The Friar thinks it is awfully sudden since the day before he was obsessed with Rosaline but agrees to marry them. Tybalt has sent Romeo a duel challenge and has sent a threatening letter to his home. The Nurse enters looking for Romeo. Mercutio makes fun of her by calling her names and then Mercutio and Benvolio leave. Romeo gives the Nurse the message for Juliet to meet him at the Friar's cell to be married that afternoon.
This feud brought problems along with it, such as the killing of Tybalt by Romeo. Juliet had said: “What’s in a name?” which explains her ill fate of being a Capulet and Romeo being a Montague. When Romeo tells his servant, “Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.” This sentence tells us he does not care for what Juliet’s name, nor his is. Bad luck plays a major role in the story of two-star-crossed lovers. There is an example of this when Romeo attends the Capulet’s party, and this is where he is first exposed to Juliet and where the misfortune begins.
Friar Lawrence, in this play, helps Romeo to fulfill his desires of marrying Juliet and always has good intentions for Romeo. In the second act, Romeo was in a hurry to marry Juliet, and he pleads with the Friar to conduct their marriage as Romeo was in "haste". Friar Lawrence agrees to this plea, in the hope that the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues would end and that the marriage will bring the families to make peace with each other. However, his intentions are destroyed when Romeo and Juliet commit suicide for each other and die because of their sworn love for each other. This is because in the play, Juliet refused to marry Paris and so the Friar offers his help again and gives her a special potion that makes her appear dead.
Find examples of this belief in Escalus’ speech? • How do Romeo and Benvolio learn about the Capulet party? The person who is handing out invitations can’t read, so he asks them to help him. • What persuades Romeo to attend the party? He finds out that
Character Logs for Romeo and Juliet Romeo At the beginning of the play, Romeo thinks that he is not good enough for Rosaline. He doubts himself: “She is too fair…wisely too fair.” Act 1 Scene 1 Line 220. He thinks that he doesn’t deserve such a beautiful and clever girl as she is out of his league. Romeo is so under pressure and depressed that he doesn’t want to think about anything else. This miserable situation is making him feel disconnected from the world, and he cannot handle all the strong feelings he has: “O teach me how I should forget to think.” Act 1 Scene 1 Line 225.
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.” Meeting Juliet makes him instantaneously forget about Rosaline and never think about her again. The second reason, is that the fighting between the Montagues and Capulets becomes exaggerated when Tybalt discovers Romeo is at the Capulet’s ball. Tybalt is furious at Romeo’s gatecrashing and requests not only that Romeo and his friends be thrown out, but also that the Capulet’s take revenge for the fact that he had the nerve to come to the party. In this act, the audience has a bad feeling about the play, as in the scene before this one, Romeo says “Shall bitterly begin this fearful date With this night’s revels, and expire the term Of a despisèd life closed in my breast By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” Which means, “this party tonight will be the start of something bad, something that will end with my own death” Act 1 Scene 5 begins with some serving men, who are excited for the feast, because after they’re finished working they can enjoy the festivities with their lady friends. Capulet is in an extremely good mood at the beginning of the scene when he is reminiscing with his cousin about how long it had be since the two of them had been to a masque.
Unless the belief of fate refers to Shakespeare’s inevitability to end the play in tragedy, the characters in the story had control of their own destinies without a predetermined conclusion to the play. Romeo freely decides to go to the Capulet party with his cousin Benvolio, which sets up his meeting with Juliet. As Romeo and his friends stand outside of the Capulet house, he hesitates and is reluctant to enter the party, he has had a bad dream and reservations to going to the party but he disregards them and says, “... But he hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail. On, lusty gentlemen” (Act 1, scene 4, line 113, page 56).
He speaks of how only the deaths of two star crossed lovers will break the violence, although it is said in a way that will not be noticed by those viewing the play for the first time. Plays in Shakespeare’s time were viewed many times, as it was the only available source of entertainment. Romeo and Juliet, sometimes referred to as the most tragic love story of all, is a story of young love between two people in families engaged in a deadly feud. The families fight in public at the start of the play, resulting in a death penalty from prince Escales if the peace of Verona is disturbed again. Meanwhile, Romeo, the son of Lord Montague, gatecrashes a masquerade ball hosted by Lord Capulet in honour for a potential marriage between his daughter Juliet and a wealthy man named ‘Paris’.
Still acting immature, moping around etc. Scene 4: Romeo is very worried about the future ‘my mind misgives, some consequence yet hanging in the stars’ he has had a strange dream and is now reluctant to go to the party as he thinks it will lead to disaster, but he allows Mercutio and Benvolio to talk him into attending. Scene 5: Romeo sees Juliet and falls madly in love with her, forgetting Rosaline at once (this tells us he wasn’t really in love with her, more in love with the idea of being in love.) Romeo and Juliet meet and have a loving conversation full of religious imagery ‘this holy shrine’ that is overly formal and meant to show how ‘pure’ they are. In this scene Romeo grows up a bit, he appears to be very much in charge of his own ‘destiny’.
The Immaturity of Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet is a timeless tale of lovers whose misfortune and immaturity was a cause of their own destruction. The characters individually show immaturity and together demonstrate how ignorance of the world affects more than just their own lives. Romeo and Juliet, as expressed in the succeeding examples, fall in love quickly as a result of their naivety. Juliet is shown to be immature in an opening scene where her father tells the bride-seeking Paris his daughter is not old and grown-up enough to marry. It is also shown during the balcony scene when she agrees to marry Romeo after knowing him only a day and she is not even sure herself that Romeo wants to marry her.