Lesson Title: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Act IV: Scene 1-3

Elements of Literature pp. 876-895

Created by Mrs. Ariana Tivis and Mrs. Emmett for English 9

Objectives

• Read some of Shakespeare's poetry.

• Analyze dramatic irony.

• Analyze recurring themes.

• Compare and contrast characters.

Tragedy

Act IIICrisis, or turning point

Act IIRising action, orcomplications

Act IExposition

Act IVFalling action

Act VClimax and resolution

Paraphrase! Change these quotes to common everyday English

1. Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears.

2. Be not so long to speak. I long to die if what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.

3. The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade to wanny ashes, they eyes’ windows fall like death when he shuts up the day of life…

Act 4, scene 1• Juliet has had an argument

with her parents about marrying Paris.

• Remember, Juliet is already married to Romeo!

• What does Paris say to Juliet when he sees her?

•   What does Juliet say to Paris and his assumptions about them getting married and how she feels about him?

• What does Juliet tell the Friar she will do if he can’t help her?

Help!!!!!

She tells him that if you can’t help me, then I will just kill myself. Friar Laurence tells Juliet to not be so hasty. He has a plan. What is it?

• Since you are obviously desperate enough to do something dangerous, let’s try this little “remedy” that I have.

• Juliet is soooo desperate, what does she say she is willing to do?

•  Friar. •              Hold, daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, 

             Which craves as desperate an execution 70         As that is desperate which we would prevent.              If, rather than to marry County Paris,              Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,              Then is it likely thou wilt undertake              A thing like death to chide away this shame, 75         That cop’st° with death himself to scape from it;              And, if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy.     

•     Juliet. •              O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,•              From off the battlements of any tower, 

             Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk 80         Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears,              Or hide me nightly in a charnel house,°             O’ercovered quite with dead men’s rattling bones,              With reeky° shanks and yellow chapless° skulls;              Or bid me go into a new-made grave 85         And hide me with a dead man in his shroud—              Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble—              And I will do it without fear or doubt,              To live an unstained wife to my sweet love.

Juliet again responds by letting the friar know that she is willing to do anything: I’ll jump off a tower, steal, face snakes, sleep in a cemetery, or even right next to a dead guy!!!!

What’s the Friar’s plan?

• Friar. •              Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent• 90         To marry Paris. Wednesday is tomorrow. 

             Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone;              Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.              Take thou this vial, being then in bed,              And this distilling° liquor drink thou off; 95         When presently through all thy veins shall run              A cold and drowsy humor;° for no pulse              Shall keep his native° progress, but surcease;°             No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;              The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade 100       To wanny° ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall              Like death when he shuts up the day of life;              Each part, deprived of supple government,°             Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death;              And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death 105       Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours,              And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.           

•   Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes              To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.              Then, as the manner of our country is, 110       In thy best robes uncovered on the bier              Thou shalt be borne to that same ancient vault              Where all the kindred of the Capulets lie.              In the meantime, against° thou shalt awake, 

Then, as the manner of our country is,In thy best robes uncovered on the bierThou shalt be borne to that same ancient vaultWhere all the kindred of the Capulets like.In the meantime, against thou shalt awake,Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift;And hither shall he come; and he and IWill watch thy waking, and that very nightShall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.And this shall free thee from this present shame,If no inconstant toy nor womanish fearAbate thy valor in the acting it.

• Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift;°115       And hither shall he come; and he and I              Will watch thy waking, and that very night              Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.           

•    And this shall free thee from this present shame,•              If no inconstant toy° nor womanish fear

120       Abate thy valor in the acting it.•  Juliet. •              Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!•          Friar. •              Hold! Get you gone, be strong and prosperous•              In this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed 

             To Mantua, with my letters to thy lord.•          Juliet. • 125       Love give me strength, and strength shall help

afford.              Farewell, dear father.                [Exit with FRIAR.]

Drink it!1. What did the Friar give Juliet?

2. What is it going to do to her?

3. What are Romeo and Juliet going to do afterward?

Scene 2• A hall in Capulet’s houseLord Capulet is making

preparations for the wedding when Juliet comes in. She says that she has seen the error of her ways and begs forgiveness from her father on her knees. She says that from now on she will do what she is told and marry Paris. Juliet even asks the nurse to help her pick out something to wear for tomorrow.

In response to her apology, what does Juliet’s father decide to do?

Complication!

• Juliet’s father moves the wedding date up from Thursday to Wednesday. What will this do to the plans that the Friar set up for Romeo and Juliet?

Dramatic Irony

• Juliet is upset with the nurse and her family, but is pretending that everything is now fine. She asks the nurse to help her pick out clothes for her wedding, but what are they actually for?

Scene 3• Juliet’s chamberThe nurse has helped Juliet pick out

her clothes for the wedding. Juliet’s mom comes in offering to help. Juliet sends them both away so that she can pray and rest up for tomorrow. When they are gone Juliet starts to get nervous about the plans that were made for her and Romeo to be together. She lists the things that she is worried about. Can you find them all?

Could this be……Could this be……FORESHADOWING!!!???FORESHADOWING!!!???

(dun dun dunnnnn!!)(dun dun dunnnnn!!)

• What things are Juliet afraid of?:

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Very Superstitious

• Elizabethans tended to be deeply superstitious and believed that ghosts often returned to earth on a specific mission: to warn the living about the future or to avenge their own deaths. Ghosts are dramatically effective and play a prominent role in many of Shakespeare’s plays. Often the ghosts were visible only to the specific person they are haunting.

• Why might Juliet be afraid of seeing Why might Juliet be afraid of seeing Tybalt’s ghost specifically?Tybalt’s ghost specifically?

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