Rom X Jul Acts 4-5 Flashcards
Where I have learnt me to repent the sin Of disobedient opposition To you and your behests, and am enjoined By holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here To beg your pardon. Pardon. I beseech you!
Juliet
- Why do Paris and Capulet want to push forward Juliet’s wedding?
He thinks she is sad about tybalt so stop crying and put an end to her period of mourning.
Why does Frair try to “stall”
He needs time to come up with a plan for Rom x Jul
Provide evidence to argue that Paris treats Juliet like an object.
He keeps wanting to kiss Juliet
- Can you find a line spoken by Juliet in her conversation with Paris that has double meaning?
will confess to you that I love him.
Juliet is desperate for a way to be with Romeo and avoid marrying Paris. Find at least two
things she says she’d do rather than marry Paris that indicate just how desperate she is.
kill herself with a knife/ starve herself?
- Summarize the plan that the friar offers.
Juliet must consent to marry Paris; then, on the night before the wedding, she must drink a sleeping potion that will make her appear to be dead; she will be laid to rest in the Capulet tomb, and the friar will send word to Romeo in Mantua to help him retrieve her when she wakes up. She will then return to Mantua with Romeo, and be free to live with him away from their parents’ hatred
Why does Juliet apologize to her father?
I went somewhere where I learned that being disobedient to my father is a sin and the frair told her to
How does Dad respond to Juliets appologee
He moves the wedding up a day.
What reason does Juliet give her mother for wanting to be alone on the night before her
wedding?
She needs to pray
Why does Juliet long for the Nurse to stay with her for a few moments?
There is a slight cold fear cutting through my veins. It almost freezes the heat of life. She is nervous
What are two things Juliet thinks about that make her worry about whether she should drink the
potion?
f the friar is untrustworthy and seeks merely to hide his role in her marriage to Romeo, she might die; or, if Romeo is late for some reason, she might awaken in the tomb and go mad with fear.
What reason would Juliet have to be afraid of Tybalt’s ghost?
Tybalt’s ghost would be searching for Romeo
Summarize what is going on in this scene.
Capulet house is aflutter with preparations for the wedding.
Since neither Romeo nor Juliet appears in this scene, you could argue that it does nothing to
advance the plot. So, why do you think it is included?
Comic relief/exposition
Who is the first to find Juliet “dead”? How does this person react?
Nurse. she cries
How does each of the following react to Juliet’s death?
a. Lady Capulet
b. Lord Capulet
c. Paris
they all are sad
How does the Capulet’s grief for Juliet compare with their grief for Tybalt?
They are more sad
What does the Friar say to comfort the Capulets?
She is in a better place
How could Capulet’s words around line 85 be read as foreshadowing?
Foreshadows the actual death
Can you find a pun in the argument between Peter and the musicians? What is the purpose of
their conversation?
Comic relief/puns
Where does Scene 1 take place?
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