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Romeo and Juliet Act IV + V

Terms in this set (99)

Why is Friar Laurence reluctant to marry Paris and Juliet?
He knows that Juliet is already married. It is a sin to a priest to have someone be married twice.
How does Paris explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans?
Paris want to make the wedding a day earlier to stop Juliet from crying
If Friar Laurence cannot help Juliet, what does Juliet threaten to do?
kill herself
Why does Friar Laurence think Juliet will accept his plan?
If Juliet is willing to kill herself she will be willing to do something so risky
Describe the Friar's plan for Juliet
Juliet will agree to marry Paris. She will go to bed alone, and drink a potion that will make her seem dead, the potion will last 42 hours. She will be layed out, NOT in a coffin in her family's vault, and Romeo will be written about the plan. Romeo and Friar will watch her wake, then Romeo will take Juliet to Mantua.
When Juliet comes home, what is Lord Capulet doing, and what does Juliet beg of her father?
Capulet is making arrangements for the wedding feast when Juliet appears, and she begs her father's pardon, and tells him that she will marry Paris.
How does this make Lord Capulet feel?
This makes Lord Capulet so happy that he moves the wedding up to the very next day, Wednesday
What is everyone preparing for in the Capulet house?
The Capulets and their servants are preparing for the wedding.
What does Lord Capulet send the Nurse to do?
Lord Capulet sends the Nurse to awaken Juliet
What happens when the Nurse tries to awaken Juliet?
The Nurse tries to awaken Juliet, but finds that she is (apparently) dead.
What do they do about the wedding?
The rest of the wedding party arrives, only to find that Juliet is dead. They use the food, flowers, etc that were meant for the wedding for the funeral.
What is everyone's reaction to Juliet's apparent death?
Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris, and the Nurse are beyond sad. Friar Lawrence takes command of the situation by reminding everyone that Juliet is now in a better place, and telling them to proceed with her funeral instead of the planned wedding
What does Juliet tell the Nurse she wants? What is she really going to do?
Tells Nurse that she wants to be left alone so she can prepare for her marriage; pray. Really wants to be left alone to take potion.
Is Juliet afraid to drink the potion?
Yes, many doubts
What will Juliet do if the potion doesn't work?
kill herself in the morning; she has put a dagger by her bed.
What two things does she fear might happen if she awakens before Romeo comes for her?
There won't be enough air in the vault or spirits of the dead will attack her.
What does Juliet imagine just before she drinks the potion?
Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo for revenge.
[Quote Matching]
"Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,
And therefore have I little talked of love,
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she do give her sorrow so much sway,
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage
To stop the inundation of her tears—"
Paris to Friar Lawrence- allusion to Venus (goddess of love)
[Quote Matching]
"Speaker 1:
Happily met, my lady and my wife.
Speaker 2:
That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.
Speaker 1: Paris
Speaker 2: Juliet
dramatic irony- Paris does not know Juliet is already married, but reader does.
[Quote Matching]
"Tell me not, Friar, that thou hear'st of this,
Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it.
If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise,
And with this knife I'll help it presently."
Juliet to Friar Lawrence
[Quote Matching]
"Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then is it likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to 'scape from it.
An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy."
Friar Lawrence to Juliet
[Quote Matching]
"Hold, then. Go home, be merry. Give consent
To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow.
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone.
Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death.
And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep."
Friar Lawrence to Juliet
[Quote Matching]
"Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.
Then, as the manner of our country is,
In thy best robes uncovered on the bier
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift,
And hither shall he come, and he and I
Will watch thy waking, and that very night
Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua."
Friar Lawrence to Juliet
[Quote Matching]
"Where I have learned 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. (falls to her knees)
Pardon, I beseech you!
Henceforward I am ever ruled by you."
Juliet to Lord Capulet
[Quote Matching]
"Go, Nurse. Go with her. We'll to church tomorrow."
Lord Capulet to Nurse- changing wedding to Wednesday
[Quote Matching]
"Tush, I will stir about,
And all things shall be well, I warrant thee, wife.
Go thou to Juliet, help to deck up her.
I'll not to bed tonight. Let me alone.
I'll play the housewife for this once. What, ho?
They are all forth. Well, I will walk myself
To County Paris, to prepare him up
Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light
Since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed."
Lord Capulet to Lady Capulet
[Quote Matching]
"What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
No, no. This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.
(lays her knife down)
What if it be a poison, which the friar
Subtly hath ministered to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is. And yet, methinks, it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There's a fearful point."
Juliet to herself- soliloquy; explains all her doubts and fear of taking the potion
[Quote Matching]
"Hah, Let me see her. Out, alas, she's cold,
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff:
Life and these lips have long been separated;
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
Lord Capulet to Nurse and Lady Capulet- simile; comparison of death to an untimely frost
[Quote Matching]
"O son! The night before thy wedding day
Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's."
Lord Capulet to Friar Lawrence- personification; death has married Juliet instead of Paris
[Quote Matching]
'O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day!
Nurse to Lord and Lady Capulet, Paris, Friar Lawrence
[Quote Matching]
"Your part in her you could not keep from death,
But heaven keeps his part in eternal life.
The most you sought was her promotion,
For 'twas your heaven she should be advanced.
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?
Oh, in this love, you love your child so ill
That you run mad, seeing that she is well.
She's not well married that lives married long,
But she's best married that dies married young.
Dry up your tears and stick your rosemary
On this fair corse, and, as the custom is,
And in her best array, bear her to church."
Friar Lawrence to Lord and Lady Capulet- he is moving things along so that the plan will work
[Quote Matching]
"Sir, go you in, and, madam, go with him;
And go, Sir Paris. Every one prepare
To follow this fair corse unto her grave.
The heavens do lour upon you for some ill.
Move them no more by crossing their high will."
Friar Lawrence to Lord and Lady Capulet
[Quote Matching]
"If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand.
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
I dreamt my lady came and found me dead—
Strange dream, that gives a dead man leave to think—
And breathed such life with kisses in my lips
That I revived and was an emperor.
Ah me! How sweet is love itself possessed
When but love's shadows are so rich in joy!"
Romeo to himself- foreshadowing ("my lady found me dead") and irony (" my dreams presage some joyful news at hand")
[Quote Matching]
"News from Verona!—How now, Balthasar?
Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar?
How doth my lady? Is my father well?
How fares my Juliet? That I ask again,
For nothing can be ill if she be well."
Romeo to Balthasar
[Quote Matching]
"Then she is well, and nothing can be ill.
Her body sleeps in Capels' monument,
And her immortal part with angels lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred's vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir."
Balthasar to Romeo
[Quote Matching]
"Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let's see for means. O mischief, thou art swift"
Romeo to himself- saying he will kill himself by Juliet tonight
[Quote Matching]
"I do remember an apothecary—
And hereabouts he dwells—which late I noted
In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples. Meager were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones,
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung,
An alligator stuffed, and other skins
Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves
A beggarly account of empty boxes,
Green earthen pots, bladders and musty seeds,
Remnants of packthread and old cakes of roses,
Were thinly scattered to make up a show."
Romeo to himself- plans to buy poison from unsuccessful apothecary
[Quote Matching]
"Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.
Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb."
Romeo to Apothecary- wants poison that will kill him quickly and offering A LOT of money for it
[Quote Matching]
Speaker 1:
Put this in any liquid thing you will
And drink it off, and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
Speaker 2:
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Speaker 1: Apothecary
Speaker 2: Romeo
[Quote Matching]
"Going to find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me,
Here in this city visiting the sick,
And finding him, the searchers of the town,
Suspecting that we both were in a house
Where the infectious pestilence did reign,
Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth.
So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed."
Friar John to Friar Lawrence
[Quote Matching]
"I could not send it—here it is again—
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection."
Friar John to Friar Lawrence
[Quote Matching]
"Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge,
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence.
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell."
Friar Lawrence to Friar John
[Quote Matching]
"Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew—
O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones—
Which with sweet water nightly I will dew.
Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans,
The obsequies that I for thee will keep
Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep."
Paris to Juliet (thought to be dead)- he will come to her grave every night and bring flowers and sprinkle sweet water on her
[Quote Matching]
"Give me that mattock and the wrenching iron.
Hold, take this letter. Early in the morning
See thou deliver it to my lord and father.
Give me the light. Upon thy life I charge thee,
Whate'er thou hear'st or seest, stand all aloof,
And do not interrupt me in my course.
Why I descend into this bed of death
Is partly to behold my lady's face,
But chiefly to take thence from her dead finger
A precious ring, a ring that I must use
In dear employment. Therefore hence, be gone."
Romeo to Balthasar
[Quote Matching]
"For all this same, I'll hide me hereabout.
His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt."
Balthasar to himself- hiding from Romeo and is not going to leave even though Romeo told him to
What was Romeo's dream at the beginning of this scene?
joyful news coming from Verona
What news does Balthasar bring to Romeo?
that Juliet is dead
What is an apothecary? Describe the apothecary and his shop.
Similar to a pharmacist. The apothecary is unsuccessful, and in desperate need of a sale for money.
Where will Romeo go after he learns that Juliet is dead?
To the apothecary for poison and then to Verona
Why does Romeo go to this particular apothecary and not another?
Because poison is illegal in Verona and Mantua; only an unsuccessful apothecary would sell him the poison.
How strong is the poison?
very strong; will kill him almost instantly
According to Romeo, what is the worst poison for men's souls?
money
What does Romeo plan to do with the poison?
kill himself
Why has Friar John been unable to deliver the letter from Friar Lawrence to Romeo?
surveyors of the town suspected that Friar John and the person traveling with him had the plague, so they wouldn't let them leave Verona to deliver the letter.
What news was in the message given to Friar John?
Juliet is not really dead; explains the plan to Romeo
What is Friar Lawrence going to do since the letter wasn't delivered?
He will go to the vault where Juliet is because Romeo will not be there. He will take her and put her in his cell until Romeo comes.
Why has Paris come to the Capulet's tomb?
to pay his respects to Juliet; bring flowers and sprinkle sweet water on her.
Why has Romeo come to the tomb?
To kill himself and die next to Juliet
What instructions does Romeo give to Balthasar at the tomb?
Deliver a letter to Lord Montague explaining the whole situation. Then Romeo tells him to leave him alone.
If Balthasar doesn't follow Romeo's instructions, what will Romeo do?
kill Balthasar
What does Balthasar do instead of following Romeo's instructions?
he stays at the tomb and hides
When Romeo opens the tomb, to what does he compare it?
jaws/ his body
Why does Paris feel that he should fight Romeo?
He thinks that Romeo has come to the tomb to perform villainous acts
How does Romeo try to persuade Paris to leave the tomb?
Tells Paris he plans to kill himself and he does not want to have to hurt Paris, but he will if Paris gets in his way
What happens to Paris? Where does he want to be "buried"?
Romeo kills Paris in a battle; wants to be buried in the Capulet vault
As Romeo reflects upon Paris' death, what does he recall?
That he was Mercutio's kinsman and he was going to marry Juliet.
When Romeo sees Juliet, what is his reaction to her beauty? Why is this ironic?
He says she is beautiful and appears as though she is still alive. Ironic because she really is still alive.
When Romeo addresses the dead Tybalt, what does he tell him?
Says that he surrenders to Tybalt.
What suggestion does Friar Lawrence make to Juliet in order to get her to leave the tomb?
The Prince/authorities will be coming
Why does Friar Lawrence leave the tomb without Juliet?
He hears a noise and gets scared.
How does Juliet first try to end her life?
Kissing the dead Romeo to try and get some of the poison off his lips
How does Juliet finally succeed in ending her life?
Stabbing herself with Romeo's dagger
What has happened to Lady Montague? Why?
She has died from grief that her son is exiled.
What two people tell the Prince the story about Romeo and Juliet?
Friar Lawrence and Balthasar
What is Lord Montague going to do after Juliet's death?
raise a statue of Juliet made of pure gold
In return, what is Lord Capulet going to do for Lord Montague?
raise a statue of Romeo
What are the Prince's parting words?
a sad peace (end to dispute between Capulet and Montague)
[Quote Matching]
"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I'll cram thee with more food!"
Romeo to tomb- personification
[Quote Matching]
"This is that banished haughty Montague,
That murdered my love's cousin, with which grief,
It is supposed the fair creature died.
And here is come to do some villainous shame
To the dead bodies. I will apprehend him."
Paris to himself
[Quote Matching]
"Put not another sin upon my head
By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither armed against myself.
Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say
A madman's mercy bid thee run away."
Romeo to Paris
[Quote Matching]
"Oh, I am slain! If thou be merciful,
Open the tomb. Lay me with Juliet."
Paris to Romeo- Paris dies and asks to be buried next to Juliet/ in the Capulet's vault
[Quote Matching]
"Have they been merry, which their keepers call
A lightning before death! Oh, how may I
Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
Romeo to himself- personification of death
[Quote Matching]
"O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin.—Ah, dear Juliet,"
Romeo to dead Tybalt
[Quote Matching]
"Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,"
Romeo to Juliet- personification of death; death keeps Juliet
[Quote Matching]
"And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars"
Romeo to Juliet- promises to die
[Quote Matching]
"Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark.
Here's to my love! (drinks the poison) O true apothecary,
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die."
Romeo to himself- he kills himself
[Quote Matching]
"Romeo! O, pale!—Who else? What, Paris too?
And steeped in blood?—Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs."
Friar Lawrence to himself- finds Paris and Romeo dead.
[Quote Matching]
"O comfortable Friar! Where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?"
Juliet to Friar Lawrence
[Quote Matching]
"Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead,
And Paris too. Come, I'll dispose of thee
Among a sisterhood of holy nuns.
Stay not to question, for the watch is coming.
Come, go, good Juliet. I dare no longer stay."
Friar Lawrence to Juliet- tells her that Paris and Romeo are dead and to become a nun
[Quote Matching]
"Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.—
What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.—
O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me die with a restorative.
Thy lips are warm.
Juliet to herself
[Quote Matching]
"Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief. O happy dagger,
This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die."
Juliet to herself- she dies
[Quote Matching]
"Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight.
Grief of my son's exile hath stopped her breath.
What further woe conspires against mine age?"
Lord Montague to Prince
[Quote Matching]
"I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
And she, there dead, that Romeo's faithful wife.
I married them, and their stol'n marriage day
Was Tybalt's doomsday, whose untimely death
Banished the new-made bridegroom from the city"
Friar Lawrence to Lord Capulet, Lady and Lord Montague, Prince, Balthasar
[Quote Matching]
"Was stayed by accident, and yesternight
Returned my letter back. Then all alone
At the prefixèd hour of her waking
Came I to take her from her kindred's vault,
Meaning to keep her closely at my cell
Till I conveniently could send to Romeo,"
Friar Lawrence to Lord Capulet, Lady and Lord Montague, Prince, Balthasar
[Quote Matching]
"But when I came, some minute ere the time
Of her awakening, here untimely lay
The noble Paris and true Romeo dead.
She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,
And bear this work of heaven with patience.
But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,
And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
But, as it seems, did violence on herself."
Friar Lawrence to Lord Capulet, Lady and Lord Montague, Prince, Balthasar
[Quote Matching]
"I brought my master news of Juliet's death,
And then in post he came from Mantua
To this same place, to this same monument.
This letter he early bid me give his father,
And threatened me with death, going in the vault,
If I departed not and left him there."
Balthasar to Friar Lawrence, Lord Capulet, Lady and Lord Montague, Prince
[Quote Matching]
"This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death.
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die and lie with Juliet.
Where be these enemies?—Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
And I, for winking at your discords, too
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
Prince to Balthasar, Friar Lawrence, Lord Capulet, Lady and Lord Montague- blames families for the deaths
[Quote Matching]
"But I can give thee more,
For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
That whiles Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet."
Lord Montague to Lord Capulet- resolution, feud between families is over
[Quote Matching]
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punishèd.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
Prince to everyone
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