What is the crisis or turning point of the Romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

This is a very difficult question. Many different answers arise and so it is up to you to chose whichever you think is most accurate.

The most popular answer seems to be the death of Tybalt, because it is a turning point in the play. This is definitely a major turning point because the death of Tybalt serves as the beginning to all of Romeo and Juliet's problems. However, I personally believe that this is, rather than the climax, the beginning of the rising action.

Others will say that the climax is when the Nurse finds Juliet (supposedly) dead. After her feigned death, the mood of the story is changed from happy (Juliet and Romeo being happy together, with hopeful looks toward their future; Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris looking forward to the wedding) to very melancholy (Romeo's misunderstanding about Juliet's feigned death, Lord and Lady Capulet's sadness at their dead daughter, the death of Lady Montague, the deaths of many others).

I personally believe that the true climax of the story is when Romeo and Juliet die. This is the final point of major action in the story, which often defines a climax. After this point, the story merely concludes, with a summary of the story from Friar Lawrence and Romeo's letter (read by the Prince), as well as our learning that Lady Montague also died and that the Montagues and Capulets are going to resolve their feud because of the large amount of casualties that have been suffered.

Answer 2

When Romeo gets banned from VeronaWhen Tybalt kills Mercutio and in return, Romeo kills Tybalt for killing this. In the preceding scenes, the theme of the play has been largely been based around love, with the theme of hate on the "back burner" ie it is looming over all the romance, creating a sense of foreboding. When Romeo kills Tybalt, he in turn over turns this arrangement, bringing hate to the fore, and tainting/upsetting the love he and Juliet share - ultimately leading to their demise.

Answer 3

Some of the most important moments in "Romeo and Juliet" are:

- Romeo and Juliet's meeting (their falling in love) at the party and promising to marry at the balcony scene

- The fight between the Capulets and Montagues in which Tybalt kills Mercurtio and Romeo in turn kills Tybalt (Romeo is banished for this)

- Juliet's father (Capulet) makes it clear that she will marry Paris

- Juliet fakes her own death in order to run away with Romeo

- The message Friar Lawrence has sent to Romeo detailing the plan of escape for Juliet and he is not delivered, he only learns of her "death"

- In the graveyard with Juliet's still body, Romeo commits suicide after killing Paris, and Juliet awakes to find Romeo dead. She then kills herself as well.

Answer 4

The death of Tybalt. Up until that point, the plan was to present the parents with a fait accompli of a consummated marriage, which the parents would likely accept, whatever their feelings about the other family. But the death of Tybalt meant that Romeo personally would suffer the anger of Mrs. Capulet particularly and Capulet as well to a certain extent, not because of what some other Montague had done, but because of what he himself had done, and it would be difficult if not impossible to reconcile the Capulets to having him as a son-in-law. They would sooner send out a hit man after him. (Mrs. C plans to do this anyway).

Answer 5

It depends which definition of climax you are using. In the Freytag pyramid sense it happens when Mercutio and Tybalt die in the street fight in Act III Scene 1, since Freytag climaxes always happen in Act III. From another perspective, the climax occurs when Romeo enters the Capulet tomb. This is the point the whole play has been moving toward, where the final consequences of the play happen and the tension is resolved.

Answer 6

Well, all of them really, but the most famous one is Act 2 Scene 2, sometimes known as the Balcony Scene.

Answer 7

Tybalt kills Mercutio.