INCITING INCIDENT
Yongyi Cai
July 12, 2019
The PROTAGONIST in this play is Juliet, a lady who has just finished college and has moved out of her parents’ home and decided to settle on her own. Julie aspires to be independent in life and make right choices, unlike those of her sisters. Juliet’s WEAKNESS is that she wants to impress her parents by leading a decent life and having a decent marriage that will be successful with minimal drama. She believes that leading an independent life will be the onset of achieving this goal. This resolution is anchored on a PAST EVENT where while growing up, she has witnessed various forms of domestic violence including that of her mother being beaten by her drunken father and her two elder sisters getting married to abusive husbands at a tender age. These incidents have expressed themselves as BAD BEHAVIOR where Juliet hates men with passion to an extent that she has a list of the qualities that men should meet before dating her. This has greatly reduced her circle of male friends.
The INCITING INCIDENT is that Juliet actually meets a guy who fulfills all the qualities she had enlisted. They start dating and the man, Julius, doesn’t show any signs of getting abusive. Juliet eventually gets married to Julius in a decent church wedding and they live happily afterwards. The FIRST ACT BREAK occurs when Juliet fails to conceive. However, they agree to adopt a child from a children’s home. They manage to get a three months old baby and they name him Blessing because he brought them more joy in their marriage. The MIDPOINT occurs when Blessing grows up into a young man who bullied every girl in school. This confirmed the Juliet’s worst fear; bringing up a kid who would be abusive in future. The SECOND ACT BREAK occurs when Blessing is expelled from school due to his bullying behavior. From the principal’s letter, it seems like it will be difficult to get another school for Blessing. The ANTAGONIST in this play is Blessing, as he turns out into an abusive person something that Juliet feared for all her life. At the CLIMAX, Juliet has to decide whether to enroll Blessing in a rehabilitation center or continue living with him and suffer abuse and bullying, something that he now portrayed towards Juliet. She battles with this since she loves Blessing but, eventually, she enrolls him in a rehabilitation center portraying that in the RESOLUTION, she has accepted that she can’t change Blessing by herself.
