Act III

 

Exposition: Mercutio and Benvolio are talking about there being the possibility of another quarrel between the families soon. This immediately shows foreshadowing to the fight about to happen. Tybalt enters and provokes Mercutio and they are about to fight when Romeo enters and attempts to break them up. Romeo knows he can’t let anything happen to Tybalt as he is now married to a Capulet.

 

Rising Action: Although he attempts to stop the fight, Tybalt stabs Mercutio underneath Romeo’s arm. Mercutio dies and Romeo avenges his death by killing Tybalt. The Capulets and Montagues are both enraged about the deaths and Romeo is banished, throwing Juliet into a state of extreme sorrow and disarray. That night they are supposed to consummate their marriage. Juliet sends nurse to Romeo with a ring and nurse tells Romeo of her grief, in which he tries to kill himself. He is given the ring and goes to see Juliet for the night.

 

Climax: Romeo leaves when Lady Capulet comes to tell Juliet she is to be married that Thursday. She refuses and her father threatens to disown her if she doesn’t agree to marriage.

 

Falling action: Juliet, willing to do anything to get out of the marriage with Paris goes to Friar Laurence for help, and so begins act 4.

 

 

 

Quotes

 

 

"Pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire.The day is hot; the Capulets, abroad;And if we meet we shall not ’scape a brawl,For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring." -Benvolio Act III scene one 

Benvolio knows that if they meet any of the Capulets that day there will surely be a fight, Mercutio doesn't listen to him and therefore ends up dead.

 

"No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. " - Mercutio Act III scene 1

Mercutio, even in death is remaning joking and lively not letting weakness show, but also forshadowing his sudden death.

 

"Come, gentle night, — come, loving black brow'd night,Give me my Romeo; and when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of Heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with night,And pay no worship to the garish sun." -Juliet Act III scene 2

Juliet is expressing her love for Romeo but also how she wish the rest of the world could see and fall in love with him as she has.

 

'Wilt thou be gone? it is not yet near day.It was the nightingale, and not the lark,That pierc'd the fearful hollow of thine ear;Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.Believe me love, it was the nightingale."-Juliet Act III scene 5 After their night together neither of them want to face the fact that now Romeo must leave and it will be a long time if she will ever see him again.

 

"Is there no pity sitting in the cloudsThat sees into the bottom of my grief?O sweet my mother, cast me not away!Delay this marriage for a month, a week,Or if you do not, make the bridal bedIn that dim monument where Tybalt lies." -Juliet Act III scene 5

Juliet is willing to do anything to simply stay with Romeo and Romeo alone, and absolutely does not want to marry Paris.