Romeo and Juliet...today!!!!
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1. What does Juliet ask of Friar Laurence? What does Juliet say she will do if she cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris? How does Juliet respond to Paris’ complements in this act?
2. What does Friar Laurence say will happen when Juliet drinks the potion? How will Romeo learn of Friar Laurence’s plan? What does Friar Laurence say Romeo and Juliet will do after Juliet awakens?
3. In scene ii what does Juliet tell her father? What activities occur in the Capulet household at the start of scene ii?
4. Describe the various fears Juliet has as she gets ready to drink Friar Laurence’s potion. Describe three - four of her major concerns.
5. What effect might Capulet’s change of plans have on the Friar’s arrangements? How do Capulet, his wife, the nurse, and Paris react when they find Juliet?
6. What does Friar Laurence tell the family? According to Lord Capulet, what will happen now to all the preparations that were made for the wedding?
Act IV Study Questions
1. What does Juliet ask of Friar Laurence? What does Juliet say she will do if she cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris? How does Juliet respond to Paris’ complements in this act?
2. What does Friar Laurence say will happen when Juliet drinks the potion? How will Romeo learn of Friar Laurence’s plan? What does Friar Laurence say Romeo and Juliet will do after Juliet awakens?
3. In scene ii what does Juliet tell her father? What activities occur in the Capulet household at the start of scene ii?
4. Describe the various fears Juliet has as she gets ready to drink Friar Laurence’s potion. Describe three - four of her major concerns.
5. What effect might Capulet’s change of plans have on the Friar’s arrangements? How do Capulet, his wife, the nurse, and Paris react when they find Juliet?
6. What does Friar Laurence tell the family? According to Lord Capulet, what will happen now to all the preparations that were made for the wedding?
Peyton Levental
ReplyDelete1. What Juliet asks of Friar Laurence is to not marry him. If she can not find a way to avoid marrying him then she will kill herself with a knife, “Do thou but call my resolution wise, And with this knife I'll help it presently. God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands” (179). Juliet is very scared. She does not know what will happen and she doesn't know what to do.
2. What Friar Laurence says what will happen when Juliet drinks the potion is that, “A cold and drowsy humour, 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” (181). Juliet will have to marry Paris. Romeo will find out by a letter, telling him to watch Juliet and Paris walking down the aisle. Friar Laurence says that they will be peasants.
3. Juliet tells her father, “And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am ever ruled by you” (185). The activities that are going on is that the capulets are preparing for the Juliet and Paris wedding.
Describe the various fears Juliet has as she gets ready to drink Friar Laurence's potion. Describe three - four of her major concerns.
4. Juliet fears that the drug she will take from Friar would make her dead. She also fears that the marriage is dishonored, she is sacred because she is still married to Romeo. She fears that she might not love him anymore because of the drug.
5. Something that changed the capulets plans was when they found Juliet dead. The nurse found her and reacted very scared and terrified, “ Mistress! what, mistress! Juliet! fast, I warrant her, she: Why, lamb! why, lady! fie, you slug-a-bed! Why, love, I say! Madam! sweet-heart! why, bride! What, not a word? you take your pennyworths now” (199). Nurse doesn't know what to do. Paris and Capulet reacts the same is is just as scared and confused. Everyone is at a lost for words and is confused on what happened. Friar Laurence told everyone to go.
6. Friar Laurence tells everyone, “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” (201). Lord capulet says that everything that was a festival will be now turned into a funeral.
Drew Wachtel
ReplyDelete1.Juliet asks if Friar Lawrence has any other plans of how they can still be together and how to get out of the wedding with Paris. If she can not be with Romeo anymore she will kill herself. Juliet responds to Paris as if she loves him and she wants to marry him because she doesn't want him to know that she is married already. “ It may be so, for it is not mine own.
Are you at leisure, holy father, now;
Or shall I come to you at evening mass?”
2. Friar Lawrence tells Juliet that the potion would put her in a coma for about two days and when she wakes up Romeo will be waiting for her. Friar Lawrence will send him a letter telling him that he put Juliet into a coma using a potion that he made. He says that he will send them to a city outside of Verona to send their rest of their lives called Mantua. “ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow:
To-morrow night look that thou lie alone;
Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilled liquor drink thou off;
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humour, 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 borrow'd likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
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 uncover'd on the bier
Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault
Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.
In the mean time, 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.
And this shall free thee from this present shame;
If no inconstant toy, nor womanish fear,
Abate thy valour in the acting it.”
3. Juliet tells her father that she will love to marry Paris on Thursday. In the Capulet household they start getting ready for the wedding and start decorating the house and preparing the food for the wedding. “I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell;
And gave him what becomed love I might,
Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.”
Evan Brenner
ReplyDelete1. Juliet asks of Friar Laurence if she can help out with her problem. “ It may be so, for it is not mine own. Are you at leisure, holy father, now; Or shall I come to you at evening mass?” If Juliet cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris she will kill herself. Juliet responds insecure to Paris’ complements in this act.
2. When Juliet drinks the potion Friar Laurence says that the potion will make her appear to be dead. Also she will be put in a coma. Romeo learns of Friar Laurence's plan because he will send a letter to Romeo. “A cold and drowsy humour, for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease: No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.” Romeo will be waiting for Juliet when she wakes up. Then Friar Laurence says Romeo and Juliet will go to Mnatua after she apologizes and agrees to marry Paris.
3. In scene ii Juliet tells her father that she apologizes and agrees to marry Paris. “And beg your pardon: pardon, I beseech you! Henceforward I am ever ruled by you”. In the Capulet household there are wedding preparations going on.
Abhi Sharma
ReplyDelete1. Juliet asks Friar is to not marry Paris. Juliet says that she will kill herself with a knife if she can not find a way to avoid marrying Paris, “Do thou but call my resolution wise, And with this knife I'll help it presently. God join'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands”. She is nervous because she doesn’t know what is going to happen.
2. The Friar says that She will be put into a coma if she drinks the potion. Romeo will learn about the Friars plan by receiving a letter, “A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease: No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest.” Then Romeo will be waiting for Juliet to wake up and go to Mantua.
3. In scene 2 Juliet forgives her father and says she will marry Paris, “I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell; And gave him what become love I might, Not step o'er the bounds of modesty.” In the Capulet house, they are decorating for her marriage on Thursday.
Julia Campbell
ReplyDelete4: Juliet freaks out before she takes the potion because she is worried that it may be real poison. She also worries about what it would be like to wake up a :corpse, and to be next to Tybalt, she also thinks that the drug might do something to her like make her fall out of love with Romeo.
“What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath minister’d to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour’d, Because he married me before to Romeo?”
5: Capulets change of plans will alter the friars plan to get her out of a coffin but now she will be buried alive. Everyone is sad and filled to the brim with grief when they discover that Juliet is dead, especially since she was not ill or of the right age to die so suddenly.
“Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue, and will not let me speak”
6: The Friar tells everyone that their confusion won't help the situation and that what would be best for everyone is to plan Juliet's funeral and to get her in her grave immediately. He also tries to convince them that Juliet is in a better place now,
“Peace, ho, for shame! confusion’s cure lives not In these confusions. Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid; now heaven hath all, And all the better is it for the maid: Your part in her you could not keep from death, But heaven keeps his part in eternal life”
Lord Capulet announced that everything that was set up for the wedding would now be used for the funeral, and since they are going to be putting her in the ground his plans must be changed,
“All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, And all things change them to the contrary.”
Jayden Cho
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4. Juliet has many child-like fears of death itself as well as what would happen once she drinks the potion. Some fears were mainly consisting of if the potion did not work, or how would Romeo react to this. One major concern was whether or not the potion would actually be effective, where Juliet says, “What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then to-morrow morning?” She needs to trust the Friar and believe that this potion will work, and that it will only seem as if she will be dead. You can tell the amount of stress she has saying these words for she truly does not want to marry Paris, for her love will always be for Romeo. The audience may fear however, and can reasonably assume, that something will go wrong with this plan which could be the reason how Romeo and Juliet will eventually die. Another major concern of Juliet is if this potion was actually a poison, and that she would then not be able to see Romeo ever again. This then brings up another concern on if Romeo will then be dishonored and that she will be breaking Romeo’s heart. “What if it be a poison, which the friar Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, Because he married me before to Romeo?”
5. After Lord Capulet hears the tragic news of Juliet being “dead”, he changes his plans immediately. What was supposed to be a wedding ceremony/festival turns into a funeral with the use of the festival preparations? We can envision this picture clearly, when the Lord says,
“All things that we ordained festival,
Turn from their office to black funeral;
Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.”
He mentions that all these wedding preparations will be quite the contrary when he will use them during the funeral, which is true. This might change the Friar’s plans for the Friar was just expecting a little funeral filled with only some family members. However, it seems as if the entirety of Verona will be attending for many would be presumed to go to the wedding, and in fact will be attending a very distressful funeral. I would think this would definitely wreck his plans, and will most likely result in a negative impact. Lord Capulet, the wife, nurse, and Paris react very sad, but have different reactions in small details. The Lord must be the most sad for he seems to actually care about his only daughter, for he protects her and cares for her throughout the play. The wife is similar, except maybe with a little less sadness. I would assume the nurse if faking her sadness, because she knows of this plan and will have to play along. I think Paris will be the least sad, for he wanted Juliet only for a stronger connection between the both family and his reign. Paris hasn’t really met Juliet, and so would not have any emotional regret of her dying.
6. Friar Laurence tries to see this death in a good way but repeating many times about how she is in heaven, that this may be a blessing, and that his intentions of her deserving more were done. Friar Laurence tries to see this in a new perspective, tries to tell Lord Capulet that this is actually fate/destiny. He explains this by saying “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” It seems as if Lord Capulet really did just want the best of Juliet, and he wanted her to be happy with a good husband. Juliet doesn’t understand this for she thinks he is forcing her to marry someone (which he is) but wants to just be free of her father’s control. The preparations for the ceremony/wedding will now just be used as Funeral preparations, such as the musicians playing sad, melancholic rhythms, flowers served as burial corses, etc.
Lucas Kaufman
ReplyDelete2. What does Friar Laurence say will happen when Juliet drinks the potion? How will Romeo learn of Friar Laurence’s plan? What does Friar Laurence say Romeo and Juliet will do after Juliet awakens?
The first scene of “Romeo and Juliet”’s fourth act begins with Juliet arriving at the cell of Friar Laurence, fulfilling her words at the conclusion of Act III. However, Count paris beats her there and she walks in to find him and the friar discussing the details of their Thursday wedding. She eavesdrops on the remainder of the conversation before revealing herself to Friar Laurence and telling him of her situation, threatening to kill herself if she is forced to marry Paris. The friar responds by giving Juliet a vial containing a potion that should put Juliet into a death-mimicking sleep lasting forty-two hours (long enough to avoid marriage to Paris) and says he will send another friar to Mantua to inform Romeo. Romeo shall then sneak into the vault where the deceased Capulets are buried (Juliet will have joined them b this time), watch as she wakes, and sneak her out to Mantua where they can live happily ever after.
5. What effect might Capulet’s change of plans have on the Friar’s arrangements? How do Capulet, his wife, the nurse, and Paris react when they find Juliet?
Act IV, Scene II begins with Juliet arriving home after her meeting with Friar Laurence. Now with a plan to avoid marrying Paris and return to Romeo, she lies to her family, saying she will relent and marry him. In response, an overjoyed Lord Capulet unknowingly throws a wrench into this plan by rescheduling the wedding for the following day (Wednesday, rather than Thursday), as Romeo has one day less to get to his love. Juliet goes to her bedroom that night and drinks the potion Friar Laurence gave her, starting the forty-two hour clock of Juliet’s death-sleep. As planned, the Capulets and Nurse find Juliet in the morning and mistake her for dead, immediately changing the bright cheeriness of wedding preparation to the gloom and sadness of the time preceding a funeral. All three are distraught, and when they tell Friar Laurence of Juliet’s “death” he reveals nothing of the truth, leaving them all to suffer.
6. What does Friar Laurence tell the family? According to Lord Capulet, what will happen now to all the preparations that were made for the wedding?
Upon the Nurse’s discovery of Juliet’s “corpse”, she immediately informs Lord and Lady Capulet, who become just as distraught as she herself. Friar Laurence walks in at this point, along with Count Paris and several musicians, and they too are told that Juliet has died overnight. Though knowing that Juliet lives, Friar Laurence lets no one else in on this secret, and instead comforts the Capulets by saying that they had gotten their wish in wanting the best for Juliet (as she now resided in the eternal paradise of heaven). Lord Capulet then begins to ramble about how all the things they had prepared for the wedding will now have to serve the exact opposite purpose as they would have before- what would have created cheer now needed to create sadness, and what was meant to help celebrate union now must assist in mourning eternal separation.
Rene Roustand
ReplyDelete2/7/19
1. Juliet asks Friar Laurence how she will break the marriage between her and Count Paris. Juliet would commit suiide if she could not avoid the marriage. When Count Paris gives her compliments, she acts very skeptical.
2. Juliet is anxious before she drinks the potion the Friar made. She worried that the potion will not work.
3. When Capulet, Lady Capulet and Nurse find Juliet, they think she is sleeping. But then, they break down when they realize she is dead.
Sophia Lakos
ReplyDelete1.)Juliet wants to how she can avoid marrying Paris and for him to help her do that. “Unless thou tell me how I may prevent it” This is Juliet asking for a solution to marrying Paris. If there is not a way to not get married she will kill herself she tells Friar Laurence, which shows how committed she is to Romeo and will not be with anyone else. When she is confronted by Paris she is not falling for his nice guy act, she totally resisting him.
2.) Friar Laurence tells Juliet that if she drinks the potion she will not wake up and it will appear like death. Romeo never ends up learning about the Friars plan. He says that after she wakes up her and Romeo will live together forever in Mantua.
3.) In scene 2 Juliet promises her father that she will marry Paris, although she is really in love with Romeo. After Juliet has agreed to marry him they immediately start planning the wedding. She had agreed to marry him even when she knew she was with Romeo.
Mitch Keamy
ReplyDelete1. What does Juliet ask of Friar Laurence? What does Juliet say she will do if she cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris? How does Juliet respond to Paris’ complements in this act?
Juliet asks the Friar to help her stop the wedding from happening. If he refuses, she will us the knife she has to kill herself. The Friar then proposes that she drink a special knockout potion.
2. What does Friar Laurence say will happen when Juliet drinks the potion? How will Romeo learn of Friar Laurence’s plan? What does Friar Laurence say Romeo and Juliet will do after Juliet awakens?
The Friar tells Juliet to drink the potion in bed. The potion will then run cold and drowsy in her veins and her heart will stop beating. She will be in this condition for 48 hours nd will appear dead..
3. In scene ii what does Juliet tell her father? What activities occur in the Capulet household at the start of scene ii?
Juliet tells her father, Capulet, that she will not be marrying Paris. He refuses and still urges her to go to the wedding. Capulet says he is going to move the wedding to the next day.
2. Friar Laurence says that Juliet will fall into “A cold and drowsy humour, 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” Romeo will learn fo the Friars plans when Friar John arrives and gives Romeo a message from Laurence. Friar Laurence says that Romeo and Juliet will escape to a neighboring town.
ReplyDelete4. Juliet is worried if the potion will work, she is worried that it might work too well and kill her, and she is worried that she might not love Romeo anymore after she wakes up because of the potion.
5. The Friar’s arrangements might change because the funeral is so soon and he cannot deliver the note to Romeo himself. They are all sad that she is “dead” and they are in mourning.
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