Act IV - Romeo and Juliet Flashcards
What is a paraphrase?
Restatement in your own/different words often used to aid in comprehension
When Paris comes at the beginning of Act IV to discuss his sudden wedding plans with Friar Lawrence, why doesn’t Friar Lawrence like the plans?
Juliet is already married to Romeo.
What makes Paris’ remarks at the beginning of Act IV about Juliet’s sorrow for the loss of Tybalt an example of dramatic irony?
Juliet is actually crying for Romeo’s banishment and not Tybalt’s death. We, the audience, know that she is married to Romeo, but her family does not. The difference in knowledge demonstrates dramatic irony.
What is Act IV primarily about?
It is about Juliet’s plan to avoid marrying Paris.
Which lines from Juliet’s monologue in Act IV (Two days before her wedding to Paris, Juliet tells Friar Lawrence all the things she would rather do than marry Paris.), best predict the outcome of the play?
“Or bid me go into a new-made grave/and hide me with a dead man in his shroud (in his tomb)–” Act IV, scene i, lines 84-85
What is Friar Lawrence’s role in dealing with Juliet?
1) Advocate - someone who speaks for you/in your favor
2) Ally - someone who stands alongside and helps
3) Enemy - someone who stands in opposition to another
4) Judge - someone who determines right from wrong or blame
In Act IV Scene ii, what accounts for Juliet’s modesty towards Paris that she describes to her father?
Her love for Romeo accounts for her acts of modesty. It is not really modesty. This is dramatic irony because the viewer/audience knows that it is because she is already married to Romeo and does not want to marry Paris. The audience knows why Juliet is responding in this way, her father thinks it to be modesty.
What do the lines in Scene iii of Act IV when Juliet speaks before she takes the potion and after her mother and nurse have left predict?
Something will go wrong with the plan for feigning/faking her death.
What is dramatic irony? You should be able to identify an example.
It is when the reader/audience knows things to be the opposite of what the characters perceive them to be.
What is Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet?
1) Tell the nurse you want to sleep alone
2) Take the potion - appear dead for 42 hours
3) Wake up in the tomb
4) A message will be sent to Romeo - he will know you aren’t dead
5) He will take you to Mantua.
How is Lord Capulet’s speech, after the nurse discovers Juliet in bed on the day of the wedding in Act IV, an example of dramatic irony?
The viewer knows Juliet is not dead; instead, she is in a deep sleep.
