Gapes | To desire eagerly |
Beloved | To be loved |
Conjure | To make something |
Discourses | Formal conversation |
Bescreened | Concealed |
Peril | Danger |
Enmity | Enemy |
Porogued | Deferred |
Perjuries | Lies under oath |
Idolatry | Worshipping someone/something |
Procure | Obtain |
Beseech | Beg |
Bondage | Enslaved |
Sallow | Sickly |
Chide | Scold |
Waverer | Somebody who indecisive |
Allience | A group of people who come together for a common cause/marriage |
Rancor | Feud/hatred |
Feign | Fake |
Unweildy | Hard to control |
Triumph | To win/victories |
Consume | To take in/use up |
Loathsome | Hateful |
Confounds | Destroy |
Moderately | The right amount |
PROLOGUE | |
“Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie” | Romeo does not love Rosaline |
“Now Romeo is beloved and loves again” | Romeo’s love is returned |
“But passion lends them power, time means, to meet, tempering extremities with extreme sweet” | Even though Romeo and Juliet are putting themselves at risk by seeing each other, they still do because the reward of love is worth it |
SCENE 1 | |
What are Benvolio and Mercutio doing? | Searching for Romeo |
Where do they think he is/with who? | With Rosaline (They don’t know about Juliet) |
SCENE 2 | |
“It is the East and Juliet is the sun” | Line compares Juliet to the sun– the sun rises in the EastJuliet provides:-warmth-light-comfort-a new day |
“Be but sworn my love//and I’ll no longer be a Capulet” | Juliet says that is Romeo swears he loves her, then she will leave her family for him— Juliet doesn’t think that a name defines character |
“Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?” | She is asking, “Why are you Romeo?” Who do you have to be a Montague? |
“Tis but thy name, this is my enemy” | Your name makes us enemies- Romeo will change his name to be with Juliet and vice versa SPOKEN BY JULIET |
“With love’s light wings did I o’er perch these walls” | Romeo is so in love that he is willing to climb the wall |
“Too like the lightning, with doth cease to be” | Juliet thinks the relationship is moving too fast |
“My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of they love” | Romeo would rather die than live w/o Juliet |
“Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow” | Juliet proposes marriage |
SCENE 3 | |
What time is it when the scene begins? | Early morning; cloudy with streaks of sun |
What is Friar Lawrence doing? | Picking weeds and flowers to create a potion |
“The Earth that’s nature’s mother is her tomb; what is her burying grave, that is her womb” | Earth can both nurture and bury |
“Virtue itself turns to vice, being misapplied, and vice sometimes by action dignified” | Make something good out of a bad situation |
“Wast thou with Rosaline?” | Friar Lawrence and Romeo close– Lawrence knows about Rosaline |
How does Friar Lawrence feel about Romeo’s new love? | -Such a sudden change-He loves with his eyes |
“For this allience may so happy prove turn your household’s rancor to pure love” | Friar Lawrence thinks the marriage will end the feud |
SCENE 4 | |
“Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to his father’s house” | Tybalt sends a letter to Romeo’s house suggesting a challenge |
“…for the bawdy bawdy hand of the dial is now upon the prick of noon” | Romeo and Mercurio are rude to the nurse |
“…if you should lead her in a fools’ paradise..” | The nurse doubts Romeo’s sincerity |
Romeo and the nurse arrange for | him and Juliet to meet at Friar Lawrence’s cell |
“Within this hour my man shall be with thee and bring thee chords made like a tackled stair…” | man=BalthazarRomeo makes plan to sneak into Juliet’s room after the marriage |
When the nurse comes back.. | Juliet is impatient and wants to know what Romeo said; the nurse aches |
SCENE 6 | |
“So smile the heavens upon this holy act that after-hours with sorrow chide us not” | Friar Lawrence has misgivings about the wedding and prays for the heavens to not scold him |
“These violent delights have violent ends…..” | Friar Lawrence says that if R and J are guided by passion, there may be dire consequences |
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Romeo and Juliet Act 2
August 19, 2019