Act 3 First half notes

1.) In the begging of the act, Tibalt is looking for Romeo of fight him and take him away.
2.) Tibalt walks up to Mercutio and Benvolio to talk about Romeo because Tibalt is still upset about Romeo crashing the party where he met Juliet.
3.) Mercutio starts to taunt Tibalt.
4.) Once Romeo shows up, Tibalt starts to fight him and Mercutio gets involved with the fighting.
5.) Tibalt ends up cutting Mercutio.
6.) Mercutio wishes for a plague to be put on both families houses, and dies very quickly.
7.) Tibalt comes back and fights Romeo where Romeo kills Tibalt.
8.) Romeo is forced to leave Verona now because if he gets caught by the prince, then he will get killed too.
9.) Benvolio was asked to tell the truth and he explained what happened.
10 Romeo's punishment was to be exiled form Verona.
 

Friar Laurence Peacemaker

Agree with the following statement and use specific details and quotes from the text to support your argument:
Friar Lawrence is a peacemaker.

Disagree with the following statement and use specific details and quotes from the text to support your argument: 
Friar Lawrence is a peacemaker.

I agree that Friar Lawrence is a peacemaker for a few reasons. One reason that he is a peace maker is because he helped Romeo and Juliet get married. He is a peacemaker for this because he has created a sense of peace and happiness between both Romeo and Juliet. They are so happy to be married to each other. At first, when Friar Lawrence heard about how Romeo wanted to marry Juliet, he was confused and in a little bit of disagreement. He reminded Romeo of Rosaline and asked why Romeo didn't love her. He asked,"Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." Once Romeo explained himself about how much he loves Juliet, he agreed and said that he would help them become married. But when he agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet, he seemed alittle bit reluctant about do that because he knew that there would be term oil in the end. He said to Romeo," For this alliance may so happy prove, to turn your households’ rancour to pure love." He told Romeo that he should send for Juliet to come to his cell and marry them.  

On the other hand, Friar Lawrence is not a peacemaker. He is the exact opposite in everyone else's eyes accept for Romeo and Juliet. This is a major conflict between the Montegues and the Capulets. In their minds, this is not even a possibility. This is shown when Romeo snuck into the Capulets house to see Juliet. The first thing that Juliet said to Romeo is that he could get killed if anyone were to see him. Nobody on either side of the families want them to even talk to each other let alone marry. Both Romeo and Juliet are well aware that they would have to both run away when they get married because of how bad the situation will be. Friar Lawrence was apart of this by helping them get married. The reason why he was so skeptical about this was because he knew that there would be big problems. He knew that people will kill each other because of the descision that Romeo and Juliet are making. He could have stopped them from getting married. He had the choice to not help them. But he knew how badly Romeo and Juliet wanted this. So he went against what he knew would happen, and married them. He is not a peacemaker for this. 

Blog 5

I would show many things that pull make them look wealthy but different. One thing I would do is I would show them in expensive clothing. They would have very fine clothes and shoes. I would also show them ordering servants around to carry out the tasks for them. I would also show them writing or reading. Back in these days, servants and lower class people were illiterate. The only people that could read or write were the people who were high in the social classes. They would always stand tall and proud and talk very clearly and smoothly. 

I would show many other things as well if I was showing their rivalry. The first thing K would show is that they would be wearing very different color clothing. So if the Montegues wore blue, I would have the Capulets wear red. I would also them fighting a lot. This is the most obvious for, of the hate between the two groups. They would also talk about the other group with a lot of hatred. I would also show the people in charge, them trying to figure out how to eliminate the other group. 

This is what I would do to show the similarities and differences between the groups. 

Fences Devised Theatre

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Romeo and Juliet Shakespeare Introduction of Characters

Joey Wright

The first time that Shakespeare introduces Romeo he is talking to Benvolio about love. Romeo is going on and on about how perfect Juliet is. Romeo cannot think about anything else than Juliet. He says how much he loves her in so many drawn out ways. He tells Benvolio how much grief this is giving him. Romeo says that he has lost himself and that he is not Romeo anymore because he is somewhere else. Shakespeare makes Romeo feel so overwhelmed and almost crazy that he could love one woman so much. We learn a lot about his character. We learn that when he has his mind set on something like Juliet, it consumes him and he is not the same anymore ever again. My first impression is that he is well liked by everyone in the Montague side of the story. All of his friends tell him that he needs to forget about Juliet and look for other women in Verona. But Romeo responds by saying that all the other women in Verona only make Juliet more beautiful. He seems to be the best looking as well. I don't like him but I do not hate him either. He comes off as a dramatic type of person. 

The first time Juliet is introduced, she is being called by her mother to talk about marriage. Before Juliet meets Romeo, she is content on not getting married. We learn that her character is defiant. She does not want to follow her parents direction and get married. Juliet says that marriage is an honor that she does not dream of. At the end of the conversation, Juliet does agree to try to find someone that she would like to marry at the party that will occur.  My first impression is that she is still a little bit immature to get married. When she talks to her mother and the nurse, the way I read it is that she is very childish and is still in the rebellious stage of growing up. She is way less dramatic than Romeo. She is straight forward and doesn't explain everything in many different ways the way that Romeo does. I would say that I like her more than Romeo because before she meets him, she is way less dramatic. 

I like Juliet better than Romeo. This is because when Shakespeare introduces them, it seems that Juliet is way less dramatic than Romeo. Romeo is so set on one thing and he explains his desire about Juliet in ten different ways. 

In Class Writing

The activity yesterday was very effective for being able to understand the important parts of the play. In the actual book, there is a lot of extra dialogue and words that I do not understand, so when we all decided what the important parts of the play were, really helped me to understand the story better. In my group we had the longest amount of time, so we were able to add more events to our play, but it was still very hard to perform the big ideas of Romeo and Juliet in two minutes.

Romeo and Juliet Notes

Joey Wright

• Romeo is not going to let anyone tell him that Juliet is not the one that he is going to be with.
• When Bonvolio and Mercutio tried to tell him that there were other women in Verona to marry, he was very defensive and did not stray from Juliet.
• At the party, Romeo snuck into the party and kissed Juliet and they fell into deep love.
• Before the party, Juliet's mother was talking to her about getting married.
• Juliet had said that she didn't love anyone at that point.
• This shows how quick their love developed.
• When Juliet found out that Romeo was a Montegue, she still loved him even though he is on the side of the enemy.