The play begins with a fight between two families who are the Capulets and the Montagues. While they were fighting, the Prince arrived,and warned both families that further fighting between the two will be punished by death. Romeo's parents were worried about him since they saw him looking all upset and avoiding everyone. His reason for sadness is that Rosaline, his love does not return his affections. On the other side of the family, Paris was asking Lord Capulet's permission to let him marry his daughter Juliet but Capulet told him she "hasn't seen the change of fourteen yet" but decided to throw a party.
When Romeo and Benvolio learned that there is going to be a ball, Benvolio advices Romeo to go to the Capulet ball where he will meet Rosaline and also will examine a lot of other beauties.Romeo goes to the Capulet party and meets Juliet. When Juliet discovered Romeo was a Montague, she says to herself, " My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love, it is to me, that I must love a loathed enemy." She said that line because since Romeo is a Montague, she cannot fall in love with him but it was too late since she already fell in love with him. During the famous balcony scene, Romeo an Juliet exchange vows and decided to marry the very next day!
The first thing Romeo does in the morning is visit Friar Laurence. He asked the Friar to marry him with Juliet. The Friar agreed to Romeo because he thought once Romeo and Juliet gets married, the feuding between the two families would end. When Friar says, "Wisely and slow, they stumble they ran fast" which means that Romeo should go slow because people who are in rush mostly fails.
When Mercutio and Tybalt got into a fight, Romeo tried to break the fight down and Mercutio got stabbed under Romeo's arm by Tybalt. When Mercutio is dying, he says, "No, 'tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm”. It means that Mercutio was really mad at Romeo for breaking the fight and of course mad at Tybalt for stabbing him. He blamed the Capulet and Montague. When Romeo heard that Mercutio was dead, he became furious and fights Tybalt and killed him.
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