Write a paragraph 68 sentences in which you explain how Shakespeares use of imagery andor diction in Sonnet 18 suggests his attitude about the enduring power of poetry In other words based on Sonnet 18 why does Shakespeare think poetry the written word is so important ID: 784060
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Slide1
Romeo and Juliet
Slide2Do Now: take out your HW packet (Sonnet 18) to assist with do now
Write a paragraph (6-8 sentences) in which you explain how Shakespeare’s use of imagery and/or diction (in Sonnet 18) suggests his attitude about the enduring power of poetry.
In other words: based on Sonnet 18, why does Shakespeare think poetry (the written word) is so important.
Use at least 2 examples of imagery/diction (quotes) from the sonnet
Slide3Objective
: Students will explain the meaning and importance of the prologue of R&J.
Romeo and Juliet Prologue
:
The prologue is delivered by the chorus – the sort of narrator of the play
It will outline/summarize the play for the reader/viewer
By studying this prologue, we will get a better understanding of the diction Shakespeare uses throughout the play
Slide4Homework:
Complete R&J Prologue questions for Quatrains 1-3 and Rhyming Couplet
Slide5Do Now:
Take out prologue HW
Move desks to be with a partner
On the back of the sheet, complete #1 (other movies, TV shows, books etc. that follow a similar story line to R&J – “two lovers from different places who can’t be together”
AGENDA: Discuss essay prompts (rough draft due Thursday), review HW, creative writing, character chart, Act 1 Scene 1
Slide6Two households, both alike in dignity,
In
fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where
civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A
pair of star-
cross'd
lovers take their life; Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could 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
Rewrite the opening sonnet in your own contemporary world.A Question to Consider: What is the thing that could tear apart your chosen “Two Households”?
Introduce your two modern households, Where does the story take place?How old’s the argument – what’s the mutiny?What will be the end result of the two “households”?What’s the origin of your new “thing”?What’s going to happen to it in the end?What’s the general story of your new “thing”?What will happen to the households in the end?Be specific about the storyHow is it going to affect the modern household?Why is the new “thing” the only that can change the households?How long is the story going to last?What does your audience need to do?What do you want the audience to be able to do at the end?
Objective: Students will create original recreation of R&J Prologue
Slide7Act 1 Scene 1:
Sampson (Cap)
– “talks a big game”, looks to fight but not really big enough to actually fight
Gregory (Cap)
– very witty/clever with words, quick to make funny comments about friends and others
Abram (Mont) –
gets offended easily and seeks fighting
Capulets
Benvolio
(Mont)
– calm, level-headed, sees no need for fighting, tries to stop it when he sees itTybalt (Cap)– an excellent fighter and seeks it out, very aggressiveObjective: Students will recreate Act 1 Scene of Romeo and Juliet and analyzing the Prince’s speech
Slide8Act 1 Scene 1
PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbor-
stainèd
steel!—
Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streetsAnd made Verona’s ancient citizensCast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans in hands as old,Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.For this time, all the rest depart away.You, Capulet, shall go along with me,And, Montague, come you this afternoonTo know our farther pleasure in this case,To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
Complete a translation on your handout. Go line by line and put in your own words.
THIS IS NOT A SUMMARY. It should read like the original monologue, only with different, more modern language.
Slide9Act 1 Scene 1
PRINCE
Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace,
Profaners of this neighbor-
stainèd
steel!—
Will they not hear?—What, ho! You men, you beasts,
That quench the fire of your pernicious rage
With purple fountains issuing from your veins,
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands
Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground,And hear the sentence of your movèd prince.Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word,By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streetsAnd made Verona’s ancient citizensCast by their grave-beseeming ornaments,To wield old partisans in hands as old,Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.For this time, all the rest depart away.You, Capulet, shall go along with me,And, Montague, come you this afternoonTo know our farther pleasure in this case,To old Free-town, our common judgment-place.Once more, on pain of death, all men depart
You rebels! Enemies of the peace! Men who turn their weapons against their own neighbors – They won’t listen to me? – You there! You men, you beasts, who satisfy your anger with fountains of each others’ blood I’ll have you tortured if you don’t put down your swords and listen to your angry prince. Three times now riots have broken out in this city, all because of a casual word from you, old Capulet and Montague. Three times the peace has been disturbed in our streets, and Verona’s old citizens have had to take off their dress clothes and pick up rusty old spears to part you. If you ever cause a disturbance on our streets again, you’ll pay for it with your lives. Everyone else, go away fro now. You, Capulet, come with me. Montague, this afternoon come to old Free-town, the court when I deliver judgments, and I’ll tell you what else I want from you. As for the rest of you, I’ll say this once more; go away or be put to death.
Slide10Act 1 Scene 1 Notes:
Sampson and Gregory (
Capulets
) discuss hatred for
Montagues
– get into fight with Montague servants
Benvolio
attempts to break them up
Tybalt
sees this and attacks, and brawl spreads through the streets
Prince arrives and declares to Lord Capulet and Lord Montague that next disruption will result in deathLord and Lady Montague worry about RomeoBenvolio claims he’s been very sadRomeo tells Benvolio he’s sad because he love Rosaline and she doesn’t love him backBenvolio claims he will forget her and find another beauty
Slide11Act 1 Scene 2 Notes:
Count Paris declares to Lord Capulet his wish to marry Juliet
Capulet claims he should wait 2 years and for Juliet’s consent
He invites Paris to party that evening
He sends (illiterate) servant with guest list for party
Romeo and
Benvolio
help servant read list – Rosaline is on the list and they decide to crash the party
Slide12Act 1 Scene 3 Notes:
Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris wants to marry her. Lady Capulet tells Juliet that Paris is a great husband.
Juliet admits that she is not interested in marrying anybody.
Juliet admits she never felt love, but will consider Paris’ proposal.
Slide13Act 1 Scene 4 Notes:
Romeo,
Benvolio
,
Mercutio
and others go to party wearing masks
Romeo is anxious because of an ominous dream
Mercutio
mocks him with a speech about a dream-giving queen of fairies – calls Romeo weak minded
Slide14“A rich jewel in an Ethiop’s Ear”
Ethiop= Ethiopian woman. Represents the Elizabethan time’s fascination with all things foreign (remember they are exploring the world at this point).
The jewel is beauty stacked on top of more beauty and mystery.
Slide15Act 1 Scene 5
ROMEO
Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an
Ethiope’s
ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.Act 1 Scene 5What images does Romeo associate with Juliet?What do this images reveal about Juliet?What do they reveal about Romeo?What symbol does Romeo compare Juliet to? What does this symbol represent?How does he express his attitude towards Juliet in religious terms?
How does Benvolio’s prediction come true?
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide16“pilgrims’ hands”
A pilgrim is any person who travels a long distance to reach a holy or divine place. They would often travel to birth places of Catholic Saints to touch the hands of statues.
Slide17Act 1 Scene 5
ROMEO
(taking JULIET’s hand) If I profane with my
unworthiest
hand
This holy shrine, the gentle sin is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
JULIET
Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this,For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch,And palm to palm is holy palmers' kiss.ROMEO Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?JULIET Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.ROMEO O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do.They pray; grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.JULIET Saints do not move, though grant for prayers' sake.ROMEO Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.Kisses herAct 1 Scene 5How do Romeo and Juliet express a religious devotion?
What does he say to convince Juliet to allow him to kiss her?How many lines is this conversation?What is the rhyme scheme?
Do you notice anything about Shakespeare’s form of this conversation?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide18Act 1 Scene 5 Notes:
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Slide19Act 1 Questions:
Why do you think Shakespeare never explains how the quarrel between the
Montagues
and the
Capulets
began?
Describe Romeo’s mood when he enters. What’s the cause of it?
Why does
Benvolio
urge Romeo and attend Capulet’s feast? Why does Romeo want to go?
What does the language used in R&J’s sonnet together show about their feelings for each other?
Slide20Foil: a charaacter
who serves as a contrast for another character
Nurse v. Lady Capulet
How?
Tybalt
v.
Benvolio
How?
Mercutio
v. Romeo
How?
Slide21Act 2 Scene 1 Notes:
Romeo is so in love with Juliet he can’t bring himself to leave her
He scales a wall and enters Capulet’s garden
Benvolio
and
Mercutio
looks for Romeo
Slide22Act 2 Scene 2
ROMEO
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
JULIET appears in a window above
But soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and
Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she.
Be not her maid since she is envious.Her vestal livery is but sick and green,And none but fools do wear it. Cast it off!It is my lady. Oh, it is my love.Oh, that she knew she were!She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?Her eye discourses. I will answer it.—I am too bold. 'Tis not to me she speaks.Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,Having some business, do entreat her eyesTo twinkle in their spheres till they return.What if her eyes were there, they in her head?The brightness of her cheek would shame those starsAs daylight doth a lamp. Her eye in heavenWould through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.Oh, that I were a glove upon that handThat I might touch that cheek!
Act 2 Scene 2What does Romeo mean in line 1?Explain this metaphor.In this line, what does the audience know that Romeo does not?What does imagery does Romeo associate Juliet with throughout this passage?Do you think Romeo really loves Juliet at this point? Why or why not?If you are Juliet and realize a stranger was speaking about you like this, how would you react?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide23Act 2 Scene 2
JULIET
O Romeo, Romeo!
Wherefore
art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father and refuse thy name.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
ROMEO
(aside) Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
JULIET 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.What’s Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,Nor arm, nor face, nor any other partBelonging to a man. O, be some other name!What’s in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet.So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,Retain that dear perfection which he owesWithout that title. Romeo, doff thy name,And for that name, which is no part of theeTake all myself
Act 2 Scene 2Juliet is unaware of Romeo’s presence. How would her speech be different if she knew he was there?Wherefore does NOT mean where. Juliet is frustrated about something regarding Romeo. What could “wherefore” mean?
What does Juliet argue in this analogy (comparison)? What is she trying to convince herself?Why does Juliet tell Romeo to “doff” (remove) his name?This scene takes place at night after the party. In what 2 ways does darkness influence what happens in the scene?In what ways does Juliet exhibit more common sense and practicality than Romeo?
Slide24Act 2 Scene 2 Notes:
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Slide25Act 2 Scene 3 Notes:
Immediately after he leaves Juliet, Romeo heads directly to Friar Lawrence
The Friar agrees to marry them hoping that the marriage may end the feud between their families
Slide26Act 2 Scene 4 Notes:
Mecutio
and
Benvolio
meet up with Romeo in the street (right after Romeo meets with Friar)
Romeo defeats
Mercutio
in a verbal battle of wits
Nurse finds Romeo and gives him a message from Juliet; meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell this afternoon to get married
Slide27Act 2 Scene 5 notes:
Juliet waits for the Nurse to return
When the Nurse returns she messes with Juliet – takes a long time to deliver to the good news
Juliet learns that she needs to go to Friar Lawrence’s cell that afternoon to be wed to Romeo
Slide28Act 2 Scene 6 Notes:
Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet
Slide29Act 2 Questions:
If
you were adapting this stage play for the screen, would you include the
wedding ceremony? Why or why not?
What
are the potential difficulties?
If
the wedding were to be included, what would be gained? What would
be lost
?
Slide30Act 3 Scene 1
ROMEO
Courage, man. The hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO
No, ’tis not so deep as a well nor so wide as a church-door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o' both your houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat to scratch a man to death! A braggart, a rogue, a villain that fights by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
ROMEO
I thought all for the best.
MERCUTIO
Help me into some house,
Benvolio
,Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!They have made worms' meat of me. I have it,And soundly too. Your houses!Exeunt MERCUTIO and BENVOLIOROMEO This gentleman, the Prince’s near ally,My very friend, hath got his mortal hurtIn my behalf. My reputation stainedWith Tybalt’s slander.—Tybalt, that an hourHath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet,Thy beauty hath made me effeminateAnd in my temper softened valor’s steel!Enter BENVOLIOBENVOLIO O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio
is dead!That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds,Which too untimely here did scorn the earth.ROMEO This day’s black fate on more days doth depend.
This but begins the woe others must end.Act 3 Scene 1How does Mercutio display his verbal wit even as he’s dying?Who does Mercutio blame for this accident? Why?How could this display foreshadowing?Paraphrase Romeo’s last two lines. Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide31Act 3 Scene 1 Notes:
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Slide32Act 3 Scene 2 Notes:
Juliet misses and longs for her Romeo
Nurse informs her that Romeo killed
Tybalt
and has been banished
Juliet first feels grief for her cousin, but it is brief and she then worries for Romeo
Nurse promises to bring Romeo to her that night
Slide33Act 3 Scene 3
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Hold thy desperate hand.
Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art.
Thy tears are womanish. Thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both!
Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order,
I thought thy disposition better tempered.
Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself,And slay thy lady that in thy life livesBy doing damnèd hate upon thyself?Why rail’st thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth?Since birth and heaven and earth, all three do meetIn thee at once, which thou at once wouldst lose?Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit,Which, like a usurer, abound’st in allAnd usest none in that true use indeedWhich should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit.Thy noble shape is but a form of wax,Digressing from the valor of a man;
Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury,Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish;Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love,
Act 3 Scene 3How does Friar Lawrence begin talking Romeo out of suicide?What does Friar Lawrence remind Romeo of here?What does Friar Lawrence believe Romeo will lose if he goes through with suicide?What arguments does the Friar give against suicide?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide34Cont
…
Misshapen
in the conduct of them both,
Like powder in a skill-less soldier’s flask,
Is set afire by
thine
own ignorance;
And thou dismembered with
thine
own defence.What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive,For whose dear sake thou wast but lately dead—There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,But thou slew’st Tybalt— there art thou happy.The law that threatened death becomes thy friendAnd turns it to exile— there art thou happy.A pack of blessings light upon thy back,Happiness courts thee in her best array,But, like a misbehaved and sullen wench,Thou pout’st upon thy fortune and thy love.
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed.Ascend her chamber, hence, and comfort her.But look thou stay not till the watch be set,For then thou canst not pass to Mantua,
Where thou shalt live, till we can find a timeTo blaze your marriage, reconcile your friends,Beg pardon of the Prince, and call thee backWith twenty hundred thousand times more joyThan thou went’st forth in lamentation.—Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady,And bid her hasten all the house to bed,Which heavy sorrow makes them apt unto.Romeo is coming.Act 3 Scene 3 cont.What 3 factors does Friar Lawrence wish Romeo to focus on the bright side?What effect does the Friar’s repetition have?What is Friar’s plan for Romeo? Do you think there could have been a better plan? ExplainWhat does this speech reveal about Friar Lawrence’s character? (use evidence from text)
Slide35Act 3 Scene 3 Notes:
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Slide36Act 3 Scene 4 Notes:
Paris approaches Capulet again regarding his proposal to Juliet
Capulet this time agrees, claims Juliet will do as he says, and that they will marry in 3 days
Slide37Act 3 Scene 5 Notes:
After spending the night together, Romeo and Juliet separate at first light
Right after, Lady Capulet enters and informs Juliet of her planned marriage to Paris
Juliet refuses
her father threatens to put her out on the street Juliet pleads with her mother she then asks the Nurse for advice Nurse says she should forget Romeo and marry Paris
Juliet outrage (secretly) and claims she will see Friar Lawrence to confess her sin of disobeying her father (while really going to ask her help)
Slide38Act 3 Questions:
Benvolio
tells the Prince the story of what happened. Find his speech to the Prince, and rewrite it in your own words but from the perspective of a Capulet.
Do you agree with the Prince banishing Romeo as opposed to killing him? Why?
How does this banishment affect Romeo?
Slide39Act 4 Scene 1 Notes:
I will verbally explain the basic plot of this scene while you write down THE MOST IMPORTANT information
Slide40Act 4 Scene 2 Notes:
I will verbally explain the basic plot of this scene while you write down THE MOST IMPORTANT information
Slide41Act 4 Scene 3
JULIET
Farewell!—God knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
I’ll call them back again to comfort me.—
Nurse!—What should she do here?
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
Come, vial. (holds out the vial)
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?No, no. This shall forbid it. Lie thou there.(lays her knife down) What if it be a poison, which the friarSubtly hath ministered to have me dead,Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoredBecause he married me before to Romeo?I fear it is. And yet, methinks, it should not,For he hath still been tried a holy man.How if, when I am laid into the tomb,I wake before the time that RomeoCome to redeem me? There’s a fearful point.Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vaultTo whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?Act 4 Scene 3
What three ideas cross Juliet’s mind as she worries about the different possible results of drinking the potion?What internal conflict does Juliet struggle with in the soliloquy?What other fears does Juliet have about the plan if the potion works?
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide42Cont
…
Or
, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,
Where for these many hundred years the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed;
Where bloody
Tybalt, yet but green in earth,Lies festering in his shroud; where, as they say,At some hours in the night spirits resort—?Alack, alack, is it not like that I,So early waking, what with loathsome smells,And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth,That living mortals, hearing them, run mad—?Oh, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,Environèd with all these hideous fears,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?Oh, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghostSeeking out Romeo, that did spit his bodyUpon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay!Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee.
(She drinks and falls down on the bed, hidden by the bed curtains)
Act 4 Scene 3 cont…Explain the effect of the imagery in this section of the soliloquy. How does Juliet overcome all her fears?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide43Act 4 Scene 3 Notes:
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Slide44Act 4 Scene 4 Notes:
I will verbally explain the basic plot of this scene while you write down THE MOST IMPORTANT information
Slide45Act 4 Scene 5 Notes:
I will verbally explain the basic plot of this scene while you write down THE MOST IMPORTANT information
Slide46Act 5 Scene 1
APOTHECARY
Who calls so loud?
ROMEO
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor.
Hold, there is forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder firedDoth hurry from the fatal cannon’s womb.APOTHECARY Such mortal drugs I have, but Mantua’s lawIs death to any he that utters them.ROMEO Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,And fear’st to die? Famine is in thy cheeks.Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes.Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back.The world is not thy friend nor the world’s law.The world affords no law to make thee rich.Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.(holds out money)
Act 5 Scene 3What sort of poison does Romeo seek? What effect is he looking for? What does this display of his mindset?Why does the Apothecary worry about selling Romeo the poison?
How does Romeo convince the Apothecary to sell him the poison? (what figurative language does he use)Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide47Cont
…
APOTHECARY
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
ROMEO
I pay thy poverty and not thy will.
APOTHECARY
(gives ROMEO poison) Put this in any liquid thing you will
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight.
ROMEO (gives APOTHECARY money) There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison. Thou hast sold me none.Farewell. Buy food, and get thyself in flesh.—Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet’s grave, for there must I use thee.Act 5 Scene 3What is the effect of using the word cordial (def: restorative medicine)?
What does this say about Romeo’s mentality at this point?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide48Act 5 Scene 1 Notes:
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Slide49Act 5 Scene 2
FRIAR JOHN
Holy Franciscan Friar! Brother, ho!
Enter FRIAR LAWRENCE
FRIAR LAWRENCE
This same should be the voice of Friar John.
Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?
Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.
FRIAR JOHN
Going to find a barefoot brother out,
One of our order, to associate me,Here in this city visiting the sick,And finding him, the searchers of the town,Suspecting that we both were in a houseWhere the infectious pestilence did reign,Sealed up the doors and would not let us forth.So that my speed to Mantua there was stayed.FRIAR LAWRENCE Who bare my letter, then, to Romeo?FRIAR JOHN I could not send it—here it is again—(gives FRIAR LAWRENCE a letter) Act 5 Scene 2What circumstances keep Friar John from delivering the letter to Romeo?
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide50Cont
…
Nor get a messenger to bring it thee,
So fearful were they of infection.
FRIAR LAWRENCE
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice but full of charge,
Of dear import, and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence.
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.FRIAR JOHN Brother, I’ll go and bring it thee.Exit FRIAR JOHNFRIAR LAWRENCE Now must I to the monument alone.Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake.She will beshrew me much that RomeoHath had no notice of these accidents.But I will write again to Mantua,And keep her at my cell till Romeo come.Poor living corse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!How could the mishandling of the letter to Romeo alter Friar Lawrence’s plans for Juliet? Predict what might happen next.
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide51Act 5 Scene 2 Notes:
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Slide52Act 5 Scene 3
ROMEO
In faith, I will.—Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio’s
kinsman, noble County Paris.
What said my man, when my
betossèd
soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet.
Said he not so? Or did I dream it so?Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,To think it was so?—O, give me thy hand,One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book.I’ll bury thee in a triumphant grave.ROMEO opens the tomb to reveal JULIET insideA grave? Oh, no. A lantern, slaughtered youth,For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makesThis vault a feasting presence full of light.Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interred.(lays PARIS in the tomb) How oft when men are at the point of deathHave they been merry, which their keepers callA lightning before death! Oh, how may ICall this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death’s pale flag is not advancèd
there.—Act 5 Scene 3What does Romeo’s treatment of Paris (after he kills him) display of his character?What irony does Romeo present as he describes Juliet’s appearance?Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide53Cont
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Tybalt
,
liest
thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was
thine
enemy?Forgive me, cousin.—Ah, dear Juliet,Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believeThat unsubstantial death is amorous,And that the lean abhorrèd monster keepsThee here in dark to be his paramour?For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,And never from this palace of dim nightDepart again. Here, here will I remainWith worms that are thy chamber maids. Oh, hereWill I set up my everlasting rest,And shake the yoke of inauspicious starsFrom this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last.Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O youThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kissA dateless bargain to engrossing death.(kisses JULIET, takes out the poison) Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.Thou desperate pilot, now at once run onThe dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark.
Here’s to my love! (drinks the poison) O true apothecary,Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.ROMEO dies
Act 5 Scene 3How does Shakespeare create suspense for the audience here?What other part of the play do these lines connect to? (inauspicious = unlucky)What does Romeo personify throughout the soliloquy? What is the effect? Provide different examples to support answer. Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide54Act 5 Scene 3
FRIAR LAWRENCE
I will be brief, for my short date of breath
Is not so long as is a tedious tale.
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet,
And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife.
I married them, and their
stol'n
marriage day
Was
Tybalt’s doomsday, whose untimely deathBanished the new-made bridegroom from the city—For whom, and not for Tybalt, Juliet pined.You, to remove that siege of grief from her,Betrothed and would have married her perforceTo County Paris. Then comes she to me,And with wild looks bid me devise some meanTo rid her from this second marriage,Or in my cell there would she kill herself.Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,A sleeping potion, which so took effectAs I intended, for it wrought on herThe form of death.Meantime I writ to Romeo,That he should hither come as this dire night,Act 5 Scene 3What does this speech reveal about Friar Lawrence’s character?
Does the Friar add any of his own thoughts/opinions of the situation? Why or why not?
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide55Cont
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To help to take her from her borrowed grave,
Being the time the potion’s force should cease.
But he which bore my letter, Friar John,
Was stayed by accident, and
yesternight
Returned my letter back. Then all alone
At the
prefixèd
hour of her wakingCame I to take her from her kindred’s vault,Meaning to keep her closely at my cellTill I conveniently could send to Romeo,But when I came, some minute ere the timeOf her awakening, here untimely layThe noble Paris and true Romeo dead.She wakes, and I entreated her come forth,And bear this work of heaven with patience.But then a noise did scare me from the tomb,And she, too desperate, would not go with me,But, as it seems, did violence on herself.All this I know, and to the marriageHer Nurse is privy. And if aught in thisMiscarried by my fault, let my old lifeBe sacrificed some hour before his timeUnto the rigor of severest law.Act 5 Scene 3
Do you think the Friar is worried about possible consequences for himself? Explain.How does the audience retain the respect of the audience? (even though it was partially his fault for the deaths of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris) – use evidence to support
Which words (DICTION) in this passage stand out as particularly meaningful or powerful? Explain why.
Slide56Act 5 Scene 3 Notes:
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Slide57Romeo and Juliet Questions:
What good has come from the deaths of Romeo and Juliet?
Who is most to blame for their deaths?
Is Romeo’s love for Rosaline different from his love for Juliet?
Does Romeo’s character change during the play? Explain
Does Juliet develop a will of her own during the play, or does she merely shift her obedience from her parents to Romeo?
From 1660 to 1845, Romeo and Juliet was most often performed with an alternate ending in which the young lovers did not die, but lived happily ever after.
Would you have preferred the play to end happily? Why?
How does a happy ending alter the meaning of the play?
Slide58Visions of Romeo and Juliet
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