Romeo and Juliet Act by Act Romeo and Juliet Act by Act SummarySummary

By Christina Herrerafor Mr. Lin’s Class

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In the city of Verona, Italy, two families live in hatred of each other. As fate would have it, a young man from one of these families falls in love with a young woman from the

opposing household. Romeo and Juliet force the Montagues and Capulets to decide between the promise of new found love or

the destruction of deep seeded hate.

Act 1Act 1

My favorite scene was the Capulets’ Ball. Romeo and his friends sneak in to their party and Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. Tybalt also sees Romeo and vows to make him pay for the disrespect of showing up at his family’s home.

Act 2Act 2 Of course my favorite scene in this act was the balcony scene. I loved the line where Romeo says, “And but thou love me, let them find me here: My life were better ended by their hate,Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

Death does not mean anything to him compared to her love.

Act 3Act 3I really liked the scene when the Nurse tells Juliet that Romeo killed Tybalt because I wondered whether she would hate him or forgive him. But when the Nurse says that shame should come to Romeo…she responds with, “Blister'd be thy tongueFor such a wish! he was not born to shame:Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;”

And I knew she was sticking by him no matter what.

Act 4Act 4 My favorite part of Act 4 is when Juliet is freaking out thinking about what it will be like to wake up in her family’s burial vault,

“Together with the terror of the place,--As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,Where, for these many hundred years, the bonesOf all my buried ancestors are packed:Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,Lies festering in his shroud”

Act 5Act 5The last Act is the best and the worst.

Romeo and Juliet let their families come between them and they lose everything…even their own lives. The best part is towards the end when the Prince makes it clear to Montague and Capulet what their hate has done, “Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague!See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate,That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.”

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