FOCUSING ON LITERARY DEVICES AND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, post 3 journal "comments" based on BOTH ACTS TOGETHER and reply to three (3) more throughout the week to dialogue with your classmates and students from the other class about Romeo and Juliet.
Hayze Talbot English 1 W. Rodrigue 15 November 2013
"O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there." (Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote is a form of irony. Romeo does not realize that Juliet is not dead, and so Romeo is looking at Juliet's "dead" body and saying how it still looks alive and beautiful, when she is still alive.
"To murder, murder our solemnity? O child, O child! My soul, and not my child!" (Act 4 Scene 5)
Lord Capulet is acting as if he is speaking to Juliet, but he is not, she is "dead." Lord Capulet does not know that his daughter is dead and feels much grief.
"O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones" ( Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote is a form of metaphor. In this quote, we believe Paris is saying that rather than Juliet lying in a nice bed, she lies in a dusty tomb filled with stones.
"Marry, sir, 'this an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me." (4.2.8-9)
This quote can be an example of an metaphor because the servant is comparing an good cook to an bad cook. This happens the day before the marriage of Paris and Juliet. Capulet wanted the servant to see who is an good cook. So, the servant said these lines to explain how he was going to find the best cook.
Alexis Granier English 1 Rodrigue 2 period 18 November 2013
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark. Here's to my love!" (Act 5, scene 3, lines 116-119)
This quote from Romeo could be an example of personification. "You desperate pilot, let's crash this sea-weary ship into the rocks!" (Lines 117-118) Poison cannot be a pilot. He is giving human characteristics to a poison that he is eager to take to see his Juliet again.
A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. 5.3.304-309
In the concluding speech of Romeo and Juliet, the Prince wraps up the tragic plot and suggests the possibility of future peace between the Montagues and Capulets. He does describe it as a "glooming peace", which does not detract from the fact that the play has reached a reconciliation, but it is also indicative of some more subtle points. First of all, Romeo and Juliet is not truly a classical tragedy because it ends with a reconciliation instead of total annihilation.Romeo and Juliet's love leads to positive changes in their world, even though they are no longer alive. When the Prince notes that the "sun…will not show his head," it reminds the audience about the connection between daytime and disorder. The lesson here seems to be then, that tragedy can lead to change, if people are actually willing to learn from it.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower; Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love 4.1.11
All the things that used to frighten Juliet are now unimportant compared to the horror of betraying Romeo and marrying another man. She loves Romeo so much that no man can tear them apart. She would do anything but marry another man if not Romeo. There secret love isn't working now that she is forced to marry Paris. She will end up faking her death to her family and town to be with Romeo. That's how strong there love is for each other.
O brother Montague, give me thy hand: This is my daughter's jointure, for no more Can I demand. But I can give thee more: For I will raise her statue in pure gold; That while Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet. As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie; Poor sacrifices of our enmity! 5.3.3
After Romeo and Juliet are found dead, Montague offers to erect a "statue" of "pure gold" in Juliet's honor and Capulet promise to do the same for his dead son-in-law, Romeo. Although the young lovers' deaths unite the warring families and put an end to the feud (just as the Chorus promised back in the first Prologue), the efforts of the Capulets and the Montagues are a day late and a dollar short. Both enemies have lost someone that meant a lot to each of them which brings them together and stronger too.
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (5.3.305-310)
The Prince says these lines at the end of the scene. Romeo and Juliet both dies at the end of this scence. This quote means that this was the saddest story full with pain. This was an very sad ending of this story. Everyone in Verona was very sad and hurt. This happen all over love.
"Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. Hold, there us forty ducats. Let me have A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb." (5.1.60-67)
Romeo is om his way from Mantua and he wants to buy poison. He wants to kill himself because he found out that his wide is dead. Even though she really not dead, he doesn't know that because the letter was never delivered to him. He asked the Apothecary to give him poison that will make someone die instantly.
This quote is found in act 4 and scene 5. This is Lady Capulet speaking after Juliet's supposed "death". This quote is a simile because it is comparing two things with using like or as. What she is doing is comparing Juliet's death to an "untimely frost". Meaning by her death was sad and cold. Metaphorically speaking of course. Also, it could mean like Juliet is like a flower or a plant and a frost kills plants and flowers of that sort.
" Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir, My daughter he hath wedded" 5.3
This quote is found in act 5 and scene 3. Lady Capulet is talking here. This is after Paris has died and Juliet dies. This is a form of personification. Meaning by like death is her son in law and death is Juliet. What this is talking about. The "heir" is Juliet and she is dead. In death of the son-in-law meaning by Paris is dead also. And at the end of the quote saying "he hath wedded" meaning by she wanted Paris to end up marrying Juliet.
" O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones" 5.3
This quote is found in Act 5 and scene 3. This is said by Paris. I think he is mainly talking about Juliet's death. This is a metaphor because he is comparing her canopy to dust and stones. A canopy is like a nice throne or a nice bed. But I believe he is saying that instead of Juliet in a nice bed or nice throne she is in a tomb full of dust, stones, and unsanitary items or objects and it just is not nice or special.
"Go hence for I will not away.-- What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand? Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.-- O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them, To make me die with a restorative Thy lips are warm" - 5.3 160.168
This quote was said by Juliet. Juliet found out that her husband Romeo is dead. Then, she probably look on the side of him and seen the poison which killed him. She got a bit angry that he never saved any poison for her for she can kill her self also. She thinks if she kiss him that she will have a little poison in her body to also die. No one has told Juliet that Romeo killed himself because of her. In the situation Juliet should have still killed her self. She wanted to die with a medicinal kiss. Overall, she found out that Romeo was dead. (Imagery
"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house Is empty on the back of Montague, And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom" 5.3.202.205
The quote was said by Capulet. He was devastated and then he got angry. He found out that his daughter is dead. Juliet stabs herself in the breast, which is why Capulet says that the knife should be in the Montague back. Capulet thinks that Montague caused all of the deaths. Capulet and Montague are enemies, so of course Capulet would think that Montague was behind this. Capulet wishes that the knife was in Montague back instead of his daughter. In my opinion, Capulet shouldn't assume what happen. (Imagery)
"Ready to go, but never to return. O son! The night before thy wedding day Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. 4.5.34-40
This quote was said by Capulet. Paris comes on the day that him and Juliet suppose to get married. Capulet tells him that Juliet is dead. Since, death took Juliet Capulet says that death is his son-in-law. Capulet compared death to the groom, because since he couldn't take her death did. (Personification)
Lexi Bourgeois English 1- 5th Period Wade Rodrigue 19 November 2013
1) Hold daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it. An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. (4.1.69-77)
Analysis: In Act 4, Scene 1, Friar Lawrence is preaching to Juliet using these lines to show a type of foreshadowing. I say this because Friar Lawrence is telling Juliet that if she is willing to choose death over marrying County Paris, he is willing to offer a solution to that problem. His solution would be a potion to make Juliet fall into a dark hard sleep presenting it as her death. She would later wake up and find Romeo waiting for her leaving them to live happy together. Friar Lawrence is trying to help her within this situation to keep her from marrying Paris because Juliet and Romeo are already married, which no one knows about besides Friar Lawrence who married them. Friar Lawrence ends up making her the potion putting her into a hard dark sleep leading to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet in the end of the poem written by Shakespeare. (155)
2) Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. (4.5.38-40)
Analysis: In Act 4, Scene 5, Capulet is preaching to Parish about Juliet using a metaphor. This metaphor explains that Paris was death in which Juliet married. Juliet never wanted to get married to Paris,but her father and mother kept pushing the issue when she finally came up with an idea about the potion situation agreeing to marry Paris that morning because she knew she would not be awake. Capulet only saw his son-in-law as death because of this event that took place. Capulet blamed himself as well as others while he was going through this rough time containing Juliet's death. If he would have listened to Juliet's opinion and words, Juliet's death may not have happened which means Romeo would not have committed suicide in the end of the poem as well like Juliet eventually did stabbing herself. Several situations and outcomes would have come out differently if things would not have appeared to please Paris by marrying Juliet that morning. (161)
3) A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. (5.3.304-309)
Analysis: In Act 5, Scene 3, include the Montagues and the Capulets discussing what will happen from there. The Prince directly preaches this tragic statement to Capulet because of the sadness between everyone around regarding Juliet and Romeo's death. Tragedy may show and change things for the better such as Romeo and Juliet's love for one another as star-crossed lovers. It has taught a lesson that several people will do whatever it takes to be with the person you love through tough times all the way to great times. The love for one another never ends which is why the author compares line 305 to everyday lovers. Through thick and thin, Romeo and Juliet stood together which is why their families need to become closer with one another. Together the Capulets and Montagues may get through it keeping calm coming up with compromises when in doubt or argument. Everyone must have faith and hope. (153)
"And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced, Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?" (4.5 73-74)
This is a quote in act 4 where Friar Lawrence was talking about Juliet's death. He is asking the people why cry now when you know she is in a better place. Heaven is the best place to be and she can live the rest of her eternal life in peace. She should be happy now so don't cry because she's dead because she is in the place that is amazing. They also has a simile where they are comparing the clouds and heaven's height.
"That the life-weary taker may fall dead, And that the trunk may be discharged of breath As violently as hasty powder fired Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb." (5.1 64-67)
This quote is said by Romeo when he about to take the poison. He uses a simile while saying this quote by comparing the quickness of the posion within his veins and the gunpowder in a cannon. When Romeo finds about Juliet he wants to kill himself because he doesn't want to live without his one true love. He has a thing of poison and hopes that when he takes it the poison goes fast through he veins and dies quickly.
"Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss" (5.3 113-114)
This quote is said by Romeo right before taking the poison. He also uses personification while saying this quote. He is trying to say his lips are a type of door. He really is meaning that when his lips open he breathes so he wants them to stay closed so he will stop breathing. Without his one true love Juliet, he wants nothing to do with life. So he is trying to say that once he closes his mouth for one last kiss he will be dead right after.
Destiny Hotard English I 5th Rodrigue November 19, 2013
"Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse, I pray thee, leave me to myself tonight, For I have need of many orisons To move the heavens to smile upon my state, Which, well thou know’st, is cross and full of sin." (4.3.1-5)
Juliet speaks these words to the Nurse while they are finding the perfect dress or in other terms, outfit, for Juliet's wedding with Paris which she agreed to after a few words with Friar Lawrence. She needed the Nurse to come with her and choose an outfit so it wouldn't look suspicious to anyone that Juliet might be doing something she shouldn't be doing, much like taking the vial they have no idea she has in her possession. Once she's done, she tells the Nurse that the outfit is perfect so the Nurse can leave. Juliet says to let the heavens bless her because she's already married and she's marrying another man, which she cannot bear to do. She compares this sin to the cross that Jesus was crucified on, using a metaphor, because what they were both doing is not in their favor but is what their fathers want and for the best of others. She needs the Nurse to leave that way she can take the vial at the perfect time and look dead for the next morning.
"Ready to go, but never to return. O son! The night before thy wedding day Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies Flower as she was, deflowered by him." (4.5.35-38)
Capulet speaks these words to Paris, who was to be his daughter's husband. Juliet appears dead to everyone and this upsets everyone. Capulet can't believe that on the day of the wedding, Juliet is dead. Well, she's not but he doesn't know that. This is a term of Dramatic Irony. He knew his daughter was a beautiful and compares her to a flower that has been deflowered because of 'death'. He tells this to Paris, his would've been son-in-law.
"Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife! Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks" (5.3.100-104)
Romeo speaks these words, seeing his beloved Juliet laying in a tomb surrounded by her dead ancestors and cousins, basically her family. He's so depressed about her death that he is willing to take his own life to be with her. Death has sucked the life from Juliet's body but has left the beauty. Romeo notices that her beauty has stayed and it calms him just a bit. Death cannot take away the true beauty from Juliet. Romeo is so upset. This is dramatic irony. We know Juliet's not dead but Romeo doesn't know this. Because he doesn't know, he takes his own life. One she awakens, Juliet sees Romeo dead and takes her own life.
Alissa Clement English 1 5th period W. Rodrigue 19 November 2013
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. (4.5.38-40)
This is a quote said by Juliet's dad. He is describing Juliet and Paris's wedding that he wanted to happen. Juliet has no interest in marrying Paris and that is what he is trying to say. Paris is dead is Juliet's eyes and want nothing to do with Paris. Whether they get maried or not, Paris is like death because Juliet doesn't even want him there. The figurative language is a metaphor.
"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds! This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house Is empty on the back of Montague, And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom" (5.3.202-205)
This quote is said by Juliet's father. He has just found his daughter dead and is sad but very angry about it. When he finds Juliet dead, he also sees that Romeo is right there dead as well. He instantly goes and blames the Montagues but when Juliet truly killed herself by stabbing herslef with a dagger in her heart. He hates the Montagues when it was really his own daughters fault because she committed suicide. This is an example of imagery.
"And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced, Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?" (4.5 73-74)
This is a quote said by Friar Lawrence. He was talking about Juliet's death. The Capulets and other poeple there were crying over her death but Friar Lawrence was trying to make the point of that she has risen and gone to heaven. He knew she really wasn't dead but the others did not know that. This quote is also an example of a simile.
Elise Clement English I-5th Period Rodrigue 19 November 2013
"Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford. Farewell, Dear Father."(4.1.126-27)
This quote is stated by Juliet right after Friar Lawrence gives her the vial to make her look like she is dead. She does not want to marry Paris, since she already has a husband that she is in love with. She says that love with give her strength, meaning that if she has to do this in order to be with Romeo, that will give her all the strength she needs.
"Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions! Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid." (4.5.65-67)
Friar Lawrence says this while Juliet's parents, Nurse, and Paris are all weeping and becoming sad over Juliet's death. Friar tells them just to calm down because heaven was the place that she came to earth from, and she can now go back there to live in peace forever. Of course, Friar Lawrence knows that Juliet is not really dead, so he isn't that sad about it. He adds peace and calmness to the situation.
"Where be these enemies?-- Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished." (5.3.291-295)
The prince finds out about the suicidal deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and he is not happy. He states that because of the hatred between the two families, there has been many deaths, even those of their own children. If they didn't hate each other so much, there would be many people still living who weren't. If there were peace between the two families, Romeo & Juliet wouldn't have had to hide their marriage and sneak around to be together, which is how they ended up killing themselves. The Prince believes that since there has been so many lives taken away because of the hate, there will be punishments for all people. After this, Capulet and Montague realize that hating each other is not right and that there is no reason for it.
Katelyn Belote November 19, 2013 Act IV and V Dialectal Journals
Capulet: Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. (4.5.32-33)
Analysis: This quote stated by Capulet is following Juliet’s “fake” death. Juliet faked her death to stop herself from being forced into marriage with Paris. She did this by drinking a poison from Friar Lawrence that made her look dead, feel dead, but is really just putting her into an almost coma like structure. Juliet’s body was found the morning of her planned wedding day. This point he is trying to say that finding his daughter dead has not only made him cry but to choke him up thinking that she is really dead. The part “ties up my tongue” is the figurative language due to tongues really don’t tie up.
Balthasar: “Her body sleeps in the Capels’ monument And her immortal part with angel lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault And presently took post to tell it you. O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, Since you did leave it for my office, sir.” (5.1.18-24)
Analysis: Balthasar rushed to tell Romeo the tragic news following him seeing the funeral. Unfortunately, Balthasar gets there before the man who Friar Lawrence sent the letter with to inform Romeo about the fake death that is being performed so Romeo and Juliet can be together. This strikes as dramatic irony due to it leading Romeo rushing to the Capulet family tomb to see his beloved dead wife, Juliet. This leads Romeo thinking she is dead, killing himself, and then actually ending up forcing both, Romeo and Juliet, to committing suicide for one another.
Juliet: "Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford. Farewell, Dear Father."(4.1.126-27)
Analysis: Following Friar Lawrence giving Juliet the vial to fake her death, Juliet states this quote. Juliet is basically saying that love with give her the strength to make it to wake up and be able to love Romeo once again, her true love and husband. “Farewell, Dear Father” is telling her father goodbye knowing he will think she would be dead tomorrow morning.
Caitlyn Rodrigue English 1: 5th period W. Rodrigue 19 November, 2013
"Marry, sir, 'tis and I'll cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me." (Act 4, scene 2, page 218)
At the wedding Capulet only wants the best of cooks. The servant says that he is only taking the best of them, and that he knows he will find he best. Only the best of cooks lick their fingers according to the servant.
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, and leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's." (Act 4, scene 5, page 238)
Juliet dies alone, thinks Capulet. His line of relatives will no longer go on since his only child was Juliet. Therefore he has no heir, and by saying death is his heir it means that it won't carry on.
"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food." (Act 5, scene 3, page 264)
Romeo is speaking to the tomb which Juliet lies in. The tomb is a "womb of death" in a way. The womb is where people lie before their life and their womb of death (tomb) is where they lie once they die.
Tate Foret Mr. Rodigue English 1 5th November 19, 2013
"She's dead, like a beautiful flower, killed by an unseasonable frost." (4. 5. 28-29.)
The quote above found in act 4 scene 5 is a sample of figurative language. The type of figurative language listed is simile. My defintion of a simile is comparing two things using like or as. As seen in this quote listed above Capulet says that his daughter is dead like a beautiful flower. He is comparing her and the flower together.
"Let me have a shot of poison, something that works so fast who takes it will die asa fast as gun powder exploding in a cannon." (5. 1. 65-67.)
I fount the quote above in act 5 scene 1. I chose it because it has my favorite type of figurative language in it. The type of figurative language found in the quote above is simile. This is comparing two things using like or as.
"When I found him, the town health officials suspected that we were both in a house that had been hit with the plague." (5. 2. 8-10)
The type of figurative language found above is personification. This is giving unhuman things human characteristics. This figurative languge is used in everyday life. This quote is found in act 5 scene 2.
Camryn Rodrigue English 1- 2nd W. Rodrigue 19th November, 2013
"I long to die if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy." (Act 4, Scene 1, page 212)
When Juliet speaks to Friar Lawrence about her marriage to Paris, she takes it a little too far. Juliet is over exaggerating, or using hyperboles, all over the conversation.
"Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distillèd liquor drink thou off, When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease. No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest. The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall Like death when he shuts up the day of life. Each part, deprived of supple government, Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death. And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead." (Act 4, Scene 1, page 214)
Friar Lawrence is foreshadowing how the story will end by giving her a fake poison to seem dead.
"My poverty, but not my will, consents." (Act 5, Scene 1, page 254)
The apothecary is being a hypocrite. He shows that even though the price is death, he would still rather live than sell the poison and maybe not get caught.
Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss (Act5.Scene3)
Romeo says this to Juliet before he drinks the poison. A thing that he means by saying the is that is lips are still open so he is still breathing. He says that because he wants to be dead like his wife, because there isn't anything left in life to live for if he doesn't have her he believes. He wants his lips to be closed forever so he could stop breathing and be dead. He will give her one last kiss, then he will drink the poison and die.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost (Act4.Scene5)
These are the words of Lady Capulet after the death of Juliet. She is comparing her death to an untimely frost. Which that basically means the it was sad and cold. Most people were not expecting this death. It happened at a very random time. They all thought everything was okay, and she was about to marry Paris. Another example is like the frost killing the grass or plants. These things just happen whenever, so they couldn't have planned it our tried to stop it from happening.
Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford. Farewell, Dear Father.(Act4.Scene1.)
This is what Juliet says once she gets the drink to fake her death. She is doing this for a good cause as she thinks. She is doing this because after 2 days it will ware of and she will go to she her husband. She wants everyone to forget about her and then the will leave her tomb and go find her Romeo. But things end up going wrong, and that doesn't happen. Romeo doesn't get the letter so he doesn't know what is going on but finds out she is dead so he goes to she her. When he see's her he talks to her for a while then he ends up killing himself by drinking poison.
Evan Gaudet English 1: 2nd period Mr. Rodrigue 19 November 2013
“The sun is too sad to show itself” (5. 3. 8-9)
This quote is said by Prince, to say that after Romeo and Juliet killed themselves for their dying love for each other. The kingdom will never be the same with without them, they were loved by many people and for them to just do something like this is just surprising. Romeo, wasn’t the most popular kid in the kingdom but he always had a smile on his face no matter what. Juliet wasn’t the prettiest girl in the kingdom but she always kept her head up no matter what. All they ever wanted was too was to be happy together, so they can be happy together in heaven forever.
“That’s a rocky road to be riding. I don’t like it” (4. 1. 4-5)
This quote is said by Friar Lawrence, to say that Juliet is sad because her cousin Tybalt was killed. She is also being forced by her father to marry Friar Lawrence instead of her and Romeo getting married. Like any girl , Juliet is under a lot of stress her cousin that she loved near and dear to her heart was killed and now she is being forced to marry Friar Lawrence against her own will. Ever girl has a dream to marry a man that will make her happy of the rest of her life , but in this situation Juliet has no choice but to fake her own death so she can stop the marriage with Friar Lawrence and marry Romeo instead.
“I pay you because you are poor, not because you want me to buy this” (5. 1. 78-79)
This quote is said by Romeo, to say that he gives him the money for the poison not because he wants Romeo to by the poison, but that he is poor and that after Romeo drinks the poison. That the man will have more use for the money than he will, because a dead man has no use for money on for it to be buried with him when he is put you rest in a hole in the ground.
"Oh my true heart with treacherous revolt turn to another" (Act 4 Scene 5, lines 38–9)
This is a really powerful quote. It is the image of Death as Juliet’s husband. This shows the tragic path that the couple have to follow. The quote is a personification. Her heart is in her words, the image of Romeo. The quote shows how the fate of the couple is falling and that we are already aware of.
"Thy eyes' windows fall, Like death when he shuts up the day of light"
This is an example of a metaphor. It is saying that Juliet's eyes are like windows, when they are not. Also when it says eyes fall like death shuts day out of light. it means when her eyes shut, it is as fast as death. This is an example of simile. It is comparing using "like" or "as". These are the figurative languages for this quote.
"O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, And death's pale flag is not advanced there." (Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote means that Romeo is talking Juliet. He talks about how beautiful he thinks she is even though she is dead but really alive. He doesn't know that she is actually alive.Romeo says that her beauty is like no other in the world. He kisses her and he still thinks that she has amazing lips.
"There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him. Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir; My daughter he hath wedded." (Act 4 Scene 5)
Capulet talks about her "death." Even though he knows that the stuff he gave her will only put her to sleep. He tries to act like her "death" was really shocking and he doesn't know how it had happened.
"To murder, murder our solemnity? O child, O child! My soul, and not my child!" (Act 4 Scene 5)
Capulet is talking to Juliet even though she is "dead." He tries to play if off by being really worried. He is really not, but he can act like he is because he is the one that "killed" her. He really does seem really worried to everyone.
Karra Rodrigue EnglishI 2nd period Mr. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
"Hath Death Lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him." (4.5.36-37)
In this quote Capulet uses a simile when he says, "Flower as she was, deflowered by him." He uses this to exsplain that Juliet was as beautiful as a flower and when she died her beauty became pale with her. This quote reminds me of how fathers always see their 'little' girls as beautiful and is very protective of them. There is no denying that 'daddy's little girl' is not an understatement. Fathers always see their daughters as a princess of a flower, so when Capulet says this there is no second thought that he means every single word and is very sad she died.
"O day, O day, O day, O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this. O woeful day, O woeful day! (4.5.52-54)
This quote is said by the Nurse when she finds Juliet "dead," she uses an idiom when she says, "Never was seen so black a day as this." She use this as a way to say that, even though the sun is out, the weather is nice or the sky is clear, to her the day is dark because Juliet is dead. This makes total sense to anyone who has lost a loved one; its a feeling that everyone gets when they have gotten the similar news. I can relate to the Nurse, because I have lost more than just one person, and each time it happend I felt the same way. When someone you love dies, you walk around feeling like something is missing and that the world goes on without that missing piece. When someone dies your world changes and the same goes for the Nurse; she took care of Juliet almost like she was her mother so of couse she is upset Juliet is dead.
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. (5.3.305-310)
In this quote an oxymoron is used when the Prince says, "A glooming peace." He says this as a way to discribe how the to rivals finally were able to make peace after their kids died. This passage basicly exsplains how the rivalry between the two men has caused so many deaths. It also metions how Juliet and Romeo's story is considerd sad because they died But if you asks me, the part that I find is most captavating is when the Prince says, "Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things." This reminds me of how people can prevent the past from repeating by telling others the story. So when the Prince says this, it is like he is saying to tell everyone the story so that it wont happen again.
"If I can trust my dreams, then some joyful news is coming soon."
Romeo is talking to himself during this part, while waiting for Bathasar to come back with news about Juliet. His dream he is referring to was about him dying, and by the touch of Juliet's lips to his bring him back again to life. This was most like a fore shadow of what is to come in the next act. After he kills himself, Juliet try to save him wit kisses but nothing is working. The difference between the too were the outcomes, life and death.
"There was never a story more full of pain than the story of Romeo and Juliet." (5.3, 309-310)
The prince is saying how painful their story was. The problems they faced and the struggle between them. The secrets they had to hie and things behind there folks backs, they had to do. He tells us in a wrap the struggle of a teenage dramatic love story, so overly exaggerated but loved by many.
Jillian Landry English1 5th period Rodrigue 20 November 2013
DJ1:
"Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death, And therefore have I little talked of love, For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous That she do give her sorrow so much sway, And in his wisdom hastes our marriage To stop the inundation of her tears— Which, too much minded by herself alone, May be put from her by society. Now do you know the reason of this haste. " (4.1.6-15)
Paris went to talk to Friar Lawrence about marrying Juliet. Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris think that she has been weeping over Tybalt's death, but we know that she is crying because she will never see Romeo again because he has been banished from Verona. Capulet wants to speed up the marriage so that Juliet will stop weeping over "Tybalt's death." This quote uses dramatic irony because we know that Juliet is crying over Romeo being banished.
DJ2:
"She's dead, deceased! She's dead! Alack the day!" (4.5.26)
Nurse says this when they find Juliet dead. Juliet isn't dead, she is in a coma like state. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet this stuff that makes her appear dead for 42 hours. After the 42 hours are up Juliet will be with Romeo again. This quote also uses dramatic irony because we know that she is not dead but in a coma like state.
DJ3:
"My povery, but not my will consents." (5.1.78)
Romeo is looking for someone who will sell him a poison so that he can die because he was told Juliet was dead. He sees Apothecary and asks for a poison that will work really fast. Apothecary says that his poverty agrees. This quote uses personification because poverty can't agree. Apothecary gave his poverty a human characteristic which is consents or agrees.
Jessie Smith English 1- 5th Period Wade Rodrigue 20 November 2013
"Hold daughter. I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution As that is desperate which we would prevent. If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself, Then it is likely thou wilt undertake A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it. An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy." (4.1.69-77)
In this scene, Friar Lawrence is preaching to Juliet. These lines are used to show a type of foreshadowing. I say this, because Friar Lawrence is telling Juliet that if she's willing to choose death over marrying Paris, he is willing to offer her a solution to that problem. His solution would be for Juliet to drink a potion to make her fall into a dark hard sleep. This potion would make it appear that she is dead. She would later wake up and find Romeo waiting for her, leaving them to live happy together. Friar Lawrence is trying to help her with this situation to keep her from marrying Paris, because Juliet and Romeo are already married. No one knows that Romeo and Juliet are married, besides Friar Lawrence because he married them. Friar Lawrence ended up making her the potion,putting her into a hard dark sleep. This lead to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet in the end of the poem written by Shakespeare.
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's." (4.5.38-40)
In this scene in Act 4, Capulet is preaching to Paris about Juliet, using a metaphor. This metaphor, explains that Paris was death in which Juliet married. Juliet didn't want to get married to Paris,but her father and mother kept pushing her to. To fix this situation, Juliet agreed to marry Paris that morning because she knew she would not be awake. Capulet only saw his son-in-law as death because of this event that took place. He blamed himself as well as others while he was going through this rough time containing his daughter's death. If he would have listened to Juliet's opinion and words, Juliet's death may have never happened, which means Romeo would not have committed suicide in the end of the poem as well like Juliet. Several situations and outcomes could have come out differently if things would not have appeared to please Paris by marrying Juliet that morning.
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (5.3.304-309)
In Scene 3 of Act 5, the Montagues and the Capulets are discussing what will happen from there. The Prince preached directly about this tragic statement to Capulet, because of the sadness between everyone around regarding Juliet and Romeo's death. The tragedy may show and change of things for the better such as Romeo and Juliet's love for one another as "star-crossed lovers." It taught a lesson that several people will do whatever it takes to be with the person you love through the bad times and the good. The love for one another never ends, which is why the author compares line 305 to everyday lovers. Through thick and thin, Romeo and Juliet stood together, which is why their families need to become closer to one another. Together the Capulets and Montagues may get through it keeping calm, coming up with compromises, when in doubt or argument. Everyone must have faith, hope,and peace.
Luke Kliebert English 1-5th period W. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail, Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. (4.5.32-33)
This quote by Capulet is following Juliet’s “fake” death. Juliet faked her death because she didn't want to be married to Paris. She faked her death by drinking a poison from Friar Lawrence that made her look dead, but she is almost in a coma. Juliet’s body was found the morning of her wedding day with Paris.
“Her body sleeps in the Capels’ monument And her immortal part with angel lives. I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault And presently took post to tell it you. O, pardon me for bringing these ill news, Since you did leave it for my office, sir.” (5.1.18-24)
Balthasar rushed to tell Romeo the tragic news about Juliet. Unfortunately, Balthasar gets there before the man who Friar Lawrence sent the letter with to inform Romeo about the fake death that is being performed so Romeo and Juliet can be together. This strikes as dramatic irony due to it leading Romeo rushing to the Capulet family tomb to see his beloved wife, dead. This leads to Romeo thinking she is dead, killing himself, and then Juliet killing herself, committing suicide for one another.
"Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not In these confusions! Heaven and yourself Had part in this fair maid." (4.5.65-67)
Friar Lawrence says this while everyone is crying and becoming sad over Juliet's death. Friar tells them just to calm down because heaven was the place that she came to earth from, and she can now go back there to live in peace forever. Of course, Friar Lawrence knows that Juliet is not really dead, so he isn't that sad about it. He just tries to add peace and calmness to the situation.
"Oh me, oh me! My child, my only life, revive, look up, or I will die with thee!" (4.5. 236-237)
This quote takes place when the nurse finds Juliet dead in her room (even though she is not really dead). Lady Capulet comes in and says this quote. When she says this, she is in a panic and is very upset. When Lady Capulet says 'Oh me, oh me! My child, my only life, revive, look up, or I will die with thee!" she is yelling at Juliet to wake up because she was her only child. She is saying to wake up or she will die with Juliet. She is upset and says she will die with Juliet because Juliet is her only reason for living. At this moment, everyone is in a panic and is very upset.
"Bid me into a new-made grave and hide me with a dead man in his shroud-- Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble and I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstained wife to my sweet love." ( 4.1. 214-215)
This quote was said by Juliet when she found out that her parents were making her marry Paris. She wanted to stay pure to Romeo, but couldn't tell her parents about her real marriage. She is telling this to Friar Lawrence because she is asking for his help to figure out what to do. This quote basically means that Juliet would rather climb in a grave and lay with a dead body than marry Paris. She states all these terrible, gruesome things that she'd do over marrying Paris because she wants to stay pure and true to Romeo. Juliet is just being a good wife and being true to Romeo by saying these things because she doesn't want to marry Paris.
"Where I have learned to repent the sin of disobedient opposition to you and your behests, and am enjoyed by holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here to beg your pardon." (4.2. 220-221)
This quote happens right after Juliet gets back from talking to Friar Lawrence. She had been disobedient to her father before when he told her that she had to marry Paris, so she was apologizing to him. She basically tells him that she had gone somewhere to learn how to behave and be respectful. Then she goes on to say that she is extremely sorry and begs for her father's forgiveness. However, this is truly all an act because her and Friar Lawrence are plotting something to get Juliet away so she doesn't have to marry the man that she doesn't want. Therefore, this quote and situation is a bit ironic because Juliet is not meaning anything that she tells her father.
Karlie Trosclair English 1-5th period Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Lady Capulet"And cruel death hath catched it from my sight (4.5.48)
This quote is happening right after Juliet has died. In the quote, "And cruel death hath catched it from my sight" (4.5.48) Lady Capulet, Juliet's mom is crying and complaining about Juliet's death. She is saying that death has stole her only child from her and that Juliet was her only comfort. During this time the Nurse and Capulet are also crying. In this quote there is also figurative language. In the part where it says "death hath catched" This is use if personification because she is giving death action. However, death is an inanimate thin therefore giving it any action is personification. In conclusion, this quote is when Lady Capulet is expressing how sad she is about Juliet's death. Yet, she is using the figurative language to help express her feeling more exaggeratedly.
Juliet: "Come, vail. What if this mixture do not walk at all?"(4.3.20-21)
This quote happens when Juliet is about to drink the vail that Friar Lawrence gave to her. In the story the vail is a potion that Friar Lawrence made specially for Juliet to drink. The vail will make Juliet go unconscious for 48 hours and it will appear that she is dead even though she is still living. Juliet want to drink the vail because she wants people to think she died to that she doesn't have I marry Paris and can go and sneak away with Romeo. In this quote she is questioning herself about if the vail will really work. However she ends her questioning by later saying if it doesn't she will end her life with a knife. In the quote, "Come, vail. What if this mixture do not walk at all?"(4.3.20-21) there is the figurative language of Apostrophe. Apostrophe is a type of personification when the dead are spoke to as present. This is an Apostrophe because Juliet is speaking to the vail as if it is alive by telling it to "come."
Prince: "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306)
This quote takes place after Romeo and Juliet's death. This is accruing at their funeral. Therefore, Friar Lawrence has already told Prince about what has happened to Romeo and Juliet. Including how and why they died and about their secret marriage. The Prince has now punished everyone for this tragedy and in this quote he is saying that because of this terrible event even the sun will be to sad to shine tomorrow. In this quote, "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306) there is also the figurative language of personification. Personification is giving inanimate objects human characteristics. The reason that this quote has personification is because of how the Prince says "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306) The Prince is giving the sun the human characteristic of sorrow. Which a sun cannot literally have any feelings therefore it's personification.
"Death, which has taken her away to make me cry, now ties up my tongue and won’t let me speak."
This quote was said in Act 4 by, Capulet. This quote explains basically what they were all thinking and feeling when they found out the "death" of Juliet. In this quote, he is so shocked by her death all he can do is cry. No words or sound can come out of his mouth, only tears fall from his face. In my perspective of this quote, I feel that I would have reacted the same way. Although, Juliet was faking her death for love, I find it cruel to make your family thing you are DEAD! I mean, look at this his words are nothing, sadness is the only kind of emotion in the air, and no one can even understand why. The Capulet's quote can stand for everyone's because they are all shocked by the news. I must admit that this quote helped me actually realize how they felt because when the other charters talked I could tell if it was sarcastic or not, but not this one. This quote made perfect sense to me. I absolutely loved because I could fell the emotions.
"Why the line “silver sound”? What do they mean, “music with her silver sound”? What do you say, Simon Catling"
This quote was said in Act 4 also by, Peter. Initially the musicians are worried playing a happy song because it will be considered improper. It is not, after all, for a musician to give explanations to noblemen. As the scene progresses it becomes clear that the musicians do not really care much about Juliet or the tragedy in which she is involved. They care more about the fact that they are out of a job, and perhaps, that they will miss out on a free lunch. In other words, this great tragedy. Overall, this quote is just something to act as meaning and worries about what's happening during this tragic time.
"The statue I will make of Romeo to lie beside his Juliet will be just as rich. They were poor sacrifices of our rivalry!"
This quote was said by, Capulet in Act 5. Capulet believes he knows what is best for Juliet. He says that his consent to the marriage depends upon what she wants and tells County Paris that if he wants to marry Juliet he should wait a while then ask her. Later, however, when Juliet is grieving over Romeo's being sent away, Capulet thinks her sorrow is due to Tybalt's death, and in a misguided attempt to cheer her up, he wants to surprise her by arranging a marriage between her and County Paris. The catch is that she has to be "ruled" by her father and to accept the proposal. When she refuses to become Paris' "joyful bride", saying that she can "never be proud of what she hates", Capulet becomes furious; threatens to make her a street urchin; calls her a "hilding" and says God's giving Juliet to them was a "curse" and he now realizes he and his wife had one child too many when Juliet was born in addition to threatening to turn her out, he threatens to sentence her to rot away in prison if she does not obey her parents' orders. He then storms away, and his wife also rejects Juliet before following him. He fixes the day of the marriage for Thursday and suddenly advances it to Wednesday out of anger and impulse. His actions indicate that his daughter's wants were irrelevant all the way up to the point when he sees her unconscious on her bed and later, when she is truly dead during the play's final scene. In addition to all of these events, this quote is basically giving the blame to both houses for having the poor lives of two teenagers. They should all be blamed for letting this happen to the children because of their feud. Also, Romeo and Juliet should be honored and show them a lesson for what a feud can do. Capulet realizes now that it was stupid for everything to have happened and he wishes to learn from what happened.
Rachel Thibodaux English 1 – 2nd Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Quote: “A glooming peace this morning with it brings. The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things. Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” –Prince (5.3 305-310)
Analysis: These are the last lines to wrap up the entire play. The prince says this to the Montagues and the Capulets after they finally agreed to get along. For line 306, I think the prince means that the events that just took place are so sad, even the sun would not shine. Also, he talks about how they can go and “talk about these sad things some more.” He is talking about the fact that both families lost a child that day. On lines 309-310, it shows how this story is full of pain. The whole play is about the two star-crossed lovers, and in the ending everyone else finally realizes what the two have been through. They both killed themselves due to some major miscommunication and the rivalry that takes place between their families. (135)
Quote: “Farewell! – God only knows when we shall meet again. I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins That almost freezes up the heat of life.” –Juliet (4.3 14-16)
Analysis: Juliet is deciding whether or not to drink the potion Friar Lawrence made for her. It will make her appear dead for around 42 hours, then she will wake up to find her husband waiting for her. Her parents are forcing her to marry Paris, but they do not know that she is already married to Romeo Montague. She can’t tell them, because both families are enemies with one another. She doesn’t know if she is even going to wake up after drinking this potion, but she ends up deciding to take it for Romeo’s sake. This quote describes how she is feeling at the time. She is very anxious and worried about what the outcome of drinking this potion will be. A possible consequence might even be never waking up. (131)
Quote: “As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie, Poor sacrifice of our enmity.” –Capulet (5.3 303-304)
Analysis: This is said by Capulet at the end of the play. Both families agreed to get a golden statue made of the other’s child that died. The Montagues will have a statue of Juliet made; the Capulets will have a Romeo statue made. Line 304 states that Romeo and Juliet were both bad sacrifices for the rivalry between the families. If the families would have gotten along earlier, then maybe that could have prevented the both of them from their deaths. This is a turning point for the plot because it shows that the families will actually get along now. The only thing that could break the hate between the two families was the love Romeo and Juliet had for each other. They both died because they could not stand living without the other. (134)
Dawson Benoit English 1 2nd Period Rodrigue 20 November 2013
"Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous?" (5, 3, 102-103)
This quote tells the readers something in the story. It tells them that Romeo wants to be with Juliet really bad and he is saying where are you Juliet. He is also stating that unsubstantial death is near, so he is planning thart he/they wouold die soon without seeing eachother. This is a perfect example of dramatic irony mostly because he is making it sound so dramatic to the reader of the play that death is near and he wants to be with her and see her so badly, but the ironic part is that death is actually upon them and they do end up dying with eachother in the end of the play. So, you can think of it as being that, since they really did die.
"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life." (4, 3, 15-16)
Shakespeare gives us an array of literary devices with Juliet's utterance. We get alliteration and foreshadowing. Juliet knows this will not end well. She knows this because as in the quote, it is saying hoe it is almost freezing up the heat of her life. Meaning that her life will not be to good later on. It is saying that her life will really take a downfall than it already was. Since she has a faint of cold fear, she has to be frearing something in the future or near future, so that would indicate where foreshadowing would take place. So, since she dont like the fewling she is having right now, she thinks her life would be somewhat over to the thing that she is fearing at that moment in the play.
"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead..." (5,1,6)
This quote is actually pretty easy to understand and explain. This is because it actually says what it means in the quote. He wants his lady to come back to him and find him dead. I think that it is pretty weird to say because I dont know why you would want your lady to come and find you dead, thats just very weird. But, the person who is saying this is Romeo in scene 1 of act 5. This is mostly at the begining of this scene and is kind of one of the important quotes in this scene because it shows you what kind of person he is.
Carley Morvant English 1, 5th Period Rodrigue 20 November, 2013
Act 4, Scene 1, Line 75 Shakespearean: A thing like death to chide away this shame. Modern English: You can wrestle with death to escape from shame. Analysis: This quote is spoken by Friar Lawrence to Juliet. The quote is an example of figurative language because he doesn’t mean she can literally wrestle with death. He is trying to figure out a way to prevent her from killing herself since she is being forced to marry Paris. He wants to know how far she will go to prevent the marriage from happening. She convinced herself that she would die for the marriage not to happen or die trying to stop it. By saying this, he means that she can fight off death so she doesn’t have to die. He thinks, if she tries hard enough, she won’t have to die, and they will be able to come up with a plan to allow her and Romeo to be together. The friar then tells her about his plan of drinking the potion and going into the comma to fake death. This results in both of them dying.
Act 4, Scene 3, Lines 11-12 Shakespearean: For, I am sure, you have your hands full all In this so sudden business. Modern English: I’m sure you have your hands full preparing for the sudden festivities. Analysis: This quote is spoken by Juliet to Lady Capulet. It is figurative language because Juliet doesn’t literally mean that Lady Capulet’s hands are full. Juliet tells her this when she is trying to get Lady Capulet to leave. She means that she’s really busy with the things to prepare for the wedding. The second part is that the wedding popped out of nowhere, and that makes it more chaotic. This quote is also said when Juliet wanted to get everyone out of her room for the night. They needed to leave her alone so she could drink the stuff from Friar Lawrence. The potion was to put her into a 48 hour coma. This would allow her not to be forced to marry Paris. She could fake death and be rescued by Romeo; then, they were going to live happily ever after in another town. The plan was ruined when Romeo didn’t get the news of the plan and thought she was actually dead.
Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24 Shakespearean: Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars! Modern English: Is it really true? Then I rebel against you, stars! Analysis: This quote is spoken by Romeo. It is after Balthasar tells him that Juliet is “dead.” This is a figure of speech because Romeo isn’t actually talking about the stars. He’s talking about fate and the universe itself. He’s upset because he thinks his true love really died. Romeo now thinks that fate is against him, and he doesn’t understand why. This part is also very ironic because Juliet isn’t actually dead. It’s just that Romeo never got the letter explaining the plan. After hearing the news about Juliet from Balthasar, Romeo goes to Juliet’s grave. He runs into Paris; the two of them fight, and Romeo killed him outside of the tomb. He then proceeds inside to see Juliet and Tybalt. He apologizes to Tybalt then kills himself. A few minutes later, Friar Lawrence comes, and Juliet wakes up. When she asks for Romeo, she’s devastated that he died for her. She takes his knife and stabs herself with it. This leads to their story being told to the kingdom and a very mad prince. Because of their deaths, their two families made peace with each other.
Jayde Adams English I Fifth Period Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Quote 1: “Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest of all the field.” (4.5.28-29)
Analysis: This quote is said by Capulet when he sees Juliet’s cold, stiff body lying in her bed. Capulet uses figurative language to describe how shocked he was to see Juliet’s cold, dead body. He compares her to the sweetest, most beautiful flower in a field. This flower he describes is killed by an untimely frost which means that Juliet’s death was unexpected and shocking. No one could or wanted to believe the news of Juliet’s death. All but Friar Lawrence were shocked because he knew that she was not truly dead. She had just taken something that made her seem like she was dead, but she really wasn’t. This quote shows how truly shocked everyone was because they thought Juliet was dead. Major consequences came from her pretending she was dead.
Quote 2: “Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.” (4.5.38-40)
Analysis: This quote is said by Capulet when he speaks to Friar Lawrence about Juliet dying. He says that everything is death. He uses the figurative language of metaphor to describe how bad his plans are turning out to be. He says that Juliet was married to death since she died. Capulet also says that everything that he will leave behind when he dies will go to death. He does not know what to do. His pride and joy has died on her wedding day. He is in major shock his daughter has just dies so suddenly and untimely. This quote shows how majorly upset Capulet is and how shocked he is to see Juliet lying on her death bed.
Quote 3: "Where be these enemies?—Capulet! Montague! See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! And I, for winking at your discords too, Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished." (5.3.291-295)
Analysis: This quote is said by Prince when he hears about the lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide because they couldn’t be together. He blames their deaths on the families’ feud. He yells at them because of the damage they have done with their fighting. He says that the heavens have found a way to kill their joys in life with love. He basically asks him if they realize how stupid their fighting is and how inappropriate they are behaving. He thinks there is no reason for them to continue. Prince tells them that both families will be punished. The figurative language in this quote is foreshadowing. It tells that the families will be punished later on even though they already have had a major punishment.
Katie Landry English 1-5th Period W. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
"Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all?" (4.3.20-21)
This passage/quote is said by Juliet to herself when she is about to drink the sleeping potion that Friar Lawrence gave to her. In this quote Juliet is addressing the vial is the container the sleeping potion is being held in. The reason Juliet is taking the sleeping potion is because she does not want to marry Paris, most likely because she is already secretly married to Romeo. If she were to marry Paris she would be committing adultery. Juliet feels that her parents are pushing her to marry him, and the only way to make them stop is to pretend to be dead.The figurative language being used in this quote is an apostrophe. The main reason I think this is an apostrophe is because Juliet is referring to the vial as if it were an animate object.
"A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead" (5.1.61-64)
This passage/quote is said by Romeo when he is asking Apothecary for the poison that he will use to commit suicide. He is asking for something that will act fast, because he does not want to live without Juliet, but little does he know, she is still alive. The figurative language used here would be a symbol, and the symbol would be the poison. This is because it ended both Romeo's and Juliet's lives. The poison would be a symbol for the hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. The symbol creates a chain reaction throughout the end of the story, everything leads to one another. It starts off with Juliet drinking the potion, which causes everyone to believe that she is dead. Next, Romeo is unaware that Juliet is still alive, so he poisons himself because he does not want to live without her. This poison causes Romeo's death, but Juliet is now awakening from the sleeping potion. She sees Romeo dead and now she doesn't want to live without him. She notices his sword, and stabs herself in the chest. This is just one example of how the poison is a symbol in the story.
"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty" (5.3.92-93)
This passage/quote is said by Romeo. He is talking about how the effects of death has not started on Juliet yet. He was in her tomb to commit suicide because he could not stand to live without her. The figurative language of this would be irony. This is because only the reader, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet herself knows that Juliet is not really dead. She is just under a sleeping potion because she does not want to marry Paris and commit adultery. Going under the sleeping potion is just her way of rebelling against her parents, not marring Paris, and staying with Romeo. However things do not turn out as planned and Romeo and Juliet both end up in death.
Lauren Rink English 1-5th period Mr. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded."(4.5.38-39)
This quote is spoken by Capulet when he sees Juliet dead. The most joyous of all the times there are in the family has become one of the more dreary ones. Juliet was found supposedly dead on her wedding day, and now her father is upset that once he dies, all his fortune and his reputation will die along with him because now everything he has is left to death as his only child is now dead. He says everything is now for death, there is nobody else to leave anything to, the Capulet house will sink along with him once he is a dead man. His daughter JUliet was unfortunate and married death. Death was her husband and there was no signs of it ever happening that fast. The whole family was left in shock as they had only buried Tybalt a few days before, and now the Capulet tomb will be opened once again to bury yet another member of the capulet family.
"Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!" (5.2.29)
This quote spoken by Friar Lawrence is in reference to his attempt to save Romeo and Juliet's love. He had given Juliet a potion to make her seem dead, and she was now locked away in the Capulet tomb even though she was still alive, No one except Juliet and Friar Lawrence knew of the plan. And now that Romeo was never given the news, one could only fear what could hapen. Friar Lawrence is now only worried about getting Juliet out of the tomb safely and without being caught. She is still very much alive, but she fooled aroud with love and death and will eventually have to pay the price. Friar Lawrence's plan ultimately fails in the end because of the fact that Romeo made it to the tomb before him. He could not stop Romeo from drinking the poison or stop Juliet from killing herself when she sees Romeo's dead body.
"The time and my intents are savage, wild, More fierce and more inexorable by far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea." (5.3.37-39)
This quote was spoken by Romeo just as he was about to break into the Capulet tomb. He is speaking of the plan he has made to kill himself and how savage it is of him. He is saying how he must do something inside the tomb that Balthasar cannot be there to witness. Romeo knows how dishonorable of him it is to break into the tomb, but he proceeds to do it anyway. He breaks in and goes straight over to Juliet, after his encounter with Paris just outside which ended with Paris dead. Romeo is already on the Capulet family's bad side since he is a Montague and because of the fact that he killed Tybalt, and now he may have put his family in even more trouble by breaking into their tomb. Romeo takes one last look at his lovely wife before he takes his vial of poison to kill himself so he can be with her. This would have been much less foolish if he would have gone to see Friar Lawrence first, then Romeo could have gotten the message and have kept Juliet and himself alive. Since Romeo had not known of the plan, he ended up killing himself just as Juliet awoke.
Saul Barrilleaux English 1: 5th period W. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Quote: Oh, look! I think I see my cousin Tybalt's ghost. He's looking for Romeo because Romeo killed him with his sword. Wait, Tybalt, wait! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! here's a drink. I drink to you. (Act 4, Scene 3, Page 229)
Analysis: The figurative language that is shown in this quote is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown in this quote is "Oh, look." This quote is taking place when Juliet is about to take a potion that will temporarily kill her. She does this because she does not want to marry Paris in the morning. Her parents are always trying to convince her to marry Paris but her true love is Romeo. In my opinion, her parents are the reason she is temporarily killing herself because if they would just let her marry who she wants to marry, she wouldn't be going through this. Also if they would let her marry who she wants to marry, it would save the lives of Romeo and Juliet at the end of the book.
Quote: "Tsk, you're wrong. Leave me and do what I told you to do." (Act 5, Scene 1, Page 251)
Analysis: In the quote above, the figurative language that is shown is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown is at the beginning when Romeo says, "Tsk." This quote is taking place when Romeo first finds out that Juliet is dead. When he first heard the news, he did not believe it. Right after it settles in that she is dead, he sets of to go to her tomb. When he gets there he goes straight up to her in the tomb. Romeo says he can not live without Juliet, so since she is dead, he will kill himself. What he doesn't know is that she really isn't dead. She is just temporarily dead. So right as Juliet is waking up, Romeo drinks the potion. At this point it is to late to save Romeo.
Quote: " I must wake you up. Lady! Lady! Lady! Oh no, oh no! Help, help! My lady's dead! (Act 4, Scene 5, Page 235)
Analysis: In the above quote, the figurative language that is used is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown in the quote is "Oh no, oh no!" When this quote is taking place, the nurse just finds Juliet laying "dead" in her bed. The nurse thinks Juliet is dead but she really isn't. She is just temporarily dead from the potion Friar Lawrence gave her. At this point, everyone is just in shock. They just can't believe that instead of celebrating Juliet's wedding that day, they will be celebrating her funeral.
Malorie Kraemer English 1- 5th period W. Rodrigue 20 November 2013
Quote: "Ha? Let me see her. Out, alas! She's cold. Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff. Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."- Capulet (4.5.25-29) Analysis:This quote from "Romeo and Juliet" shows how shocked Juliet's parents were when they found her dead. Even though Capulet told Juliet to either marry Paris or leave, and she threatened to commit suicide before she would marry Paris, her parents did not think she was serious. The third line of this quote is a simile. that Juliet's death is like an untimely frost, meaning that her death brought on a sudden coldness that nobody was prepared for. The last line of the quote from "Romeo and Juliet:" is a metaphor. Juliet's father, Capulet, is comparing his daughter, who he now thinks is dead, to the most beautiful flower of all. In this short quote form the story Capulet, Juliet's father, describes what Juliet's 'dead body' looks like, from the stiff limbs to the cold lips that have been dead for a while. Capulet was very upset that his dear daughter died.
Quote: "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food! (begins to open tomb with his tools)"- Romeo (5.3.45-48) Analysis: In this quote from the story "Romeo and Juliet" uses a lot of symbolism to describe the tomb and the bodies inside it. When Romeo talks about 'cram thee with more food' he really means that he will put more dead bodies in the tomb that swallowed up his beloved Juliet. He is upset because he blames the tomb for keeping the most beautiful thing on earth, his beloved Juliet, hidden and locked up with other dead people He compares the tomb wear Juliet lies dead, too a terrible place that consumes her beauty and takes it away from the world. He says this in the moments before he goes in the tomb himself, so that he could die and be forever with his beloved Juliet. By going in a place where the dead are stored, Romeo shows how much he is dedicated and faithful to his wife, Juliet.
Quote: "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief . O happy dagger, This is my sheath. There rust and let me die. (stabs herself with Romeo's dagger and dies)" - Juliet (5.3.169-170) Analysis: This is one of the most important part in the whole play because it is the moment when Juliet does her finial act of love for her beloved Romeo. Because she could no longer be with him in this world, she took his dagger from Romeo's dead body and plunged it into her heart so she could be with her one true love in the after life. 58 Juliet is rushing to commit suicide because she hears people coming to investigate what is going on and she is supposed to be dead. If she was sitting alive in the tomb not only would they stop her from killing herself but they would not forgive her for playing that horrid trick on them.112 The last line is an example of an oxymoron because she is talking to the dagger, an inanimate object. She thinks the dagger is happy because it does not have to fell the pain of love.
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W. Rodrigue
15 November 2013
"O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there." (Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote is a form of irony. Romeo does not realize that Juliet is not dead, and so Romeo is looking at Juliet's "dead" body and saying how it still looks alive and beautiful, when she is still alive.
"To murder, murder our solemnity?
O child, O child! My soul, and not my child!" (Act 4 Scene 5)
Lord Capulet is acting as if he is speaking to Juliet, but he is not, she is "dead." Lord Capulet does not know that his daughter is dead and feels much grief.
"O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones" ( Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote is a form of metaphor. In this quote, we believe Paris is saying that rather than Juliet lying in a nice bed, she lies in a dusty tomb filled with stones.
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Delete"Marry, sir, 'this an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me." (4.2.8-9)
ReplyDeleteThis quote can be an example of an metaphor because the servant is comparing an good cook to an bad cook. This happens the day before the marriage of Paris and Juliet. Capulet wanted the servant to see who is an good cook. So, the servant said these lines to explain how he was going to find the best cook.
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Rodrigue 2 period
18 November 2013
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide.
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy seasick, weary bark.
Here's to my love!"
(Act 5, scene 3, lines 116-119)
This quote from Romeo could be an example of personification. "You desperate pilot, let's crash this sea-weary ship into the rocks!" (Lines 117-118) Poison cannot be a pilot. He is giving human characteristics to a poison that he is eager to take to see his Juliet again.
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A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
5.3.304-309
In the concluding speech of Romeo and Juliet, the Prince wraps up the tragic plot and suggests the possibility of future peace between the Montagues and Capulets. He does describe it as a "glooming peace", which does not detract from the fact that the play has reached a reconciliation, but it is also indicative of some more subtle points. First of all, Romeo and Juliet is not truly a classical tragedy because it ends with a reconciliation instead of total annihilation.Romeo and Juliet's love leads to positive changes in their world, even though they are no longer alive. When the Prince notes that the "sun…will not show his head," it reminds the audience about the connection between daytime and disorder. The lesson here seems to be then, that tragedy can lead to change, if people are actually willing to learn from it.
O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris,
From off the battlements of yonder tower;
Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk
Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,
With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
Or bid me go into a new-made grave
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
And I will do it without fear or doubt,
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love
4.1.11
All the things that used to frighten Juliet are now unimportant compared to the horror of betraying Romeo and marrying another man. She loves Romeo so much that no man can tear them apart. She would do anything but marry another man if not Romeo. There secret love isn't working now that she is forced to marry Paris. She will end up faking her death to her family and town to be with Romeo. That's how strong there love is for each other.
O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.
But I can give thee more:
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.
As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
5.3.3
After Romeo and Juliet are found dead, Montague offers to erect a "statue" of "pure gold" in Juliet's honor and Capulet promise to do the same for his dead son-in-law, Romeo. Although the young lovers' deaths unite the warring families and put an end to the feud (just as the Chorus promised back in the first Prologue), the efforts of the Capulets and the Montagues are a day late and a dollar short. Both enemies have lost someone that meant a lot to each of them which brings them together and stronger too.
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ReplyDeleteThe sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (5.3.305-310)
The Prince says these lines at the end of the scene. Romeo and Juliet both dies at the end of this scence. This quote means that this was the saddest story full with pain. This was an very sad ending of this story. Everyone in Verona was very sad and hurt. This happen all over love.
"Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor. Hold, there us forty ducats. Let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb." (5.1.60-67)
Romeo is om his way from Mantua and he wants to buy poison. He wants to kill himself because he found out that his wide is dead. Even though she really not dead, he doesn't know that because the letter was never delivered to him. He asked the Apothecary to give him poison that will make someone die instantly.
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Delete" Death lies on her like an untimely frost" 4.5
ReplyDeleteThis quote is found in act 4 and scene 5. This is Lady Capulet speaking after Juliet's supposed "death". This quote is a simile because it is comparing two things with using like or as. What she is doing is comparing Juliet's death to an "untimely frost". Meaning by her death was sad and cold. Metaphorically speaking of course. Also, it could mean like Juliet is like a flower or a plant and a frost kills plants and flowers of that sort.
" Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir, My daughter he hath wedded" 5.3
This quote is found in act 5 and scene 3. Lady Capulet is talking here. This is after Paris has died and Juliet dies. This is a form of personification. Meaning by like death is her son in law and death is Juliet. What this is talking about. The "heir" is Juliet and she is dead. In death of the son-in-law meaning by Paris is dead also. And at the end of the quote saying "he hath wedded" meaning by she wanted Paris to end up marrying Juliet.
" O woe! Thy canopy is dust and stones" 5.3
This quote is found in Act 5 and scene 3. This is said by Paris. I think he is mainly talking about Juliet's death. This is a metaphor because he is comparing her canopy to dust and stones. A canopy is like a nice throne or a nice bed. But I believe he is saying that instead of Juliet in a nice bed or nice throne she is in a tomb full of dust, stones, and unsanitary items or objects and it just is not nice or special.
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"Go hence for I will not away.--
What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.--
O churl, drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.
Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me die with a restorative
Thy lips are warm" - 5.3 160.168
This quote was said by Juliet. Juliet found out that her husband Romeo is dead. Then, she probably look on the side of him and seen the poison which killed him. She got a bit angry that he never saved any poison for her for she can kill her self also. She thinks if she kiss him that she will have a little poison in her body to also die. No one has told Juliet that Romeo killed himself because of her. In the situation Juliet should have still killed her self. She wanted to die with a medicinal kiss. Overall, she found out that Romeo was dead. (Imagery
"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom"
5.3.202.205
The quote was said by Capulet. He was devastated and then he got angry. He found out that his daughter is dead. Juliet stabs herself in the breast, which is why Capulet says that the knife should be in the Montague back. Capulet thinks that Montague caused all of the deaths. Capulet and Montague are enemies, so of course Capulet would think that Montague was behind this. Capulet wishes that the knife was in Montague back instead of his daughter. In my opinion, Capulet shouldn't assume what happen. (Imagery)
"Ready to go, but never to return.
O son! The night before thy wedding day
Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.
4.5.34-40
This quote was said by Capulet. Paris comes on the day that him and Juliet suppose to get married. Capulet tells him that Juliet is dead. Since, death took Juliet Capulet says that death is his son-in-law. Capulet compared death to the groom, because since he couldn't take her death did. (Personification)
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Wade Rodrigue
19 November 2013
1) Hold daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then it is likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to 'scape from it.
An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy. (4.1.69-77)
Analysis: In Act 4, Scene 1, Friar Lawrence is preaching to Juliet using these lines to show a type of foreshadowing. I say this because Friar Lawrence is telling Juliet that if she is willing to choose death over marrying County Paris, he is willing to offer a solution to that problem. His solution would be a potion to make Juliet fall into a dark hard sleep presenting it as her death. She would later wake up and find Romeo waiting for her leaving them to live happy together. Friar Lawrence is trying to help her within this situation to keep her from marrying Paris because Juliet and Romeo are already married, which no one knows about besides Friar Lawrence who married them. Friar Lawrence ends up making her the potion putting her into a hard dark sleep leading to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet in the end of the poem written by Shakespeare. (155)
2) Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. (4.5.38-40)
Analysis: In Act 4, Scene 5, Capulet is preaching to Parish about Juliet using a metaphor. This metaphor explains that Paris was death in which Juliet married. Juliet never wanted to get married to Paris,but her father and mother kept pushing the issue when she finally came up with an idea about the potion situation agreeing to marry Paris that morning because she knew she would not be awake. Capulet only saw his son-in-law as death because of this event that took place. Capulet blamed himself as well as others while he was going through this rough time containing Juliet's death. If he would have listened to Juliet's opinion and words, Juliet's death may not have happened which means Romeo would not have committed suicide in the end of the poem as well like Juliet eventually did stabbing herself. Several situations and outcomes would have come out differently if things would not have appeared to please Paris by marrying Juliet that morning. (161)
3) A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. (5.3.304-309)
Analysis: In Act 5, Scene 3, include the Montagues and the Capulets discussing what will happen from there. The Prince directly preaches this tragic statement to Capulet because of the sadness between everyone around regarding Juliet and Romeo's death. Tragedy may show and change things for the better such as Romeo and Juliet's love for one another as star-crossed lovers. It has taught a lesson that several people will do whatever it takes to be with the person you love through tough times all the way to great times. The love for one another never ends which is why the author compares line 305 to everyday lovers. Through thick and thin, Romeo and Juliet stood together which is why their families need to become closer with one another. Together the Capulets and Montagues may get through it keeping calm coming up with compromises when in doubt or argument. Everyone must have faith and hope. (153)
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ReplyDeleteAbove the clouds, as high as heaven itself?" (4.5 73-74)
This is a quote in act 4 where Friar Lawrence was talking about Juliet's death. He is asking the people why cry now when you know she is in a better place. Heaven is the best place to be and she can live the rest of her eternal life in peace. She should be happy now so don't cry because she's dead because she is in the place that is amazing. They also has a simile where they are comparing the clouds and heaven's height.
"That the life-weary taker may fall dead,
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb." (5.1 64-67)
This quote is said by Romeo when he about to take the poison. He uses a simile while saying this quote by comparing the quickness of the posion within his veins and the gunpowder in a cannon. When Romeo finds about Juliet he wants to kill himself because he doesn't want to live without his one true love. He has a thing of poison and hopes that when he takes it the poison goes fast through he veins and dies quickly.
"Arms take your last embrace. And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss" (5.3 113-114)
This quote is said by Romeo right before taking the poison. He also uses personification while saying this quote. He is trying to say his lips are a type of door. He really is meaning that when his lips open he breathes so he wants them to stay closed so he will stop breathing. Without his one true love Juliet, he wants nothing to do with life. So he is trying to say that once he closes his mouth for one last kiss he will be dead right after.
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November 19, 2013
"Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse,
I pray thee, leave me to myself tonight,
For I have need of many orisons
To move the heavens to smile upon my state,
Which, well thou know’st, is cross and full of sin." (4.3.1-5)
Juliet speaks these words to the Nurse while they are finding the perfect dress or in other terms, outfit, for Juliet's wedding with Paris which she agreed to after a few words with Friar Lawrence. She needed the Nurse to come with her and choose an outfit so it wouldn't look suspicious to anyone that Juliet might be doing something she shouldn't be doing, much like taking the vial they have no idea she has in her possession. Once she's done, she tells the Nurse that the outfit is perfect so the Nurse can leave. Juliet says to let the heavens bless her because she's already married and she's marrying another man, which she cannot bear to do. She compares this sin to the cross that Jesus was crucified on, using a metaphor, because what they were both doing is not in their favor but is what their fathers want and for the best of others. She needs the Nurse to leave that way she can take the vial at the perfect time and look dead for the next morning.
"Ready to go, but never to return.
O son! The night before thy wedding day
Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies
Flower as she was, deflowered by him." (4.5.35-38)
Capulet speaks these words to Paris, who was to be his daughter's husband. Juliet appears dead to everyone and this upsets everyone. Capulet can't believe that on the day of the wedding, Juliet is dead. Well, she's not but he doesn't know that. This is a term of Dramatic Irony. He knew his daughter was a beautiful and compares her to a flower that has been deflowered because of 'death'. He tells this to Paris, his would've been son-in-law.
"Call this a lightning?—O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks" (5.3.100-104)
Romeo speaks these words, seeing his beloved Juliet laying in a tomb surrounded by her dead ancestors and cousins, basically her family. He's so depressed about her death that he is willing to take his own life to be with her. Death has sucked the life from Juliet's body but has left the beauty. Romeo notices that her beauty has stayed and it calms him just a bit. Death cannot take away the true beauty from Juliet. Romeo is so upset. This is dramatic irony. We know Juliet's not dead but Romeo doesn't know this. Because he doesn't know, he takes his own life. One she awakens, Juliet sees Romeo dead and takes her own life.
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W. Rodrigue
19 November 2013
Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's. (4.5.38-40)
This is a quote said by Juliet's dad. He is describing Juliet and Paris's wedding that he wanted to happen. Juliet has no interest in marrying Paris and that is what he is trying to say. Paris is dead is Juliet's eyes and want nothing to do with Paris. Whether they get maried or not, Paris is like death because Juliet doesn't even want him there. The figurative language is a metaphor.
"O heavens! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!
This dagger hath mista'en--for, lo, his house
Is empty on the back of Montague,
And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom"
(5.3.202-205)
This quote is said by Juliet's father. He has just found his daughter dead and is sad but very angry about it. When he finds Juliet dead, he also sees that Romeo is right there dead as well. He instantly goes and blames the Montagues but when Juliet truly killed herself by stabbing herslef with a dagger in her heart. He hates the Montagues when it was really his own daughters fault because she committed suicide. This is an example of imagery.
"And weep ye now, seeing she is advanced,
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself?" (4.5 73-74)
This is a quote said by Friar Lawrence. He was talking about Juliet's death. The Capulets and other poeple there were crying over her death but Friar Lawrence was trying to make the point of that she has risen and gone to heaven. He knew she really wasn't dead but the others did not know that. This quote is also an example of a simile.
Good job Alissa, keep it up
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Rodrigue
19 November 2013
"Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford.
Farewell, Dear Father."(4.1.126-27)
This quote is stated by Juliet right after Friar Lawrence gives her the vial to make her look like she is dead. She does not want to marry Paris, since she already has a husband that she is in love with. She says that love with give her strength, meaning that if she has to do this in order to be with Romeo, that will give her all the strength she needs.
"Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions! Heaven and yourself
Had part in this fair maid." (4.5.65-67)
Friar Lawrence says this while Juliet's parents, Nurse, and Paris are all weeping and becoming sad over Juliet's death. Friar tells them just to calm down because heaven was the place that she came to earth from, and she can now go back there to live in peace forever. Of course, Friar Lawrence knows that Juliet is not really dead, so he isn't that sad about it. He adds peace and calmness to the situation.
"Where be these enemies?-- Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished." (5.3.291-295)
The prince finds out about the suicidal deaths of Romeo and Juliet, and he is not happy. He states that because of the hatred between the two families, there has been many deaths, even those of their own children. If they didn't hate each other so much, there would be many people still living who weren't. If there were peace between the two families, Romeo & Juliet wouldn't have had to hide their marriage and sneak around to be together, which is how they ended up killing themselves. The Prince believes that since there has been so many lives taken away because of the hate, there will be punishments for all people. After this, Capulet and Montague realize that hating each other is not right and that there is no reason for it.
you killing those DJs, great job girl!
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Act IV and V Dialectal Journals
Capulet: Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,
Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. (4.5.32-33)
Analysis: This quote stated by Capulet is following Juliet’s “fake” death. Juliet faked her death to stop herself from being forced into marriage with Paris. She did this by drinking a poison from Friar Lawrence that made her look dead, feel dead, but is really just putting her into an almost coma like structure. Juliet’s body was found the morning of her planned wedding day. This point he is trying to say that finding his daughter dead has not only made him cry but to choke him up thinking that she is really dead. The part “ties up my tongue” is the figurative language due to tongues really don’t tie up.
Balthasar:
“Her body sleeps in the Capels’ monument
And her immortal part with angel lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.” (5.1.18-24)
Analysis: Balthasar rushed to tell Romeo the tragic news following him seeing the funeral. Unfortunately, Balthasar gets there before the man who Friar Lawrence sent the letter with to inform Romeo about the fake death that is being performed so Romeo and Juliet can be together. This strikes as dramatic irony due to it leading Romeo rushing to the Capulet family tomb to see his beloved dead wife, Juliet. This leads Romeo thinking she is dead, killing himself, and then actually ending up forcing both, Romeo and Juliet, to committing suicide for one another.
Juliet: "Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford.
Farewell, Dear Father."(4.1.126-27)
Analysis: Following Friar Lawrence giving Juliet the vial to fake her death, Juliet states this quote. Juliet is basically saying that love with give her the strength to make it to wake up and be able to love Romeo once again, her true love and husband. “Farewell, Dear Father” is telling her father goodbye knowing he will think she would be dead tomorrow morning.
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DeleteNice job Kate, this is really good and you helped me to understand the quote a lot better!
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W. Rodrigue
19 November, 2013
"Marry, sir, 'tis and I'll cook that cannot lick his own fingers. Therefore he that cannot lick his fingers goes not with me." (Act 4, scene 2, page 218)
At the wedding Capulet only wants the best of cooks. The servant says that he is only taking the best of them, and that he knows he will find he best. Only the best of cooks lick their fingers according to the servant.
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, and leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's." (Act 4, scene 5, page 238)
Juliet dies alone, thinks Capulet. His line of relatives will no longer go on since his only child was Juliet. Therefore he has no heir, and by saying death is his heir it means that it won't carry on.
"Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, And in despite I'll cram thee with more food." (Act 5, scene 3, page 264)
Romeo is speaking to the tomb which Juliet lies in. The tomb is a "womb of death" in a way. The womb is where people lie before their life and their womb of death (tomb) is where they lie once they die.
Great job! I love the way you explain . I can also tell you understood everything! Work it girl!
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English 1 5th
November 19, 2013
"She's dead, like a beautiful flower, killed by an unseasonable frost." (4. 5. 28-29.)
The quote above found in act 4 scene 5 is a sample of figurative language. The type of figurative language listed is simile. My defintion of a simile is comparing two things using like or as. As seen in this quote listed above Capulet says that his daughter is dead like a beautiful flower. He is comparing her and the flower together.
"Let me have a shot of poison, something that works so fast who takes it will die asa fast as gun powder exploding in a cannon." (5. 1. 65-67.)
I fount the quote above in act 5 scene 1. I chose it because it has my favorite type of figurative language in it. The type of figurative language found in the quote above is simile. This is comparing two things using like or as.
"When I found him, the town health officials suspected that we were both in a house that had been hit with the plague." (5. 2. 8-10)
The type of figurative language found above is personification. This is giving unhuman things human characteristics. This figurative languge is used in everyday life. This quote is found in act 5 scene 2.
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W. Rodrigue
19th November, 2013
"I long to die if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy." (Act 4, Scene 1, page 212)
When Juliet speaks to Friar Lawrence about her marriage to Paris, she takes it a little too far. Juliet is over exaggerating, or using hyperboles, all over the conversation.
"Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distillèd liquor drink thou off,
When presently through all thy veins shall run
A cold and drowsy humor, for no pulse
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
No warmth, no breath shall testify thou livest.
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall
Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
Each part, deprived of supple government,
Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death.
And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two and forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.
Now, when the bridegroom in the morning comes
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou dead." (Act 4, Scene 1, page 214)
Friar Lawrence is foreshadowing how the story will end by giving her a fake poison to seem dead.
"My poverty, but not my will, consents." (Act 5, Scene 1, page 254)
The apothecary is being a hypocrite. He shows that even though the price is death, he would still rather live than sell the poison and maybe not get caught.
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DeleteNice job, but make sure you have 125-150 words for each.
DeleteGreat work! Be sure to make them at least 125 words next time.
DeleteArms take your last embrace. And, lips, O you
ReplyDeleteThe doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss (Act5.Scene3)
Romeo says this to Juliet before he drinks the poison. A thing that he means by saying the is that is lips are still open so he is still breathing. He says that because he wants to be dead like his wife, because there isn't anything left in life to live for if he doesn't have her he believes. He wants his lips to be closed forever so he could stop breathing and be dead. He will give her one last kiss, then he will drink the poison and die.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost (Act4.Scene5)
These are the words of Lady Capulet after the death of Juliet. She is comparing her death to an untimely frost. Which that basically means the it was sad and cold. Most people were not expecting this death. It happened at a very random time. They all thought everything was okay, and she was about to marry Paris. Another example is like the frost killing the grass or plants. These things just happen whenever, so they couldn't have planned it our tried to stop it from happening.
Love me strength, and my strength shall help afford.
Farewell, Dear Father.(Act4.Scene1.)
This is what Juliet says once she gets the drink to fake her death. She is doing this for a good cause as she thinks. She is doing this because after 2 days it will ware of and she will go to she her husband. She wants everyone to forget about her and then the will leave her tomb and go find her Romeo. But things end up going wrong, and that doesn't happen. Romeo doesn't get the letter so he doesn't know what is going on but finds out she is dead so he goes to she her. When he see's her he talks to her for a while then he ends up killing himself by drinking poison.
Nice job chase, you explained your quotes very well!
DeleteGot them long explinations, I like that. Good work!
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Mr. Rodrigue
19 November 2013
“The sun is too sad to show itself” (5. 3. 8-9)
This quote is said by Prince, to say that after Romeo and Juliet killed themselves for their dying love for each other. The kingdom will never be the same with without them, they were loved by many people and for them to just do something like this is just surprising. Romeo, wasn’t the most popular kid in the kingdom but he always had a smile on his face no matter what. Juliet wasn’t the prettiest girl in the kingdom but she always kept her head up no matter what. All they ever wanted was too was to be happy together, so they can be happy together in heaven forever.
“That’s a rocky road to be riding. I don’t like it” (4. 1. 4-5)
This quote is said by Friar Lawrence, to say that Juliet is sad because her cousin Tybalt was killed. She is also being forced by her father to marry Friar Lawrence instead of her and Romeo getting married. Like any girl , Juliet is under a lot of stress her cousin that she loved near and dear to her heart was killed and now she is being forced to marry Friar Lawrence against her own will. Ever girl has a dream to marry a man that will make her happy of the rest of her life , but in this situation Juliet has no choice but to fake her own death so she can stop the marriage with Friar Lawrence and marry Romeo instead.
“I pay you because you are poor, not because you want me to buy this” (5. 1. 78-79)
This quote is said by Romeo, to say that he gives him the money for the poison not because he wants Romeo to by the poison, but that he is poor and that after Romeo drinks the poison. That the man will have more use for the money than he will, because a dead man has no use for money on for it to be buried with him when he is put you rest in a hole in the ground.
Good job Evan, you used lots of details to explain!
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Rodridue
20 November 2013
"Oh my true heart with treacherous revolt turn to another"
(Act 4 Scene 5, lines 38–9)
This is a really powerful quote. It is the image of Death as Juliet’s husband. This shows the tragic path that the couple have to follow. The quote is a personification. Her heart is in her words, the image of Romeo. The quote shows how the fate of the couple is falling and that we are already aware of.
"Thy eyes' windows fall, Like death when he shuts up the day of light"
This is an example of a metaphor. It is saying that Juliet's eyes are like windows, when they are not. Also when it says eyes fall like death shuts day out of light. it means when her eyes shut, it is as fast as death. This is an example of simile. It is comparing using "like" or "as". These are the figurative languages for this quote.
Dang it I forgot the second quote.
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ReplyDeleteDeath, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
Thou art not conquer'd. Beauty's ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there." (Act 5 Scene 3)
This quote means that Romeo is talking Juliet. He talks about how beautiful he thinks she is even though she is dead but really alive. He doesn't know that she is actually alive.Romeo says that her beauty is like no other in the world. He kisses her and he still thinks that she has amazing lips.
"There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir;
My daughter he hath wedded." (Act 4 Scene 5)
Capulet talks about her "death." Even though he knows that the stuff he gave her will only put her to sleep. He tries to act like her "death" was really shocking and he doesn't know how it had happened.
"To murder, murder our solemnity?
O child, O child! My soul, and not my child!" (Act 4 Scene 5)
Capulet is talking to Juliet even though she is "dead." He tries to play if off by being really worried. He is really not, but he can act like he is because he is the one that "killed" her. He really does seem really worried to everyone.
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Mr. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
"Hath Death Lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him." (4.5.36-37)
In this quote Capulet uses a simile when he says, "Flower as she was, deflowered by him." He uses this to exsplain that Juliet was as beautiful as a flower and when she died her beauty became pale with her. This quote reminds me of how fathers always see their 'little' girls as beautiful and is very protective of them. There is no denying that 'daddy's little girl' is not an understatement. Fathers always see their daughters as a princess of a flower, so when Capulet says this there is no second thought that he means every single word and is very sad she died.
"O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day! (4.5.52-54)
This quote is said by the Nurse when she finds Juliet "dead," she uses an idiom when she says, "Never was seen so black a day as this." She use this as a way to say that, even though the sun is out, the weather is nice or the sky is clear, to her the day is dark because Juliet is dead. This makes total sense to anyone who has lost a loved one; its a feeling that everyone gets when they have gotten the similar news. I can relate to the Nurse, because I have lost more than just one person, and each time it happend I felt the same way. When someone you love dies, you walk around feeling like something is missing and that the world goes on without that missing piece. When someone dies your world changes and the same goes for the Nurse; she took care of Juliet almost like she was her mother so of couse she is upset Juliet is dead.
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. (5.3.305-310)
In this quote an oxymoron is used when the Prince says, "A glooming peace." He says this as a way to discribe how the to rivals finally were able to make peace after their kids died. This passage basicly exsplains how the rivalry between the two men has caused so many deaths. It also metions how Juliet and Romeo's story is considerd sad because they died But if you asks me, the part that I find is most captavating is when the Prince says, "Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things." This reminds me of how people can prevent the past from repeating by telling others the story. So when the Prince says this, it is like he is saying to tell everyone the story so that it wont happen again.
Your DJs were really good, Karra.
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20/11//13
"If I can trust my dreams, then some joyful news is coming soon."
Romeo is talking to himself during this part, while waiting for Bathasar to come back with news about Juliet. His dream he is referring to was about him dying, and by the touch of Juliet's lips to his bring him back again to life. This was most like a fore shadow of what is to come in the next act. After he kills himself, Juliet try to save him wit kisses but nothing is working. The difference between the too were the outcomes, life and death.
"There was never a story more full of pain than the story of Romeo and Juliet." (5.3, 309-310)
The prince is saying how painful their story was. The problems they faced and the struggle between them. The secrets they had to hie and things behind there folks backs, they had to do. He tells us in a wrap the struggle of a teenage dramatic love story, so overly exaggerated but loved by many.
Your DJs are very good Kiarah, but you need one more.
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Rodrigue
20 November 2013
DJ1:
"Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
And therefore have I little talked of love,
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears.
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous
That she do give her sorrow so much sway,
And in his wisdom hastes our marriage
To stop the inundation of her tears—
Which, too much minded by herself alone,
May be put from her by society.
Now do you know the reason of this haste. " (4.1.6-15)
Paris went to talk to Friar Lawrence about marrying Juliet. Capulet, Lady Capulet, Paris think that she has been weeping over Tybalt's death, but we know that she is crying because she will never see Romeo again because he has been banished from Verona. Capulet wants to speed up the marriage so that Juliet will stop weeping over "Tybalt's death." This quote uses dramatic irony because we know that Juliet is crying over Romeo being banished.
DJ2:
"She's dead, deceased! She's dead! Alack the day!" (4.5.26)
Nurse says this when they find Juliet dead. Juliet isn't dead, she is in a coma like state. Friar Lawrence gave Juliet this stuff that makes her appear dead for 42 hours. After the 42 hours are up Juliet will be with Romeo again. This quote also uses dramatic irony because we know that she is not dead but in a coma like state.
DJ3:
"My povery, but not my will consents." (5.1.78)
Romeo is looking for someone who will sell him a poison so that he can die because he was told Juliet was dead. He sees Apothecary and asks for a poison that will work really fast. Apothecary says that his poverty agrees. This quote uses personification because poverty can't agree. Apothecary gave his poverty a human characteristic which is consents or agrees.
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Wade Rodrigue
20 November 2013
"Hold daughter. I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.
If, rather than to marry County Paris,
Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,
Then it is likely thou wilt undertake
A thing like death to chide away this shame,
That copest with death himself to 'scape from it.
An if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy." (4.1.69-77)
In this scene, Friar Lawrence is preaching to Juliet. These lines are used to show a type of foreshadowing. I say this, because Friar Lawrence is telling Juliet that if she's willing to choose death over marrying Paris, he is willing to offer her a solution to that problem. His solution would be for Juliet to drink a potion to make her fall into a dark hard sleep. This potion would make it appear that she is dead. She would later wake up and find Romeo waiting for her, leaving them to live happy together. Friar Lawrence is trying to help her with this situation to keep her from marrying Paris, because Juliet and Romeo are already married. No one knows that Romeo and Juliet are married, besides Friar Lawrence because he married them. Friar Lawrence ended up making her the potion,putting her into a hard dark sleep. This lead to the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet in the end of the poem written by Shakespeare.
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's." (4.5.38-40)
In this scene in Act 4, Capulet is preaching to Paris about Juliet, using a metaphor. This metaphor, explains that Paris was death in which Juliet married. Juliet didn't want to get married to Paris,but her father and mother kept pushing her to. To fix this situation, Juliet agreed to marry Paris that morning because she knew she would not be awake. Capulet only saw his son-in-law as death because of this event that took place. He blamed himself as well as others while he was going through this rough time containing his daughter's death. If he would have listened to Juliet's opinion and words, Juliet's death may have never happened, which means Romeo would not have committed suicide in the end of the poem as well like Juliet. Several situations and outcomes could have come out differently if things would not have appeared to please Paris by marrying Juliet that morning.
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." (5.3.304-309)
In Scene 3 of Act 5, the Montagues and the Capulets are discussing what will happen from there. The Prince preached directly about this tragic statement to Capulet, because of the sadness between everyone around regarding Juliet and Romeo's death. The tragedy may show and change of things for the better such as Romeo and Juliet's love for one another as "star-crossed lovers." It taught a lesson that several people will do whatever it takes to be with the person you love through the bad times and the good. The love for one another never ends, which is why the author compares line 305 to everyday lovers. Through thick and thin, Romeo and Juliet stood together, which is why their families need to become closer to one another. Together the Capulets and Montagues may get through it keeping calm, coming up with compromises, when in doubt or argument. Everyone must have faith, hope,and peace.
wow , Jessie really good job with your explanations . Keep up the good work(:
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W. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Death, that hath ta’en her hence to make me wail,
Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak. (4.5.32-33)
This quote by Capulet is following Juliet’s “fake” death. Juliet faked her death because she didn't want to be married to Paris. She faked her death by drinking a poison from Friar Lawrence that made her look dead, but she is almost in a coma. Juliet’s body was found the morning of her wedding day with Paris.
“Her body sleeps in the Capels’ monument
And her immortal part with angel lives.
I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault
And presently took post to tell it you.
O, pardon me for bringing these ill news,
Since you did leave it for my office, sir.” (5.1.18-24)
Balthasar rushed to tell Romeo the tragic news about Juliet. Unfortunately, Balthasar gets there before the man who Friar Lawrence sent the letter with to inform Romeo about the fake death that is being performed so Romeo and Juliet can be together. This strikes as dramatic irony due to it leading Romeo rushing to the Capulet family tomb to see his beloved wife, dead. This leads to Romeo thinking she is dead, killing himself, and then Juliet killing herself, committing suicide for one another.
"Peace, ho, for shame! Confusion's cure lives not
In these confusions! Heaven and yourself
Had part in this fair maid." (4.5.65-67)
Friar Lawrence says this while everyone is crying and becoming sad over Juliet's death. Friar tells them just to calm down because heaven was the place that she came to earth from, and she can now go back there to live in peace forever. Of course, Friar Lawrence knows that Juliet is not really dead, so he isn't that sad about it. He just tries to add peace and calmness to the situation.
"Oh me, oh me! My child, my only life, revive, look up, or I will die with thee!" (4.5. 236-237)
ReplyDeleteThis quote takes place when the nurse finds Juliet dead in her room (even though she is not really dead). Lady Capulet comes in and says this quote. When she says this, she is in a panic and is very upset. When Lady Capulet says 'Oh me, oh me! My child, my only life, revive, look up, or I will die with thee!" she is yelling at Juliet to wake up because she was her only child. She is saying to wake up or she will die with Juliet. She is upset and says she will die with Juliet because Juliet is her only reason for living. At this moment, everyone is in a panic and is very upset.
"Bid me into a new-made grave and hide me with a dead man in his shroud-- Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble and I will do it without fear or doubt, to live an unstained wife to my sweet love." ( 4.1. 214-215)
This quote was said by Juliet when she found out that her parents were making her marry Paris. She wanted to stay pure to Romeo, but couldn't tell her parents about her real marriage. She is telling this to Friar Lawrence because she is asking for his help to figure out what to do. This quote basically means that Juliet would rather climb in a grave and lay with a dead body than marry Paris. She states all these terrible, gruesome things that she'd do over marrying Paris because she wants to stay pure and true to Romeo. Juliet is just being a good wife and being true to Romeo by saying these things because she doesn't want to marry Paris.
"Where I have learned to repent the sin of disobedient opposition to you and your behests, and am enjoyed by holy Lawrence to fall prostrate here to beg your pardon." (4.2. 220-221)
This quote happens right after Juliet gets back from talking to Friar Lawrence. She had been disobedient to her father before when he told her that she had to marry Paris, so she was apologizing to him. She basically tells him that she had gone somewhere to learn how to behave and be respectful. Then she goes on to say that she is extremely sorry and begs for her father's forgiveness. However, this is truly all an act because her and Friar Lawrence are plotting something to get Juliet away so she doesn't have to marry the man that she doesn't want. Therefore, this quote and situation is a bit ironic because Juliet is not meaning anything that she tells her father.
great , job lexi your did a nice job explaining the quotes (:
DeleteAmazing job Marshy!!!!!!!!!! Great job breaking down and understanding what is going on. Also good job staying in the word limit and digging deep. :)
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Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Lady Capulet"And cruel death hath catched it from my sight (4.5.48)
This quote is happening right after Juliet has died. In the quote, "And cruel death hath catched it from my sight" (4.5.48) Lady Capulet, Juliet's mom is crying and complaining about Juliet's death. She is saying that death has stole her only child from her and that Juliet was her only comfort. During this time the Nurse and Capulet are also crying. In this quote there is also figurative language. In the part where it says "death hath catched" This is use if personification because she is giving death action. However, death is an inanimate thin therefore giving it any action is personification. In conclusion, this quote is when Lady Capulet is expressing how sad she is about Juliet's death. Yet, she is using the figurative language to help express her feeling more exaggeratedly.
Juliet: "Come, vail. What if this mixture do not walk at all?"(4.3.20-21)
This quote happens when Juliet is about to drink the vail that Friar Lawrence gave to her. In the story the vail is a potion that Friar Lawrence made specially for Juliet to drink. The vail will make Juliet go unconscious for 48 hours and it will appear that she is dead even though she is still living. Juliet want to drink the vail because she wants people to think she died to that she doesn't have I marry Paris and can go and sneak away with Romeo. In this quote she is questioning herself about if the vail will really work. However she ends her questioning by later saying if it doesn't she will end her life with a knife. In the quote, "Come, vail. What if this mixture do not walk at all?"(4.3.20-21) there is the figurative language of Apostrophe. Apostrophe is a type of personification when the dead are spoke to as present. This is an Apostrophe because Juliet is speaking to the vail as if it is alive by telling it to "come."
Prince: "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306)
This quote takes place after Romeo and Juliet's death. This is accruing at their funeral. Therefore, Friar Lawrence has already told Prince about what has happened to Romeo and Juliet. Including how and why they died and about their secret marriage. The Prince has now punished everyone for this tragedy and in this quote he is saying that because of this terrible event even the sun will be to sad to shine tomorrow. In this quote, "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306) there is also the figurative language of personification. Personification is giving inanimate objects human characteristics. The reason that this quote has personification is because of how the Prince says "The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head." (5.3.306) The Prince is giving the sun the human characteristic of sorrow. Which a sun cannot literally have any feelings therefore it's personification.
Great work, you had a really well written analysis for each quote!!
Delete"Death, which has taken her away to make me cry, now ties up my tongue and won’t let me speak."
ReplyDeleteThis quote was said in Act 4 by, Capulet. This quote explains basically what they were all thinking and feeling when they found out the "death" of Juliet. In this quote, he is so shocked by her death all he can do is cry. No words or sound can come out of his mouth, only tears fall from his face. In my perspective of this quote, I feel that I would have reacted the same way. Although, Juliet was faking her death for love, I find it cruel to make your family thing you are DEAD! I mean, look at this his words are nothing, sadness is the only kind of emotion in the air, and no one can even understand why. The Capulet's quote can stand for everyone's because they are all shocked by the news. I must admit that this quote helped me actually realize how they felt because when the other charters talked I could tell if it was sarcastic or not, but not this one. This quote made perfect sense to me. I absolutely loved because I could fell the emotions.
"Why the line “silver sound”? What do they mean, “music with her silver sound”? What do you say, Simon Catling"
This quote was said in Act 4 also by, Peter. Initially the musicians are worried playing a happy song because it will be considered improper. It is not, after all, for a musician to give explanations to noblemen. As the scene progresses it becomes clear that the musicians do not really care much about Juliet or the tragedy in which she is involved. They care more about the fact that they are out of a job, and perhaps, that they will miss out on a free lunch. In other words, this great tragedy. Overall, this quote is just something to act as meaning and worries about what's happening during this tragic time.
"The statue I will make of Romeo to lie beside his Juliet will be just as rich. They were poor sacrifices of our rivalry!"
This quote was said by, Capulet in Act 5. Capulet believes he knows what is best for Juliet. He says that his consent to the marriage depends upon what she wants and tells County Paris that if he wants to marry Juliet he should wait a while then ask her. Later, however, when Juliet is grieving over Romeo's being sent away, Capulet thinks her sorrow is due to Tybalt's death, and in a misguided attempt to cheer her up, he wants to surprise her by arranging a marriage between her and County Paris. The catch is that she has to be "ruled" by her father and to accept the proposal. When she refuses to become Paris' "joyful bride", saying that she can "never be proud of what she hates", Capulet becomes furious; threatens to make her a street urchin; calls her a "hilding" and says God's giving Juliet to them was a "curse" and he now realizes he and his wife had one child too many when Juliet was born in addition to threatening to turn her out, he threatens to sentence her to rot away in prison if she does not obey her parents' orders. He then storms away, and his wife also rejects Juliet before following him. He fixes the day of the marriage for Thursday and suddenly advances it to Wednesday out of anger and impulse. His actions indicate that his daughter's wants were irrelevant all the way up to the point when he sees her unconscious on her bed and later, when she is truly dead during the play's final scene. In addition to all of these events, this quote is basically giving the blame to both houses for having the poor lives of two teenagers. They should all be blamed for letting this happen to the children because of their feud. Also, Romeo and Juliet should be honored and show them a lesson for what a feud can do. Capulet realizes now that it was stupid for everything to have happened and he wishes to learn from what happened.
Rachel Thibodaux
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Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Quote:
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings.
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head.
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things.
Some shall be pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.” –Prince (5.3 305-310)
Analysis:
These are the last lines to wrap up the entire play. The prince says this to the Montagues and the Capulets after they finally agreed to get along. For line 306, I think the prince means that the events that just took place are so sad, even the sun would not shine. Also, he talks about how they can go and “talk about these sad things some more.” He is talking about the fact that both families lost a child that day. On lines 309-310, it shows how this story is full of pain. The whole play is about the two star-crossed lovers, and in the ending everyone else finally realizes what the two have been through. They both killed themselves due to some major miscommunication and the rivalry that takes place between their families. (135)
Quote:
“Farewell! – God only knows when we shall meet again.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
That almost freezes up the heat of life.” –Juliet (4.3 14-16)
Analysis:
Juliet is deciding whether or not to drink the potion Friar Lawrence made for her. It will make her appear dead for around 42 hours, then she will wake up to find her husband waiting for her. Her parents are forcing her to marry Paris, but they do not know that she is already married to Romeo Montague. She can’t tell them, because both families are enemies with one another. She doesn’t know if she is even going to wake up after drinking this potion, but she ends up deciding to take it for Romeo’s sake. This quote describes how she is feeling at the time. She is very anxious and worried about what the outcome of drinking this potion will be. A possible consequence might even be never waking up. (131)
Quote:
“As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,
Poor sacrifice of our enmity.” –Capulet (5.3 303-304)
Analysis:
This is said by Capulet at the end of the play. Both families agreed to get a golden statue made of the other’s child that died. The Montagues will have a statue of Juliet made; the Capulets will have a Romeo statue made. Line 304 states that Romeo and Juliet were both bad sacrifices for the rivalry between the families. If the families would have gotten along earlier, then maybe that could have prevented the both of them from their deaths. This is a turning point for the plot because it shows that the families will actually get along now. The only thing that could break the hate between the two families was the love Romeo and Juliet had for each other. They both died because they could not stand living without the other. (134)
Dawson Benoit
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Rodrigue
20 November 2013
"Ah, dear Juliet, Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous?" (5, 3, 102-103)
This quote tells the readers something in the story. It tells them that Romeo wants to be with Juliet really bad and he is saying where are you Juliet. He is also stating that unsubstantial death is near, so he is planning thart he/they wouold die soon without seeing eachother. This is a perfect example of dramatic irony mostly because he is making it sound so dramatic to the reader of the play that death is near and he wants to be with her and see her so badly, but the ironic part is that death is actually upon them and they do end up dying with eachother in the end of the play. So, you can think of it as being that, since they really did die.
"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins / That almost freezes up the heat of life." (4, 3, 15-16)
Shakespeare gives us an array of literary devices with Juliet's utterance. We get alliteration and foreshadowing. Juliet knows this will not end well. She knows this because as in the quote, it is saying hoe it is almost freezing up the heat of her life. Meaning that her life will not be to good later on. It is saying that her life will really take a downfall than it already was. Since she has a faint of cold fear, she has to be frearing something in the future or near future, so that would indicate where foreshadowing would take place. So, since she dont like the fewling she is having right now, she thinks her life would be somewhat over to the thing that she is fearing at that moment in the play.
"I dreamt my lady came and found me dead..." (5,1,6)
This quote is actually pretty easy to understand and explain. This is because it actually says what it means in the quote. He wants his lady to come back to him and find him dead. I think that it is pretty weird to say because I dont know why you would want your lady to come and find you dead, thats just very weird. But, the person who is saying this is Romeo in scene 1 of act 5. This is mostly at the begining of this scene and is kind of one of the important quotes in this scene because it shows you what kind of person he is.
Good job, bro! Keep up the good work.
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Rodrigue
20 November, 2013
Act 4, Scene 1, Line 75
Shakespearean: A thing like death to chide away this shame.
Modern English: You can wrestle with death to escape from shame.
Analysis:
This quote is spoken by Friar Lawrence to Juliet. The quote is an example of figurative language because he doesn’t mean she can literally wrestle with death. He is trying to figure out a way to prevent her from killing herself since she is being forced to marry Paris. He wants to know how far she will go to prevent the marriage from happening. She convinced herself that she would die for the marriage not to happen or die trying to stop it. By saying this, he means that she can fight off death so she doesn’t have to die. He thinks, if she tries hard enough, she won’t have to die, and they will be able to come up with a plan to allow her and Romeo to be together. The friar then tells her about his plan of drinking the potion and going into the comma to fake death. This results in both of them dying.
Act 4, Scene 3, Lines 11-12
Shakespearean: For, I am sure, you have your hands full all In this so sudden business.
Modern English: I’m sure you have your hands full preparing for the sudden festivities.
Analysis:
This quote is spoken by Juliet to Lady Capulet. It is figurative language because Juliet doesn’t literally mean that Lady Capulet’s hands are full. Juliet tells her this when she is trying to get Lady Capulet to leave. She means that she’s really busy with the things to prepare for the wedding. The second part is that the wedding popped out of nowhere, and that makes it more chaotic. This quote is also said when Juliet wanted to get everyone out of her room for the night. They needed to leave her alone so she could drink the stuff from Friar Lawrence. The potion was to put her into a 48 hour coma. This would allow her not to be forced to marry Paris. She could fake death and be rescued by Romeo; then, they were going to live happily ever after in another town. The plan was ruined when Romeo didn’t get the news of the plan and thought she was actually dead.
Act 5, Scene 1, Line 24
Shakespearean: Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!
Modern English: Is it really true? Then I rebel against you, stars!
Analysis: This quote is spoken by Romeo. It is after Balthasar tells him that Juliet is “dead.” This is a figure of speech because Romeo isn’t actually talking about the stars. He’s talking about fate and the universe itself. He’s upset because he thinks his true love really died. Romeo now thinks that fate is against him, and he doesn’t understand why. This part is also very ironic because Juliet isn’t actually dead. It’s just that Romeo never got the letter explaining the plan. After hearing the news about Juliet from Balthasar, Romeo goes to Juliet’s grave. He runs into Paris; the two of them fight, and Romeo killed him outside of the tomb. He then proceeds inside to see Juliet and Tybalt. He apologizes to Tybalt then kills himself. A few minutes later, Friar Lawrence comes, and Juliet wakes up. When she asks for Romeo, she’s devastated that he died for her. She takes his knife and stabs herself with it. This leads to their story being told to the kingdom and a very mad prince. Because of their deaths, their two families made peace with each other.
Very good job explaining the quotes! Keep up the good work!
DeleteNice! You used a lot of detail that helped me understand the quotes much better.
DeleteJayde Adams
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Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Quote 1: “Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest of all the field.”
(4.5.28-29)
Analysis: This quote is said by Capulet when he sees Juliet’s cold, stiff body lying in her bed. Capulet uses figurative language to describe how shocked he was to see Juliet’s cold, dead body. He compares her to the sweetest, most beautiful flower in a field. This flower he describes is killed by an untimely frost which means that Juliet’s death was unexpected and shocking. No one could or wanted to believe the news of Juliet’s death. All but Friar Lawrence were shocked because he knew that she was not truly dead. She had just taken something that made her seem like she was dead, but she really wasn’t. This quote shows how truly shocked everyone was because they thought Juliet was dead. Major consequences came from her pretending she was dead.
Quote 2: “Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir.
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death's.”
(4.5.38-40)
Analysis: This quote is said by Capulet when he speaks to Friar Lawrence about Juliet dying. He says that everything is death. He uses the figurative language of metaphor to describe how bad his plans are turning out to be. He says that Juliet was married to death since she died. Capulet also says that everything that he will leave behind when he dies will go to death. He does not know what to do. His pride and joy has died on her wedding day. He is in major shock his daughter has just dies so suddenly and untimely. This quote shows how majorly upset Capulet is and how shocked he is to see Juliet lying on her death bed.
Quote 3: "Where be these enemies?—Capulet! Montague!
See what a scourge is laid upon your hate,
That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love!
And I, for winking at your discords too,
Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
(5.3.291-295)
Analysis: This quote is said by Prince when he hears about the lovers, Romeo and Juliet, committing suicide because they couldn’t be together. He blames their deaths on the families’ feud. He yells at them because of the damage they have done with their fighting. He says that the heavens have found a way to kill their joys in life with love. He basically asks him if they realize how stupid their fighting is and how inappropriate they are behaving. He thinks there is no reason for them to continue. Prince tells them that both families will be punished. The figurative language in this quote is foreshadowing. It tells that the families will be punished later on even though they already have had a major punishment.
Good job! You explained your quotes very well.
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W. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
"Come, vial. What if this mixture do not work at all?" (4.3.20-21)
This passage/quote is said by Juliet to herself when she is about to drink the sleeping potion that Friar Lawrence gave to her. In this quote Juliet is addressing the vial is the container the sleeping potion is being held in. The reason Juliet is taking the sleeping potion is because she does not want to marry Paris, most likely because she is already secretly married to Romeo. If she were to marry Paris she would be committing adultery. Juliet feels that her parents are pushing her to marry him, and the only way to make them stop is to pretend to be dead.The figurative language being used in this quote is an apostrophe. The main reason I think this is an apostrophe is because Juliet is referring to the vial as if it were an animate object.
"A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear As will disperse itself through all the veins That the life-weary taker may fall dead" (5.1.61-64)
This passage/quote is said by Romeo when he is asking Apothecary for the poison that he will use to commit suicide. He is asking for something that will act fast, because he does not want to live without Juliet, but little does he know, she is still alive. The figurative language used here would be a symbol, and the symbol would be the poison. This is because it ended both Romeo's and Juliet's lives. The poison would be a symbol for the hatred between the Montagues and the Capulets. The symbol creates a chain reaction throughout the end of the story, everything leads to one another. It starts off with Juliet drinking the potion, which causes everyone to believe that she is dead. Next, Romeo is unaware that Juliet is still alive, so he poisons himself because he does not want to live without her. This poison causes Romeo's death, but Juliet is now awakening from the sleeping potion. She sees Romeo dead and now she doesn't want to live without him. She notices his sword, and stabs herself in the chest. This is just one example of how the poison is a symbol in the story.
"Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty" (5.3.92-93)
This passage/quote is said by Romeo. He is talking about how the effects of death has not started on Juliet yet. He was in her tomb to commit suicide because he could not stand to live without her. The figurative language of this would be irony. This is because only the reader, Friar Lawrence, and Juliet herself knows that Juliet is not really dead. She is just under a sleeping potion because she does not want to marry Paris and commit adultery. Going under the sleeping potion is just her way of rebelling against her parents, not marring Paris, and staying with Romeo. However things do not turn out as planned and Romeo and Juliet both end up in death.
Lauren Rink
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Mr. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
"Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded."(4.5.38-39)
This quote is spoken by Capulet when he sees Juliet dead. The most joyous of all the times there are in the family has become one of the more dreary ones. Juliet was found supposedly dead on her wedding day, and now her father is upset that once he dies, all his fortune and his reputation will die along with him because now everything he has is left to death as his only child is now dead. He says everything is now for death, there is nobody else to leave anything to, the Capulet house will sink along with him once he is a dead man. His daughter JUliet was unfortunate and married death. Death was her husband and there was no signs of it ever happening that fast. The whole family was left in shock as they had only buried Tybalt a few days before, and now the Capulet tomb will be opened once again to bury yet another member of the capulet family.
"Poor living corse, closed in a dead man's tomb!" (5.2.29)
This quote spoken by Friar Lawrence is in reference to his attempt to save Romeo and Juliet's love. He had given Juliet a potion to make her seem dead, and she was now locked away in the Capulet tomb even though she was still alive, No one except Juliet and Friar Lawrence knew of the plan. And now that Romeo was never given the news, one could only fear what could hapen. Friar Lawrence is now only worried about getting Juliet out of the tomb safely and without being caught. She is still very much alive, but she fooled aroud with love and death and will eventually have to pay the price. Friar Lawrence's plan ultimately fails in the end because of the fact that Romeo made it to the tomb before him. He could not stop Romeo from drinking the poison or stop Juliet from killing herself when she sees Romeo's dead body.
"The time and my intents are savage, wild,
More fierce and more inexorable by far
Than empty tigers or the roaring sea." (5.3.37-39)
This quote was spoken by Romeo just as he was about to break into the Capulet tomb. He is speaking of the plan he has made to kill himself and how savage it is of him. He is saying how he must do something inside the tomb that Balthasar cannot be there to witness. Romeo knows how dishonorable of him it is to break into the tomb, but he proceeds to do it anyway. He breaks in and goes straight over to Juliet, after his encounter with Paris just outside which ended with Paris dead. Romeo is already on the Capulet family's bad side since he is a Montague and because of the fact that he killed Tybalt, and now he may have put his family in even more trouble by breaking into their tomb. Romeo takes one last look at his lovely wife before he takes his vial of poison to kill himself so he can be with her. This would have been much less foolish if he would have gone to see Friar Lawrence first, then Romeo could have gotten the message and have kept Juliet and himself alive. Since Romeo had not known of the plan, he ended up killing himself just as Juliet awoke.
Saul Barrilleaux
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W. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Quote: Oh, look! I think I see my cousin Tybalt's ghost. He's looking for Romeo because Romeo killed him with his sword. Wait, Tybalt, wait! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! here's a drink. I drink to you. (Act 4, Scene 3, Page 229)
Analysis: The figurative language that is shown in this quote is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown in this quote is "Oh, look." This quote is taking place when Juliet is about to take a potion that will temporarily kill her. She does this because she does not want to marry Paris in the morning. Her parents are always trying to convince her to marry Paris but her true love is Romeo. In my opinion, her parents are the reason she is temporarily killing herself because if they would just let her marry who she wants to marry, she wouldn't be going through this. Also if they would let her marry who she wants to marry, it would save the lives of Romeo and Juliet at the end of the book.
Quote: "Tsk, you're wrong. Leave me and do what I told you to do." (Act 5, Scene 1, Page 251)
Analysis: In the quote above, the figurative language that is shown is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown is at the beginning when Romeo says, "Tsk." This quote is taking place when Romeo first finds out that Juliet is dead. When he first heard the news, he did not believe it. Right after it settles in that she is dead, he sets of to go to her tomb. When he gets there he goes straight up to her in the tomb. Romeo says he can not live without Juliet, so since she is dead, he will kill himself. What he doesn't know is that she really isn't dead. She is just temporarily dead. So right as Juliet is waking up, Romeo drinks the potion. At this point it is to late to save Romeo.
Quote: " I must wake you up. Lady! Lady! Lady! Oh no, oh no! Help, help! My lady's dead! (Act 4, Scene 5, Page 235)
Analysis: In the above quote, the figurative language that is used is onomatopoeia. The onomatopoeia that is shown in the quote is "Oh no, oh no!" When this quote is taking place, the nurse just finds Juliet laying "dead" in her bed. The nurse thinks Juliet is dead but she really isn't. She is just temporarily dead from the potion Friar Lawrence gave her. At this point, everyone is just in shock. They just can't believe that instead of celebrating Juliet's wedding that day, they will be celebrating her funeral.
Good Job! I liked the quote that you chose.
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W. Rodrigue
20 November 2013
Quote: "Ha? Let me see her. Out, alas! She's cold.
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff.
Life and these lips have long been separated.
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."- Capulet (4.5.25-29)
Analysis:This quote from "Romeo and Juliet" shows how shocked Juliet's parents were when they found her dead. Even though Capulet told Juliet to either marry Paris or leave, and she threatened to commit suicide before she would marry Paris, her parents did not think she was serious. The third line of this quote is a simile. that Juliet's death is like an untimely frost, meaning that her death brought on a sudden coldness that nobody was prepared for. The last line of the quote from "Romeo and Juliet:" is a metaphor. Juliet's father, Capulet, is comparing his daughter, who he now thinks is dead, to the most beautiful flower of all. In this short quote form the story Capulet, Juliet's father, describes what Juliet's 'dead body' looks like, from the stiff limbs to the cold lips that have been dead for a while. Capulet was very upset that his dear daughter died.
Quote: "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death,
Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth,
Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,
And in despite I'll cram thee with more food!
(begins to open tomb with his tools)"- Romeo (5.3.45-48)
Analysis: In this quote from the story "Romeo and Juliet" uses a lot of symbolism to describe the tomb and the bodies inside it. When Romeo talks about 'cram thee with more food' he really means that he will put more dead bodies in the tomb that swallowed up his beloved Juliet. He is upset because he blames the tomb for keeping the most beautiful thing on earth, his beloved Juliet, hidden and locked up with other dead people He compares the tomb wear Juliet lies dead, too a terrible place that consumes her beauty and takes it away from the world. He says this in the moments before he goes in the tomb himself, so that he could die and be forever with his beloved Juliet. By going in a place where the dead are stored, Romeo shows how much he is dedicated and faithful to his wife, Juliet.
Quote: "Yea, noise? Then I'll be brief . O happy dagger,
This is my sheath. There rust and let me die.
(stabs herself with Romeo's dagger and dies)" - Juliet (5.3.169-170)
Analysis: This is one of the most important part in the whole play because it is the moment when Juliet does her finial act of love for her beloved Romeo. Because she could no longer be with him in this world, she took his dagger from Romeo's dead body and plunged it into her heart so she could be with her one true love in the after life. 58 Juliet is rushing to commit suicide because she hears people coming to investigate what is going on and she is supposed to be dead. If she was sitting alive in the tomb not only would they stop her from killing herself but they would not forgive her for playing that horrid trick on them.112 The last line is an example of an oxymoron because she is talking to the dagger, an inanimate object. She thinks the dagger is happy because it does not have to fell the pain of love.