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 * 1: 2.4. 164-219

Prepare a summary of your group’s lines. The nurse comes to Romeo to ask about the plans for Romeo and Juliet’s marriage. Romeo tells nurse to let Juliet go to Friar Lawrence’s cell, and they will going to be married there. Also, they plan to drop the rope ladder to let Romeo sneak into Capulet’s house at night.

Identify three examples of language tricks/literary devices used in your group’s lines. simile: “Warrant thee, my man’s as true as steel” (2.4.201) simile: “And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair” (2.4.192) simile: “she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world” (2.4.208~209)

How do these specific devices/tricks enhance the passage? They give better understanding, vivid description, and 4. Identify what your group thinks is the most important line, and be prepared to explain why it is important.

Act 5 Scenes 1~2 Plot Summary

On the morning of Mantua, Romeo is excited about the dream he had(Juliet came out and she saved him). Just then, Balthasar brings Romeo a news that Juliet is dead. Since Friar John failed to deliver the letter from Friar Lawrence, Romeo thinks Juliet is really dead, and he buys the poison to kill himself. Friar Lawrence, who’ve just heard that Friar John couldn’t deliver the letter, starts planing to rescue Juliet and keep her in his cell until Romeo comes.

How is fate evident in Act 5. Sc. 3?

- " Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee." (lines 56~57) Romeo is borned to be a Montague. Which means that Romeo and Juliet's love was not meant to be carried out. They were born to be enemies from the first time.

- " Beauty's ensign yet is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, and death;s pale flag is not advanced there." (lines 94~96) " Why art thou yet so fair?" (line 102) Romeo is muttering about Juliet's beauty even though he thinks she is dead. Romeo is wondering how a dead person can look so beautiful, but it is actually because she is not dead.

- " I dreamt my master and another fought, and that my master slew him." (lines 142~143) What Balthasar dreamed was really all true. He had seen Romeo slaying Paris in his dream, and this is a very unusual thing to happen.

- " And there I am. Where is my Romeo?" (line 155) When Juliet woke up from her deep sleep, she is looking for Romeo but he is not there. Romeo thought that Juliet was dead, so he killed himself, but now that Juliet is here, Romeo is dead. This is an example of their tragic fate because Juliet woke up right after Romeo drank the poison, and killed himself. Both Romeo and Juliet have suffered from the loss of their lover. And this led to the death of both Romeo and Juliet.

- lines 158~159 it is fate that caused such a disaster - line 111 “ And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars”