Cameron Santoro

Blog#4

2/13/14

The Beginning of the End

Act two gave us a hope that everything would turn out ok, however this isn’t meant to be. Tybalt is roaming the streets of Verona looking for Romeo( he wants to fight him for crashing the party) but then  me goes by Mercutio and Benvolio. Tybalt wants to fight, but Benvolio tries to talk them out of it. Mercutio doing what he does best, starts to mess with Tybalt. He essentially says that if he fights Tybalt the prince won’t hurt Mercutio because he is the cousin of the prince. Then Tybalt has enough, he kills Mercutio, and Romeo killed Tybalt. And this is when the tragedy starts. Some of the citizens summoned the prince to the crime scene where he decides to banish Romeo from the city. Now there are two major problems the main characters have to deal with, breaking Romeo and Juliet’s marriage to  the Capulets and Montagues, they now how have to find a way to get Juliet to go into Mantua with Romeo. Now they have to do this fairly quickly because Capulet has just arranged for Juliet to marry Paris on the coming Thursday. Wow, this really is the turning point in the play. Just because a minor character whose only real job was to provide comic relief for the play dies everything falls apart.

Cameron Santoro

Blog#3

2/9/14

Foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet

So far in Romeo and Juliet we have just witnessed the happiest moment in the play. Romeo and Juliet are married, Romeo isn't going to be put to death for killing Tybalt, and the Friar has put a plot together to smuggle Juliet into Mantua. But this will not be because this plan is going to get them all killed.  This is called foreshadowing because Romeo addresses the Friar as his “ghostly advisor”. Now this could merely mean that he is a priest and deals with spiritual things, but it also means that he is going to get them killed and they will be spirits.

But there is another example of foreshadowing in Act two scene two were Juliet says this, Yet I would kill thee for such cherishing. Right now she is saying that she is going to love him so much that she is going to kill him with it, and that is what happens. Love is the entire reason everything goes down here. When Juliet sees Romeo is dead she loves him so much she can’t live without him so she kills herself. Also, she kills Romeo because he didn’t know Juliet was sleeping in the tomb so he drinks the poison, she did kill him with her love.