blog 5

Remember that given circumstances refers to the WHO/WHERE/WHEN/WHAT of a character including: present circumstances (setting) recent/immediate past, historical past, possible future, relationships, character strengths, character vulnerabilities. The motivation includes the character's main goal for the scene, the overarching goal for the play, and the obstacles that are presented in the way of achieving the goal.

I play the role of Tybalt Capulet in Act 3 Scene 1. Tybalt wants to have a fight with Romeo because he thinks Romeo insults the honor of their house by sneaking into their party. He writes a letter to him offer about the battle and Romeo just doesn’t get the message. This is the background information which I should know. What is happing in our scene is that Tybalt kills Romeo’s close friend Mercutio which irritates him. Romeo revenges his friend by stabbing Tybalt to death.The fight happens in a street. We ignore the existence of Benvollio because we don’t have enough people to play the roles and we try to focus on the conflict among Mercutio, Roemo and Tybalt. Benvollio is not playing as important as these two charactter. I pick this scene because this scene is definitely a highlight in the play. It leads to the possible future different possibilities according to different readers. For example, I am worried about what will happen to Romeo and Juliet becuase Juliet has to choose from her own cousin and her just-married-husband. I also eager to know what will happen to Romeo because he may be punished by killing Mercutio and I wonder Juliet’s reaction. Some people may think they will still be together; some others may think they will break up after this event. It kinds of makes the sence more interesting. Tybalt is easy to perform because his characteristic is straight forward. His strength is his obstinate honesty to his house. His goal seems to kill Romeo. However, in my opinion, he is defending for the honor of his house. I appreciate his honesty to Cpulet Family frankly but I dislike his stubborn. He is also an arrogant person because he thinks he can beat Romeo in sword battle. He underestimates his enemy. He is killed by his arrogant. I want to show his proud of being a Capulet and scorn to the Montague. For the reason that he doesn’t achieve his goal at last, I want to show his regetful and unbelievable at the last moment. We separatethe scene into two parts. The first part I will emphasize on Tybalt’s arrogant and scorn to Mercutio. Mercutio is not a Montague though, he is neither a nobility. There is not only hostility to rival family but also the discrimination to lower classes. He is dominating at first. When Romeo involves in their argument, things have changed. His arrogance reach the peak when he humiliates Romeo and Romeo tries to make peace. I will empasize the tense atmosphere by creating serious background music, exaggerating Tybalt’s facail expression and body gestures. Just before he is defeated by Romeo, I will emphasize his desperation, unbelievable facail emption, and reget.