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Romeo and Juliet: Acts 4

Summary
● Paris visits Friar Lawrence to arrange the ceremony for his wedding to
Juliet & Friar Lawrence questions the rush
● Juliet shows up and the meeting is awkward
● Once Paris leaves, Juliet threatens to kill herself unless Friar Lawrence
does something to get her out of marrying Paris
● Understanding her desperation, Friar Lawrence hatches a plan and
Juliet agrees
● Juliet is alone in her bedroom and is afraid as she questions the friar’s
motives. Ultimately, she decides to follow the plan for Romeo
● The family & Paris are heartbroken when they find Juliet “dead”
● Friar Lawrence arrives and pretends to be surprised and preparations
are made for Juliet’s funeral

Act 4

1. Scene 1: What do you notice about the exchange in dialogue between Juliet and
Paris in comparison to the way she interacts and exchanges words with Romeo
in previous scenes?

Paris is expressing love for Juliet but she responds with short talk and does not
express much to him. However, compared to Romeo, she describes Romeo with
metaphors.

2. Scene 2: What plan does the Friar concoct (no pun intended) for Juliet to be with
Romeo - lines 89-120. What do you think of this plan?

Friar Lawrence devises a plan to prevent Juliet from marrying Paris by creating a
mixture in which Juliet is supposed to drink. The plan is to make everyone think that
she is “dead” in which Friar will end up planning for the funeral instead of the wedding.
3. Scene 3: List Juliet’s fears. (lines 14- 58)
JULIET Response

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. Fear 1 The drink may not work
Come, vial.She takes out the vial. and she will end up waking up for
What if this mixture do not work at all?
Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?
the wedding.

She takes out her knife


and puts it down beside her.
Fear 2 The drink could be
No, no, this shall forbid it. Lie thou there.
What if it be a poison which the Friar poisonous and if she dies from
Subtly hath ministered to have me dead, the drink, she may never see
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonored Romeo again.
Because 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, Fear 3 May end up suffocating
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me?
There’s a fearful point. Fear 4 Tybalt’s ghost would come
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, for her.
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
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 this many hundred years the bones Why does Juliet ultimately
Of all my buried ancestors are packed; decide to drink the potion?
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,
Lies fest’ring in his shroud; where, as they say,
She thinks she saw Tybalt’s ghost
At some hours in the night spirits resort— and becomes distraught, then
Alack, alack, is it not like that I, drinks the mixture after
So early waking, what with loathsome smells,
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, remembering why she was doing
That living mortals, hearing them, run mad— it.
O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught,
Environèd with all these hideous fears,
And madly play with my forefathers’ 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 desp’rate brains?

O look, methinks I see my cousin’s ghost


Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body
Upon a rapier’s point! Stay, Tybalt, stay!
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to
thee.She drinks and falls upon her bed
within the curtains.
4. In Act 4, Scene 5, the Capulets, Paris, and the nurse respond to Juliet's faked
death. What do their responses reveal about the Friar’s plan?

The wedding can not happen and instead, they are going to grieve for their “dead”
daughter and bride. Friar is able to perfectly predict the outcome after Juliet drinks the
vial and he hopes that the plan will be able to proceed well when she wakes up unites
with Romeo.

Nurse Capulets Paris

Alas, alas! Help, help! LADY CAPULET Beguiled, divorcèd, wrongèd,


My lady’s dead.— O me! O me! My child, my only life, spited, slain!
O, weraday, that ever I Revive, look up, or I will die with thee. Most detestable death, by thee
was born!— Help, help! Call help. beguiled,
By cruel, cruel thee quite
Some aqua vitae,
CAPULET overthrown!
ho!—My lord! My lady! Ha, let me see her! Out, alas, she’s cold. O love! O life! Not life, but love in
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. death!
She’s dead, deceased. Life and these lips have long been separated.
She’s dead, alack the Death lies on her like an untimely frost
day! Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,


Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.

Ready to go, but never to return.—


O son, the night before thy wedding day
Hath Death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.
Death is my son-in-law; Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death’s.

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