Plot- Events that forms the entire play, it is the structure that brings the play together.
· In “Romeo and Juliet,” Shakespeare portrays two teenagers – Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet – who fall deeply in love, but with family feuds, complications are brought throughout the story. Deeply in love they marry secretly and make every effort to hide their meetings but all ended when Romeo, Juliet, Tybalt, Mercutio, and Paris all die.
1. Exposition – The information brought to the audience explaining the drama’s plot, history, setting, and theme.
· (Prologue) It starts with a fight scene of the rival families, showing how the two families have been feuding for a long time and that Romeo and Juliet will die because of the feud.
2. Inciting Incident or Conflict – Event or situation that sets the action and motion of the play.
· Montague’s vs. Capulet’s; these two families have been rivals from the very beginning and because of it the two lovers cannot be with each other ending them to commit suicide.
3. Rising Action – The events that build up tension in the drama causing further conflicts.
· The action starts to build up during the balcony scene where Romeo and Juliet confess their love for each other. Both fallen deeply in love, they decide to get married therefore planning out the wedding. The rising action continues through the marriage and the separation.
4. Climax – Turning point of the play.
· The climax happens when Juliet goes with the plan to pretend to be dead, but because Romeo does not know, he then commits suicide.
5. Falling Action – Events that follow after the climax.
· The action falls when Juliet awakes, finding her Romeo dead beside her, causing her to commit suicide after.
6. Denouement –Final action that completes the plot of the play.
· Friar Laurence arrives seconds too late to prevent the Romeo from committing suicide.
Character – People represented in a play.
· Protagonist – main character; character the story revolves around.
- Romeo and Juliet
· Antagonist – character or force that opposes the protagonist.
- The feuding family (Montague’s and Capulet’s); Tybalt; the Prince and citizens of Verona; fate
· Secondary Characters – Other characters besides the protagonist and antagonist.
- Friar Lawrence, Balthasar, Paris
Setting – Where and when the events of the play happen.
· Place or location of the action
· Provides historical period, the moment, day and season the events take place.
· These can be visually seen or eve heard from sound effects and music.
- The setting of the play “Romeo and Juliet,” is during the Renaissance (14th – 15th century) and is located in Verona and Mantua (cities in Italy)
Theme – Words and actions of the characters in the play that make up the plot and dramatized idea of the play.
- The theme to the play “Romeo and Juliet,” is love as a cause of violence; the certainty of fate; forcefulness of love
Style – Expression or presentation of the play.
- The style of the play “Romeo and Juliet,” is epic, passionate, and poetic.
Genre – Category of the play or drama.
- The genre of the play “Romeo and Juliet,” is a tragic drama (tragedy).
Script/Dialogue – Text written with dialogue and instructions of the play.
Music/Sound - The sound effects and music that builds the play, gives the play a little more feel.
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