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Class
Notes
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The Prologue• Expresses the hatred separating the
Montagues and Capulets• Use of Foreshadowing/Metaphor– “A Pair of star-crossed lovers take their life”
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Act I, Scene 1
• Setting - Verona in Italy
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The Capulets(Juliet’s side)
The Montagues(Romeo’s side)
SamsonGregory Abram- Servant to
MontagueTybalt- Nephew of Lady Capulet
Benvolio- Nephew of Montague, friend to Romeo
Act I, Scene 1
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Act I, Scene 4• Romeo, Mercutio,
Benvolio, others about to make an appearance at the feast.
• Romeo and Benvolio, Montague kin are not invited. – Enter wearing masks
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Act I, Scene 4• Benvolio wants to have
fun• Mercutio tries to talk
Romeo into a better mood.
• Romeo replies that he can't borrow Cupid's wings because he has been so badly wounded by Cupid's arrow.
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Act I, Scene 4- Mercutio
• Uses several puns, dirty jokes, and vivid descriptions.
• "sink in it, should you burden love -- / Too great oppression for a tender thing" (1.4.24). – means that if Romeo is going to blame
("burden") love for his state of mind, he will only sink further into love.
– also means that if he gets what he wants (sex) he will sink into the woman and be a burden to her.
• Thinks Romeo is too serious• Love-sickness is caused by a lack of
sex.
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Act I, Scene 4- Mercutio
• Romeo doesn’t believe that he can win the game of love and doesn’t want to play.
• Mercutio tells Romeo to shut up about being "done" and to quit being a do-nothing. – Says that if Romeo is "done," he's Dun the horse
(name of a log that people pulled out of mud during a Christmas game.)
• Mercutio says that love is “bullcrap,” and that Romeo is stuck in it up to the ears.
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Act I, Scene 4- Romeo’s Speech
• Foreshadowing • chain of events ("consequence") • chain of events does terminate
the duration ("expire the term") of Romeo's life with premature ("untimely") death.
• Despite his premonitions, Romeo goes to Capulet's house.
• Says that he is doing so because he is entrusting his fate to "He, that hath the steerage of my course." (God)
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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet
• The servant's bustle picks up the pace of the play.
• Everything is speeding up. • Capulet welcomes everyone – speaks to Romeo's company when he
says, "Welcome, gentlemen! ladies that have their toes / Unplagued with corns will walk a bout with you" (1.5.16-17).
– Making sure that these strangers in masks feel welcome.
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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet
• Romeo sees Juliet and falls in love with her instantly.
• Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice and sends for his rapier to kill him.
• Capulet insists on Tybalt’s obedience, reminding him of Romeo’s good character.
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Act I, Scene 5- Romeo and Juliet Meet
• Romeo and Juliet continue their exchanges and they kiss– interrupted by the Nurse, (sends
Juliet to find her mother.) • Romeo realizes the grave
consequences of their love.• Juliet discovers from the Nurse
that Romeo is a Montague.
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Act II, Prologue–Quatrian (first four lines) has a sarcastic
tone–Chorus foreshadows death• “desire death in his deathbead lie.”• “…love groaned for and would die.”
–Romeo is willing to die for beauty
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Act II, Scene 1• Romeo enters and
speaks of his love for Juliet. He jumps over a Capulet wall, hoping to see her.
• Mercutio mocks Romeo's feelings for Rosaline.
• Benvolio suggests that they leave and go look for him.
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Act II, Scene II• The Capulet orchard • Romeo watches Juliet and starts
to speak with her. • They proclaim their love for each
other here. • Romeo and Juliet quickly agree to
marry the next day at nine o'clock.
• The Nurse calls for Juliet and she has to go. They say goodbye to each other for the night and exit.
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Act II, Scene II - Juliet
• Willing to denounce her family name to be with him: – "O Romeo, Romeo!
Wherefore art thou Romeo?/ Deny thy father and refuse thy name;/ Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/ And I'll no longer be a Capulet.“
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Act II, Scene II - Names
• The lovers go into a long discourse about names and how they are nothing more than words.
• The fact that she is a Capulet by name and he is a Montague by name should not affect their love for each other like it does.– "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, thou not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet." Act 2, Scene 2, lines 38-44