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  • Act 1
  • "Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground and hear your moved prince. Three civil brawls.. have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets.
  • "If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace."
  • Act II
  • My true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth
  • You shall not stay alone Till Holy Church Incorporate two in one
  • Alive in triumph, and Mercutio slain?... And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!
  • Act III
  • Thou, wretched boy, dads consort him here, shalt with him hence
  • "And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone as with a club dash out my desp'rate brains?"
  • The importance of this fight scene is that it shows how much the families hate each other. They hate each other so much that they fight in the middle of the street because one family was being rude to the other. The Prince has to break up the fight and sets up a penalty of death if the families continue to fight.
  • Act IV
  • "What if it be a poison which the friar subtly hath minist'red re to have me dead, lest in this marriage he should be dishonored because he married me before to Romeo?"
  • This is when Romeo and Juliet get married. This is an important scene because it shows that they love each other so much that they are willing to marry each other even their families are enemies. Father Lawernce hopes this marriage would end the feud between the families.
  • Act 5
  • "Such drugs I have; but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them... My poverty but not my will consents."
  • "Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness and fearest to die? Famine is in thy cheeks... I pay thy poverty and not thy will."
  • This is when Romeo fights and kills Tybalt because Tybalt killed Mercutio. This is when the two families' anger with each other rise even more than before, which would possibly lead to more catastrophe.
  • Act 5
  • "Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger! This is my sheath; there rust, and let me die."
  • "A cup, closed in my truelove's hand? Poison, I see... Drunk all, and left no friendly drop to help me after?"
  • This is when Juliet is deciding whether or not she should drink the sleeping potion. This scene is important because her decision determines how the story will go. If she does take it, she will be with Romeo, but there is a chance that it will not work. If she doesn't take the potion, she will marry Paris and commit a sin. But in the end, she decides to take the potion after all of her unsettling thoughts.
  • This is when Romeo buys poison from the poor apothecary. This scene is important because Romeo did not hear the plan about how Juliet is alive and waiting for him in the tombs. This has created a huge problem, Romeo thinks Juliet is dead, and he wants to go to the tombs and die next to her.
  • This scene is important because it shows that after all of Romeo's and Juliet's hardships and the struggle for love, their result is death. This is important because the two lovers loved each other so much that they were willing to disobey their families to be together. Because their families hated each other, it created turmoil and conflict between their friends. Romeo's and Juliet's death is important because it shows that they love each other so much that they are willing to defy fate, their parents, and they will kill themselves if they can't be without one another.
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