Benvolio Monolouge Essay

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I have chosen to Benvolio's speech in act 3 scene 1 1.Benvolio is a nephew to Lord Montague and a cousin of Romeo's. His name means well-wisher or peace maker, which in some way is Benvolio's role in the play. He shows this at the beginning of the play when he attempts to stop the fight between the Capulet and Montague boys. He also helps Romeo's parents to find out why Romeo was so depressed and when he learns that his problem is love, he tells Romeo to look for other girls and forget about anyone who is not interested in him. Benvolio is also partly the reason Romeo met Juliet, because he suggests that Romeo go to the Capulet party and seek a new lover when he tells romeo this. “At this same ancient feast of Capulet's Sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest, With all the admired beauties of Verona: Go thither; and, with unattainted eye, Compare her face with some that I shall show, And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.” 2.I am going to portray Benvolio as a modern day, average guy, who is sad, afraid and worried about the future, I believe that the hardest part of this speech will be the pronunciation of Benvolio's speech with the Shakespearean language, as it is some times hard to pronounce, I hope to over come this with practice. 3.Prior in this scene, Tybalt confronted Mercutio and Benvolio asking for romeo, when romeo does come Tybalt wants to fight romeo about coming to the Capulet's party. Romeo, because he just married Juliet, would will not fight him, saying they should just be friends. Tybalt, angry that romeo would not fight, killed Mercutio. Then Romeo, now full of revenge, fights Tybalt and wins. Now the prince, heads if both family's and other people of the town, are surrounding the body of Tybalt and Benvolio is explaining what happened to the prince 4.Tybalt, here slain, whom Romeo's hand did slay; Romeo that
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