.320-21).
Overall Story Throughline
""An Ancient Grudge""
- Physics
- Overall Story Throughline
Problems in the objective story are derived from activities and endeavors, principally to practise with the ancient grudge betwixt the Capulets and Montagues, and Friar Lawrence's attempt to reconcile the two families. Gibbons explains:
Shakespeare makes the plot depend crucially on messages. He invents the episode in which Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio acquire by blow from Capulet'due south illiterate servant of the proposed brawl. This scheme is repeated when the Nurse haphazardly encounters the immature gallants, and Romeo lightheartedly identifies himself amidst the bawdy mockery of his friends. Later, the Nurse brings Juliet a happy answer (Ii,v). In the second, tragic, movement of the play, the Nurse brings Juliet the news of Tybalt'due south death and Romeo'due south banishment . . . . Shakespeare stresses in both scenes the ease with which messages tin go incorrect; so Juliet at start thinks it is Romeo, not Tybalt, whom the Nurse saw bedaubed in gore-blood. . . . In the closing movement of the play Balthasar brings Romeo the false report of Juliet's death (v.i); immediately afterwards, as Romeo leaves the stage by one door, bearing a phail of poison, Friar John enters by some other to begin the next scene past telling Friar Laurence how he failed to get through with the message that Juliet is drugged, not dead. (41-42) - Doing
- Overall Story Concern
The objective characters are concerned with engaging in battles of wits, wills, and physical strength—much for the sake of a "quarrel between the two families [Montagues and Capulets] . . . then ancient that the original motives are no longer even discussed. Inspired by the 'fiery' Tybalt, factionalism pursues its mindless class despite the efforts of the Prince to terminate it" (Bevington xxii).
- Feel
- Overall Story Result
Thematic problems regarding feel in the objective story are illustrated in terms of age. This is seen specially in Lord Capulet and Nurse, both who think they know what'due south best for Juliet, and Friar Lawrence, who counsels the young lovers.
- Skill
- Overall Story Counterpoint
Skill is illustrated in feats of swordplay, such equally the duel betwixt Mercutio and Tybalt—and in feats of wordplay, such as Mercutio'southward "Queen Mab" speech. Proficiency in both is well regarded.
- Overall Story Thematic Disharmonize
Feel vs.SkillIn Romeo and Juliet, experience creates a generation gap between old and young. Bent for a quick depict or insightful jest is held in higher esteem by the younger generation, more than any experience an elder might attempt to laissez passer on.
- Expectation
- Overall Story Problem
Expectations the objective characters have for one another create problems. An illustration of this is seen in Paris, Juliet's prospective bridegroom. Capulet has granted permission for the beau to court and ally his daughter—when Juliet refuses the suit, Capulet is outraged and abusive.
- Determination
- Overall Story Solution
Friar Lawrence, Prince Escalus, Capulet and Montague all determine their part and acknowledge their accountability in the tragedy of the young lovers: "The long last public ceremonial is important because, although the private catastrophe of the lovers is unalterably complete, recognition occurs only when the whole story is known past all" (Bevington xxv).
- Non-Accurate
- Overall Story Symptom
The Prince will not tolerate whatsoever more "frays" on the function of the Capulets and Montagues; Lord Capulet does not tolerate his daughter's insubordination, neither does Lady Capulet: "Talk non to me, for I'll not speak a discussion./Exercise as thou wilt, for I have done with thee" (3.5.215).
- Accurate
- Overall Story Response
Despite Prince Escalus' pronouncement against further outbreaks of violence between the Capulets and Montagues: "Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (1.1.99), he is tolerant when Romeo kills Tybalt, assuasive him adjournment instead of death.
- Enlightenment
- Overall Story Catalyst
The objective story accelerates when Friar Lawrence intuitively discerns, if he aids Romeo and Juliet in their desire to marry, their rival families will ultimately reconcile: "In one respect I'll thy banana be,/For this alliance may so happy prove/To plough your households' rancour to pure love" (2.3.96-99); Afterwards Mercutio's death: ". . . Romeo sees at once that an irreversible process has begun . . . . The temper of this new world is largely a function of onrushing events" (Snyder 178).
- Threat
- Overall Story Inhibitor
The action that starts the story is halted when, after the feuding families have engaged in "Three civil brawls"(1.1.91), the Prince threatens Capulet and Montague: "If always you disturb our streets again,/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (ane.ane.98-99); As a warning to the community against further battles, Prince Escalus banishes Romeo. The objective story is impeded—Friar Lawrence counsels Romeo to wait patiently ". . . . till we can find a fourth dimension/To blaze your wedlock, reconcile your friends,/Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee back" (iii.3.150-52).
- Learning
- Overall Story Benchmark
Much of the tragedy tin can be attributed to ignorance and misinformation. As the characters begin to learn the true nature of people and events, they can brainstorm to make informed decisions.
- Overall Story Throughline Synopsis
The Montagues and Capulets, the ii chief families of Verona, are biting enemies; Escalus, the prince, threatens anyone who disturbs the peace with death. Romeo, son of one-time Lord Montague, is in love with Lord Capulet's niece Rosaline. But at a banquet given by Capulet, which Romeo attends disguised by a mask, he sees and falls in love with Juliet, Capulet's daughter, and she with him. After the feast he overhears, under her window, Juliet's confession of her love for him, and wins her consent to a secret marriage. With the help of Friar Laurence, they are wedded side by side 24-hour interval. Mercutio, a friend of Romeo, meets Tybalt, of the Capulet family, who is infuriated by his discovery of Romeo's presence at the feast, and they quarrel. Romeo comes on the scene, and attempts to reason with Tybalt, but Tybalt and Mercutio fight, and Mercutio falls. Then Romeo draws and Tybalt is killed. The prince, Montague, and Capulet come upwardly, and Romeo is sentenced to adjournment. Early the next day, after spending the night with Juliet, he leaves Verona for Mantua, counselled by the friar, who intends to reveal Romeo's matrimony at an opportune moment. Capulet proposes to ally Juliet to Count Paris, and when she seeks excuses to avoid this, peremptorily insists. Juliet consults the friar, who bids her consent to the lucifer, but on the night before the hymeneals drink a potion which will render her plain lifeless for 42 hours. He will warn Romeo, who will rescue her from the vault on her awakening and carry her to Mantua. The friar's message to Romeo miscarries, and Romeo hears that Juliet is dead. Ownership poison, he comes to the vault to have a last sight of Juliet. He chances upon Count Paris outside the vault; they fight and Paris is killed. And so Romeo, after a last osculation on Juliet's lips, drinks the toxicant and dies. Juliet awakes and finds Romeo expressionless by her side, and the cup still in his manus. Guessing what has happened, she stabs herself and dies. The story is unfolded past the friar and Count Paris'south folio, and Montague and Capulet, faced by the tragic results of their enmity, are reconciled. The play begins with a sonnet spoken by the chorus and in its poetry, language, and plot reflects the sonnet craze of the 1590'southward from which period Shakespeare's own sequence dates. (Drabble 854)
- Overall Story Backstory
The backstory of Shakespeare's tragedy is described in the prologue: Two households, both alike in nobility/(In fair Verona, where we lay our scene),/From ancient grudge break to new wildcat/Where civil blood makes ceremonious hands unclean.
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Main Character Throughline
Romeo — Lover
- Heed
- Master Grapheme Throughline
What sets Romeo apart from the other males in the story is his disposition in regard to women—one from which he essentially does not waver:
Feuding, and so, is the form that male bonding takes in Verona, a bonding which seems linked to the derogation of woman. But Romeo, from the very opening of the play, is distanced both physically and emotionally from the feud . . . . He is alienated . . . from the thought of sexuality that underlies it. Romeo subscribes to a different, indeed a competing view of woman—the idealizing view of the Petrarchan lover. (Paster 257) - Preconscious
- Master Character Concern
Romeo embodies impulsive actions: As Friar Lawrence admonishes: "Wisely and wearisome. They stumble that run fast" (two.4.101). "Romeo . . . misreads the signs of Juliet's revival. Less than a infinitesimal's hesitation here would accept saved his life and Juliet'southward, just Romeo acts in passionate haste" (Gibbons 53).
- Worry
- Chief Character Event
Romeo does not let himself the luxury of conviction: "Romeo fears 'Some consequence withal hanging in the stars' when he reluctantly goes to the Capulet's feast (1.iv.107); Subsequently he has slain Tybalt, he cries 'O, I am fortune's fool!' (3.one.135)" (Bevington xxii).
- Confidence
- Main Grapheme Counterpoint
It is his love for Juliet that instills confidence in Romeo—plenty to defy his family unit and friends.
- Main Grapheme Thematic Conflict
Worry vs.ConvictionAlthough Romeo'south nature does non substantially modify, he does mature from an apprehensive boy to a homo confident in his decisions. Gibbons explains:
When we kickoff hear of Romeo . . . he is described in the attitude of a typical Elizabethan melancholy lover . . . . By the beginning of the last scene, Romeo's transformation of personality is expressed in a new note of resolution and command, compressed, resonant and personal (50). - Issue
- Primary Character Problem
Romeo'due south want for immediate results is the crusade of his problems.
- Process
- Main Character Solution
Romeo needs to have part of the procedure to accomplish the results he desires.
- Non-Accurate
- Main Graphic symbol Symptom
Romeo focuses on what is inadequate to his needs and desires. An example of this is when he learns he is banished:
ROMEO
Ha, banishment? Exist merciful, say "expiry,"/For exile hath more than terror in his look,/Much more than expiry. Do non say "adjournment (3.3.13).
FRIAR LAWRENCE
. . . O mortiferous sin, O rude unthankfulness! . . . This is a dear mercy, and thou seest information technology not (3.3.25,30). - Authentic
- Principal Character Response
Romeo directs his efforts towards what is adequate. "Romeo's love of introspective confinement" (Gibbons 53) is tolerated by his parents; Romeo tolerates the antics of his friends; Afterward Friar Lawrence's sententious words, he goes off to Matua until his presence will over again be tolerated in Verona; and then forth.
- Worth
- Main Character Unique Ability
Romeo's steadfast belief in his own worth and his right to ally Juliet causes him to defy his own family and that of the Capulets—crucial to the rival families' ultimate reconciliation.
- Desire
- Master Character Critical Flaw
What Romeo covets undermines his efforts—evidenced in his want for Rosaline:
MONTAGUE
Many a morning hath he there been seen,/With tears augmenting the fresh morning dew,/Calculation to clouds more than clouds with his deep sighs (1.ane.134-36).
BENVOLIO
. . . What sadness lengthens Romeo'south hours?
ROMEO
Not having that, which, having, makes them short.
BENVOLIO
In love?
ROMEO
. . . Out of her favor where I am in love. . . . A sick man in sadness makes his will—/A discussion ill urged to one that is so ill./In sadness, cousin, I do love a adult female (1.ane.210-12). - Conscious
- Master Character Criterion
Romeo is offset presented as a self-conscious "poseur"—and v days after he has matured, merely not quite enough to make sensible, informed decisions. Bryant asserts:
What Romeo needs most of all is a teacher, and the only one capable of giving him instruction worth having and giving it speedily is Mercutio. All the rest are unavailable, or ineffectual, like Benvolio, or unapt for dealing practically with man relations. . . . His showtime line in the play, discharged at a young fool who is playing the ascetic for love, is revealing: "Nay, gentle Romeo, nosotros must accept yous trip the light fantastic" (ane.four.13). And when gentle Romeo persists in solar day-dreaming, he says, "Be rough with beloved," declares that love is a mire and that dreamers are frequently liars. The long fairy speech which follows dignifies idle dreams by marrying them to earth; its intent is to compel Romeo to acknowledge his senses and to bring him to an honest and salubrious confession of what he is really looking for, but Romeo is as well wrapped up in cocky-deception to mind. In Act ii Mercutio tries harder, speaks more patently, but prompts from his pupil but the fatuous "He jests at scars that never felt a wound." Later still, in the boxing of wits (2.four), Mercutio imagines briefly that he has succeeded: "Why, is non this better now than groaning for honey? Now art though sociable, now art thou Romeo; now fine art thou what thou fine art, by fine art likewise equally by nature" (92.95). There are no wiser words in the whole play, and none more ironic; for Romeo even here has not constitute his identity and is never really to find it except for those fleeting moments when Juliet is there to atomic number 82 him by the hand. (lxxviii) - Chief Character Description
CAPULET
"Young Romeo is information technology? (1.5.72) He bears him like a portly admirer,/And, to say truth, Verona brags of him/To be a virtuous and well-governed youth" (1.5.75-77). - Master Character Throughline Synopsis
When we first hear of Romeo in Shakespeare's play he is described in the attitude of a typical Elizabethan melancholy lover; he is young and untried, but at that place is at first an element of parody in Shakespeare'south presentation of him; his conventionality and bookishness are obvious in the showtime words he speaks, all absurdly stereotyped paradox and similitude . . . it is only the unusually rapid and intense alternations of mood, and a certain musical sensitivity on diction that enliven his speech. . . . When Romeo enters Capulet'due south garden . . . . Romeo . . . finds new language. . . . Romeo'south development, however, is not achieved without uncertainties, hesitations, and false notes. (Gibbons 47)
- Main Character Backstory
Romeo, infatuated with the fair Rosaline, pines away for the lady who does not render his interest. He is a romantic, predisposed to fall in beloved with the first sight of Juliet.
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Influence Character Throughline
Juliet — Object of Affection
- Universe
- Influence Character Throughline
Juliet is a very immature daughter and only child—she is expected to be obedient to her parents' wishes, despite any of her ain desires that may exist to the contrary.
- Progress
- Influence Grapheme Concern
Juliet is concerned with her changing status—obedient daughter of the Capulets to wife of a rival Montague—her particular concern is, the way things are going (her family non aware of her marriage), she will soon find herself married off to Paris.
- Threat
- Influence Character Issue
Juliet threatens Romeo'due south relationship with his male friends: "Romeo is not really asked to choose between Juliet and his family but between Juliet and Mercutio, who are opposed in the play's thematic construction" (Paster 261); Juliet "threatens suicide if Friar Lawrence cannot save her from marrying Paris" (Mowat and Werstine 176).
- Security
- Influence Character Counterpoint
A child of her father'due south house, Juliet just has security when she obeys the rules. Once she decides not to live up to parental expectations, she has no familial protection:
CAPULET
Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch!/I tell thee what: get thee to church o' Th,/Or never afterwards look me in the face up. (3.5.166-68) - Influence Character Thematic Conflict
Threat vs.SecurityJuliet's thematic conflict is best illustrated when she dares to disobey her parents. Her apparent willfulness compels her father to threaten the very security she is dependent upon.
- Expectation
- Influence Character Problem
Juliet is driven by the expectations placed upon her:
A adult female . . . was a daughter, wife, or widow expected to be chaste, silent, and above all, obedient. It is a profound and necessary act of historical imagination, so, to recognize innovation in the moment when Juliet impatiently invokes the coming of dark and the married man she has disobediently married: "Come up gentle nighttime; come loving black-browed night,/Give me my Romeo" (3.2.21-23) (Paster 254). - Decision
- Influence Graphic symbol Solution
Juliet'south self-conclusion is what satisfies her personal bulldoze.
- Hunch
- Influence Character Symptom
"In terms of the play's symbolic vocabulary, Juliet'south preparations to imitate decease on the very bed where her sexual maturation from girl to womanhood occurred confirms ironically her before premonition about Romeo" (Paster 263): If he be married,/My grave is like to exist my wedding bed (1.v.148-49).
- Theory
- Influence Graphic symbol Response
At Friar Lawrence'southward suggestion, Juliet agrees to the theory if she takes the potion to create a visage of decease, her parents will plunge into a despair then nifty, that upon her awakening, they will grin upon her spousal relationship to Romeo. Unfortunately, Romeo is not privy to this data, and believing her dead, kills himself.
- Fantasy
- Influence Character Unique Power
Romeo creates fantasy girls—kickoff seen with his mooning over Rosaline. He tries to do the aforementioned with Juliet, but she volition take none of that. She makes him realize he is in dearest with a woman, non a fantastical animal of his imagination. Conversely, the private world Juliet creates for Romeo is a fantasy from the reality of his harsh, external environment.
JULIET
Wilt thou exist gone? It is non nonetheless near day.
It was the nightingale, and non the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.
Believe me, honey, it was the nightingale. (3.5.1-5) - Experience
- Influence Character Disquisitional Flaw
Juliet'south lack of experience undermines her efforts: "Her 5-solar day maturation is a phenomenon which only Shakespeare could have fabricated credible; yet at the end she is still a fourteen-year-onetime girl, and she succumbs to an adolescent's despair" (Bryant lxxviii).
- Present
- Influence Grapheme Benchmark
Over the form of the story, Juliet's concern is measured against the current state of affairs and circumstances.
- Influence Character Description
"Youth, freshness, and vulnerable innocence" (Gibbons 40)
- Influence Character Throughline Synopsis
Juliet is the daughter of Lord and Lady Capulet. At the offset of her throughline she responds to her mother'south question: "Can you lot like of Paris' dear?" (one.iv.102), with: "I'll expect to like, if looking liking motility./Only no more deep will I endart mine eye/Than your consent gives strength to make it wing" (1.four.103-05). Over the course of several days, however, Juliet transforms herself from dutiful daughter to a wife—trigger-happy in her delivery to her husband, Romeo, following him fifty-fifty in death: "If that thy bent of dearest be honorable,/Thy purpose wedlock . . . all my fortunes at thy foot I'll lay/And follow thee my lord throughout the earth" (2.2.150-55).
- Influence Character Backstory
Juliet is a immature teen—as her begetter informs Paris: "My child is yet a stranger in the world" (1.2.8). Paster states: "A woman's identity was conceived almost exclusively in relation to male person authority and marital condition" (254).
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Relationship Story Throughline
""Beloved at Outset Sight""
- Psychology
- Relationship Story Throughline
Romeo and Juliet do non fall in with their families' way of thinking:
Romeo and Juliet find a new soapbox of romantic individualism . . . their union imperils the traditional relations betwixt males that is founded upon the commutation of women, whether the violent substitution Gregory and Sampson crudely imagine or the normative substitution planned past Capulet and Paris. Juliet, equally the daughter whose erotic willfulness activates her male parent'southward transformation from concerned to tyrannical parent, is the greater rebel. (Paster 264) - Being
- Relationship Story Concern
The suddenness of Romeo and Juliet's love, the circumstances in which they are a part—that of belonging to feuding families, and their extreme youth all contribute to the feeling that this is a temporary human relationship. Romeo and Juliet'southward business organization is temporarily keeping their marriage cloak-and-dagger—hoping to eventually fulfill the role of peacemakers.
An example of Romeo and Juliet's business organisation with who they are is illustrated in Juliet'south balcony speech:
JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore fine art thou Romeo?
Deny thy male parent and refuse thy name!
Or, if thou wilt non, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet. (2.2.36-39)
'Tis just thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though non a Montague.
What's a Montague? . . . What's in a proper noun?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweetness . . . (2.2.41-43/46-47) - Desire
- Human relationship Story Effect
"The logic of Juliet's almost instant disobedience in looking at, and liking, Romeo (rather than Paris) can exist understood equally the ironic fulfillment of the fears in traditional patriarchal culture virtually the uncontrollability of female want, the alleged tendency of the female gaze to wander." (Paster 260)
- Ability
- Relationship Story Counterpoint
The thematic counterpoint to Romeo and Juliet'south desire to be together is "ability"—in this instance their disability to engage in romance publicly.
- Relationship Story Thematic Conflict
Desire vs.AbilityRomeo and Juliet overcome all obstacles in their desire to be together—for the brief time they are able.
- Effect
- Relationship Story Problem
Romeo and Juliet must bargain with the furnishings of their romance. Because they choose to go on it secret, mishaps and misunderstandings occur—to the relationship's detriment.
- Crusade
- Human relationship Story Solution
If sure objective characters had understood the cause of Romeo and Juliet's strange beliefs, the tragedy may not have occurred. For example: "For all his dictatorial ways, and the manifest advantages he sees in marrying his daughter to an blueblood, Capulet would never knowingly force his daughter into bigamy" (Bevington xxiii).
- Non-Accurate
- Relationship Story Symptom
"Non-Accurate" as the subjective story focus is emphasized in Romeo and Juliet. Tragic mishaps occur because of non-authentic data, for example, Balthasar'southward report to Romeo of Juliet's death is non quite accurate. In terms of "not-accurate" meaning "not inside tolerance," the Capulets and Montagues, at least from the outset, would non tolerate a relationship between the two—hence Romeo and Juliet's (and Friar Lawrence and Nurse'south) need for secrecy; Mercutio, as Romeo's closest friend, does not really tolerate Romeo'due south romantic pursuits, let alone a truthful love that would carve up Romeo as a homo from the "boys"; and and then forth.
- Accurate
- Relationship Story Response
Accuracy is attempted in Romeo and Juliet's relationship. For example, Friar Laurence is careful to give Juliet merely the right amount of poison:
FRIAR LAWRENCE
If thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. (4.one.77)
The efforts in the subjective story are directed toward making the relationship acceptable, however: ". . . the secret matrimony in which this new language of feeling is independent cannot here exist granted the sanction of a comic event. When Romeo and Juliet reunite, it is only to meet each other, expressionless, in the dim confines of the Capulet catacomb. In this play the autonomy of romantic individualism remains 'star-crossed'" (Paster 264). - Thought
- Relationship Story Catalyst
Romeo overhears Juliet musing aloud. Juliet'due south honest expression of her feelings for him spurs on their relationship:
JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore [why] art chiliad Romeo?/Deny thy begetter and refuse thy name;/Or, if thou wilt non, exist but sworn my dearest,/And I'll no longer exist a Capulet.
ROMEO [Aside]
Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET
. . . Romeo, doff thy name;/And for thy proper name, which is no function of thee,/Take all myself.
ROMEO
I take thee at thy give-and-take./Call me simply beloved, and I'll exist new baptized. . . (ii.two.33-38, 47-50) - Worry
- Human relationship Story Inhibitor
The apprehension concerning the future of Romeo and Juliet's relationship impedes the subjective story progress:
JULIET
O God, I have an ill-diving soul!/Methinks I encounter thee, now thou fine art so low,/As i expressionless in the bottom of a tomb (iii.5.54-56). - Conceiving
- Relationship Story Benchmark
Every bit an case of "conceiving" as the standard past which growth is measured in the subjective story, after their first meeting, Juliet conceives of the next footstep in their relationship:
JULIET
Three words, honey Romeo, and expert night indeed.
If that thy aptitude of love be honorable,
Thy purpose marriage, ship me discussion tomorrow,
By one that I'll procure to come up to thee,
Where and what fourth dimension 1000 wilt perform the rite
And all my fortunes at thy human foot I'll lay
And follow thee my lord throughout the world. (2.2.149-155) - Relationship Story Throughline Synopsis
The characters of Romeo and Juliet have been depicted in literature, music, trip the light fantastic, and theater. The entreatment of the young hero and heroine—whose families, the Montagues and Capulets, respectively, are implacable enemies—is such that they take go, in the popular imagination, the representative type of star-crossed lovers. . . . Shakespeare set the scene in Verona, Italy, during July. Juliet, a Capulet, and Romeo, a Montague, fall in love at a masked ball of the Capulets and profess their dearest when Romeo afterwards visits her at her private balustrade in her family unit's home. Because the two noble families are enemies, the couple is married secretly by Friar Laurence. When Tybalt, a Capulet, kills Romeo's friend Mercutio in a quarrel, Romeo kills Tybalt and is banished to Mantua. Juliet's father insists on her marrying Count Paris, and Juliet goes to consult the friar. He gives her a potion that makes a person appear to be dead. He proposes that she take it and that Romeo rescue her; she complies. Unaware of the friar's scheme, Romeo returns to Verona on hearing of Juliet's apparent expiry. He encounters Paris, kills him, and finds Juliet in the burial vault. He gives her a final kiss and kills himself with poison. Juliet awakens, sees the dead Romeo, and kills herself. The families larn what has happened and cease their feud. (Merriam Webster 964-65)
- Human relationship Story Backstory
It is not simply that the families of Romeo and Juliet disapprove of the lover's affection for each other; rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides in a blood feud and are trying to kill each other on the streets of Verona. Every time a member of ane of the two families dies in the fight, his relatives demand the blood of his killer. Considering of the feud, if Romeo is discovered with Juliet, he will be killed. One time Romeo is banished, the but mode that Juliet tin can avert being married to someone else is to take a potion that apparently kills her, so that she is cached with the bodies of her slain relatives. In this trigger-happy, death-filled globe, the movement of the story from beloved at starting time sight to the marriage of the lovers in death seems almost inevitable. (Mowat and Werstine 13)
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Central Structural Appreciations
- Doing
- Overall Story Goal
Friar Lawrence states the goal, the Capulet and Montagues' feud must be undone—Romeo and Juliet will marry: "To turn your households' rancour to pure dear" (ii.3.99). "The Friar's aims are those implicit in the play's comic motion: an inviolable spousal relationship for Romeo and Juliet and an finish to the families' feud" (Snyder 180).
- Being
- Overall Story Consequence
If the Capulets and Montagues cannot come to terms, they will go on to exist arch-enemies—passing on the role to younger generations. The violence acted out over a long forgotten grudge will go along to bring grief to the community of Verona.
- Progress
- Overall Story Cost
Friar Lawrence aids in Romeo and Juliet's marital union in hopes it will advance mending the rift between the feuding families—the toll of this progress is the loss of their and other's lives. In another example: "Friar Laurence and the Nurse take no place in the new world brought into existence past Mercutio'due south death, the world of limited time, no effective choice, no escape. They define and sharpen the tragedy by their very failure to find a part in the dramatic progress, by their growing estrangement from the true springs of the activity" (Snyder 181).
- Preconscious
- Overall Story Dividend
Romeo and Juliet give into their impulse to dear rashly—which gives them brief happiness; The impulsive banter Mercutio and the Nurse engage in entertains the gallants; and so along.
- Learning
- Overall Story Requirements
Montague and Capulet learn of the events that have transpired, and vow to keep peace.
- Conceiving
- Overall Story Prerequisites
Friar Lawrence devises a way to end the feud—ally Romeo and Juliet.
- Present
- Overall Story Preconditions
Romeo explains to Friar Lawrence the circumstances of Juliet and his relationship—and in the young human being'southward mind information technology is imperative they wed right now: "And so plainly know my center's honey love is set/On the fair girl of rich Capulet./As mine on hers, then hers is gear up on mine (2.iii.61-63). We met, nosotros wooed, and made exchange of vow" (two.three.66).
- Conscious
- Overall Story Forewarnings
An case of "conscious" as a forewarning to the effect of "beingness"—the Capulets and Montagues remaining rivals—is illustrated during Capulet'south feast, when Tybalt becomes cognizant of Romeo on the premises, and wishes to remove him. Capulet refuses to permit Tybalt to create a fracas during the party; Tybalt exits bitterly, contemplating revenge at a later appointment: "I will withdraw, just this intrusion shall,/Now seeming sweetness, catechumen to bitt'rest gall." (102-103)
Plot Progression
Dynamic Deed Appreciations
Overall Story
- Learning
- Overall Story Signpost 1
Capulet and Montague learn what the consequences of further brawls between households will be; Romeo's family wishes to: "learn from whence his sorrows abound" (ane.i.157); Romeo tells Benvolio: "Thou canst not teach me to forget" (1.1.246) nigh Rosaline; Romeo and Benvolio learn of Capulet'south feast, and that his niece Rosaline is on the guest list; and so along.
- Overall Story Journey 1 from Learning to Understanding
Friar Lawrence learns of Romeo'south modify of heart, and immediately comprehends what this could mean towards achieving peace in the customs.
- Understanding
- Overall Story Signpost ii
Friar Lawrence appreciates what the spousal relationship of Romeo and Juliet can mean to the community; None of Romeo's gallant friends understand his not accepting Tybalt's challenge—Mercutio in particular; and so along.
- Overall Story Journeying 2 from Understanding to Doing
The objective story progresses from misunderstandings to wrongdoings and misadventures.
- Doing
- Overall Story Signpost 3
Capulet prepares for his daughter'southward wedding; Friar Lawrence prepares Juliet for "death"; and and then forth.
- Overall Story Journey 3 from Doing to Obtaining
The all-time instance of how the objective story progresses from "doing" to "obtaining" is found in Friar Lawrence's final speech, as he explains how the community'due south actions have resulted in loss, and yet will have ultimately accomplished a peace between the Montagues and Capulets:
Equally the Prince and the lover'south families stand silent in grief, the Friar gives a well-nigh uninterrupted account . . . . This narrative awakens pity, pity and guilt in them, and as he delivers it the Friar begins his expiation in the act of confession. The unsafe folly of his meddling in natural magic now apparent, his skillful intentions may speak in mitigation of his guilt. Moreover, his narrative has such cumulative effect that the Prince himself, in pronouncing judgement, includes his own proper noun among the guilty, and in that confession prepares the way for full reconciliation. (Gibbons 76) - Obtaining
- Overall Story Signpost 4
Lives are lost equally peace is finally accomplished between the Capulets and Montagues.
Main Character
- Preconscious
- Chief Graphic symbol Signpost 1
Benvolio reports to Lady Montague and her married man, one time Romeo "was 'ware of me" (1.1.126) he "gladly fled" (one.ane.133); Romeo's first response to Juliet's dazzler is to fall in love.
- Main Character Journey 1 from Preconscious to Retentiveness
Romeo's immediate response to Juliet causes him to forget his melancholy love for Rosaline:
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Holy Saint Francis, what a modify is here!/Is Rosaline, that one thousand didst loves and so honey,/So shortly forsaken? (2.3.69-71) - Memory
- Master Character Signpost 2
Romeo tries to remember his loyalty to his new married woman and her family when Tybalt challenges him.
- Main Graphic symbol Journey 2 from Retentivity to Subconscious
Mercutio'southward death prompts Romeo to forget his loyalty to his new wife and her family unit as he takes revenge on Tybalt: " . . . Romeo intervenes in the duel [between Tybalt and Mercutio] then commits himself to angry revenge" (Gibbons 71).
- Subconscious
- Main Character Signpost three
After taking revenge against Tybalt, Romeo is a "fearful man" (3.3.ane), hiding out in Friar Lawrence's cell. When informed of his punishment, he expresses his basic motivation to live (with Juliet)—without her he'd rather die.
- Main Character Journeying 3 from Hidden to Conscious
Romeo has wreaked vengeance on Tybalt and consummated his spousal relationship to Juliet. Now, banished to Mantua, he is conscious he must wait until give-and-take from Friar Lawrence to render. Tragically, he is misinformed of his beloved's death—and makes the conscious decision to follow her in the afterlife.
- Conscious
- Main Character Signpost 4
Romeo believes he has all the facts when he hears of Juliet's expiry. He makes a conscious determination to impale himself, exemplified by the purchase of poison from the apothecary: ". . . Romeo's all-time speech is perchance the ane he delivers in the tomb; with it he gives dignity, meaning, and certitude to the one act he plans and executes, nevertheless unwisely, without the help of his friends" (Bryant lxxii).
Influence Character
- Past
- Influence Character Signpost 1
Nurse recounts Juliet's history; It is clear Juliet has had no suitors in her past:
LADY CAPULET
—Tell me, daughter Juliet,/How stands your disposition to exist married?
JULIET
It is an honor that I dream not of (1.3.69-71). - influence Character Journey ane from By to Progress
Juliet progresses from a young, innocent girl to a maturing woman preparing for marriage.
- Progress
- Influence Character Signpost two
Juliet is concerned with how the meeting is going betwixt her Nurse and Romeo; Juliet is "graduating" from girlhood to womanhood.
- Influence Character Journey 2 from Progress to Time to come
At present that Juliet has determined her future with Romeo, she restlessly awaits the union to move forward: "The clock struck none when I did send the Nurse. In half an hour she promised to return. . . ./O, she is lame! Love's heralds should be thoughts,/Which ten times faster glides than the sun's beams" (ii.5.1,four-5). The prospect her father has in mind, nonetheless, is quite different. He deems her future to be wife of Paris.
- Future
- Influence Character Signpost 3
Juliet attempts to halt the wedding ceremony to Paris.
- Influence Grapheme Journey three from Future to Present
To circumvent her parents' plans for her future as wife of Paris, Juliet must human action now.
- Present
- Influence Character Signpost 4
Juliet'southward touch centers on her "death." At the nowadays time her family and Romeo believe her to be dead, and this belief precipitates all of their final deportment.
Relationship Story
- Conceptualizing
- Relationship Story Signpost i
Romeo and Juliet brainstorm to envision the import of falling in love with an enemy:
ROMEO:
Is she a Capulet? O dear account? My life is my foe's debt. (1.five.131-132)
JULIET
My simply honey sprung my only hate!
Too early on seen unknown, and known too late!
Prodigious birth it is to me
That I must dearest a loathed enemy. (1.v.152-155) - Human relationship Story Journeying 1 from Conceptualizing to Being Having fallen immediately and irrevocably in dearest, Romeo and Juliet envision a plan to secretly marry--involving only Nurse and Friar Lawrence in the pretense.
- Being
- Relationship Story Signpost ii
Romeo and Juliet pledge their dear and secretly marry—outwardly interim as if nothing has occurred.
- Relationship Story Journey 2 from Being to Becoming
Romeo and Juliet's human relationship shifts from betrothal to that of husband and wife:
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Come, come up with me, and nosotros will make brusk work,/For, by your leaves, y'all shall non stay alone/Till Holy Church incorporate 2 in 1 (2.6.35-37). - Condign
- Relationship Story Signpost 3
Romeo and Juliet become sexually intimate; Friar Lawrence plays an important part in their crisis of Romeo's banishment and Juliet'south upcoming nuptials to Paris: "Friar Laurence is one of the tribe of manipulators, whose task information technology is to transform or otherwise get round seemingly intractable realities" (Snyder 180).
- Human relationship Story Journey iii from Condign to Conceiving
Romeo and Juliet take get hubby and married woman in life, and both share the idea to keep on every bit one in decease.
- Conceiving
- Relationship Story Signpost 4
Romeo has no idea Juliet is in a trance. Juliet awakens to find he has killed himself. She cannot conceive life without him and kills her self as well.
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Source: https://dramatica.com/analysis/romeo-and-juliet
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