The foreshadowing of feud

  My paper for the IB project, will be mainly focusing on the topic of how the feud between two families - Capulet and Montague foreshadows the final tragedy. Speaking of foreshadowing, it usually represents an inevitable ending, which in this play is the death of both Romeo and Juliet. Foreshadowing is an unique literary feature that can help me to accomplish a description on development along the plot. My main goal is to show the influence of conflict, and only certain events can support the idea. A few good examples would be the fighting scenes of Act 1 Scene 1 (The beginning)and Act 3 Scene 1(Where Mercutio and Tybelt died). This method improves my logical thinking because in order to manage and make good connections between those scenes, I have to perform better organization. Also, through the deeper exploration of foreshadowing, I will be able to have a clearer vision on the interpretation of why the scenes take place.

  The scenes that My group and I are going to perform is those two I mentioned in the former paragragh. I believe those scenes have the best demonstration of the feud between Capulet and Montague. There might be an extra part from Act 1 Scene 5(the feast held by Capulet, and Romeo sneaked in) depend on the timing of other scenes. I helps explaining the origin of the fight that takes place in Act 3 Scene 1, but it won't be as important. During the performance, I really want to show the extreme of the two sides' hatred. As we all know, Capulet and Montague's dissension was built during a long period of time, and will have horrible effect on their heirs - Romeo and Juliet. If the hatred can be interpreted during the fight, it might bring up the discussion of will Romeo and Juliet have a good ending under this scenario; and how will they undergo the pressure from it.

  In the final performance, there will be three actors participating. Eric will play as Mercutio in Act 3 Scene 1 and Capulet in Act 1 Scene 5(If necessary). Lucie will play as Romeo throughout the entire scenes. I will be Tybelt in those scenes. We are going to cut several lines in order for each person to  have the same lengths of speech. Also, the distribution of characters can add extra parts to fill the blank.