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Stage Four: Tybalt’s death. Romeo runs into Tybalt. They fight, and Tybalt is killed.
A few notes about the rising action:
- The rising action covers a lot of ground, from the meet-cute to the marriage to the major complication in Tybalt’s death.
- For some reason, Freytag totally skips over Mercutio’s death, which I found surprising. Mercutio is the man!
- Personally, if I were putting this play into a three-act structure, I would end act one with the garden scene and begin act two with their preparations for marriage. But that’s me. The point, though, is that this approach differs from the way most people look at a three-act story structure today. In fact, Freytag was more interested in a five-act plot structure.
Climax
Juliet urges Romeo to flee, and Romeo says goodbye to Juliet.



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