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 * __3.1. Summary: My POV__**

As they walk in the street under the boiling sun, Benvolio suggests to Mercutio that they go indoors, fearing that a brawl will be unavoidable should they encounter Capulet men. The two of them make puns at each other. Then Tybalt enters with a group of cronies. He approaches Benvolio and Mercutio and asks to speak with one of them. Annoyed, Mercutio begins to taunt and provoke him. Romeo enters. Tybalt turns his attention from Mercutio to Romeo, and calls Romeo a villain. Romeo, now secretly married to Juliet and thus Tybalt’s kinsman, refuses to be angered. Tybalt commands Romeo to draw his sword. Romeo protests that he has good reason to love Tybalt, and does not wish to fight him. He asks that until Tybalt knows the reason for this love, he put aside his sword. Mercutio angrily draws his sword and declares that if Romeo will not fight Tybalt, he will. Mercutio and Tybalt begin to fight. Romeo, attempting to restore peace, throws himself between the combatants. Tybalt stabs Mercutio under Romeo’s arm, and as Mercutio falls, Tybalt and his men hurry away. Mercutio dies, cursing both the Montagues and the Capulets. Enraged, Romeo declares that his love for Juliet has made him effeminate, and that he should have fought Tybalt in Mercutio’s place. When Tybalt, still angry, storms back onto the scene, Romeo draws his sword. They fight, and Romeo kills Tybalt. Benvolio urges Romeo to run; a group of citizens outraged at the recurring street fights is approaching. Romeo, shocked at what has happened, flees. The Prince enters, accompanied by many citizens, and the Montagues and Capulets. Benvolio tells the Prince the story of the brawl, emphasizing Romeo’s attempt to keep the peace, but Lady Capulet, Tybalt’s aunt, cries that Benvolio is lying to protect the Montagues. She demands Romeo’s life. Prince Escalus chooses instead to exile Romeo from Verona. He declares that should Romeo be found within the city, he will be killed.


 * __3.2 Summary: My POV__**

In Capulet’s house, Juliet longs for night to fall so that Romeo will come to her. Suddenly the Nurse rushes in with news of the fight between Romeo and Tybalt. But the Nurse is so distraught, she stumbles over the words, making it sound as if Romeo is dead. Juliet assumes Romeo has killed himself, and she resigns to die herself. The Nurse then begins to moan about Tybalt’s death, and Juliet briefly fears that both Romeo and Tybalt are dead. When the story is at last straight and Juliet understands that Romeo has killed Tybalt and been sentenced to exile, she curses nature. The Nurse echoes Juliet and curses Romeo’s name, but Juliet denounces her for criticizing her husband, and adds that she regrets faulting him herself. Juliet claims that Romeo’s banishment is worse than ten thousand slain Tybalts. She laments that she will die without a wedding night, a maiden-widow. The Nurse assures her, however, that she knows where Romeo is hiding, and will see to it that Romeo comes to her for their wedding night. Juliet gives the Nurse a ring to give to Romeo as a token of her love.


 * __3.3 Summary: My POV__**

In Friar Lawrence’s cell, Romeo is overcome with grief, and wonders what sentence the Prince has decreed. Friar Lawrence tells him he is lucky: the Prince has only banished him. Romeo claims that banishment is a penalty far worse than death, since he will have to live, but without Juliet. The friar tries to counsel Romeo but the youth is so unhappy that he will have none of it. Romeo falls to the floor. The Nurse arrives, and Romeo desperately asks her for news of Juliet. He assumes that Juliet now thinks of him as a murderer and threatens to stab himself. Friar Lawrence stops him and scolds him for being unmanly. He explains that Romeo has much to be grateful for: he and Juliet are both alive, and after matters have calmed down, Prince Escalus might change his mind. The friar sets forth a plan: Romeo will visit Juliet that night, but make sure to leave her chamber, and Verona, before the morning. He will then reside in Mantua until news of their marriage can be spread. The Nurse hands Romeo the ring from Juliet, and this physical symbol of their love revives his spirits. The Nurse departs, and Romeo bids Friar Lawrence farewell. He prepares to visit Juliet and then flee to Mantua.


 * __3.4 Summary: My POV__**

Capulet, Lady Capulet, and Paris walk together. Capulet says that because of the terrible recent events, he has had no time to ask his daughter about her feelings for Paris. Lady Capulet states that she will know her daughter’s thoughts by the morning. Paris is about to leave when Capulet calls him back. Capulet says he thinks his daughter will listen to him, then corrects himself and states that he is sure Juliet will abide by his decision. He promises Paris that the wedding will be held on Wednesday, then stops suddenly and asks what day it is. Paris responds that it is Monday; Capulet decides that Wednesday is too soon, and that the wedding should instead be held on Thursday.

__**For your assigned passage above, please complete the following:**__ 1. Romeo and the Nurse talk; the nurse wants Romeo to take good care of Juliet and Romeo tells her that he will send a man for Juliet later so that they can get married. 2. a. Alliteration: "deal double" (2.4.172) b. Simile: "my man's as true as steel" (2.4.201) c. Simile: "she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world" (2.4.209) 3. For the alliteration, it is used to emphasize the nurse's point that she wants Romeo to take good care of Juliet. The similes that Romeo uses are used to help the reader get a better image of what he means. As it is shown here, literary devices are used so that the reader can easily get the main ideas of the passage. 4. We believe that the most important line is line 186 ("Be shrived and married. Here is for thy pain."). We believe that this line is important because it shows that Romeo is now ready to be married, and hopes that Juliet is as well. He even goes to the extend of trying to get the Nurse to help him, even if it means that he would have to resort to bribery.


 * identify three literary devices (hyperbole, pun, personification, metaphor, simile, classical allusions, reversed word order)
 * In complete sentences answer (or complete) the following:
 * Personification: "Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day" (3.5.9)
 * Metaphor: "Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps" (3.5.28)
 * Imagery: "Sailing in this salt flood; the wind thy sighs" (3.5.139)
 * Q. What surprised you most about this scene?
 * A. That Juliet calls Romeo her hated enemy and then admits that she wants to marry him to her parents.
 * Q, What was the most important line in this scene? Quote it and explain.
 * A. I believe that it was "An you not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets" (3.5.204) because it shows that in the end, the father does not really care what Juliet wants, even though before he said otherwise.
 * Q. Write three questions you have about this scene.
 * A. 1. Just why Juliet said she hated and loved Romeo to her parents
 * 2. What will Juliet do about her marriage with Paris
 * 3. Why the father got so angry with Juliet when to Paris he said that he needs her consent first.


 * __4.3-5 Summary: My POV__**

Juliet has a soliloquey on whether or not she will take the vial that Friar Lawrence gave her. However, she decides that she will, and drinks it. The next morning, Capulet asks the nurse to go and wake Juliet, which she finds dead. Everyone begins to lament, and the Friar all tells them that she has gone to a better place. The Capulets exit for funeral preparations, and a short argument between Peter and the musicians occur.

__**What internal conflict is Juliet dealing with? (one sentence answer)**__

The internal conflict that Juliet is dealing with is that she is torn whether or not the plan will be successful, and whether or not it is worth it.

__**Create a brief pro/con list based on what Juliet says in the soliloquy. Pro: The reasons for taking the potion. Con: The reasons for not taking the potion.**__

__**Cons:**__ Wont see family for a long time Mixture might not work Mixture might be poisonous Might wake up before Romeo comes Could die in the vault from suffocation Could go crazy herself

__**Pros:**__ Will finally be able to live a happy married life with Romeo Could live with Romeo without having him killed Would escape marriage with Paris If she dies, its better than marrying Paris


 * __5.2-3 Summary: My POV__**

While describing a cheerful dream that Romeo had, Balthasar enters and tells him that Juliet has died. Shocked, Romeo writes a letter to Montague, and tells Balthasar to get horses, as he plans to return to Verona that night. After Balthasar leaves, however, Romeo declares that he will end his life by Juliet's side, and goes to an apothecary to by a bottle of poison. Then, Friar Lawrence talks with Friar John and asks him what Romeo's reply to his letter war. However, Friar John replies that he was quarantined due to the plague, and therefore could not deliver the letter. Fearing that something bad will happen, Friar Lawrence hurries to the monument to stay with Juliet until she wakes up.


 * __How is FATE evident in 5.3?__**

Romeo: "Do not interrupt me in my course" (5.3.27) -Romeo uses the words, "my course," which has the meaning that Romeo is already on a course. All courses have a set direction and end, so Romeo too is on a set "fate" that he cannot avoid.

Friar Lawrence: "A greater power than we can contradict" (5.3.158). -Friar Lawrence uses the words "greater power," which has the meaning that there is some force out there that has more control over their lives than they do. This power is "fate," and because fate had things turn out the way it is now

Prince: "That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love" (5.3.303). -

Prince "For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo" (5.3.320).

-The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is indeed very sad. But this tragedy was fated: by the stars, by the violent world in which they live, by the play, and by their very natures. We, as an audience, //want// this death, this tragedy