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can anyone PLEASE help ds with his course work

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2shoes · 21/02/2007 15:19

does anyone know what happens in the beach scene when Mercutio argues with Tybalt in Romeo & Juliet??????

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southeastastra · 21/02/2007 15:20

no i have no idea

hairymclary · 21/02/2007 15:20

no, i can't remember. doesn't he have the book there?

sassy · 21/02/2007 15:24

Do you mean Act3 sc1, the big fight?

Tybalt tries to pick a fight with Romeo, Romeo won't be drawn cos he has just married Juliet. Mercutio can't stand to see his best mate insulted and takes Tybalt on himself.

Romeo tries to break the fight up, but Tybalt wounds Mercutio due to R's intervention. M goes off stage and dies.

R loses it completely, chases T and kills him. Then Benvolio remnds R that he is now likely to be executed for street brawling, R flees the scene and the Prince turns up to hear about events from B.

LIZS · 21/02/2007 15:25

what beach, it is set in Verona ?!! Mercutio kills Tybalt but as that is essential to any understanding of the plot should n't he try to read it for himself ?!

LIZS · 21/02/2007 15:25

Sorry t'other way round

KezzaG · 21/02/2007 15:26

act 3 scene 1

if it is that scene this might help

JanH · 21/02/2007 15:26

I didn't think there was a beach...is there an alternative film version which they have been shown or something?

JanH · 21/02/2007 15:28

1996 - set in Verona Beach

scorpio1 · 21/02/2007 15:28

try this?

snowleopard · 21/02/2007 15:28

You may be getting confused because there's a beach in the Baz Luhrman film. There's no beach in the original play.

It's not a very long scene, so could you sit down with DS and read through it?

sassy · 21/02/2007 15:29

The beach scene is the Baz Luhrmann version with Leo DiCaprio. A blardy nuisance for English teachers, as we now have have so many essays ending _"and then Juliet takes Romeo's gun and shoots herself".
Grrr.

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2shoes · 21/02/2007 15:31

thankyou thank you.
He has read it and seen it but as we all know 15 yr olds have brains like sieves and his note taking is not what it should be. Hopefully this drama has taught him a valuable lesson.
he says thanks as well

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Ladymuck · 21/02/2007 15:32

Please tell me that the ds in question is meant to be answering about the film and not the play....

Ladymuck · 21/02/2007 15:32

Has he been to see the play?

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2shoes · 21/02/2007 15:35

he have to answer
why act 3 scene 1 is such an important and exiting scene and he is going to compare the play and the film.

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snowleopard · 21/02/2007 15:43

It changes the whole course of the play. If Tybalt hadn't killed Mercutio, Romeo wouldn't have killed Tybalt, he wouldn't have been banished, and the mix-up wouldn't have happened and the tragic ending wouldn't come about. It's the pivotal point of the play.

Having said that, DS may not quote me! He has to understand it himself.

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2shoes · 21/02/2007 16:09

He says thanks that helped.
I never did any of this at school so haven't a clue.

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deaconblue · 21/02/2007 16:27

It's only a beach scene in the Leonado de Caprio film. Glad to see schools are teaching from the film rather than the text

JanH · 21/02/2007 16:34

Presumably they will teach from any source that they think will grab their students' attention (doesn't seem to have worked in this instance however )

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2shoes · 21/02/2007 16:51

I don't think it has quite grabbed him tbh

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