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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet. A Tragic Pattern: How the Play is Built. Tragedy: A narrative about serious and important actions that end unhappily. Usually ends with the death of main characters Sometimes innocent characters are affected Sometimes the main characters

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Romeo and Juliet

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  1. Romeo and Juliet

  2. A Tragic Pattern: How the Play is Built • Tragedy: A narrative about serious and • important actions that end unhappily. • Usually ends with the death of main • characters • Sometimes innocent characters • are affected • Sometimes the main characters • are responsible for their downfall

  3. Shakespeare’s Tragic Plays Five-Part Pattern ACT III Crisis / Turning Point ACT II Rising Action ACT IV Falling Action a ACT I Exposition ACT V Climax & Resolution

  4. Exposition(ACT I) • Establishes the setting • Introduces the main characters • Explains background • Introduces the characters’ • main conflict

  5. Romeo and Juliet(Exposition) Verona,Italy

  6. Rising Action (ACT II) • Consists of a series of complications • Occurs when main characters take action to resolve their problems

  7. Romeo and Juliet(Rising Action and Complications) Forbidden Love

  8. Crisis or Turning Point(ACT III) • Moment when a choice is made by one of • the main characters that determines the • direction of the action • Upward = happy ending (comedy) • Downward = sad ending (tragedy) • Dramatic and tense moment when the • forces of conflict come together

  9. Romeo and Juliet(Crisis/Turning Point) Fight between Romeo and Tybalt

  10. Falling Action(ACT IV) • Presents events that result from the action taken in the turning point • Events usually lock characters deeper into disaster • With each event we see each character falling into tragedy

  11. Romeo and Juliet(Falling Action) Juliet taking poison to avoid Paris at all costs

  12. Climax & Resolution(ACT V) • CLIMAX: • Highest point of emotional intensity of • the story • The greatest and final event that takes • place (death) • RESOLUTION: • The loose parts of the plot are tied up • and resolved • Any questions are answered • Signifies the end of the play

  13. Romeo and Juliet(Climax) “ O happy dagger!”

  14. Romeo and Juliet(Resolution ) “For never was there a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

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