Group+D+Act+Five

Group D Act Five

In Act 5 Balthasar is an important character. I think that his actions show him as a loyal servant to Romeo. At the beginning of Act 5 he delivers the news that changes the whole story, he tells Romeo that Juliet is dead (5:1, 725). This shows that he is a loyal servant to Romeo and brings him the bad news. Romeo is struck by grief and then decides to visit the crypt. Balthasar gets the horses and they go to the crypt. Romeo tells Balthasar to leave or he will kill him. Balthasar stays and hides because he is loyal to Romeo and wants to make sure he is okay (5:3 729). Although this example seems to show him as unloyal, it would be more loyal to stay and make sure someone is okay, despite threats, than to leave him when he is acting strange. Another example is when he gives Romeo's letter to the prince like Romeo ordered him to. This also shows that he is a loyal servent and obeys Romeo's wishes even after he is dead. These examples show us that Balthasar is a loyal servant towards Romeo and does many things for him despite any danger there could be.
 * - Joshua Whitton**

Throughout the play the Capulets and the Montagues are rivals. At the end of the play both Romeo and Juliet die because of this rival. This makes both families realize that the rival had caused way to many problems for the two and that their rival had brought upon the death of many people. Father Capulet realizes this on page 740, act 5, scene 3, when he says, "O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter's jointure, for no more can I demand." throughout the play Father Capulet haates the montagues and is not willing to get along with the Montagues. Now, after his daughter and Romeo commited suicide because they were kept apart by this legendary rivalry, he gives up and suggests that they have a truce in honor of their children. He also manages to refer to Lord Montague as a brother, therefore indicating that the rival has ended and that they are now friends. this definately shows that Lord Capulet is a dynamic character and has changed drastically since the beggining of the play.
 * __Father Capulet (Character Changes)__**
 * - __Agustin Baler__**

__**Fater Capulet (Key Choices)**__ Father Capulet finds out why his daughter and Romeo died. This leads to his choice on page 740 5:3 He decides that the fight between the Capulets and Montagues must end. Father Capulet takes a Montague's hand and agrees that the two families should come together he says "O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter's jointure, for no more can I demand." This is a key choice because this choice should end the fued between the Capulets and the Montagues. This choice also brings the resolution of the play to come about. What probably influenced his choice is the fact that Father Capulet wanted his daughter to be happy and the joining of the Capulets and Montagues is what Juliet would have wanted. -Tim Roehm

__**Balthasar (Key Choices)**__ In Act V Balthasar finally enters the play, and he has a key role. On page 725, Balthasar hears that Juliet is dead. So Balthasar runs and tells Romeo of this news. This causes Romeo to buy poison to kill himself: not knowing that she is alive because of Balthasar. Then on page 729 Romeo tells Balthasar to leave but instead of going to get help he just stays and watches the whole graveyard scene play out. So at the end of the play Romeo dies, and one reason why he did was because of the decisions Balthasar made. - Galen Arbogast

__Father Capulet__ In 5:3, page 736, the Capulet's are called to the graveyard. They come because they are confused about the whole issue, since all they heard was "Romeo" or "Paris" or "Juliet", which isn't very helpful information to figure out what happened. When the Capulets go down in the grave, they see the dagger in Juliet instead of Romeo, making Father Capulet shocked and angry. As a reaction to this, he tells his wife that the dagger had missed its target (Romeo) and had gotten Juliet instead. This shows that at this point in the play, Father Capulet still hates the Montagues. -Lauren Carman

__**Balthasar (Literary Term:Dramatic Irony)**__ Throughout Act 5, Balthasar knew little of what was actually going on. In Scene 1, and on page 725, Balthasar travels to Mantua to tell Romeo that Juliet is dead. This was a critical mistake as Juliet wasn't actually dead. This in turn, leads to Romeo going to Juliet's tomb and killing himself and as you can see, a huge downward spiral ensues from the moment he told Romeo that Juliet was dead. Another thing that the audience knew but he didn't, was that Romeo bought poison from the apothecary. On page 729, in Scene 3, Balthasar let Romeo go into the tomb without knowing that he intended to drink the poison that he bought, and to die with Juliet. Unfortunately, a lot might have been prevented had Balthasar known as much as the audience. -Steven Tu