Friar Laurence On Thursday, sir? Paris How fortunate to see you, my lady and my wife! Juliet It may be good to see you, sir, when I actually am a wife. Paris You must be next Thursday, love.
Juliet What must be, shall be. Paris Have you come to make confession to the friar? Paris Do not deny to him that you love me. Juliet I will confess to you that I love him. Juliet If I do, a confession will be more valuable spoken behind your back instead of to your face.
Paris Poor soul, your face has been so stained with tears. Juliet Good for the tears. It was bad enough before they stained it. What I said, I said to my own face.
Paris Your face belongs to me, and you spoke ill of it! Friar Laurence Thoughtful daughter, this is a convenient time. Paris God forbid I should get in the way of devout practice! Juliet Oh shut the door, and when you have, come weep with me! I am past hope, past cure, past help! Friar Laurence Ah Juliet, I already know about what is causing you such grief.
It breaks my heart. I heard that you must be married to that count next Thursday, and that nothing can delay it. Capulet, hearing Paris approach with…. Romeo sends him to hire horses for their immediate…. Friar John enters, bringing with him the letter that he was to have delivered to Romeo. He tells why he…. Romeo and Paris fight and Paris is killed. Romeo, in…. You can get your own copy of this text to keep. Download it to get the same great text as on this site, or purchase a full copy to get the text, plus explanatory notes, illustrations, and more.
Romeo and Juliet. Synopsis: Paris again approaches Capulet about marrying Juliet. Contents Characters in the Play. Act 1, scene 1 A street fight breaks out between the Montagues and the Capulets, which is broken up by the ruler of Verona,…. Act 1, scene 5 Capulet welcomes the disguised Romeo and his friends.
Act 2, scene 1 Romeo finds himself so in love with Juliet that he cannot leave her. Act 2, scene 4 Mercutio and Benvolio meet the newly enthusiastic Romeo in the street. Act 2, scene 5 Juliet waits impatiently for the Nurse to return. Act 3, scene 1 Mercutio and Benvolio encounter Tybalt on the street. Act 3, scene 2 Juliet longs for Romeo to come to her.
Act 3, scene 3 Friar Lawrence tells Romeo that his punishment for killing Tybalt is banishment, not death.
Act 3, scene 4 Paris again approaches Capulet about marrying Juliet. Lady Capulet calls to her daughter. Juliet wonders why her mother would come to speak to her so early in the morning. Juliet is appalled. Capulet enters the chamber. When Juliet entreats her mother to intercede, her mother denies her help.
After Capulet and Lady Capulet storm away, Juliet asks her nurse how she might escape her predicament. The Nurse advises her to go through with the marriage to Paris—he is a better match, she says, and Romeo is as good as dead anyhow. If the friar is unable to help her, Juliet comments to herself, she still has the power to take her own life. To combat the coming of the light, Juliet attempts once more to change the world through language: she claims the lark is truly a nightingale.
Where in the balcony scene Romeo saw Juliet as transforming the night into day, here she is able to transform the day into the night. But just as their vows to throw off their names did not succeed in overcoming the social institutions that have plagued them, they cannot change time. As fits their characters, it is the more pragmatic Juliet who realizes that Romeo must leave; he is willing to die simply to remain by her side.
In a moment reminiscent of the balcony scene, once outside, Romeo bids farewell to Juliet as she stands at her window. Here, the lovers experience visions that blatantly foreshadow the end of the play. Her decision to break from the counsel of her disloyal nurse—and in fact to exclude her nurse from any part in her future actions—is another step in her development.
Having a nurse is a mark of childhood; by abandoning her nurse and upholding her loyalty toward her husband, Juliet steps fully out of girlhood and into womanhood. Indeed, Juliet feels so strong that she defies her father, but in that action she learns the limit of her power.
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