Romeo and Juliet Characters

The Montague Family

Those and them loyal

Romeo Montague

*About 16 years old

*from an upperclass family

*Tragic Flaw: In love with the idea of being in love

Lord Montague

*Romeo's father

*Often referred to as just Montague

Lady Montague

*Romeos mother

Benvolio

*Romeos cousin + friend

*Benevolent (good natured. well meaning. kindly, trustworthy)

*Ussually is not bias

Abram

* a Montague servingman (servant)

Balthasar

*Romeos servingman

*more dedicated to serving and working for specifically Romeo

Mercutio

*Romeo's best friend; no blood relation

*related to the prince Escalus (prince of Verona)

*Sassy, rude, crude, speaks his mind

The Capulet Family

Juliet

*she is turning 14

*Romeo's love interest throughout the vast majority of the play (after Rosaline)

Lord Capulet

*Juliet's father

*often referred to as just "Capulet"

*head of the family rivaling with the Montague's

Lady Capulet

*Juliet's mother

Nurse

*Juliet's nursemaid and caretaker

*shes raised Juliet and is responsible for meeting Juliet's needs (kind of like a nanny but with greater responsibilities)

* Juliet's confidant

*Heavyset and dumb-witted

Tybalt

* Juliet's cousin

*hotheaded

*always ready to fight

Romeo And Juliet [Script + Device Vocab]

Script Vocab

Prologue

-part of story that comes before main actions and intro

-the prologue for romeo and juliet gives an overview of the entire play

~why do you think plays include this info?

Epilogue

-a short section at the end of the story; a way of wrapping up or giving final thoughts

Dialogue

-the words that characters exchange when speaking with one another

~Point to Note: all end in -logue

-Etymology: from french... -logue from ancient greek -oros (-logos "one who speaks in a certain manner")

Player

-Term that means actor/ess

Stage Directions

-not meant to be spoken

-info that is written into the script to tell how the player should perform

- often set off by italics

Act

-A large division of a play

-most plays have 3-5 acts

Scene

Smaller division of a play

scenes are marked with in a act

Chorus

a special narrator or announcer

Device Vocab

Dramatic Irony: when the reader or audience knows something about what is happening in the story but the characters in the story don't know

Situational Irony: The player realized the situation or event is opposite of what s/he previously expected or thought

Verbal Irony: Sarcasm; words spoken different/sharply in meaning from the actual meaning

Pun: a Shakespearean favorite; this is a humorous play on words to produce a double meaning

Comic Relief: a break in a very serious scene

a character says or does something funny but related to the scene. It lightens the mood momentarily.

Soliloquy: A long speech made by one character alone on stage and is used to communicate inner thoughts and feelings to the audience

Monologue: similar to soliloquy but occurs with other players on stage; there are many significant monologues in ROM. including Mercutio's queen mab speech

Aside: lines spoken by a player in a way that suggests that the other characters on the stage can not hear but audience can

Allusion: an appearance or reference to another peice of literature or art

Foreshadowing: a hint or suggestion of things to come

Simile: 2 unlike things compared using like or as

Metaphor: see "simile" w/ out using like or as

Hyperbole: great overstatement or exaggeration

Foil: (No not aluminium) equal but opposite character [alternate ego]

Tragedy Plot

Plot:

Tragedy's Plot...Regular....

1) Exposition: Introduction of main characters

Hero will start out favorably

Author will plan seeds in readers mind of developing problem

Intro of secondary main characters

2) Rising Action: Here the author will inject some crisis that puts pressure on the hero

Events begin to work against the main character

He will need to make some difficult decisions

Unfortunatly and at the worst possible time, his tragic flaw will get in the way

causing him to make a bad irreversable decision

nothing the main character can do to stop it

as the readers we see sadness, destruction and possible death looming

3) Climax: While we thin of the word climax as something big, but its actually more subtle

It is the highest point of tension in tragedy however it comes later than we usually expect.

the climax of a tragedy begins to reveal the total downfall and complete destruction of the main character.

4) Falling Action: Readers sinse the main characters destruction but others close to him may not or may also be ruined

Main character might try to make last attempts but the situation has already spun out of control

As readers, we are aware of doom, but read further to see how it will unfold and to what degree

5) Denouement: Readers learn how the main character ends up. It will be sudden to the main character. The problem may be solved, but it will be in a very sad way. Reader may cry/want to cry for main character after all, he could of been a likeable person