Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet

Act 4 Study Gulde

Summary
Paris tells the Friar that he is marrying juliet on Thursday of that

week. Juliet enters and Paris leaves. Juliet asks the Friar to help her, and he comes up

with a plan. He gives her a poison that will make it appear as she has if

died 40
in her sleep. It will last for hours and she will

awake in the capulet tomb . He will send a letter to Romeo to let

him know what is happening so Romeo can be there to let her out of the
tomb poison
. Juliet takes the and returns home.

Juliet acts as if nothing Is wrong and continues to make the others believe she Is

preparing to marry paris . While everyone is busy with the wedding

preparations. Juliet takes the poison . They find her body the next

morning

Symbollsm

Any person, animal, place, object, or event that exists on a literal level within a work but
also represents something on a figurative level.

Examples:
The American flag Is red, white, and blue cloth but represents the fifty states.
A green shamrock Is a plant but represents luck.
The Eiffel Tower Is a building but represents romance and love.

The following are symbols within The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Complete the chart
to tell what each symbol may represent.

S mbol LlteralMeanln Flguratlve Meanlng

Sampson bites his thumb at Putting one's thumb in it is basically like giving someone the finger
the Monta ue servants one's mouth
The wall that surrounds A vertical brick structure The separation between
Juliet's balcony closing off land Romeo and Juliet because
of their last names
Romeo compares Juliet to Fiery star in the sky that she is the center of his solar system
the sun Ives and heat
ht
Romeo and Juliet's a ceremony binding oneself to is now ends the feud between the families
marrla e another
Tybalt's death or blood do you choose tybalt or romeo The end of Romeo and
Juliet's marria e
SCENE 1. Later that morning. FRIAR LAWRENCE'S cell.
[FRIAR LAWRENCE and PARIS enter. PARIS has just explained to the confused FRIAR that he will

marry JULIET.]

FRIAR. On Thursday, sir? The time Is very short.

PARIS. My father Capulet will have it so,

And I am nothing slow to slack his haste.
FRIAR. YOU say you do not know the lady's mind.
5 Uneven Is the course: like it not. I

PARIS. Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death,

And therefore have little talk'd of love; I

For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

Now, her father counts it dangerous
sir,

10 That she do give her SOTOW so much sway,

And in his wisdom hastes our marriage
To stop the inundation of her tears,
Which, too much minded by herself alone,
May be put from her by society.
15 Now do you know the reason of this haste.
FRIAR. [Aside.] I would knew not why it should be slowed.—
I

Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell.

[JULIET enters. Swøised to see PARIS there. she pretends to be in good spirits.]

PARIS. Happily met, my lady and my wifel

JULIET. That may be, sir, when may be a wife.
I

20 PARIS. That "may be" must be, love, on Thursday next.

JULIET. What must be shall be.

FRIAR. That's a certain text.

PARIS. Come you to make confession to this father?

JULIET. To answer that, should confess to you.

I

PARIS. Do not deny to him that you love me.

25 JULIET. I will confess to you that love him. I

Irony
1. Dramatic Irony makes this scene particularly suspenseful for the audience. What
does the audience know that Paris does not know?
juliet is already married to romeo
2. Sltuaflonal Irony is when an event or occurrence is opposite of what is expected.
What event is turning out the opposite of what the audience had probably
expected? that juliet would be happy
3. Verbal Irony is when a character says one thing, yet means another. Find the
example of verbal irony within the passage.

line 25
 50 JULIET. Tell me not, friar, that thou hearest of this,
Unless thou tell me how may prevent I it.

If In thy wisdom thou canst give no help,

Do thou but call my resolution wise
And with this knife help presently.
I'll It

55 God joln'd my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;

And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's seal'd,
Shall be the label to another deed,
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Tum to another, this shall slay them both.
60 Therefore, out of thy long-experienc'd time,
Give me some present counsel; or, behold,
'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that
Which the commission of thy years and art
65 Could to no Issue of true honor bring.
Be not so long to speak. long to die I

If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy.

Blank Verse, tamblc Pentameter, and Prose

4. Is this passage written In blank verse, iambic pentameter, or prose?
blank verse
5. Based on your answer, how can we characterize Juliet?

she will die or is dying

Monologue and Sollloquy
6. Is this passage an example of monologue or soliloquy? How do you know?

Props soliloquy she is talking to herself

7. What prop would be necessary for Juliet to hold during this scene?
a dagger
Personification
8. Find the examples of personification within the passage. Underline them.
line 55 "God join'd my heart and Romeo's". line 58 "... my true heart with treacherous revolt Tum to another, this shall slay
them both."
Read the passage. Then answer the questlons that follow.
FRIAR. Hold, then. Go home, be merry, give consent Monologue or soliloquy?
90 To marry Pads. Wednesday is tomorrow. monologue
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone; 10. Blank verse, Iambic pentameter, or
Let not .the nurse Ile with thee in thy chamber.
rose?
Take thou this vial, being then In bed, blank verse
And this distillingdiquor drink thou off;
Lines 100-101 contains an example
95 When presently through thy veins shall run
all
metaphor Juliet's eyes are
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
•

keep his native progress, but surcease;

Shall ompared to closed windows.
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade 12. Llnes 102-103 contains an example
100To wanny ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
simile • Juliet's cold
Like death when he shuts up the day of life: ody is compared to death using the
Each part, depriv'd of supple government, ord "like."
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death;
And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
13. Lines 104-106 contains an example
105Thou continue two-and-forty hours,
shall
simile • Juliet's
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
wakening Iscompared to a pleasant
leep using the word "like."