Sunday, February 27

The End of Romeo and Juliet

Uh... it's over? Doesn't really seem like it.... I guess enough people are dead to declare it over, but I was very confused with the last page or two. Pretty much after Juliet killed herself (again) I got lost. But when I enjoyed when Juliet died (the first time) very much. To me it seemed like this is how it went...
-Enter a character
-Character: "Oh, oh,oh! She's dead, she's dead, she's dead! *comment specific to them, repeat 3 times*"
-Enter new character
-New character to old character "What has happened?!"
-"She's dead!" (new character repeats step 2 and process continues to repeat until the whole cast is just standing there looking at Juliet's dead body)

Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"O love! O life! Not life, but love in death!" -Paris, Act IV, Scene V, line 61

"O, I am slain! . . . Dies " -Paris, Act V, Scene III, line 72

"As I did sleep under this yew tree here," -Balthasar, Act V, Scene III, line 141

"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!" -Juliet, Act V, Scene III, line 174

"Look, and thou shalt see." -Prince, Act V, Scene III, line 224

And then there's an exchange between Friar Laurence and Balthasar in Act V, Scene III, lines130-133. It goes like this... Friar: Who is it?  Bal: Romeo.  Friar: How long hath he been there?  Bal: Full half an hour. It just made me smile because it seemed so normal!

1 comment:

  1. I know! It's suddenly over! That second one from Paris is one of my favorites, too. :)

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