act 4 Flashcards
scene 1 - juliet qutoe
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry paris/from off teh battlements of any tower… and i will do it without fear or doubt/to live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love”
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry paris/from off teh battlements of any tower… and i will do it without fear or doubt/to live an unstain’d wife to my sweet love”
- morbid and macabre lexis
-> reflects the depression which she has been driven by her engagement to Paris
-> ( + “roaring bears, charnel house, theivish, skulls”) - reflects the potentially harmful nature of petrarchan love, it easily morphs into ideas of hate and death rather than those of love
- “leap” = verb, rather die than marry paris
scene 1 meaning
J goes to friar and seeks help, cires, wants to die rather than marry paris , Friar comes up with the plan
“if… thou canst give no help, do thou but call my resolution wise, and with this knife i’ll help it presently” (J) (S1)
- depths of her sorrow
- comments on suicide
- “help it” euphemism foregrounds the juxtaposition between her innocence and her suicidal intent
- foreshadowing as she kills herself with a knife
act 4 scene 2 summary
- marriage is plannes for the next morning and the capulets joyously make the preparations
J (S2) “pardon, i beseech you. henceforth i am ever rul’d by you”
- falsity of her apology hinted by its hyperbolic nature
- repetition of “you” shows how she implicitly takes attention away from her actions
- “i am ever rul’d by you” = male-female relations in the E. era
-> submissive to her father and to Paris, but is contrasted with her egalitarian rel. with R in other scenes = pure love
act 4 scene 3 summary
- prepares herself to take friar’s potion
- thinks of tybalt’s ghose harrying R, which encourages her to finally drink the potion
act 4 scene 4 summary
capulets making arrangements for marriage of J and paris
act 4 scene 5 summary
Nurse find J dead
(4,5) Nurse “why lamb! why lady!… why, love, i say! madam! sweetheart! why, bride!”
- fragmented and continuous diaolgoue represents her continuous realisation that something is amiss
-> she maintains a jovial tone “lamb” which ensures her final realisation is all the mroe tragic - her choice of words summarises J’s different identities: “mistress” - forcibly tied to men around her, “lamb and lady” - innocent, finally “bride” - defined by her marriage
Nurse continuouslly repeats “she’s dead” (4,5)
- utter shock
(4,5) how does capulet react
“death is my son in law, death id my heir; my daughter he hath wedded; i will die, and leave him all; life; living, all is death’s”
(4,5) Lord C - “death is my son in law, death id my heir; my daughter he hath wedded; i will die, and leave him all; life; living, all is death’s”
- personifies Death (makes it capitals (ik i didn’t do this here))
- > sense that death is present on stage and foreshadows the deaths to come
- “my daughter he hath wedded” = even in death J is stripped of any indivdual identity,
quote to show Friar’s duplicity in staging J’s death
“in this love, you love your child so ill that you run mas seeing that she is well. she’s not married that lives married long, but she’s best married that dies married young”
