| What are five important events that happened in Act IV? | 1. Paris is meeting with friar lawrence to discuss wedding arrangements2. Juliet comes to friar laurence trying to get out of the wedding3. Friar Lawrence offers Juliet a potion that makes her seem dead4. Juliet tells her father she will marry Paris he moves the wedding up a day5. Juliet takes potion found “dead” and put in Capulet tomb |
| What does Paris plan to do on Thursday? What reason does he give to Friar Laurence for the hastiness of this decision? | – to marry Juliet- paris to make her happy from all this sadness about Tybalt’s death |
| Why is Friar Lawrence hesitant to marry Paris and Juliet? | paris doesn’t know how juliet feels |
| What does Juliet ask of Friar Lawrence? If he is unable to help her, what does she threaten? | – ask for a way out of the marriage and needs his help- she will kill herself in Lawrence’s Cell |
| Why does Friar Laurence think Juliet will be willing to accept his plan? | she is so desperate to take her own life that she has so much desperation to do what Friar Lawrence suggest |
| Describe the Friar’s plan for Juliet | – accept the fact that she is willing to get married- tell her father and mother of her acceptance- ask the nurse to leave her alone to sleep- take potion and look dead for 42 hours |
| How is Juliet supposed to make her father happy? As a result of his joy, what does Lord Capulet decide to do? | – accept being married to paris- moves the day up for the marriage to wednesday |
| As Juliet prepares to take the potion, she reveals that she has fears what are they? | – could actually be poisoned- no one would be there when she wakes up- wake up the morning of the wedding- suffocation- Romeo doesn’t come to save her |
| What is the scene like around the house on the morning of the wedding? | Very happy, jocund, light hearted, joking, jest |
| When the nurse goes upstairs to help Juliet get ready for her wedding, what does she find? | Juliet “dead” in her bed |
| How do Lord and Lady Capulet react to their daughter’s death? How does this contrast with their conversation with her the previous day? | – full of sorrow, upset, sad- from think she should die to being sad for her death |
| What does Friar Laurence say to try and comfort the family? | – It is best to die young- She went to heaven- Celebrate her death |
| What event is the Capulet family now preparing for? | Juliet’s funeral |
Romeo and Juliet: Act IV Summary
August 21, 2019