2. SETTINGS
TIME:
1. Renaissance
(fourteenth or
fifteenth
century)
PLACE:
1. Verona
2. Mantua (cities
in Northern
Italy) in Act V,
scene 1

3. Romeo
The hero and one of the protagonists of Romeo and Juliet. The son of Lord
Montague. In love at first sight with Rosaline, which is Lord Capulet’s niece.
When he goes to a feast hosted by Lord Capulet, he attends the feast in a
mask, meets Lord Capulet’s daughter Juliet, falls in love with her, and
becomes passionate and impulsive lover.
Juliet
The heroine and one of the protagonists of the play. She is the thirteen-year-
old daughter of Lord Capulet. She is an innocent girl who falls in love with
Romeo.
Friar Laurence
The person who is responsible for helping Romeo and Juliet. He hopes by
marrying off Romeo and Juliet, their family will come in peace and ends their
long feud.
The Nurse
A friend, guide and educator of Juliet. She has raised and breastfed Juliet
and treat her as her own daughter. She is a realist, who is fond of talking and
joking.

4. Exposition: - Feuding street fight
between Capulet and Montague
families
- Romeo sad Rosaline is not
interested in him
- Juliet told to marry Paris
Rising Action: - Romeo and Juliet
meet at the Capulet Masquerade
party
- Romeo and Juliet profess their
love during balcony scene
- Romeo and Juliet marry
- Romeo runs in Tybalt
Climax: Romeo kills Tybalt
Falling Action: - Romeo and Juliet
consummate their marriage
- Romeo takes refuge in Mantua
- Romeo learns of Juliet’s death
- Romeo buys illegal poison from
the Apothecary
Catastrophe: Romeo and
Juliet both die and the feud
ends

5. Unrequited
love
Unrequited love is an important thematic
element in the play, which presents the sensual
love advocated by Romeo and Juliet. Because of
their family’s feud, they need to keep their
relationship in secret without nobody knows
about it.
Fate and
Chance
Although the Friar arranged for Juliet to flee
with Romeo, but fate seems to have other plan
by a series of unlucky chances. In the end of
the play, both Romeo and Juliet died together.
Arguments in favour of fate often refer to the
description of the lovers as "star-crossed". This
phrase seems to hint that the stars have
predetermined the lovers' future.

6. The act of addressing some abstraction or personification that is not physically present. It may be an
individual present or absent in the scene and it can also be an inanimate object.
Example: “Alas, that love, so gentle in his view, should be so tyrannous and rough in proof!”- Benvolio
*Benvolio is talking to Romeo about love, as if love was alive and had a physical appearance that could
look nice.
An indirect comparison between two things that aren’t really alike. A metaphor links the two things in a
sentence without using the words like or as.
Example: “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”
- Romeo
*Here, Romeo is comparing Juliet’s beauty to the sun.
A direct comparison between two things that aren’t really alike. A simile uses like or as to make the
comparison.
Example: “True, I talk of dreams; which are the children of an idle brain, begot of nothing but vain
fantasy; which is as thin of substance as the air,”- Mercutio
*Mercutio compares dreams to the air and how fast they can change like the course of the wind.
Giving human characteristics to something that isn’t human, or writing about inanimate things as though
they had human characteristics.
Example: “Thou know’st the mask of night is on my face.”- Juliet
*It is night outside and it is so dark out that Juliet can not be seen like there is a mask over her.
Apostrophe
Metaphor
Personification
Simile