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Summary 3.1

Benvolio, Mercutio, and their men are walking the streets of Verona on a sweltering day, a day not unfit for another brawl between the Montagues and the Capulets. Benvolio suggests to Mercutio that they should retire in the fear of encountering the Capulets and initiating a fight, but Mercutio retorts by saying that Benvolio is as short-tempered as any in Italy, and should not criticize others for their choleric natures. As they are walking, they encounter Tybalt and his men. After dialogue is exchanged between them, Romeo enters. Tybalt turns to Romeo and calls him a villain, drawing his sword and prompting Romeo to do the same. Romeo pleads that he has reason to love Tybalt, and conflict is unnecessary, but Tybalt ignores him and attacks. In the resulting brawl, Mercutio is killed by Tybalt. Enraged by the death of his friend, Romeo draws his sword and kills Tybalt. Afterwards, Benvolio urges him to flee the city, for a group of citizens furious at the brawl were nearing. Shocked and despairing, Romeo swiftly runs away. Later, the Prince, accompanied by citizens, the Montagues, and the Capulets arrive at the scene. The Prince laments the death of Mercutio, his kinsman, and heavily fines the two households for his death. As for Romeo's punishment, the Montagues argued that Tybalt murdered Mercutio, and Romeo merely killed him in vengeance, whereas the Capulets said Romeo should be sentenced to death. The Prince declared Romeo to be exiled from Verona.

Summary 3.2

Juliet is fantasizing about Romeo in her bedroom when the nurse enters and informs her that Tybalt has been slain by Romeo's very hands. However, unlike the other Capulets, who are all mourning for Tybalt's death and cursing Romeo's name, Juliet instead feels more potent emotions towards Romeo's banishment. Believing that she will never see Romeo again, Juliet is temporarily overcome by a desire to commit suicide, but the nurse assures her that he is hiding in Friar Lawrence's cell, and that she would arrange a clandestine meeting between them. Thanking the nurse, Juliet bids her to give Romeo a ring as a token of her love.

Summary 3.3

Meanwhile, Romeo is hiding in Friar Lawrence's cell, apparently horrified and frightened by the murder he had committed. He is especially dismayed that he will never see Juliet again due to his banishment. Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that his sentence was relatively light compared to the degree of his offense, and scolds him for acting unmanly and cowardly when he attempts to commit suicide to escape from this adverse reality. He suggests meeting with Juliet tonight, leave Verona by morning, wait for the news of their marriage to spread, and hope for the Prince to change his mind on Romeo's sentene. Later, Juliet's nurse enters and informs Romeo that Juliet laments for his banishment much more than she does for Tybalt's demise, and hands him Juliet's ring. Romeo agrees to adhere to Friar Lawrence's plan, Juliet's present evidently raising his spirits.

Summary 3.4

Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris discuss their plans for the marriage between Paris and Juliet. Capulet states that due to Tybalt's recent murder, he has no time to ask for Juliet's true feelings toward Paris. Lady Capulet says she will have her true feelings by the morning. Capulet decides that the wedding will be on Thursday - three days from the current date.

2.5 56-83 1. Prepare a summary of your group’s lines. Juliet receives information on the planned meeting between her and Romeo from the Nurse. 2. Identify three examples of language tricks/literary devices used in your group’s lines.Note: In addition to the literary devices already mentioned, look for hyperbole and puns. Simile: Your love says, like an honest gentleman...(59) Reversed sentence construction: There stays a husband to make you a wife (74) Metaphor: Must climb a bird's nest... (79) 3. How do these specific devices/tricks enhance the passage? These literary devices enhance the passage by helping readers assimilate the plot with more interest and enthusiasm. 4. Identify what your group thinks is the most important line, and be prepared to explain why it is important. Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence's cell.

3.5 Identify three literary devices (hyperbole, pun, personification, metaphor, simile, classical allusions, reversed word order) personification: Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day / Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. (3.5.9-10) classical allusion: 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. (3.5.20) metaphor: Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! (3.5.161)

In complete sentences answer (or complete) the following: What surprised you most about this scene? Capulet forcing Juliet to be engaged and married to Paris is the most surprising occurrence of this scene.

What was the most important line in this scene? Quote it and explain. "If all else fail, myself have power to die." (3.5.255) This line foreshadows the tragic end of the plot.

Write three questions you have about this scene. 1. Where will Romeo flee or hide? 2. How will Juliet mitigate her father's fury? 3. What will Juliet do in order to fulfill her love for Romeo?

4.3

Juliet wonders whether the friar was truthful or not about the contents of the vial, afraid that he might be attempting to kill her to erase the evidence of his marriage of Romeo and Juliet. She also wonders if she may awake inside her tomb before Romeo came, thus growing mad inside the dark, enclosed tomb. She has a vision in which Tybalt's ghost is searching for Romeo, and begs the ghost to stop pursuing after Romeo. Then, she drinks the contents of the vial.

4.4

Wedding preparations for Juliet's wedding take place. Capulet orders the nurse to bring Juliet.

4.5

The next morning, in the middle of the wedding preparations for Juliet's marriage, she is discovered dead by her nurse. Immediately, the entire household and Paris mourns the apparent death of Juliet. Left behind, the musicians who were supposed to play music for the marriage packed up, and Peter, a Capulet servant, asks them to play a happy tune to cheer him up. The musicians refuse, arguing that such songs would be inappropriate to play after Juliet's death. Unkind words are exchanged, and both the musicians and Peter go their ways.

5.1

Romeo receives information from his servant that Juliet is apparently dead. He believes that Juliet is dead, and he goes to Verona to see her corpse. He buys potent poison from the apothecary, bribing him.

5.2

Romeo did not receive the letter from Friar Lawrence that told him Juliet was not dead, but merely feigning death. Friar Lawrence lamented that the letter contained crucial information, and went to the monument himself to prevent Romeo's discovery of Juliet's dead state.

Fate is evident in 5.3 in the following ways:
 * Romeo's encounter and killing of Paris is foreshadowed by his previous killing of Tybalt, which occurred in a very analogous fashion; both Tybalt and Paris attempts to kill Romeo out of passionate hatred, and in the ensuing brawl, Romeo ends up killing them both.
 * "I must indeed, and therefore came I hither. / Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp'rate man." (5.3.58-59)
 * Romeo's discovery of the apparently dead Juliet and his suicide that followed also exhibits the concept of fate. From the moment Friar John fails to deliver Friar Lawrence's consequential letter to Romeo, fate controlled the resulting series of events that led to this tragic outcome.
 * The description of how the "star-crossed" lovers - Romeo and Juliet - "doth with their death bury their parents' strife" (Prologue) implies that fate was responsible for 1) helping Romeo and Juliet meet each other 2) causing both of them to commit suicide in the belief that their lover has met demise.
 * The end of the family feud between the Montagues and Capulets is also foreshadowed by mentioning of fate in the prologue.
 * “One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book! / I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave.” (5.3.82)
 * ”And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars / From this world-wearied flesh! Eyes, look your last.” (5.3.111-2)
 * “And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour / Is guilty of this lamentable chance!” (5.3.150-1)
 * “A greater power than we can contradict / Hath thwarted our intents.” (5.3.158-9)
 * “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” (5.3.302-3)
 * “See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / that heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.” (5.3.302-3)