Why is Paris at Friar Laurence’s Cell? (scene 1) | To plan the wedding to Juliet. |
What reason does Paris give for the hasty marriage? (1) | It will make Juliet happy. |
How does the Friar react to the news of this new marriage? (1) | He feels pressured and knows that Juliet will refuse to marry Paris because of her strong love for Romeo. |
Characterize the conversation between Paris and Juliet when they meet at Friar Laurence’s cell. | Juliet is short and a bit sarcastic while Paris is loving and sure. |
How does Paris react to Juliet in these lines? (1) | He does not realize what Juliet is trying to do and doesn’t understand her double entendre. |
What plan does the friar come up with to help Juliet? | He gives her a potion to fake her death. |
How does Romeo fit in to the plan? (1) | He is the person who is supposed to be there beside Juliet when she wakes up. |
How does Juliet respond to the Friar’s plan? | She takes the potion even though she has dark and troubling doubts. |
What happens to put Capulet into such a good mood? | Juliet apologizes to him and agrees to marry Paris. |
Why does Capulet move the wedding up to Wednesday? | Lord Capulet wants to be rid of the mourning over Tybalt’s death. |
How does Juliet continues to deceive her family in this scene? | She pretends to be happy and lets them think that she will marry Paris. |
What is Lady Capulet most concerned about when she hears that her husband has moved up the wedding date? | not be enough time to prepare for the wedding |
How does Capulet moving up the date of the wedding complicate things for the friar’s plan? (2) | This shortens the amount of time for him to get his message to Romeo. |
How does Juliet explain the friar’s actions in her soliloquy? (3) | Juliet thinks Friar Laurence may be trying to kill her to save himself. |
How does Juliet feel about drinking the potion? | She is doubting the plan because she thinks the potion may be poison and that she may go insane. |
Who is sent to wake up Juliet? | The Nurse |
What is Nurse going to find when she goes to awaken Juliet? | She is going to find a dead Juliet. |
Describe the reactions of Nurse, Lady Capulet and Lord Capulet to Juliet’s “death.” | They are confused and upset. |
Who said “Death hath lain with thy wife. There she lies,/Flower as she was, deflowered 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.” What are the literary devices being used? | 1. Speaker= Lord CapuletAudience= Friar Lawrence3. Dramatic Irony and personification because we know that Juliet isn’t dead, but Capulet doesn’t. |
How does the friar respond to the commotion surrounding Juliet at this moment? What does he say to the adults? Why isn’t Friar worried? | The Friar gets upset because he says that she is in Heaven and he is not worried because he knows about the potion. |
Romeo and Juliet: Act 4
August 18, 2019