Romeo and Juliet: Act 4&5 Notes

Act4

Scene 1(Verona, Friar Lawrence's cell)

-Paris went to find Friar Lawrence to plan the wedding on Thursday for a reason that Mr. Capulet wanted them to be marry and the reason that Juliet needs someone to go through her sadness on Tybalt's death. 

-Juliet told Friar Lawrence that she'll choose to die if there's no solution to make her not marry Paris. (Foreshadowing her death again). "「O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,From off the battlements of any tower, Or walk in thievish ways, or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears,Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house, O’ercover’d quite with dead men’s rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls.....」

-Friar Lawrence gave Juliet this liquor to make her look dead for a period of time. 

Scene 2(Capulets home)

-Capulet:「I’ll not to bed tonight; let me alone......Well, I will walk myself To County Paris, to prepare up him Against tomorrow. My heart is wondrous light.....」shows his enthusiasm and impatient towards this marriage. 

Scene 3(Juliets bedroom)

-Juliet asked her mother and the nurse to leave and drank the liquor. 

Scene 4(Capulets home)

-servants and Capulets bustling. 

Scene 5(Juliets bedroom)

-The liquor worked well.

-Paris:「O love, O life! Not life, but love in death!」, so does Paris really loves Juliet?

-Peter had a fight with the musicians. 

Act 5

Scene 1(mantua, street)

-Balthasar told Romeo that Juliet is dead—> Romeo went to bought an illegal poison wanting to die with Juliet. 

Scene 2(Verona, Friar Lawrence's cell)

-Romeo did not get the letter because there was a plague. 

-Juliet will be awake within three hours. 

Scene 3(Capulets grave)

-first line in scene three what Paris said. This might be showing that Paris felt that Juliets death was suspicious and wanted to make sure if she's really dead or not. Since he told the page to listen carefully if there's any sounds underground. 

-Paris and Remeo fought. (Romeo did not want to fight him at first. But Paris kept on saying that he's a criminal and blamed Juliets death on him. )

-the king (Prince) appears. 

-Paris is dead, Romeo is dead and Juliet is back to life after two days after the funeral. 

-Juliet suicide. 

-Capulet: "O brother Montague, give me thy hand." —> symbolizing how Finally the two families reconciled. 

-Capulet:「Poor sacrifices of our enmity!」admitting their mistakes and forcing attitude towards his daughter.