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The narrator bids us listen and declares that 'Billy Pilgrimhas come unstuck in time.' Billy travels randomly through the momentsof his life without control over his chronological destination.Born in 1922 in Ilium, New York, Billy growsup a funny-looking weakling. He graduates high school and trainsto be an optometrist before being drafted. After his military servicein Germany, he suffers from a nervous collapse and is treated withshock therapy. He recovers, marries, has two children, and becomesa wealthy optometrist.
In 1968, Billy survives a planecrash in Vermont; as he is recuperating, his wife dies in an accident.After returning home, Billy goes on a radio show in New York Cityto talk about his abduction by aliens in 1967. Histwenty-one-year-old daughter, Barbara, discovers his proselytizingand brings him home, concerned for his sanity. The following month,Billy writes a letter to his local paper about the aliens.
The day the letter is published, Billy is hard at workon his second letter to the Ilium newspaper about lessons he learnedwhen he was taken to the planet Tralfamadore. He is glowing withthe expectation that his letter will console many people by explainingthe true nature of time. Barbara is distraught by his behavior.She arrives at his house with newspaper in hand, unable to get Billyto talk sense.
Billy describes his entry into the army, his trainingas a chaplain's assistant in South Carolina, and his dazed trekbehind enemy lines after the disastrous Battle of the Bulge in WorldWar II. After the battle, Billy falls in with three other Americansoldiers, two of whom are scouts and capable soldiers. The one whois not, the antitank gunner Roland Weary, is a cruel, insecure manwho saves Billy's life repeatedly in acts that he thinks will makehim a hero.
Billy first time-shifts as he leans against a tree ina Luxembourg forest. He has fallen behind the others and has littlewill to continue. He swings through the extremes of his life: theviolet light of death, the red light of pre-birth. He is then asmall boy being thrown into the deep end of the YMCA swimmingpool by his father, a proponent of the 'sink-or-swim' method.
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Billy time-travels to 1965. Heis now forty-one years old and visiting his mother in a nursinghome. He blinks and finds himself at a Little League banquet forhis son, Robert, in 1958. He blinks again andopens his eyes at a party in 1961, cheatingon his wife. Messily drunk, he passes out and wakes up again behindenemy lines. Roland Weary is shaking him awake.
Summary: Act 5, scene 1
Then I defy you, stars.
See Important Quotations ExplainedOn Wednesday morning, on a street in Mantua, a cheerfulRomeo describes a wonderful dream he had the night before: Julietfound him lying dead, but she kissed him, and breathed new lifeinto his body. Just then, Balthasar enters, and Romeo greets himhappily, saying that Balthasar must have come from Verona with newsof Juliet and his father. Romeo comments that nothing can be illin the world if Juliet is well. Balthasar replies thatnothing can be ill, then, for Juliet is well: she is in heaven,found dead that morning at her home. Thunderstruck, Romeo criesout 'Then I defy you, stars' (5.1.24).
He tells Balthasar to get him pen and paper (with whichhe writes a letter for Balthasar to give to Montague) and to hirehorses, and says that he will return to Verona that night. Balthasarsays that Romeo seems so distraught that he is afraid to leave him,but Romeo insists. Romeo suddenly stops and asks if Balthasar iscarrying a letter from Friar Lawrence. Balthasar says he is not,and Romeo sends his servant on his way. Once Balthasar is gone,Romeo says that he will lie with Juliet that night. He goes to findan apothecary, a seller of drugs. After telling the man in the shopthat he looks poor, Romeo offers to pay him well for a vial of poison.The Apothecary says that he has just such a thing, but that sellingpoison in Mantua carries the death sentence. Romeo replies thatthe Apothecary is too poor to refuse the sale. The Apothecary finallyrelents and sells Romeo the poison. Once alone, Romeo speaks tothe vial, declaring that he will go to Juliet's tomb and kill himself.
Read a translation of Act 5, scene 1 →Summary: Act 5, scene 2
At his cell, Friar Lawrence speaks with Friar John, whomhe had earlier sent to Mantua with a letter for Romeo. He asks Johnhow Romeo responded to his letter (which described the plan involving Juliet'sfalse death). Friar John replies that he was unable to deliver theletter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreakof plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that if Romeodoes not know about Juliet's false death, there will be no one toretrieve her from the tomb when she awakes. (He does not know thatRomeo has learned of Juliet's death and believes it to be real.) Sendingfor a crowbar, Friar Lawrence declares that he will have to rescueJuliet from the tomb on his own. He sends another letter to Romeoto warn him about what has happened, and plans to keep Juliet inhis cell until Romeo arrives.
Read a translation of Act 5, scene 2 →Analysis: Act 5, scenes 1–2
The sequence of near misses in this section reveals theinescapable work of fate. There is no reason for the friar's planto go wrong. But an outbreak of plague forces Friar John into quarantineand prevents him from delivering Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo,while Balthasar seeks out Romeo with news of Juliet's death. Justas the audience senses an inviolable fate descending on Romeo, sotoo does Romeo feel himself trapped by fate. But the fate the audience recognizesand the fate Romeo sees as surrounding him are very different. Theaudience knows that both Romeo and Juliet are bound to die; Romeoknows only that fate has somehow tried to separate him from Juliet.When Romeo screams 'Then I defy you, stars' he is screaming againstthe fate that he believes is thwarting his desires (5.1.24).He attempts to defy that fate by killing himself and spending eternitywith Juliet: 'Well, Juliet,' he says, 'I will lie with thee tonight'(5.1.34). Tragically, it is Romeo's verydecision to avoid his destiny that actually brings fate about. Inkilling himself over the sleeping Juliet he ensures their ultimatedouble suicide.
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At his cell, Friar Lawrence speaks with Friar John, whomhe had earlier sent to Mantua with a letter for Romeo. He asks Johnhow Romeo responded to his letter (which described the plan involving Juliet'sfalse death). Friar John replies that he was unable to deliver theletter because he was shut up in a quarantined house due to an outbreakof plague. Friar Lawrence becomes upset, realizing that if Romeodoes not know about Juliet's false death, there will be no one toretrieve her from the tomb when she awakes. (He does not know thatRomeo has learned of Juliet's death and believes it to be real.) Sendingfor a crowbar, Friar Lawrence declares that he will have to rescueJuliet from the tomb on his own. He sends another letter to Romeoto warn him about what has happened, and plans to keep Juliet inhis cell until Romeo arrives.
Read a translation of Act 5, scene 2 →Analysis: Act 5, scenes 1–2
The sequence of near misses in this section reveals theinescapable work of fate. There is no reason for the friar's planto go wrong. But an outbreak of plague forces Friar John into quarantineand prevents him from delivering Friar Lawrence's letter to Romeo,while Balthasar seeks out Romeo with news of Juliet's death. Justas the audience senses an inviolable fate descending on Romeo, sotoo does Romeo feel himself trapped by fate. But the fate the audience recognizesand the fate Romeo sees as surrounding him are very different. Theaudience knows that both Romeo and Juliet are bound to die; Romeoknows only that fate has somehow tried to separate him from Juliet.When Romeo screams 'Then I defy you, stars' he is screaming againstthe fate that he believes is thwarting his desires (5.1.24).He attempts to defy that fate by killing himself and spending eternitywith Juliet: 'Well, Juliet,' he says, 'I will lie with thee tonight'(5.1.34). Tragically, it is Romeo's verydecision to avoid his destiny that actually brings fate about. Inkilling himself over the sleeping Juliet he ensures their ultimatedouble suicide.
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Through the irony of Romeo's defiance rebounding uponhimself, Shakespeare demonstrates the extreme power of fate: nothing canstand in its way. All factors swing in its favor: the outbreak of theplague, Balthasar's transmission of the message of Juliet's death, andCapulet's decision to move Juliet's wedding date. But fate is also somethingattached to the social institutions of the world in which Romeoand Juliet live. This destiny, brought about by the interplay ofsocietal norms from which Romeo and Juliet cannot escape, seemsequally powerful, though less divine. It is a fate created by man,and man's inability to see through the absurdity of the world hehas created. Now, in this scene, we see Romeo as agent of his own fate.The fortune that befalls Romeo and Juliet is internal rather thanexternal. It is determined by the natures and choices of its two protagonists.Were Romeo not so rash and emotional, so quick to fall into melancholy,the double suicide would not have occurred. Had Juliet felt it possibleto explain the truth to her parents, the double suicide might nothave occurred. But to wish someone were not as they were is to wishfor the impossible. The love between Romeo and Juliet exists preciselybecause they are who they are. The destructive, suicidal natureof their love is just as much an aspect of their natures, as individualsand couple.
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In the character of the Apothecary, once again,Shakespeare provides a secondary example of the paradoxical andpressing social forces at work in the play. The Apothecary doesnot wish to sell poison because it is illegal, banned by society.But it is the same society that makes him poor, and which insistson validity of the differences between rich and poor. The Apothecaryis pushed to sell the poison by external forces that he, like Romeo,feels completely unable to control.
