Thursday, April 14, 2011

Summary 11: Act 5, Scene 1, 2, and 3

Summary - Romeo has a dream that Juliet kisses him and he is awakened. Then his servant brings him news of Juliet's death and burial. So he has him return home and get ready to go to the graveyard. So he goes to a poor pharmacist and buy poison which is illegal to sell and give the man lots of gold so that he may live wealthy. Then Romeo heads toward Verona. Friar Lawrence is at his cell when Friar John arrives and tells him of bad news that he had been stuck in a house because there was an illness and they didn't want it to spread so he was stuck there. Also that no one would deliver the letter because they were scared of getting the illness. So John handed the letter back to Friar. So Friar decided he would have to save Juliet himself and inform Romeo with the plan later. Paris and his Page are at the grave and Paris has the Page put the torch out and be on lookout for anyone who may come. If he is to see someone he is to whistle as a signal to Paris. So Paris hears a whistle and goes and hides in the dark as not to be seen. Then he sees Romeo and his servant talking. Romeo is telling his servant to deliver a letter to his father and to leave right away and not come back for if he does he will kill him. So he leaves, but stay's in the cemetery and falls asleep. Then Paris comes out of the darkness to attack Romeo because he thinks he is going to mess with Juliet and Tybalt's bodies. So the get in a sword fight and Romeo wins and Paris dies and the Page goes for help. So Romeo opens the coffin put Paris inside then he gets inside drinks the poison and dies. The Friar goes inside and sees Romeo's servant and asks where is Romeo and he tells him up at the tomb by the Friar gets there Juliet is waking up and the Friar sees the two dead bodies and tells Juliet to come with him and become a nun, but she said no and told him to leave so he did. Then she took Romeo's dagger and stabbed herself and died. When the police arrived they arrested Friar and Romeo's Servant. Then when the Prince and both families had arrived the Friar told the story. Then the families made peace and they promised each other they would make gold statues for each other. Then there was a very sad day for the loss of all three of them Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. 


My Part - All three of them dead and the emotions being shown by everyone.

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