RJ+Jonathan

"Then, window, let day in, let life out" (41) "What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears" "


 * What surprised you most about this scene?
 * What was the most important line in this scene? Quote it and explain.
 * Write three questions you have about this scene.

The most surprising scene in scene 3 act 5 was when Lady Capulet and Capulet tells Juliet that she's going to be married with Paris. I think the most Important line in this scene was when Romeo says 'Farewell, Farewell, one kiss and I'll descend." because it forecasts an event might happen. I am still curious why Nurse offered Paris instead of Romeo, Why Juliet sees the 'tomb', and why Capulet forces Juliet to marry Paris

Summary

4.3 In her bedchamber, Juliet asks the Nurse to let her spend the night by herself, and repeats the request to Lady Capulet when she arrives. Alone, clutching the vial given to her by Friar Lawrence, she wonders what will happen when she drinks it. If the friar is untrustworthy and seeks merely to hide his role in her marriage to Romeo, she might die; or, if Romeo is late for some reason, she might awaken in the tomb and go mad with fear. She has a vision in which she sees Tybalt’s ghost searc hing for Romeo. She begs Tybalt’s ghost to quit its search for Romeo, and toasting to Romeo, drinks the contents of the vial. 4.4  Early the next morning, the Capulet house is aflutter with preparations for the wedding. Capulet sends the Nurse to go wake Juliet. She finds Juliet dead and begins to wail, soon joined by both Lady Capulet and Capulet. Paris arrives with Friar Lawrence and a group of musicians for the wedding. When he learns what has happened, Paris joins in the lamentations. The friar reminds them all that Juliet has gone to a better place, and urges them to make ready for her funeral. Sorrowfully, they comply, and exit. Left behind, the musicians begin to pack up, their task cut short. Peter, the Capulet servant, enters and asks the musicians to play a happy tune to ease his sorrowful heart. The musicians refuse, arguing that to play such music would be inappropriate. Angered, Peter insults the musicians, who respond in kind. After singing a final insult at the musicians, Peter leaves. The musicians decide to wait for the mourners to return so that they might get to eat the lunch that will be served. 4.5  Once again Juliet demonstrates her strength. She comes up with reason after reason why drinking the sleeping potion might cause her harm, physical or psychological, but chooses to drink it anyway. In this action she not only attempts to circumvent the forces that obstruct her relationship with Romeo, she takes full responsibility for herself. She recognizes that drinking the potion might lead her to madness or to death. Drinking the potion therefore constitutes an action in which she takes her life into her own hands, and determines its worth to her. In addition to the obvious foreshadow in Juliet’s vision of Tybalt’s vengeful ghost, her drinking of the potion also hints at future events. She drinks the potion just as Romeo will later drink the apothecary’s poison. In drinking the potion she not only demonstrates a willingness to take her life into her own hands, she goes against what is expected of women and takes action. In their mourning for Juliet, the Capulets appear less as a hostile force arrayed against the lovers and more as individuals. The audience gains an understanding of the immense hopes that the Capulets had placed in Juliet, as well as a sense of their love for her. Similarly, Paris’s love for Juliet seems wholly legitimate. His wailing cannot simply be taken as grief over the loss of a wife who might have brought him fortune. It seems more personal than that, more like grief over the loss of a loved one.

Juliet experiences internal conflict within herself when her father says that she has to marry Paris. She tricks her father to marrying Paris, but uses a potion to pretend she is dead. The family mourn for Juliet, but they do not know that Juliet is actually alive. The internal conflict is to follow her parents or to follow her dreams. __Pros__ -Live with Romeo -Never have anyone breaking their love __Cons__ -Cannot ever meet her family again -Always have to live in fear of being compromised