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 **Romeo & Juliet **  **Act 2 Scene 6 ** 

For your assigned passage above, please complete the following: (Group 4) 1. Prepare a summary of your group’s lines.
 * Romeo and Juliet marry secretly at the church by Friar Lawrence.

2. Identify three examples of language tricks/literary devices used in your group’s lines. Note: Look for hyperbole, puns, personification, metaphor, simile, classical allusions, and reversed word order. If you are familiar with them, you may also identify poetic devices such as alliteration, end rhyme, iambic pentameter, blank verse, etc. 1) Personification: Line 1, "So smile the heavens..." 2) Simile: Line 10, "And in their triumph die, like fire and powder" 3) Personification: Line 11-12 "The sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness"

3. How do these specific devices/tricks enhance the passage? The specific devices/tricks makes the reader stop and try to find out what it means.

4. Identify what your group thinks is the most important line, and be prepared to explain why it is important. I think line 9, "These violent delights have violent ends" is an important line, because it foreshadows what's going to happen in the future. "These violent delights" might be the secret marriage of Romeo and Juliet while the "violent death" would be the death of the two lovers.

**Act 3 Scene 1 **  Fiery Tybalt tries to provoke Romeo into a fight, but it's Mercutio that stands up and performs his passado towards Tybalt. Romeo tries to end the fight but Tybalt stabs Mercutio. Mercutio curses Tybalt with "A plague o'both your houses!". He also states that although it's just a "scratch, a scratch", it will be enough to kill him. After Mercutio and Benvolio exit, it is said that Mercutio has passed away and Romeo foreshadows that "This day's black fate on more days doth depend". In the next scene, the Prince, the Montagues and the Capulets enter. Benevolio starts to testify what had happened, but Lady Capulet cuts him off and says that since Benevolio "is a kinsman to the Montague", he would try to defend his own family, and that there were about twenty people in this fight and Romeo was the one that killed Tybalt so he must die. The Prince agrees with her and exiles Romeo from fair Verona.

**Act 3 Scene 2 **  When the nurse delivers the news to Juliet that Romeo killed Tybalt, Juliet becomes very disappointed in him. She couldn't believe that "deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace!". Although as their conversation progresses, she thought better of him and starts to defend him saying that she shouldn't talk badly about her own husband. She then says that she will throw out the ladder which it's purpose was for Romeo to climb up her wall. The nurse finally tells her that Romeo is hiding out in Friar Lawrence's cell. Juliet gives her ring to the nurse while saying to tell Romeo to come to say his last farewell.

**Act 3 Scene 3 **  Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that he is exiled from fair Verona. Romeo thinking that he might never see Juliet again says that he might as well die. The nurse then comes knocking at the friar's door and tells them how Juliet is weeping and blubbering. The friar tells Romeo to stop crying like a woman and tells the nurse that Romeo will go to Juliet. Before the nurse leaves, she gives Juliet's ring to Romeo.

**Act 3 Scene 4 **  Capulet arranges Paris and Juliet to be married on Thursday.

**Act 3 Scene 5 **  Identify three literary devices (hyperbole, pun, personification, metaphor, simile, classical allusions, reversed word order) 1) Classical allusion: (line 20): "'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow." 2) Classical allusion: (lines 60-64) "O Fortune, Fortune, all men call the fickle. If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him that is renowned for faith? Be fickle Fortune, for them I hope thou wilt not keep him long, but send him back." 3) Hyperbole: (line 72): "What, wilt thou wash him from his grave with tears?" 4) Metaphor (line 9): "Night's candles are burnt out" 5) Personification (line 9-10): "..jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops" 6) Personification (line 7): "envious streaks" 7) Metaphor (line 8): "Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east."

Write three questions you have about this scene. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. How will Friar Lawrence respond to Juliet?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In complete sentences answer (or complete) the following:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What surprised you most about this scene?: I was really surprised that Juliet's parents were forcing Juliet to marry Paris, someone she did not love. I think Juliet's father went too far on berating her, calling her a green sickness and a carrion. I was also very surprised that the nurse suggested that Juliet should break her vows to Romeo and marry Paris.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What was the most important line in this scene? Quote it and explain.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lines (213-226)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Nurse:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">   Faith, here it is.Romeo is banishèd, and all the world to nothingThat he dares ne'er come back to challenge you.Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth.Then, since the case so stands as now it doth,I think it best you married with the county.Oh, he’s a lovely gentleman.Romeo’s a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam,Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eyeAs Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart,I think you are happy in this second match,For it excels your first. Or if it did not,Your first is dead, or ’twere as good he were,As living here and you no use of him."
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This quote was significant because it probably changed most of the audience's perspective on her. At first I thought she was a really nice old lady who really cared for what Juliet really wanted in her heart, but after this scene, it obviously shows that she actually doesn't. It seems that she's not interested in Juliet's wishes but she wants to care for more babies since she suggests Juliet and Paris to marry.
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">When the nurse first interrupted Capulet screaming to Juliet that she should marry Paris, I thought she was trying to disagree on what he was saying, but after he left, she started talking about how Juliet should marry Paris, now that she can't see Romeo. I also thought that the nurse was on Romeo and Juliet's side. Why did her mind suddenly change?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Why did the nurse agree with Juliet's father when she should have known that Friar Lawrence wouldn't conduct such a marriage since it's a sin against the church?

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 4, Scene 3 ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

Juliet tells the nurse and her mother that they can go, as she and the nurse had already prepared what to wear on the wedding day and they should get some rest. The two agree, and Juliet is left alone in her room left with all sorts of questions as she ponders wether or not she should drink from the vial. At the close of the scene, she drinks the potion and falls on her bed.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 4, Scene 4 ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The house of the Capulet's are busy as the whole house is preparing for Juliet's marriage. Capulet then sends the nurse to wake Juliet up. The nurse then finds that Juliet is "dead". After hearing this news, the whole family, including Paris begins to mourn as Juliet has now "married Death". Friar Lawrence then enters and breaks off the commotion, talking about Heaven and how she is now in a better place.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 4, Scene 5 ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The musicians and Peter fight over which music they should play.

**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Juliet's Soliloquy ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 1) Juliet's Internal conflict: Juliet asks herself wether or not to drink the potion or not as a) it might not work or b) Friar might have mixed some poison in it. She also worries what might happen after she drinks the potion as she may a) wake up before Romeo comes and might suffocate, b) if she wakes up, she'll be surrounded by bones her ancestor's bones including Tybalt's rotting corpse and she might be driven mad because of this.

2) Pro/con list (line 22) "What if this mixture do not work at all?" || (line 27, 30) "Lest in this marriage he should be dishonour'd", "For he hath still been tried a holy man". || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The friar might have mixed poison inside (line 25-26) "What if it be a poison, which the friar subtly hath minister'd to have me dead" || (line 47-48) || (lines 52-55) "and madly play with my forefather's joints? and pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud? And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone, as with a club, dash out my desperate brains?" || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3) drawing
 * **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Pro(Why to take it) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Con(Why not to) ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">If it doesn’t work, she has the option of using the knife || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The potion might not work
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The Friar’s a trustworthy man, and has been proven to be a holy man.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">If she want's to live happily with Romeo, she has to drink this. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Suffocation if she wakes up early ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She won't have to marry Paris so she's not cheating on her husband. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She will go mad with the "loathsome smells and the shrieks of mandrakes"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chance of hope that things will work out. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She will go insane if she wakes up early by the night/dead spirits.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">She will see Tybalt’s rotting corpse. ||



In Romeo's soliloquy, he foreshadows that he dreamt that Juliet found him dead. Balthasar then enters the scene and delivers the new of Juliet's "death" to Romeo. Knowing nothing, he goes to the Apothecary to buy poison, which was first denied by the fact that it's against the law. Seeing that the pharmacist was poor, Romeo offered his gold and the deal was done.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 5, Scene 1 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

As Friar John was locked in a house that was being quarantined, he was not able to go to Mantua and deliver Romeo the letter of Friar Lawrence. Friar Lawrence then asks Friar John to bring him an iron crow to unlock Juliet from her cell.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 5, Scene 2 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Act 5, Scene 3 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

<span style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman';">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5.3.111: ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh.": Romeo wants to escape the Fate that he was assigned to. 5.3.158-159: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: normal;">"A greater power than we can contradict Hath thwarted our intents.": <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> 5.3.242-243: " <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: normal;">"I married them, and their stol'n marriage day Was Tybalt's doomsday,"" 3.5.270: "And bear this work of heaven with patience.": Heaven= something that cannot be quite controlled. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> - Unlikely that Paris and Romeo were both at the cell of the Montague's at the same time. - After Romeo drinks the potion, Friar Lawrence enters the scene and Juliet wakes up. She then drinks the potion as she hears footsteps.Unlikely timing right there!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Essay Pre-writing ** __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Part 1 **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; letter-spacing: 0px; white-space: pre;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; letter-spacing: 0px;">Fate is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet; as many will well know, Fate controls the events of people’s lives and therefore it cannot be prevented in anyway. In this context, Romeo and Juliet’s death was chosen before they knew it and so it could not be avoided. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> __**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Part 2 **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Textual evidence #1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Prologue Lines 5-8 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Whose misadventured piteous overthrows <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Doth with their death bury their parents' strife.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">In the old days, “star-crossed” meant Fate. In this context, the pair of star-crossed lovers are obviously Romeo and Juliet and it mentions about their death in line 8. Even before the story begins, it is implied that there will be a death scene of Romeo and Juliet as it was planned beforehand. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Textual Evidence #2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lines: Act 5, scene 3 165-166 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“A greater power than we can contradict <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hath thwarted our intents.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is Friar Lawrence speaking to Juliet right after Juliet finds out that Romeo killed himself after seeing his lover “dead”. Friar Lawrence says that “A greater power”-Fate was the factor that “contradicted our intents” as all would have gone well if Juliet would have woken up a bit earlier or if Romeo saw Juliet a few seconds later. It was highly unlikely that such coordination of Romeo killing himself a few seconds before Juliet waking up would have happened, and thus it seems fair that Fate had been messing around with their scheme. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Textual evidence # <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Lines: Act 5, scene 3 242-243 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">“I married them, and their stol'n marriage day <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Was Tybalt's doomsday," <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">This is Friar Lawrence confessing what he knows about Romeo and Juliet’s death to the Prince. In this line, the important word to keep in mind is “Tybalt’s doomsday”. By what is he saying, it seems like Tybalt’s death was planned before by looking at Shakespeare’s wording. If Tybalt had not died, then Romeo wouldn’t have been banished from fair Verona, and thus there would be no need for Juliet to drink the potion, later leading Romeo to thinking her dead and killing himself. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">