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Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet. II.iv-vi. Let’s Review!. Summarize what happened on the first day. More review. Summarize what happened on the first night. Act 2 scene 3 dawn of day 2. Summarize Romeo’s conversation with the friar on the morning of day 2. Act 2 scene 4 * Morning of Day 2.

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Romeo and Juliet

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  1. Romeo and Juliet II.iv-vi

  2. Let’s Review! • Summarize what happened on the first day

  3. More review • Summarize what happened on the first night

  4. Act 2 scene 3 dawn of day 2 • Summarize Romeo’s conversation with the friar on the morning of day 2

  5. Act 2 scene 4 * Morning of Day 2 • Benvolio and Mercutio wake up in the morning and realize that Romeo did not come home after the party • Where do they think he was?

  6. Benvolio tells Mercutio that “Tybalt, the kinsman to old Capulet, hath sent a letter to [Romeo’s] house” (II.iv.6-7) • What do you think was in the letter?

  7. Explain the foreshadowing and allusion: • Although both Benvolio and Mercutio believes that Romeo “will answer” the letter, Mercutio is afraid that “poor Romeo…is already dead: stabbed with a white wench’s black eye; run through the ear with a love song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft” (II.iv. 13-17)

  8. Mercutio calls Tybalt “the Prince of Cats…the couragous captain of compliments…the butcher of a silk button…a duelist…a gentleman of the very first house…a very good blade…a very tall (brave) man” (II.iv.19-35) • Do you think Mercutio is complimenting Tybalt or deriding him? • Make a prediction: What might happen between Tybalt and Mercutio?

  9. Just before 9am of Day 2 • After Romeo leaves the friar, he meets Mercutio and Benvolio in town. Mercutio and Benvolio start teasing Romeo about what he was doing all night when they are interrupted by the nurse • Why was the nurse looking for Romeo?

  10. When Benvolio, Mercutio, and Romeo see the nurse, they start making fun of her, calling out, “A sail, a sail!” (II.iv.104) • When the nurse asks her servant Peter for a fan, Mercutio rudely suggests that the fan is “to hide her face; for her fan’s the fairer face”(II.iv.109-110) • Describe Mercutio’s character

  11. When Romeo sees that the nurse has been offended by Mercutio’s jokes, he explains that Mercutio is merely a man who “loves to hear himself talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month” (II.iv.150-152) • What does Romeo believe about Mercutio?

  12. When the nurse and Romeo are finally alone, the nurse warns Romeo not to “lead [Juliet] in a fool’s paradise [because] Juliet is young” (II.iv.168-170) • What is the nurse afraid will happen? Are her fears justified? Why?

  13. Romeo tells the nurse to tell Juliet to “devise some means to come to shrift this afternoon; and there she shall at Friar Laurence’ cell be shrived and married” (II.iv.182-185). • What is the plan?

  14. He then tells the nurse to “stay…behind the abbey wall. Within this hour [Romeo’s servant] shall be with [her] and bring [her] cords made like a tackled, which to the high topgallant of [Romeo’s] joy must be [his] convoy in the secret night” (II.iv.189-193). • What is the rope for? • What should Romeo have planned to do instead?

  15. Explain the foreshadowing: • Before Romeo and the nurse depart, the nurse asks if Romeo’s servant can keep a secret and Romeo assures her that he is “as true as steel” (II.iv.200). • Then the nurse reveals that Paris has already asked for Juliet’s hand in marriage, but when Juliet hears talk of Paris, she “looks as pale as any [dish rag] in the…world” (II.iv.208)

  16. Act 2 scene 5 early afternoon on Day 2 • Juliet is waiting impatiently for the nurse to return with news from Romeo. • After the nurse complains about how exhausted she is, she tells Juliet to “hie her hence to Friar Laurence’ cell; there stays a husband to make [her] a wife” (II.v.68-69)

  17. Act 2 scene 6 Late afternoon of Day 2 • While Romeo and the friar are waiting for Juliet to arrive, the friar prays, “So smile the heavens upon this holy act that afterhours with sorrow will chide [them] not” (II.vi.1-2) • What is the friar afraid of?

  18. Romeo thinks that if he and Juliet are married, “then love-devouring death [can] do what he dare—it is enough [he] may but call her [his]” (II.vi.7-8). • Explain the foreshadowing

  19. Despite Romeo’s confidence, the friar is still skeptical and reminds Romeo that “these violent delights have violent ends…therefore, [Romeo should] love moderately: long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy too slow” (II.vi.9-15). • If Romeo and Juliet had loved moderately, what might have happened?

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