WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S

ROMEO AND JULIETNAME : NUR FAZLIN BINTI MOHD NAIM

TSL 1064 DRAMA IN ENGLISHLECTURER : MADAM YEE BEE CHOO

SETTINGS

TIME: 1. Renaissance

(fourteenth or fifteenth century)

PLACE: 1. Verona

2. Mantua (cities in Northern

Italy) in Act V, scene 1

Romeo

The hero and one of the protagonists of Romeo and Juliet. The son of Lord Montague. In love at first sight with Rosaline, which is Lord Capulet’s niece. When he goes to a feast hosted by Lord Capulet, he attends the feast in a

mask, meets Lord Capulet’s daughter Juliet, falls in love with her, and becomes passionate and impulsive lover.

JulietThe heroine and one of the protagonists of the play. She is the thirteen-year-

old daughter of Lord Capulet. She is an innocent girl who falls in love with Romeo.

Friar LaurenceThe person who is responsible for helping Romeo and Juliet. He hopes by

marrying off Romeo and Juliet, their family will come in peace and ends their long feud.

The Nurse A friend, guide and educator of Juliet. She has raised and breastfed Juliet and treat her as her own daughter. She is a realist, who is fond of talking and

joking.

CHARACTERS

PLOT

Exposition: - Feuding street fight between Capulet and Montague

families- Romeo sad Rosaline is not

interested in him- Juliet told to marry Paris

Rising Action: - Romeo and Juliet meet at the Capulet Masquerade

party- Romeo and Juliet profess their

love during balcony scene- Romeo and Juliet marry

- Romeo runs in Tybalt

Climax: Romeo kills Tybalt

Falling Action: - Romeo and Juliet consummate their marriage

- Romeo takes refuge in Mantua - Romeo learns of Juliet’s death- Romeo buys illegal poison from

the Apothecary

Catastrophe: Romeo and Juliet both die and the feud

ends

THEMESUnrequited

love

Unrequited love is an important thematic element in the play, which presents the sensual love advocated by Romeo and Juliet. Because of their family’s feud, they need to keep their

relationship in secret without nobody knows about it.

Fate and Chance

Although the Friar arranged for Juliet to flee with Romeo, but fate seems to have other plan by a series of unlucky chances. In the end of

the play, both Romeo and Juliet died together. Arguments in favour of fate often refer to the

description of the lovers as "star-crossed". This phrase seems to hint that the stars have

predetermined the lovers' future.

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The act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. It may be an individual present or absent in the scene and it can also be an inanimate object.

Example: “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”- Benvolio*Benvolio is talking to Romeo about love, as if love was alive and had a physical appearance that could

look nice.

An indirect comparison between two things that aren’t really alike. A metaphor links the two things in a sentence without using the words like or as.

Example: “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”- Romeo

*Here, Romeo is comparing Juliet’s beauty to the sun.

A direct comparison between two things that aren’t really alike. A simile uses like or as to make the comparison.

Example: “True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air,”- Mercutio

*Mercutio compares dreams to the air and how fast they can change like the course of the wind.

Giving human characteristics to something that isn’t human, or writing about inanimate things as though they had human characteristics.

Example: “Thou know’st the mask of night is on my face.”- Juliet*It is night outside and it is so dark out that Juliet can not be seen like there is a mask over her.

Apostrophe

Metaphor

Personification

Simile

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