Romeo and Juliet - GCSEPod (Plot Overview)
- Introduce the two families (Montague and Capulet)
- Both rich in Verona
- Long-standing feuds
- Start = Fight between families
- Started by servants
- Stopped by Prince Escalus
- ‘If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of
the peace’
Benvolio is then left with Montague and Lady Montague who are concerned about Romeo
- Benvolio goes to speak with Romeo, Romeo confesses to loving Rosaline
- ‘In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman’
MEANWHILE:
Paris is asking Capulet if he can marry Juliet
- Capulet feels Juliet is too young
Romeo then gatecrashes the Capulet party after finding out that Rosaline would be there
- Tybalt notices but Capulet refuses to start a fight
- ‘I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet convert to a bitter
gall’
Romeo and Juliet Meet:
- See each other and instantly fall in love
- Later find out they’re on rivalling families
Romeo enters Capulet garden
- Agree to marry the next day
Friar agrees to help as it may end the feud
Nurse agrees also
Mercutio and Benvolio see Tybalt but Romeo is now related to Tybalt and therefore doesn’t
want to fight
- Romeo is then thought of as a coward
Although Mercutio then dies
- Romeo is extremely upset and kills Tybalt
Result = Romeo is banished
★ Friar tells Romeo to see Juliet then to go to Mantua
○ Hopes that will buy time for Frair to explain everything so Romeo is pardoned
- Introduce the two families (Montague and Capulet)
- Both rich in Verona
- Long-standing feuds
- Start = Fight between families
- Started by servants
- Stopped by Prince Escalus
- ‘If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of
the peace’
Benvolio is then left with Montague and Lady Montague who are concerned about Romeo
- Benvolio goes to speak with Romeo, Romeo confesses to loving Rosaline
- ‘In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman’
MEANWHILE:
Paris is asking Capulet if he can marry Juliet
- Capulet feels Juliet is too young
Romeo then gatecrashes the Capulet party after finding out that Rosaline would be there
- Tybalt notices but Capulet refuses to start a fight
- ‘I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall now seeming sweet convert to a bitter
gall’
Romeo and Juliet Meet:
- See each other and instantly fall in love
- Later find out they’re on rivalling families
Romeo enters Capulet garden
- Agree to marry the next day
Friar agrees to help as it may end the feud
Nurse agrees also
Mercutio and Benvolio see Tybalt but Romeo is now related to Tybalt and therefore doesn’t
want to fight
- Romeo is then thought of as a coward
Although Mercutio then dies
- Romeo is extremely upset and kills Tybalt
Result = Romeo is banished
★ Friar tells Romeo to see Juliet then to go to Mantua
○ Hopes that will buy time for Frair to explain everything so Romeo is pardoned
