Act 4/5 Events
Why does Capulet decide that Juliet should marry now?
He wants to make her happy after Tybalt's death
“Famine is in thy cheeks,/ Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes,/ Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back./ The world is not thy friend, nor the world’s law.”
Imagery
“What’s here? A cup closed in my true love’s hand?"
Juliet
What were the families going to do to symbolize the end of their feud?
Build gold statues for each child (Romeo & Juliet)
What happened to Friar Laurence’s letter to Romeo?
Friar John was not let into Mantua due to concerns about the plague
“Farewell.—God knows when we shall meet again./ I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins/ That almost freezes up the heat of life.”
Foreshadowing
"Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s law/ Is death to any he that utters them."
Apothecary
Who was able to corroborate Friar Lawrence's recap about what happened to the star-crossed lovers (2 names)?
The Page and Balthazar
How is Capulet a “cot-quean”?
He is micromanaging all of the marriage preparations, he's overbearing and interfering.
"I dare not, sir./ My master knows not but I am gone hence,/ And fearfully did menace me with death/ If I did stay to look on his intents."
Loyalty
"For I will ray 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."
Montague
Why did Paris go to the tomb?
To lay flowers for "his lady."
List 4 doubts Juliet has before taking the potion.
if the vial doesn't work, if it's poison, if she wakes up before Romeo gets there and suffocates or if she wakes up before he comes and gone mad
“So early waking, what with loathsome smells,/ And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,/ That living mortals, hearing them, run mad?”
Simile
“What, dressed, and in your clothes, and down again?/ I must needs wake you.”
Nurse
The test of a good cook is ______
" he licks his own fingers."
Why is the Prince's last address important?
Talks about the importance of talking about the sad story so that this problem does not happen in the future.
“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.”
Individuality v.s. Social Conformity
“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.?
Name 3 hyperboles Juliet uses to describe what she's rather do that marry Paris.
Juliet would rather be chained up with bears then marry Paris
Juliet would rather be in a house full of bones than marry Paris
Juliet would rather walk were danger is than marry Paris