READING ASSIGNMENT
ANALYZING A NOVEL STORY
NAME : SILVI ATIQOH
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CLASS :TBI 1D
TITTLE : ROMEO AND JULIET
THE CAST AND CHARACTERS
Ruling house of Verona
Prince Escalus is the ruling Prince of Verona.
Count Paris is a kinsman of Escalus who wishes to marry Juliet.
Mercutio is another kinsman of Escalus, a friend of Romeo.
House of Capulet
Capulet is the patriarch of the house of Capulet.
Lady Capulet is the matriarch of the house of Capulet.
Juliet Capulet is the 13-year-old daughter of Capulet, the play's female protagonist
Tybalt is a cousin of Juliet, the nephew of Lady Capulet.
The Nurse is Juliet's personal attendant and confidante.
Rosaline is Lord Capulet's niece, Romeo's love in the beginning of the story.
Peter, Sampson, and Gregory are servants of the Capulet household.
House of Montague
Montague is the patriarch of the house of Montague.
Lady Montague is the matriarch of the house of Montague.
THE PLOT
The play, set in Verona, Italy, begins with a street brawl between Montague and Capulet servants who,
like the masters they serve, are sworn enemies. Prince Escalus of Verona intervenes and declares that
further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Capulet about
marrying his daughter Juliet, but Capulet asks Paris to wait another two years and invites him to attend a
planned Capulet ball. Lady Capulet and Juliet's Nurse try to persuade Juliet to accept Paris's courtship.
Meanwhile, Benvolio talks with his cousin Romeo, Montague's son, about Romeo's recent depression.
Benvolio discovers that it stems from unrequited infatuation for a girl named Rosaline, one of Capulet's
nieces. Persuaded by Benvolio and Mercutio, Romeo attends the ball at the Capulet house in hopes of
meeting Rosaline. However, Romeo instead meets and falls in love with Juliet. Juliet's cousin, Tybalt, is
enraged at Romeo for sneaking into the ball but is only stopped from killing Romeo by Juliet's father,
who does not wish to shed blood in his house. After the ball, in what is now famously known as the
"balcony scene", Romeo sneaks into the Capulet orchard and overhears Juliet at her window vowing her
love to him in spite of her family's hatred of the Montagues. Romeo makes himself known to her, and
they agree to be married. With the help of Friar Laurence, who hopes to reconcile the two families
through their children's union, they are secretly married the next day.
Tybalt, meanwhile, still incensed that Romeo had sneaked into the Capulet ball, challenges him to a
duel. Romeo, now considering Tybalt his kinsman, refuses to fight. Mercutio is offended by Tybalt's
insolence, as well as Romeo's "vile submission",[1] and accepts the duel on Romeo's behalf. Mercutio is
fatally wounded when Romeo attempts to break up the fight, and declares a curse upon both
households before he dies. ("A plague o' both your houses!") Grief-stricken and racked with guilt,
Romeo confronts and slays Tybalt.
Benvolio argues that Romeo has justly executed Tybalt for the murder of Mercutio. The Prince, now
having lost a kinsman in the warring families' feud, exiles Romeo from Verona, under penalty of death if
he ever returns. Romeo secretly spends the night in Juliet's chamber, where they consummate their
marriage. Capulet, misinterpreting Juliet's grief, agrees to marry her to Count Paris and threatens to
disown her when she refuses to become Paris's "joyful bride".[2] When she then pleads for the marriage
to be delayed, her mother rejects her.
Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a potion that will put her into a deathlike coma
or catalepsy for "two and forty hours".[3] The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the
plan so that he can rejoin her when she awakens. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug
and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt.
The messenger, however, does not reach Romeo and, instead, Romeo learns of Juliet's apparent death
from his servant, Balthasar. Heartbroken, Romeo buys poison from an apothecary and goes to the
Capulet crypt. He encounters Paris who has come to mourn Juliet privately. Believing Romeo to be a
vandal, Paris confronts him and, in the ensuing battle, Romeo kills Paris. Still believing Juliet to be dead,
he drinks the poison. Juliet then awakens and, discovering that Romeo is dead, stabs herself with his
dagger and joins him in death. The feuding families and the Prince meet at the tomb to find all three
dead. Friar Laurence recounts the story of the two "star-cross'd lovers", fulfilling the curse that Mercutio
swore. The families are reconciled by their children's deaths and agree to end their violent feud. The
play ends with the Prince's elegy for the lovers: "For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet
and her Romeo."[4]
THE FAVORITE CHARACTERS
-Romeo
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