Time: Monday Late Evening

Location: Capulets House

Characters: Capulet, Paris, Lady Capulet

Event: Capulet and Lady Capulet make plans for Juliet to marry Paris. Lady Capulet decides that the marriage will be on Thursday and that they will not have a grand marriage but a small one with few friends and family because their relatives may think that they do not care about Tybalt’s death if they have a big party “Tybalt being slain so late, It may be thought we held him carelessly”.

Time: Monday Evening

Location: Friar Lawernce’s Cell

Characters: Romeo, Nurse, Friar Lawernce

Events: Romeo and Friar Lawernce discuss Romeos banishment and try to find a way to help him. They hear someone knocking on the door so Romeo hides and Friar Lawernce opens the door but finds out that it was just the Nurse looking for Romeo. Romeo says that he would rather commit suicide than be banished because he thinks death is compared the same as banishment and also he thinks that there is no world outside Verona walls “but purgatory torture, hell itself”.  Which means he only loves Verona as he only loves Juliet.

Location: Capulets house

Time: Monday night

Characters: Juliet & Nurse

Event: Nurse comes in and tells Juliet that someone has died but doesn’t say who. Juliet thinks Romeos dead, then Nurse says that her favorite cousin has been killed by Romeo and that Romeo has been banished. Juliet says she will die a virgin, Then Nurse tells her she will find him and bring him back to her.

 

Location: Capulets House

Time: Monday Midday

Characters: Juliet, Nurse, Peter

Events: Juliet starts to wonder where the nurse is after she left to ask Romeo about the marriage arrangements. The nurse returns and Juliet ask the nurse about what Romeo said. The nurse goes on about how she is tired and weary. Then the nurse tells Juliet that Romeo may have a beautiful body but he is not a nice person. Juliet ignores her and asks again what Romeo said. Finally, the nurse asks Juliet if she is free to go to confession today Juliet replied yes. The nurse tells Juliet ” There stays a husband to make you a wife” which means that they are getting married.

Benvolio and Mercutio are trying to convince Romeo to come out of the Capulet household and come back with them. Mercutio and Benvolio still think he’s bewitched by his love for Rosaline and only his love. But what they do not know is that he is bewitched by Juliet’s love. Mercutio uses fancy words to say come back, but it doesn’t work. So Benvolio gives up and retreats to the Montague household.

Location: Capulet House

Time: Sunday Night

Character: First, second, third and fourth serving men, Capulet, Cousin Capulet, Romeo, Tybalt, Juliet, Nurse, Benvolio

Events: Romeo and Benvolio arrive at the party and go inside. Romeo tries to find Rosaline and does not succeed. Romeo finds Juliet and kisses her twice when the party ends and everyone starts leaving Juliet asks the nurse about the unknown man. The nurse explains that the unknown man was Romeo the son of  Montague. Juliet says if he is married

Quote: “My Grave is like to be my wedding bed”.

 

Location: Outside Capulets house

Time: late Sunday night

Characters: Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio

Event: Romeo doesn’t want to leave. Benvolio tells Romeo to come back. Mercutio has an argument with Benvolio about if Romeo went home or not. Benvolio & Mercutio go back to to the Montagues household.

Quote:”Blind is his love, and best befits the dark.

I fear too early, for my mind misgives

some consequence yet hanging in the stars

Shall bitterly begin this fearful date

with this nights revels, and expire the term

of a depised life clos’d in my breast

by some vile forfeil of unimely death

but he that hath steerage of my couse

Direct my sail ! on, lusty gentlmen !

 

How does shakespeare use language to convey this ideas about fate in Act 1 Scene 4 of Romeo and Juliet.

 

Statement:

Shakespeare uses metaphor to convey his ideas that Romeo is controlled by a higher power, like God.He does this having Romeo refer to himself as a vessel which is being captained by God.

 

Example:

“He that hath steerage of my course, direct my sail.”

 

Explanation:

This proves that shakespeare is referring to God because the captain is the helmsman of a ship who directs its course. Romeo has decided, in spite of his misgivings, to take the risk of following his fate.

Location: Outside Capulet’s house

Time: Sunday evening

Characters: Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio,

Events: Romeo, Mercutio and Benvolio arrive outside Capulet’s house.  Romeo talks about how he had a bad dream and that it will seal his fate. Mercutio tells Romeo he should dance. Romeo says he cannot for their is a soul of lead that keeps him in place.  Mercutio says that if love fights you should fight back ( To Romeo ). Romeo says his bad dream starts here and will start the passage to his fate. Mercutio talks about dreams. ETC . . .

 

 

Quote: Dreams which are the of an idle brain