Romeo+and+Juliet

Romeo and Juliet **Plot Events:** -The play starts with a fight between the house of the Capulets and the Montagues. The Prince of the city state threatens execution on the next person to start a fight. -Count Paris talks to Lord Capulet of marrying his daughter, Juliet. -Romeo feels that he is in love with a girl named Rosaline and he sneaks into a Capulet party to talk to her but he sees Juliet and falls for her. -Juliet talks to Romeo from the balcony and they both agree that they love each other and want to marry. -Tybalt recognized Romeo while he was at the party and challenges him to a duel, which he refuses because he will soon secretly marry Juliet, his cousin. Mercutio is annoyed by this and says he will duel. Tybalt kills him and in rage Romeo kills Tybalt and therefore must flee the city. -Romeo and Juliet secretly consummate their marriage. -Lord Capulet agrees to marry Juliet to Paris and ignores her protests. -Friar Lawrence gives Juliet a drug to make her appear dead so she can escape the situation and sends a messenger to tell Romeo the plan. -Romeo doesn’t get the message and thinks Juliet is dead and kills himself after killing Paris who he encountered at her tomb. -Juliet wakes to find Romeo dead and kills herself. -Friar Lawrence explains what happened to the families who meet at the tomb and they agree to stop warring

Romeo-the heir of the Montague family Juliet- the daughter of lord Capulet Friar Lawrence- a friar who wants to help Romeo and Juliet be together and stop the violence between the families. Mercutio-Romeo's clever and hot headed friend Tybalt- Juliet's prideful cousin Prince Escalus- the prince of Verona who is related to Paris and Mercutio and wants the families to stop fighting Paris-tries to force Juliet to marry him with the help of her father, lord Capulet Friar John-fails to deliver Romeo the message about Juliet's plan to fake her death
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 * Setting:** Verona, Italy in the fourteenth century

Herbal medicine or posion-like love, the medicine can lead to both good and bad things. The posion can lead to good things by making Juliet appear dead so that she can escape marrying Paris and be with Romeo. However the posion ends up causeing harm when Romeo belives Juliet dead and kills himself. Similarly, love, while possibly a very good thing, can cause people harm and grief.
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thumb-biting: the actors use thumb-biting as an insult to the opposite families engaging in the feud; the men won't actually say anything insulting or threatening and are lowering their status to a child-like symbol becuase of the gesture; it also represents the foolishness of the feud between the Montague and Capulet families


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The powerful and sometimes dangerous effects of love: obviously love is the play's most dominent theme; another part of that theme is fate, and how fate is sometimes inevitible; the love that Romeo and Juliet have for each other drive them against their families and their social world; the love they have for each other seems to make them blind and not able to understand or care about the society around them; the play portrays love as being chaotic and passionate, but leading to the ultimate demise.
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