Act 4 Scene 1: The Friar’s Plan

All will be able to make simple comments about the writer’s choice of language, using quotations and considering context.Most will be able to make clear explanations about the writer’s choice of language and technique, using relevant quotations and showing clear understanding of context.Some will be able to make critical, exploratory comments about the effects of the writer’s language and techniques on the audience, using precise quotations and a detailed understanding of context.

Read Act 4 Scene 1

Active reading:

List 6 things that Juliet would rather do than marry Paris

Consider what could possibly go wrong with the Friar’s plan and justify yourself

Analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the Friar’s plan

Make notes/annotate your copy of the

script.

Scene Summary

Juliet is guarded with Paris, who assumes she will follow her father’s wishes and be his wife. After he has gone, she begins talking of suicide again, and then uses imagery of death to express her strength of feeling. In a long monologue, the Friar proposesa plan to drug Juliet so that she appears dead, and get a message to Romeo to come back and collecther from the family tomb.

What effects will the potion have? Use the following slides to annotate the quotes below.

• ‘Through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour’

• ‘No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.’

• ‘The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade’

• ‘Thy eyes, windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life.’

• ‘Each part…shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death.’

‘The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade’

What technique(s) can you identify?

What are the connotations of: 1. Roses?2. Fade? Why are these words used?

Put yourself in Juliet’s shoes. How would you be feeling upon hearing this?

Make notes/annotate your copy of the text.

‘Through all thy veins shall run a cold and drowsy humour’What techniques can you label?

What are the connotations of: 1. Cold? 2. Drowsy?

Why does the Friar describe the feeling as humorous? What does this word make you think of?

Why might the use of the word ‘humour’ be ironic?

‘No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.’What technique(s) can you label?

What are the connotations of:

1. Warmth?

2. Breath?

What effect will hearing ‘no warmth, no breath’ have on Juliet?

What does the word testify mean? Because of the use of this word what technique is created? What does it tell Juliet about what will happen when she is found?

‘The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade’What technique(s) can you identify?

What are the connotations of:

1. Roses?

2. Fade?

Why are these words used?

Put yourself in Juliet’s shoes. How would you be feeling upon hearing this?

‘Thy eyes, windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life.’ What technique(s) can you identify?

Shakespeare is choosing to show not tell. What does he mean will happen when she takes the potion?

Why do you think he compares her eyes with windows? What effect might this have in Juliet?

‘Each part…shall stiff and stark and cold appear like death.’What technique(S) can you identify?

What are the connotations of:

1. stiff?

2. Stark?

3. Cold?

Put yourself in Juliet’s shoes. What effect might this have? Explain how she will be feeling when the Friar tells her she will appear dead?

How does Friar Laurence use language to describe the effects of the potion?

This piece of work should be submitted

for marking

• WHAT does Friar Laurence show us about the effects of the potion?

• HOW is this shown in the words of the text? Use a quotation for EVIDENCE

(Remember to embed the quotation – place it into your sentence )

• WHY do you think the writer chose this technique?

• What does it make you think or feel about…

• Are there any other techniques in the same quote that you could talk about?

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