Violence and Revenge Can Cause Consequences

By Mariam S Cherif
  • May 5, 1555

    Prince warns Montague and Capulet to stop fighting

    Prince "If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace" (I.i.98-99)
  • May 5, 1555

    Tybalt Sees Romeo at the Capulet Party

    Tybalt & Capulet "It fits when such a villain is a guest. I'll not endure him. . . . Be quiet, or-More light, more light!- for shame, I'll make you quiet!" (I.v.84-99)
  • May 6, 1555

    Tybalt goes looking to fight Romeo

    Tybalt "Romeo, the love I bear thee can afford No better term than this: thou art a villain" (III.i.61-62).
  • May 6, 1555

    Mercutio and Tybalt fight

    Mercutio "I am hurt. A plague o' both houses! I am sped. Is he gone and hath nothing? . . . Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man" (III.i.93-102)
  • May 6, 1555

    Romeo and Tybalt fight

    Romeo & Benvolio "That late thou gavest me, for Mercutio's soul . . . Staying for thine to keep him company. Either thou or I, or both must go with him. . . . Romeo, away, begone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain" (III.i.131-139).
  • May 6, 1555

    Romeo is Banished

    Prince "And for that offense Immediately we do exile him hence. . . . Let Romeo hence in haste, Else, when he is found, that hour is his last" (III.ii.196-205)
  • May 6, 1555

    Romeo wants to kill himself

    Romeo "Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, An hour but married, Tybalt murderéd, Doting like me, and like me banishéd, . . . And fall up the ground as I do now, Taking the measure of an unmade grave" (III.iii.68-74).
  • May 7, 1555

    Juliet drinks a vial to seem dead

    Juliet "Upon a rapier's point! Stay, Tybalt, stay! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink. I drink to thee" (IV.iii.58-60)
  • May 7, 1555

    Rome buys poison so he can die

    Romeo "Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear" (V.i.63-64).
  • May 7, 1555

    Romeo kills Paris

    Paris "O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, Open the tomb; lay me with Juliet"(V.iii.72-73)
  • May 7, 1555

    Romeo kills himself

    Romeo "Here's to my love. O true apothecary, Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die" (V.iii.119-120)
  • May 7, 1555

    Juliet kills herself

    Juliet "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O, happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die"(V.iii.174-175)
  • May 7, 1555

    Prince, Capulet, and Montague have found Juliet and Romeo

    Prince "Where be these enemies?-Capulet, Montague, See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love," (V.iii.301-303)