Romeo and Juliet

Prologue
Two households, both alike in dignity - The two households are displayed as equal In fair Verona (where we lay our scene), From ancient grudge break into new mutiny A war long term hatred each is trying to overthrow the other Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean The people are civil but their hands are becoming unclean will the blood they have spilt over fighting with each other From forth the fatal loins of these two foes Two children are born, one within each household destiny and fate A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life Their love was written in the stars (destiny) The stars dont want them to be happy they are against them as soon as their lives begin Whose misadventures piteous overthrows They have a tragic life Do with their death bury their parents strife With their death the parents arguments are buried The fearful passage of their death-marked love Their love is tainted with death And the continuance of their parents rage Which but their children end nought and remove Is now the two hours traffic of our stage The which if you with patient ears attend What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend

Act 1 scene 1:
Gregory and Sampson are having a joke about being servants They have a twisted sense of humour Very derogatory and sexist approach to women they are very cynical thrust his maids to the wall I will be civil with the maids; I will cut off their heads the heads of the maids or their maidenheads The light comedy at the beginning is for the audiences sake to make it fun and comic so that they are interested in the play Also the comic rivalry between the two lowest servants shows how deep the rivalry is it goes so deep that it is even amongst the servants

The servants start to fight, then Benvolio (a Montague) arrives at the scene and wants peace but then Tybalt (Capulet) arrives and wants to fight Soon their fighting attracts the attention of the Lords and Ladies of each household who also come out to fight The Prince finally has to come and he tells the families that if they disturbed the quiet of our streets again then their lives shall pay forfeit of the peace

The Montagues then question Benvolio about Romeos whereabouts and you learn of his upset and melancholy Lady Montague says that Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs Benvolio then promises that he will find out why Romeo is so unhappy. Benvolio asks Romeo why he is sad and Romeo confesses that he is in love with a girl called Rosaline, but he is out of favour where *he is+ in love (Rosaline doesnt love him back). Romeo also says that the rivalry between the households is much to do with hate, but more with love this is because the households love their other families so much that they hate the other family. I live dead oxymoron and hyperbolic Romeo

Romeo Act 1 Scene 1

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health Oxymoron to make to the audience clear about how confused Romeo feels about his feelings of love and the two sides that love possesses. Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Love is yearning he is choking on the fumes of love smoke surrounds you and love is surrounding him Being purgd, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes, Love is hungry it grows like a fire fire has two sides a good one (helpful for heat and cooking etc.) and an evil one (consumes and destroys things). Being vexd, a sea nourishd with loving tears. The sea is ongoing like love the sea is being taken care of with the pain of loves tears pain might be good for love What is it else? A madness most discreet, Love makes you crazy A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. (Gall poison) Love has two sides it is a chocking poison that consumes you and it preserves sweetness juxtaposition (putting two things that are pole opposites next to each other to emphasize something) to emphasize that love has two very different sides to it Rosaline has foresworn to love (sworn to never fall in love)

Act 1 Scene 2
Capulet is discussing with Paris the marriage of his daughter Juliet Paris wants to marry Juliet but Capulet wants to wait till she is 15 before she marries and at the moment Juliet is only 13. Capulet also wants Juliet to fall in love with Paris But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart My will to her consent is but a part Capulet invites Paris to his feast so that he can meet Juliet

Act 1 scene 3
Opinions on marriage Juliet Juliet does not want to get married (she is only thirteen). This is shown by the fact she thinks it is a honour that I dream not of She does not think about it, she is not hurry to get married. Juliet isnt enthusiastic about finding a husband. Lady Capulet Lady Capulet feels Juliet should get married, she wants Juliet to marry Paris. Lady Capulet thinks that Paris is a precious book of love, this unbound lover, to beautify him only lacks a cover (the cover would be Juliet). She tells Juliet that women are marrying younger than her. Lady Capulet was married at Juliets age She also says in Verona girls of her esteem are already married. Nurse The nurse is quite crude and bawdy but does wish to see thee married. She also wants Juliet to marry Paris, as he is a man of wax (a perfect man). In this first scene of Juliet she is obedient and submissive to her parents when her mother asks her to look at Paris at the party, Juliet says that Ill look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

Act 1 Scene 4
Romeo and Benvolio plan to crash the Capulets party, even though they havent been invited. Benvolio wants to go but Romeo isnt so sure. Mercutio, who has been invited convinces him to go in the end. You have dancing shoes, With nimble soles, I have a soul of lead Play on words by Romeo playing on the word sole/ soul he is saying that Mercutio has nimble soles (he can dance with light feet) but he has a soul of lead his sole is very heavy so he cant dance, but also his soul is heavy with love, love that weighs him down to mean he cant dance. Romeo also says that he dreamt that something awful is about to happen: I fear too early, for my mind misgives Some consequences yet hanging in the stars Shall bitterly begin his fearful date With this nights revels, and expire the term Of a despised life too closed in my breast, By some vile forfeit of untimely death. But He that hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail! On lusty gentlemen yet hanging in the stars this refers to fate, shall bitterly begin his fearful date Romeo thinks that something fateful that is bad is going to start with this nights revels (he is referring to meeting Juliet and this foretells the tragic end to the book). Expire the term Of a despised lifeuntimely death he thinks that this night is going to start something terrible that will end in his death. But he hath the steerage of my course Direct my sail! The He refers to the fate in his dream and he is welcoming this destiny he doesnt feel in control of his own life and wants fate to direct *his+ sail.

Act 1 Scene 5
Romeo sees Juliet at the party and this she is most beautiful a rich jewel - Shakespeare uses jewel because a jewel sparkles and is special, like Juliet jewels are also a rare beauty, which shows Juliet has a beauty that has no

comparison to other women and is completely unique. She stands out as a snowy dove trooping with the crows she stands out as the most beautiful and everyone else is completely below her. Her beauty is untouchable beauty too rich for use For I neer saw beauty before till this night Her beauty opens Romeos eyes and he seems to have forgotten Rosaline. Tybalt recognizes Romeos voice and wants to fight him Capulet tells Tybalt to let him alone as he does not a mutiny among *his+ guests and the party ruined. Tybalt vows revenge on Romeo. Romeo approaches Juliet and they flirt with each other Romeo gently teasing Juliet and trying to get her to kiss him. My lips, two blushing pilgrims he is making to kiss innocent by saying that his lips are pilgrims and holy. He says that his hand is unworthy but his lips are holier. Juliet carries on his holy metaphor and matches his wit equally- unconventional position for a woman in those days who were always passive when it came to conventional love scenes and didnt really say anything - and says that his hand is worthy and that saints and pilgrims use their hands in a holy palmers kiss. Romeo then asks have not saints lips, and palmers too? Juliet answers that lips that they must use in prayer this innocent flirting emphasizes the youthfulness both in Romeo and in Juliet Shakespeare is conveying to the audience just how young and innocent they are. Juliet kisses him to purge his sin and they kiss again. They both talk about the sin of kissing each other in a comic flirty way but the dramatic irony is that the audience knows they have sinned deeply by kissing because they come from the opposing families. The Nurse interrupts their moment and tells Romeo that Juliet is a Capulet. Juliet also finds out that Romeo is a Montague. Romeo my life is my foes debt - he loves Juliet and has given his heart to her, a foe Juliet My only love sprung from my only hate The only person she has ever been in love with is the only person she has ever been taught to hate. My grave is like to be my wedding bed She foretells her own tragedy by saying that she will die if she marries anyone but Romeo and she could never marry Romeo as they are enemies.

Act 2 Scene 2 the balcony scene

It is the east and Juliet is the sun Comparing Juliet to a rising sun she is life, light, pure and good also she is the start of a new day refreshing and youthful Juliet O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? She is asking herself why Romeo must be a Montague Deny thy father and refuse thy name She wants Romeo to give up his name, but if he wont she will no longer be Capulet this is the start of Juliet starting to become irrational with passion and love a trait we see in Romeo. Thou art thyself, not a Montague. Whats Montague? Nor arm nor face be some other man!- Juliet then becomes irrational again and logical. Romeo I never will be Romeo Romeo is immediately irrational with his love Romeo With loves light wings did I oerperch these walls, For stony limits cannot hold love out, Hyperbolic love has made him strong makes the impossible, possible compare loves light wings with when Romeo says that love makes him grieve and lies heavy in *his+ breast Juliet is a lot more clear headed than Romeo and warns him that if they do see thee, they will murder thee Romeo twenty of their swords could not kill him because love has made him strong comic irrationality from Romeo Juliet then says that she has no joy of this contract tonight because it is too rash too suddenToo like lightening Lightening is in the sky for a second then it is gone in almost an instant that is how she sees their love, beautiful for a moment, but gone all too quickly. Juliet at this point in the play is more sensible and mature than the older Romeo.

Act 2 scene 3
Romeo visits Friar Lawrence, who is glad to hear Romeo is no longer infatuated with Rosaline Romeo I have forgot that name Friar Lawrence Thats good my son Friar Lawrence quickly learns a new woman has taken her place Juliet Nevertheless he agrees to help arrange the marriage, so that he can unite the two families (this is the only reason why Friar Lawrence agrees he thinks it will end the fighting with the love). The Friar is anxious to end the feud. At the beginning of the scene the Friar has a long soliloquy where he is preparing potions he talks about how poison hath residence, and medicine power from one flower this is a foreshadowing of the tragic end where Romeo and Juliet die because of the potion, disguised as poison, that was supposed to bring them together in love, but then the poison that separated them because of the hate, and killed Romeo. It emphasizes the similarities between love and hate refer back to when Romeo is talking about how the hatred between the two families is much to do with hate, but more with love. BIG THEME IN THE PLAY FINE LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE The Friar also speaks in contradictory couplets with baleful weeds and precious juiced flowers What is her burying grave, that is her womb The Friar is talking about mother nature and soil (how soil is where the plants die, decompose, leave nutrients then give life to other plants)- this emphasizes the equal and similarities of opposites (in the play love and hate and their two extremes that are so nearly the same). Romeo trusts the Friar enough to tell him that he is love with a Capulet.

The Friar is rational:

Young mens love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. - Friar values a true loving relationship that isnt based on beauty, as this love lies Young men (like Romeo) love what they see but dont realize it goes no further into their hearts How much salt water thrown away in waste To season love, that of it doth not taste All the crying of love (referring to Romeos infatuation with Rosaline) was over nothing and that he just seasoned love but never tasted it. women may fall, when there is no strength in men How can you expect women to return love when the men are so weak (like Romeo crying and moaning over Rosaline). for doting not for loving, my pupil Friar Lawrence scolded Romeo for obsessing over Rosaline, not loving her, because Romeo never did love her and the Friar new this. For this alliance may so happy prove To turn your households rancor to pure love The Friar realizes that this union in marriage might bring the two households together in love and put an end to the feud the Friar is scheming (something he does consistently throughout the play) and is trying to think rationally about the situation he is a utilitarian Wisely and slow, they stumble that run fast (last line of the act) Friar Lawrences next moment of wisdom Romeo wants to rush the wedding the Friar is telling him to slow down as bad things happen when people are in too much of a hurry more foreshadowing of the tragic end for the stumbling pair of lovers. The Friar shows his wisdom and rationality, he knows that Romeo is just obsessed with Juliet the same way he was with Rosaline.

Romeo is irrational:
Thou chidst me oft for loving Rosaline Romeo still thinks he was in love with Rosaline showing he still isnt mature enough o see the difference between love and infatuation he still doesnt know what love is. O let us hence *to marry+, I stand on sudden haste Romeo is conveyed to the audience as impatient and hasty a sign of his lack of experience or maturity With Rosaline I have forgot that name, and that names woe Romeo has already forgotten his love for Rosaline showing his immaturity and his fickle nature if he can forget a love that was a choking gall for him within meeting another girl How do we know that Romeo really loves Juliet?

Act 2 Scene 4
Benvolio and Mercutio are looking for Romeo after he left them the night before (the balcony scene) We know that they think that Romeo has fought with Tybalt as they have heard that he wants to carry out the threat he made the night before at the party when he knew Romeo was there. Benvolio thinks that Romeo will accept the challenge and fight Tybalt Alas, poor Romeo, he is already dead run through the ear with a love song is this a man to encounter Tybalt? Mercutio is exasperated because he thinks that if Romeo can be killed by love and his heart breaks when the woman he loves doesnt love him back, then is he man enough to fight Tybalt. Mercutio compares Romeos love to that of famous women (Dido Cleopatra) and lovers celebrated in classical literature however all of their love affairs ended in tragedy (another foreshadowing of the end of Romeo and Juliet) Romeo comes in very good spirits and jokes for a while with Mercutio this is because he has just been to see the Friar about marrying Juliet The fact that Tybalt has threatened Romeo to a fight puts a slight anticlimax to the happiness that Romeo feels this is because it undercuts the exhilaration of Romeos mood and the progress of the two lovers towards marriage the happiness that Romeo wants with Juliet is already in jeopardy by Tybalt The nurse comes to talk to Romeo and tells him Juliet has sent her to find him Romeo tells her to arrange for Juliet to go to confession this is so that they can get married. Romeo also arranges for a rope ladder to be given to the Nurse so that he can climb into Juliets room that night

Act 2 Scene 5
Juliet is impatient and hasty about getting a response from Romeo O she is lame! Loves heralds should be thoughts Juliet cant wait for the nurse to get back and insults the nurse for being old and unwieldy, slow, heavy because she hasnt come back in time She blames time and love for not being able to have their own messengers but she never blames Romeo she never says that it could be his fault although her desperation could imply that she is secretly worried that he does not return her affection Juliet is behaving a bit like Romeo as she is impatient (like Romeo in the Friar Lawrence scene, where he is impatient to get married) Juliet sweet talks to the nurse to try and get her to tell her what Romeo says good sweet nurse the Nurse teases her and says give me leave a while how my bones ache! the nurse is playing with Juliet and making her wait Juliet says that she would swap her bones for the Nurses news Shakespeare builds the tension and frustration as the Juliet has to try and draw out the information from the Nurse his face is better than any mans the Nurse talks about how good looking Romeo is which is a contrast to when Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that love isnt about looks The plan is finally drawn out of the nurse and Juliet ends the scene with what high fortune dramatic irony because we know that no such high fortune is going to come as the plan is going to go very wrong and end in tragedy

Act 2 scene 6
Romeo and Juliet carry out their secret marriage in the Friars cell. The scene is not of the marriage itself but of just before the marriage this shows that Shakespeare does not think that the marriage is as important as just the mere declaration of love the marriage is unimportant besides the love itself. This scene is quite quiet with not many characters (only R&J with the Friar) which is a juxtaposition of the violence of the next scene. The Friar opens the scene with So smile upon the heavens upon this holy act, That after-hours with sorrow chide us not meaning that may the heavens smile upon the marriage so that nothing bad happens later to make us regret it this is dramatic irony as the audience knows that because of this marriage tragic things happen (the death of both Romeo and Juliet and of Paris)

Romeo then replies that love-devouring Death do what he dare because one short minute with Juliet is greater than sorrow that might follow it Romeo foreshadows his own death and tragedy do what he dare he is almost daring with death to do something terrible because he thinks that his love is greater The Friar then days that these violent delights have violent ends we know that Romeo and Juliets daring and violent love for each other does cause them to have a violent end fire and powder he is comparing their love to fireworks because they are beautiful, passionate, explosive but are gone within a second compare this to when in Act 2 scene 2 Juliet says that love is like lightening, which doth cease to be The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately, long love doth so - The friar is warning Romeo that even the most delicious honey is horrible if you have too much, this like their sweetest love if they love each other too much and too quickly it will soon confound *their+ appetite of each other and they wont love each other any more Juliet enters and the Friar love makes lovers so light they can bestride the gossamers (walk on spiders webs and not fall) this gives the impression that love can make you so light and happy but also can trap you like a spider web which will end in tragedy. so light is vanity the Friar is saying that love is unreal and flimsy which is a contrast with how Romeo feels love is so powerful that even the tragedy of death wouldnt affect him if he could just have one minute with Juliet Juliet says that her love has grown to such an excess *she+ cannot sum up half of my wealth showing that love has made her so rich she cant even express how much her love is so great she cant even describe half of it They are but beggars that can count their worth, what Juliet is saying here is that a poor person is the only person who could count all of their money (a rich person wouldnt because they have so much) in this context she means that only a person poor of love could tell you how much they feel loved or do love whereas she is wealthy in love and couldnt even describe half of how much she is in love.

Act 3 Scene 1
Benvolio begins the scene by saying the day is hot And if we meet we shall not scape a brawl, For now, these hot days, is mad blood stirring He is saying that the day is hot and this is making everyone angry and hot-blooded, if they meet the Capulets then they wont escape a fight Benvolio wants to not get in a fight so asks Mercutio if they can leave the streets Mercutio starts to playfully describe Benvolio as a quarrelsome man who likes to start fights thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard In fact Mecutio is really describing his own character as we can see when Tybalt enters Mercutio deliberately tries to start a fight However Tybalt isnt interested and is only looking for Romeo When Romeo enters Tybalt immediately insults him to try and provoke a fight thou art a villain However Romeo does not take up the bait and calmly tries to say farewell to Tybalt he says that there is a reason that I have to love thee because he is married to Juliet and now related to Tybalt through marriage Romeo says that the name Capulet is name he tenders As dearly as *his+ own Mercutio is dismayed by the fact that Romeo isnt going to fight he feels that if you are told to fight then you should fight otherwise it is dishonorable Mercutio is disgusted and thinks that Romeo is a coward and calls his submission vile Mercutio then draws his sword and Tybalt and him fight Romeo then tries to stop it and Tybalt then kills him Mercutio says a plague aboth houses Mercutio curses both the houses because of their quarrel he blames their feud for his death Romeo then blames his love for Juliet for making him effeminate and weak this is a contrast to when he says in Act 2 scene 2 Alack, there lies more peril in thine eyes Than twenty of their swords. Look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity Romeo had said that love made him stronger however now he is saying that the love is making him weak this contrast in what Romeo says emphasizes his fickle behaviour and immaturity, as he cant control his actions and blames them on other factors

Romeo then sums up the tragedy and foreshadows then end This days black fate on moe days doth depend, This but begins the woe others must end Romeo knows that this days black fate will begin the tragedy to come (and he is right) Romeo - And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now! Now, Tybalt, take that villain back again Romeo seems to make all his rash decisions on the emotion he feels at the time emotions lead him conveys his immaturity to the audience Romeo makes a rash decision to fight Tybalt this not only kills Tybalt but will in the end kill Romeo Tybalt dies and Romeo realises what he has done O, I am fortunes fool Romeo personifies fate and says that fortune is playing him and he is its enterainment The Prince comes to the scene and Benvolio gives him a very truthful account of what happened he says that Romeo rash decision to start fighting like lightening this is like when Juliet describes their love like lightening The Prince exiles Romeo from Verona

Act 3 Scene 2
Juliet is waiting for her wedding night she doesnt know about what happened with Romeo and Tybalt in the scene before and that Romeo has been banished Love performing night I am sold but not yet enjoyed she is married but has not yet been enjoyed (had sex) so tedious is this day Juliet is extremely impatient to see Romeo As is the night before some festival To an impatient child hath new robes she compares herself to a child waiting for a festival they can wear new clothes Shakespeare is using this metaphor to emphasize her youth and her inexperience of love This part of the scene dramatic irony as an audience we know of Tybalts death and Romeo not being able to come Nurse comes in and tells Juliet that hes dead, hes dead Juliet thinks that she is referring to Romeo Hath Romeo slain himself Juliet wills her heart to break and for her to die O break, my heart, poor bankrout, break at once! she also says that vile earth, to earth resign, end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heave bier! Juliet is saying that she wants to end her life now and lie with Romeo in one coffin double dramatic irony (we know that now Romeo is alive but we also know in the future they do die and lie in the same coffin) - her willingness to die if Romeo died foreshadows the ending Juliet finally realizes that Tybalt is dead not Romeo Nurse: O Tybalt, O Tybalt the best friend I had I should live to see dead it takes long for the Nurse to finally tell Juliet that Tybalt is gone and Romeo is banished (Compare to Act 2 scene 5 where Juliet is trying to get information out of the Nurse but in very different circumstances) Juliet also realizes that Romeo killed Tybalt and starts to doubt her love and starts speaking in oxymoron O serpent heart, hid with flowering face Juliet says that Romeo is an oxymoron he is beautiful but must be the devil inside Nurse starts to say that all men are bad theres no trust, No faith, no honesty in men, all perjured (perjured liars) shame come to Romeo and Juliet starts defending him Blistered be thy tongue he was not born to shame shall I speak ill of him that is my husband thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? wives should stand by their husbands that villain cousin would have killed my husband she realizes that Tybalt was as bad as Romeo in the situation Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring offer up to joy Juliet is willing herself to be joyful as her husband is still alive However she get filled with despair at the thought of his banishment that one word banished, hath slain ten thousand Tybalts Romeos banishment is worse than 10,000 deaths of Tybalt Romeo is banished!: To speak that word Is father, mother, Tybalt, Romeo, Juliet All slain, All dead Juliet is saying that the banishment of Romeo is just as bad as everyone being dead But I, a maid, a die maiden- widowed she is distraught and is worried she will die a virgin And death, not Romeo, will take my maidenhead Death will take her virginity not Romeo she will die in her wedding bed emotional, suicidal The Nurse offers to find Romeo to comfort Juliet

Juliet O find him! Give this ring to my true knight, And bid him come to take his farewell suddenly happy that Nurse will find him and wants to say goodbye to Romeo they wont see each other again

Act 3 Scene 3
In Friar Lawrences cell Romeo and Friar Lawrence talk Friar Lawrence A gentler judgment vanished from his lips: Not bodys death but bodys banishment Romeo says that banishment is worse than death be merciful say death this mirrors the response that Juliet gave they are both hyperbolic and dramatic There is no world without Verona walls, But purgatory, torture, hell itself saying that Verona is heaven on earth and everywhere else is hell O rude unthankfulness Friar thinks that he is ungrateful Heaven is here Where Juliet lives his only world is where Juliet lives he says that everyone may look at her but not him every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven, and may look at her, but not Romeo Romeo is saying that no one understands him and should talk no more as it helps not Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel whiny teenager, immature and childish The nurse shows up and tells him that Juliet is blubbring and weeping and that Romeo should stand up a be a man Romeo thinks that Juliet hates him because of the death of Tybalt What vile part of this anatomy doeth my name lodge? the idea that his name has caused all this compare this to when Juliet mentions in Act 2 Scene 2 at the balcony Romeo offers to kill himself and the Nurse snatches the dagger away from him Friar Lawrence gives him a lecture about how Romeo is acting like a girl and his tears are womanship and how he is bringing shame upon his body and his wife he is selfish and immature and irrational He then tells him to go and sleep with Juliet and comfort her Friar Lawrence then schemes of how to Romeo out of this situation he should go to Mantua until they sort things out at Verona then he can marry Juliet and it will be happier The Nurse gives Romeo the ring that Juliet made him and Romeo says that his comfort is revived by this Romeo then leaves to go to Juliet

Act 3 scene 4
Capulet is telling his wife and Paris that Juliet loved her kinsmen Tybalt dearly this is dramatic irony because she is not upset about Tybalts death but about Romeos banishment These times of woe afford no times to woo Paris is saying that these times of sadness are not times to make her his wife this is also dramatic irony as tonight Juliet is arranging her wedding night I think she will be ruled Thinks Juliet will be obedient (she isnt as she is secretly married to Romeo) She shall be married to this noble earl Capulet wants her to be married soon

Act 3 Scene 5
Romeo and Juliet are in her bedroom and it is the morning Juliet tries to convince him to stay by saying that the bird that they heard was a nightingale, and not a lark (nightingale being a night bird) and that the sunlight is not in fact sunlight by light from a meteor that the sun exhaled by making the scene only of the departure and sadness sets the mood for the rest of the scene Romeo then, filled with love, says that he will stay with her and let the Princes men kill him Then Juliet, afraid, tells him to be gone The Nurse enters and tells Juliet that her mother is coming - Romeo and Juliet tearfully say goodbye they each tell each other that they look as one dead in the bottom of the tomb this is foreshadowing of the end - this is the last time they will see each other alive and they now see each other dead

Lady Capulet enters the room and Juliet is still crying from the death of Romeo however she disguises this by saying she is crying for the death of Tybalt Lady Capulet tells her that she is crying because the villain who slaughtered Tybalt is still alive Juliet however shows her maturity and intelligence by replying that no man like he doth grieve my heart her mother thinking she means he has made her grieve for Tybalt but actually Romeo has made her grieve because of her love for him She dominates her conversation with her mother and her mother has no idea that she is proclaiming her love for Romeo under the guise of grieving for Tybalt I never shall be satisfied With Romeo, till I behold him in my arms dead proclaiming her love and dramatic irony as the next time she sees him he will be dead (foreshadowing) Lady Capulet then tells her that she shall be married to Paris in two days I will not marry yet, and when I do, I swear It shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate Juliet doesnt want to marry Paris (would rather marry Romeo) Capulet is very angry that she doesnt want to get married out you baggage Juliet tries to go against her father as she did with her mother however she knows that she is still a woman in a male-dominated world and asks her father to forgive her Her father again calls her a disobedient wretch - she is a curse and threatens to disown her The Nurse wants Juliet to marry Paris and Juliet is now alone The only way she feels she will have power is to die

Act 4 Scene 1
Paris and Juliet meet and Juliet is cold towards him and Paris thinks its because of Tybalt (compare to the way that she talks to Lady Capulet) I will confess to you that I love him this has a double meaning and is dramatic irony Thy face is mine and thou has slandered it Paris thinks he owns her he will when he marries he Paris then leaves and Juliet is left alone with Friar Lawrence she wants to kill herself and with this knife she will kill herself Friar Lawrence hints that he has a plan if she has the strength to slay thyself then she would be willing to take on something like death Juliet says that she would rather die than be with Paris she would rather be chained with roaring bears she would hide among the dead rather than marry Paris foreshadowing the plan that Friar Lawrence has The plan consists of: Go home and agree to marry Paris Go to bed alone Drink bottle of Potion The pulse will stop, colour will leave her face, her breathing will stop (for 42 hours) The family will think shes dead and put her in the family vault Friar Lawrence will inform Romeo via letter Romeo will come back and get her and bring her to Mantua, Friar Lawrence will be waiting Friar Lawrence is always scheming to avoid tragedy

Act 4 Scene 2
Juliet tells her father that she is going to marry Paris and completes the first part of the plan

Act 4 Scene 3
What if this mixture do not work at all? Worries that the mixture wont work on her and she will have to marry Paris she will kill herself if this happened Juliet is worried that:

 That the Friar is trying to kill her rather than marry her twice then she doesnt believe that he would do this as he is a holy man Scared that she will wake too early (ironic because this doesnt happen and this causes the death) Worried that she will suffocate from the lack of air in the vault She doesnt want to see Tybalts festring in his shroud Worried that she might go mad because of the potion However she drinks it for Romeo and falls upon her bed

Act 4 Scene 4
Juxtaposition from the last scenes of sadness happy and preparing for the wedding Dramatic Irony as we know, already, that the wedding isnt going to take place - Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up

Act 4 Scene 5
The Nurse tries to wake Juliet in a cheery mood until she realizes she is dead