Group+A+Act+One

Group A Act One

 In act 1 scene 3, Lady Capulet decides to talk to Juliet about marriage. At first, she wants the conversation to be private, between only Juliet and herself, but soon decides that it would be best to have the nurse there as well.Lady Capulet says "Nurse, give leave awhile; we must talk in secret. Nurse, come back again. I have rememb'red me; thou's hear our counsel...". I think that this is an important event in the play because the nurse then goes on to show how well she knows Juliet, suggesting that the nurse knows Juliet better than Lady Capulet (Juliet's mother) does. She shows this by going on and on about tales of Juliet growing up(pgs 641-642). I think that Lady Capulet realizes that the nurse knows Juliet better, and wants her there for support, and to sway Juliets opinnion on the matter.

 -Abby Cotter

Character Changes

In act 1 we see Romeo depressed and saddened by Rosaline, mopping around and not wanting to do anything but stay inside his room, with the lights off and do nothing but think of how sad he is from his broken heart. He says over and over again how he will never get over Rosaline and how she was the one for him and that he loved her. Than we see him going to the party, trying to see his Rosaline again, and just as quickly as the love for her had appeared, it vanished. From the second he saw Juliet his love for Rosaline was gone and a new one had appeared for Juliet. Even though it was the first time he saw her, if you believe in love at first sight this isn't the hardest thing to believe. What caught my attention here though, was how quickly Romeo fell in love, out of love, and then in to love again. Even though i believe in love at first sight i think that Romeo may not be actually in love like he thinks, but is just in love with the idea of being in love. This i believe may have something to do with the household he grew up in, I feel like maybe his family life isnt really the greatest, and that maybe he never really got the love or attention he wanted, and is now searching for it, and whenever he thinks he has found it he will go for it will all his heart. ~Anna

Throughout the course of Act One of Shakepeare's Romeo and Juliet, Romeo has a dramatic mood change from the beginning of the Act up until the end of the Act. On page 635, 1:1, Romeo is very depressed because of love. He weeps to his cousin Benvolio, saying "Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate, O anything of nothing first created! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!" He expresses to Benvolio how upset he is because he was rejected by Rosaline, the girl he thought he loved. He tells Benvolio that there is no other girl for him and that the girl he loves is beautiful and amazing. Romeo is still greatly depressed when he goes to a Capulet party later that evening, refusing to dance or have fun at the party because he is so sad. Suddenly, Romeo goes through a veyr dramatic mood change when he sees Juliet at the party. In 1:5, he says "Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." In an instant, Romeo is suddenly happy and quickly falling in love with another women. It was like he was never depressed in the first place! ~Rebecca Lopez

In the first four acts, Romeo has been very depressed. He loves Rosaline but she rejects him. On page 636, he says, "She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow." He is in such a great depression that he can only talk about his problems. On page 637, Benvolio tries to get his mind off Rosaline by looking at other women but he says, "Tis the way to call hers, exquisite, in question more." What he means is looking at other women will only make him think of Rosaline more. Even at the party, he is depressed. On page 644, Mercutio and Benvolio try to get him to dance but all he says is, "I have a sould of lead so stkes me to the ground I cannot move." All he wanted to do was wallow in his sadness. ~Nicole Rabe

Romeo's Key Choice: In scene five, Romeo makes a key choice when he went up to Juliet at the party. As a result of going up and talking to her, he ended up kissing her, without even knowing anything about her. Although Romeo knows that his family (the Montague's) and the Capulets are enemies, he did not know that she was a Capulet. But Romeo should have known that kissing a "guest" at the party, could cause danger, since it was a Capulet's party. This key choice of his will soon cause great drama between the two families. ~Aryana Nakhai

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During act 1 and scene five of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo makes a desicion in going to a party that Juliet attends, in other words, a Capulet party. In my opinion I think that Romeo is not in the wrong for attending a Capulet party, even though he is a Montegue, their mortal enemy. As Romeo arrives at the party he is immediatly spotted by Tybalt. On page 650 Tybalt says to Capulet "Uncle, this is a Montague, our foe, a villain, that is hither come in spite to scorn at our solemnity this night." This states that he has discovered the apperance of a Montegue is at the party, and at once must be killed. Capulet talks with Tybalt and explains to him that he is in there presence in a non harmful way and to let him be. Although Romeo is at a Capulet party, he is mainly there to accompany his fellow friend Benvolio and to see his love, Rosaline. I think that Romeo was wise to go to the party because when he sees Juliet for the first time, he discovers what love really feels like. As soon as they kiss, Romeo feels less depressed about Rosaline and suddenly forgets all about her. =====