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 * Summary of Romeo and Juliet (Act 3, Scene 1)**

Perspective: Reader's Perspective

Characters: Mercutio, Benvolio, Romeo, Tybalt, Petruchio, Prince, Lady Capulet, Citizens

Summary: Mercutio and Benvolio talk about Romeo and meet Tybalt on the streets. When Romeo comes out in the play, Tybalt tries to make him fight with him. However, instead of him, Mercutio fights with Tybalt, and and Tybalt kills Mercutio. Romeo gets angry, and he fights with Tybalt and slays him. Romeo runs away, and the citizens that come in after he exits and do not know about Romeo killing Tybalt. Then the Prince comes in, and asks Benvolio what happened. After hearing the story, Lady Capulet says that since Benvolio is a Montague, he is lying about Tybalt first killing Mercutio. So, the Prince blames Romeo and expels him from the society.

(Act 3, Scene 2)

Characters: Nurse, Juliet

Summary: Juliet wants to see Romeo, but she hears from the nurse that Romeo has killed Tybalt and has disappeared. At first, she feels sorry for Tybalt because he died and feels hatred for Romeo, but later, she says that she is sad for not Tybalt’s death, who is her cousin, but for Romeo’s banishment, who is her husband. The nurse says that she will bring Romeo to her no matter what.

(Act 3. Scene 3)

Characters: Friar Lawrence, Romeo, Nurse

Summary: The friar informs Romeo that his punishment is not death, but banishment, and Romeo’s reactions are that he’d rather die than being banned from Juliet. When the nurse says that Juliet is grief-stricken, he tries to kill himself. The friar allows him to stay the night with Juliet, and promises him that he will inform him about news from Verona, and tell him when the Prince allows Romeo to return again.

(Act 3. Scene 4)

Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris

Summary: Paris asks Capulet about the marriage with Juliet, and Capulet says that she will do so. He promises that she will marry him in three days. He kind of forces her to do so.

Romeo and Juliet Scene 4.3 ~ 4.5

4.3 = Juliet makes the Nurse go somewhere else and she drinks that potion that Friar Lawrence gives her. 4.4 = The Capulets get ready for the party with many preparations all night, and then the Nurse is sent to wake up Juliet. 4.5 = The Nurse finds Juliet in a death-like trance and tells the Capulet. The scene ends with Friar Lawrence arranging a funeral.

Romeo and Juliet Scene 5.1 ~ 5.2 5.1- Romeo receives news that Juliet has died, and he buys some poison so that he can kill himself to join Juliet in the Capulet’s vault. 5.2- Friar John tells Friar Lawrence that he failed to give Romeo the letter because people were blocking the doors. Friar Lawrence gets very anxious to see what has happened in the vault where Juliet lies.

**Act 5 Scene 3: Fate**
Fate is important in act 5 scene 3 because this is where Romeo and Juliet fail to meet each other by a very small chance, or other words, ‘fate.’ It is also quite plain to see fate in this scene because there are a lot of things that you can see as events that are related to Romeo and Juliet’s fate.

- When Romeo was in search for Juliet and went into the Capulet’s grave, he met Paris in front of the vault, which both of them were not expecting. ---Act 5, Scene 3, Line 28 = And do not interrupt me in my course. Why I descend into this bed of death.

- Another example is when Friar Lawrence comes in right after Romeo drinks the potion, which kind of shows that Romeo had the fate of not being able to live (?) with Juliet. Although it is a sad truth, since this is a tragic love story, I think that this scene where fate makes nobody interfere with Romeo’s death matches with the theme of the story; the tragic tale between two lovers. ---Act 5, Scene 3, LIne 122 = Have my old feet stumbled at graves!