Act One (Scene two to scene five) Notes

Character	Status	Relationships	Personality	Other details
Romeo	Montague	The youngest son of Montague family	Sensitive, brave, naive
Juliet	Capulet	The daughter of Capulet family	Naïve, full of passion towards love, brave
Nurse	Capulet	Juliet’s nurse	Talkable. Loud. pa.
Benvolio	Montague	Romeo’s close friend.	Caring and willing to take challenges.
Capulet	Capulet	Juliet’s father, the leader of the Capulet family.	Calm, caring
Lady Capulet	Capulet	Juliet's mother, the wife of Capulet.	Worrying, sensitive
Montague	Montague	Romeo’s father, the leader of Montague family.	Calm
Lady Montague		Romeo’s mother, the wife of Montague.	Kind, caring
Cousin Capulet	Capulet	The cousin of Capulet. Very close to Capulet	active, talks a lot, like to think of past
Mercutio	Montague	Romeo’s best friend.	outgoing, positive, active, willing to take challenging
Tybalt	Capulet	An upper-level member of Capulet.	Aggressive
Peter	Capulet	A servant int he Capulet househoold	Calm, Royal	He can’t read

Scene Two: In the beginning of the scene, Capulet was telling Paris how great Paris is and he and Juliet will make a great match. Then, he invited Paris to come over to his house for dinner at night so that Paris and Juliet can see each other. Then, Capulet hand the servant, Peter, a list of people to invite to the party at night. However, Peter can’t read. Therefore, he goes around the street to ask if anyone could read. At this moment, Romeo and Benvolio walks by and Peter decided to ask Romeo to help him. They helped Peter. After knowing that Rosaline will be at the party too, Benvolio started to ask Romeo to go to the party. In the end, Romeo finally decided to go to the party, but he was sure that there will be no such girl in the party that will make him feel in love.

Scene Three: Juliet’s mother came to talk with Juliet about her marriage with Paris. The nurse called Juliet out and stayed for the conversation. During the conversation, the nurse kept talking about Juliet’s childhood and other funny things that happened to her. Juliet’s mother listened and laughed with the nurse while Juliet being frustrated about it. When they finally got to the main point of the conversation-the marriage-Juliet showed a little interest to the man that asks for her hand. However, the nurse acted so much more exciting than her. Juliet’s mother ensured her that this man will be a good match for her and asked Juliet to check him out in the party at night. Juliet agreed to go to the party and said to ther mom she will “ look to like.”

Scene Four: Benvolio and Marcucio were both very excited about the custom party and they danced around. Romeo stands by their side and was worried something might go wrong. Benvolio talked to him that no one will found out who he is as long as he has the mask on, which is not true. Then, Mercutio started to talk about the crazy dream that he had last night. Just before Mercutio goes too far about it, Romeo stop his speech about the dream. Mercutio explained that he wanted to talk about the dream to show his feeling about something might go wrong. However, as the time being too late, three boys rushed to the party.

Scene Five: Roemo entered the party with his mask on. Benvolio and Mercutio decided to dress as the servants in the Capulet’s house. Capulet came out the welcome all the guests and wished everyone in the party a good night. Then, he goes to sit with his cousin and talked to him. Meanwhile, Romeo stands besides the crowd, not talking, not dancing. Nevertheless, as Juliet walks in front of him, dancing with another man, all his attention was on her and his eyes couldn’t stop following her around. As Romeo was so attracted by Juliet, he didn’t know that he was targeted by Tybalt already. Tybalt was so angry that such an uninvited Montague just joined the Capulet party. He raised his sword and wanted to go to kill Romeo. Capulet saw Tybalt and stop him. Capulet said to Tybalt that he had to just let Romeo go and not to harm him. Capulet dosen’t want any conflict in his party. On the other side, Romeo finally steped forward to talk with Juliet. As they talk with each other, they found themselves in love and kissed. Right after they kissed, Romeo had to leave. Them, Juliet asked the nurse to tell her who that young man is. The nurse told her, that was Romeo, the son of the Montague’s family. Juliet was suprised to know that he is a Montague. However, that didn’t stop her love towards him. She loves him anyways.

Personal Opinion: During scene two to scene five, almost all the characters in the play had gone on stage. The relationships among them had been stated too. In my opinion, the relationship between Juliet and Romeo established dramatically fast. Romeo was just talking about how he will never find another girl that he love, then, right after he met Juliet, he talked Juliet that he was in love with her. This made me feel suspicious about his love. On the other hand, It also reminds me of some people's questions about whether the relationship between Romeo and Juliet was love or not. Some people define their love as young people’s passion. I think know i understand why they question about the relationship.

On the other hand, I truely see how aggressive Tybalt it. I was thinking how Montague and Capulet family could have such a big confliction after getting warned by the Price. Now I understand, with such an aggressive character, it is impossible to have no conflict, and the conflict would only grow bigger and bigger.