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| Character | Romeo | |
|---|---|---|
| Gender | Male | |
| Age Range(s) | Teenager (13-19), Young Adult (20-35) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | In love, Lamenting, Frustrated | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Period | Renaissance | |
| Genre | Tragedy | |
| Description | Juliet expresses her love for Romeo | |
| Location | ACT II, Scene 2 | |
Summary
In the city of Verona we find two quarreling families, the Montegues and the Capulets. Romeo belongs to the Montegue family and Juliet to the Capulets. In this first scene of the play a fight takes place between servants and kinsmen of the two families until the Prince of Verona stops them. Benvolio runs into his cousin Romeo who tells him he is in love with Rosaline who has sworn to live a life of chastity and therefore does not return her love. Benvolio advices him to forget about her but Romeo won't listen to him.
The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family asks Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, to meet his daughter Juliet at the party and court her. He wants him to marry her but wait at least two years since she is thirteen years old.
Mercutio convinces his friend Romeo to join him and his friends at the Capulet party. Romeo is reluctant but then accepts to go. There he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. He meets her and they kiss. Juliet doesn't know that Romeo is a Montegue and later finds out from her nurse. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, notices that they are at his party and wants to start a fight but is stopped by Capulet. Romeo and his friends leave the party but then Romeo decides to go back and meet Juliet again. He climbs into the Capulet's orchard and there he sees Juliet at the window. He wants to speak to her but then decides not to.
In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 2, Juliet, not knowing that Romeo is there, expresses her love for him and laments the fact that he is a Montegue.
The Capulets throw a masquerade party at their house. Capulet, the father of the Capulet family asks Paris, a kinsman to the Prince, to meet his daughter Juliet at the party and court her. He wants him to marry her but wait at least two years since she is thirteen years old.
Mercutio convinces his friend Romeo to join him and his friends at the Capulet party. Romeo is reluctant but then accepts to go. There he meets Juliet and instantly falls in love. He meets her and they kiss. Juliet doesn't know that Romeo is a Montegue and later finds out from her nurse. Tybalt, Juliet's cousin, notices that they are at his party and wants to start a fight but is stopped by Capulet. Romeo and his friends leave the party but then Romeo decides to go back and meet Juliet again. He climbs into the Capulet's orchard and there he sees Juliet at the window. He wants to speak to her but then decides not to.
In this monologue, in ACT II, Scene 2, Juliet, not knowing that Romeo is there, expresses her love for him and laments the fact that he is a Montegue.
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| JULIET O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. [ROMEO [Aside] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?] JULIET 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. |
