After finishing Act 2 and 3, I am already more interested in the play. After all of the fighting and death, I am drawn into the play more, as I think things will be getting interesting with Romeo’s exile and the growing tensions with the two families. I don’t really get why Romeo wanted to kill himself because he thought Juliet thought he was a murderer. This just seems very unnecessary and a bit over the top. Romeo says to the Friar, “There is no world without Verona walls/But purgatory, torture, hell itself.” This is just annoyingly dramatic, and sort of makes the general idea of black and white decisions more clear as in love or death, nothing in between. The love at first sight idea is going forward, as they are still in love, but they are just having a harder time seeing each other now, as Romeo is about to be exiled.
I am mapping out the Nurse and Paris, so things were interesting in this act. In Act 3, the Nurse talks a lot about Romeo, after hearing that he has killed Tybalt. She tries to tell Juliet what an awful person he is, but she does not want to hear it, even though she admits he made a mistake. With Paris, the only time he is in this act is when he walks with Lord and Lady Capulet as they discuss his marriage plans with their daughter. The Capulets say that they will have the wedding on that Thursday, as they are sure that she will agree to the marriage. My main character Paris was not really in this section, so I supplemented with the Nurse. Next act should have more with Paris, hopefully. The battle between Mercutio and Tybalt just made me angry and upset. I haven’t liked Tybalt at all since I have started the reading of the novel. His constant anger and aggressiveness just was grinding my gears and I didn’t like him as a person. I did like Mercutio, however, as he gave Romeo some interesting advice back when Romeo was still trying to get over his past love. I think that Tybalt’s aggressiveness was completely the fault for the fight, as he provoked it. When Tybalt just saw Romeo, he said, “Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries/That thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.” He just went up to Romeo without Romeo even doing anything to Tybalt, and asks Romeo to fight him. It’s just aggravatingly provocative. I think Shakespeare wanted to kill them off so quickly so he could focus on developing other characters, like Paris, whom we haven’t heard much about yet. I think that in the end, Juliet is responsible for how the play ends. She has a Twilight-style decision in which she must choose between the suitor which her parents like and will be good for her named Paris (Jacob), or the forbidden and passionate love that her parents will in no way approve named Romeo (Edward). In Twilight, Bella chose the forbidden love Edward, and worked it out. I don’t think that Juliet’s family could work it out easily, so I don’t think this will happen here, but I am interested to see the details of how it is handled. Whatever decision she makes will completely drive the story one way or another. Even though I know what decision she makes, it would completely change the course of the story, making one or the other the main love interest and the other the pitiful failure. http://www.shmoop.com/romeo-and-juliet/tybalt.html This is a link out to an article that I thought gave a good analysis of Tybalt and how annoyingly aggressive he was.
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