English "Romeo and Juliet Acts IV & V" Flashcards
To dress or decorate
Adorn
v.
Array
To reduce in degree or intensity
To put an end to
v.
Abate
To lead by deception; hoodwink; to trick
v.
Beguile
A stand on which a corpse or coffin is placed
n.
Bier
A slow, solemn and mournful piece of music
n.
Dirge
Agitated with doubt or mental conflict
adj.
Distraught
To generate pus; to rot; to putrefy
v.
Fester
Stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
Lying flat
adj.
Prostrate
One that receives or contains something; a container
n.
Receptacle
A burial garment
To cover for protection; to conceal
n. or v.
Shroud
To loathe; regard with extreme repugnance; hate
v.
Abhor
One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes
n.
Apothecary
Strongly moved by love; enamored
adj.
Amorous
To join on a secret agreement to do an unlawful act
Scheme
v.
Conspire
To form in the mind
To invent
Conceive
v.
Devise
To arrange
To set readiness
To put into place
v.
Dispose
Villain
One who has committed a felony (serious crime)
n.
Felon
To deposit a corpse in the earth or in a tomb
v.
Inter
An illicit lover
n.
Paramour
A place of burial; a tomb
n.
Sepulcher
Tiresome because of length or dullness; boring; our English class :)
adj.
Tedious
Unpleasant to taste or smell; disagreeable
adj.
Unsavory
“O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, from off the battlements of any tower…”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Juliet
Friar Laurence
She will do anything to not marry Paris
“Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. Take this vial…Now when the bridegroom in the morning comes to rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Friar Laurence
Juliet
The potion he gives her will make her look dead but she must drink it when she is alone at night
“Pardon, I beseech you! Henceforth I am ever ruled by you.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Juliet
Lord Capulet
She wants his forgiveness and she will be obedient to him
“Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; my daughter he hath wedded.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Lord Capulet
Juliet
Death has taken over his life and married his daughter
“Dost thou not bring me letters from the friar? How doth my lady?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Romeo
Balthasar
He wants to know what information he has on Juliet and if he has a letter from Friar Laurence
“My poverty but not my will consents.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Apothecary
Romeo
He doesn’t want to give the poison but he knows he needs the money so he will
“Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice, but full of charge, of dear import; and the neglecting it may so much danger.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Friar Laurence
Friar John
He is upset that Friar John didn’t get the letter to romeo because it contained valuable information
“The boy gives warning something doth approach.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Paris
Himself
He must hide because his watchmen whistled to signal someone is coming
“Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous, and that the lean abhorred minster keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Romeo
Juliet
Death is keeping her beautiful because he loves her
“This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Juliet
Herself/ her dagger
She is the sheath to the dagger she will kill herself with
“Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight! Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Lord Montague
Prince Escalus
His wife died of a broken heart over Romeo’s banishment
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
Speaker?
To whom?
Situation/meaning?
Prince Escalus
Himself
No story is sadder than the story than the one of Romeo and Juliet
What accident or chance meeting occurs in Act IV
Paris and Juliet at Friar Laurence’s cell
Why does Paris visit friar Laurence
So he can plan the wedding
What is Juliet’s reason for visiting the friar
To find a solution so she can not marry Paris
What does Juliet threaten to do if the friar cannot help her
Kill herself
Describe the Friar’s plan, step-by-step
Juliet must:
a. Give consent to marry Paris
b. Don’t let anyone stay in her room
c. Drink the vial in bed
d. Awake from a pleasant inside the tomb
Why is Juliet so willing to trust the Friar’s plan
Romeo has always trusted him
She is desperate and knows he’s can help
What questions and doubts come to Juliet’s mind durning the famous “potion scene”
a. Will the potion work
b. Will the potion kill her
c. Will she wake before Romeo finds her
Why had Juliet not taken the nurse into her confidence concerning the friar’s plan
She swore to never tell the nurse anything she felt in her heart after she told her to marry Paris
Where did dramatic irony occur in Act IV
Juliet’s family thinks she is dead but we know she isn’t
Why do you think the friar comes up with a plan instead of telling the Capulet’s of Romeo and Juliet’s marriage
He knows they will not accept Romeo
They aren’t supposed to be married
What change does Capulet make regarding Juliet’s wedding to Paris
He moves it to Wednesday
What terrible trials does Juliet face in this act
Drink something she doesn’t know a lot about
Lie to her parents
Wake up in a tomb
How does Juliet respond to her challenges
She is tough and executes all of them
She has doubts but ignores them mostly
What do Juliet’s responses tell you about her character
She is headstrong and knows what she wants in life
She will do anything for someone she cares about
Describe the characters of Lord and Lady Capulet
Support your answer with details from the play
Lord Capulet is worried about his reputation more than his daughter. He threatens to kick her out unless she marries Paris. He is more rid about the wedding preparations (he doesn’t sleep) than the fact that his daughter doesn’t even want to be married
Lady Capulet is not very opinionated. She doesn’t really say anything when Juliet is being yelled at and she mostly does what Lord Capulet wants her to do
What is the situation in the Capulet house at the end of Act IV
everyone thinks Juliet is dead except from Friar Laurence who knows she isn’t
Which of Romeo’s servants brings him news from Verona, and what is new
Balthasar
Juliet is dead and lying in the Capulet tomb
What letter is Romeo waiting for
The letter from the friar with the plan about Juliet
What does Romeo immediately decide to do upon hearing the news
He will write a letter to his father and ride to Verona where he will kill himself next to Juliet in the tomb
What is an apothecary
One who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purpose
Why is the apothecary willing to sell illegal poison to Romeo
He is poor and hungry (a beggar) and he ends money
What argument does Romeo use to persuade the apothecary to break the law
He points out that the apothecary needs money to survive
Why does friar john not deliver friar Laurence’s letter to Romeo
He was thought to have the plague so he was quarantined inside the house
Why must friar Laurence get to Juliet’s tomb before Romeo
Someone needs to be there when she wakes up because that was the plan
Why does Paris go to the tomb
To lay flowers at Juliet’s grave
Why doesn’t Paris’s servant go to the tomb with him
He will whistle if someone is coming
Why does Romeo tell Balthasar is going to enter the tomb
Why does he tell him this
What is his true plan
That he is going to get her ring
He doesn’t want him to know of his plan
He is going to drink the poison to kill himself
Why doesn’t Balthasar go into the tomb with him
Romeo threatens to kill him
What does Paris think Romeo is doing in the tomb
Grave robbing; taking all to the valuable things
Why does Romeo kill Paris
He is desperate and Paris provokes him
How is Death personified
As loving Juliet and keeping her beautiful
Whose blood stains does Friar Laurence see in the tomb
Paris
What does the friar tell Juliet when she wakes
Go with him and he’ll hide her in a nunnery
A greater power than they can fight has ruined their plan
How does Juliet try to get some poison into her body
She kisses Romeo’s lips
What does she do when the kissing of the lips of Romeo doesn’t kill her
Stabs herself
Who finds Juliet dead
Chief watchman
Whom does prince Escalus believe are the suspects
Balthasar and friar Laurence
Who tells everyone the whole story
Friar Laurence
How is friar Laurence’s story confirmed
The letter Romeo wrote to his father
What do each of the fathers do for each others’ child
Build a pure gold statue of them
In the end, what happens to the Capulets and montages
They became united through their sorrow
