Explanation of the five days in the Lives of Romeo and Juliet The entire play Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, was in the span of four days. The hasty timeline is an essential aspect of the play. The timeline in Romeo and Juliet starts with a fight between two families and ends with both families' sons and daughters dying in the name of love. In Romeo and Juliet, the acts are around four days long, and each influences how the play played out. Acts 1 and 2 Act 1 Two families that hate each other are called Montague and Capulet. Young men from each family fight until the prince of Verona interferes and threatens to banish them. Later Lord Capulet decided to plan a feast. His goal is to introduce his daughter Juliet to Paris …show more content…
They both declared their love for each other and plan to get married the next day. Juliet's nurse decided to help with the marriage by arranging the marriage while Juliet goes to confession in Friar Lawrence's cell. they get secretly married. Act 1 is where all the important characters are introduced into the play. It also shows the feud between the two families which is the conflict. Romeo and Juliet are having a private first meeting with just the two of them. “Two households, both alike in …show more content…
Friar Lawrence helps Juliet by giving her a potion that makes her go to sleep as if she is dead. When the wedding guest come to greet Juliet the next day, they thought she is dead. The friar sends a message to Romeo to tell him about Juliet's plan, he is not allowed to come to the Capulet family to try to save Juliet. Act 3 has many important parts to the play, the death of both Tybalt and Mercutio has a big significance to the play because if they didn’t fight and if Romeo didn’t kill Tybalt after Mecutio was slain by Tybalt, Romeo would not have been banished and whatever happens later would not occur. “A pair of star-crossed lovers” (Prologue, 6). Act 4 shows the big plan for Romeo and Juliet to run away together. She takes the potion to pretend to die, and it felt so real that EVERYONE believed that she died. This plan caused a big conflict in Act 5. “Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee.” (4.3,