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Breakdown of Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Scene 3
Nutshell Summary: - At night, Paris arrives at the Capulet tomb to lay flowers for Juliet. - Romeo arrives; Paris challenges him; Romeo reluctantly fights; Paris dies. - Romeo reunites with sleeping Juliet, drinks potion, and dies. - Friar Laurence arrives just as Juliet wakes up. - Juliet sees Romeo dead and stabs herself. - The Prince, Montague, and the Capulets arrive and peace is established, the wasteland healed. - Montague announces that the sacrificial heroes will be immortalized in a statue. Apotheosis: Hero transcends human limitations; from death, hero is reborn as god.
Themes Discussed: (For more detailed discussion of THEME in Romeo and Juliet see https://dai.ly/x80qt0r)
- T5 Sacred marriage (irony); troubadour idea of authentic vs inauthentic love - T1 Wasteland: hero sacrifice; apotheosis — Hero transcends human limitations, from death, he/she is reborn as god. - T9 Revenge, the furies abandoned at last! - T10 In-group / out-group - T5 Sacred marriage (irony); troubadour idea of authentic vs inauthentic love - T11 Fate, both cosmic and fate of personality - T8 Dual nature of reality
Characters Discussed: (For more detailed discussion of CHARACTER in Romeo and Juliet see https://dai.ly/x80pud8)
-C7 Paris: Unworthy hero; narcissist, in love with own feelings = counterpart of Romeo? - C1 Romeo: worthy hero, leads with love, above in-group / out-group thinking - C1 Romeo: adolescent, rich boy jaded beyond his years, in love with his feelings of oppression (like Paris) - C5 Friar Laurence: failed hero, meddling fool, redeemed?
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