5/30/14
Morse
Period 7
Romeo and Juliet Alternate ending (replacing Act 4 and on)
Juliet runs to Friar Laurence and begs for guidance. Friar Laurence has a plan. He will speak to the Prince, a reasonable man, and get Romeo one more night in Verona so that
Romeo might have a chance to apologize to Juliet’s parents for the death of Tybalt. The
Prince agrees as one last hope of a truce between the two feuding families. Friar Laurence then tells Romeo about a potion that will make it seem as if one is dead for 42 hours. The plan is that on the night of the dinner Romeo will sneak through Juliet’s bedroom and into the kitchen and poison the rim of Lord Capulet’s wine glass. Paris is to be invited to the dinner and Juliet will tell him that he needs to impress the Nurse and that he should do so by preparing the cups and pouring the wine. Therefore framing Paris for the poison. When Lord
Capulet falls “dead” The Nurse is to accuse Paris followed by Juliet and Romeo. Soon the whole family will believe that Paris killed Lord Capulet and he will be hauled off to jail. Romeo will then tell Juliet’s parents that his friend Friar John has a potion that if administered in 42 hours will revive him. Romeo then returns to Friar Laurence who gives him a vial full of lavender water that looks like potion. Romeo returns, pours the vial down Lord Capulet’s throat right when he is to wake up and BOOM, Instant hero. That night the plan goes according to plan and Lord Capulet is alive and well and forever in debt to Romeo. The Prince reverses Romeo’s exile on account of his “heroism” and the peace between the Capulets and the Montagues. The feud between the two families is over, Romeo and Juliet are free to live their lives in love, and poor Paris rots in jail an innocent man that nobody believes. One of Romeo and Juliet”s biggest conflicts is Romeo’s exile. This conflict is introduced in Act 3 scene 3 after Romeo kills Tybalt. In the