Reading notes Act 4and5

Act 4 Scene 1

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“ You say you do not know the lady’s mind?
Uneven is the course, I like it not.”
(she gave no consent and hasn't made the decision therefore he does not like the idea.)

PARIS
“Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt’s death,
And therefore have I little talk’d of love,
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,
(saying her father rushed their marriage because he is afraid she is crying too much for Tybalt's death and wishes for her to be most happy.)

“JULIET
O, shut the door, and when thou hast done so,
Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help”
( shut the door and let me cry for there is nothing I can do now and I have nobody to help me)

FRIAR LAWANCE
“Go home, be merry, give consent
To marry Paris. We’n’sday is tomorrow;
Tomorrow night look that thou lie alone,
Let not the nurse lie with thee in thy chamber.
Take thou this vial, being then in bed,
And this distilling 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 wanny ashes, thy eyes’ windows fall,”
(go home act happy and give consent to marry Paris. Let nobody in your room Wednesday evening and drink this liquid. It will put you In a deep sleep buy make it seem like ur dead. No pulse veins cold no breath and all color will fade from your body)

JULIET
“Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear”
(wants the liquid very bad)


Act 4 Scene 2

CAPULET
“Well, he may chance to do some good on her.
A peevish self-will’d harlotry it is.”
( talking about friar Lawrence.)

Act 4 scene 3

LADY CAPULET
“What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help?”


JULIET
“No, madam, we have cull’d such necessaries
As are behoofeful for our state tomorrow.
So please you, let me now be left alone,
And let the nurse this night sit up with you,
For I am sure you have your hands full all,
In this so sudden business.”


LADY CAPULET
                        “Good night.
Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need.”
(you can see the rocky relationship between mother and daughter here.)


JULIET
“What if it be a poison which the friar
Subtly hath minist’red to have me dead,
Lest in this marriage he should be dishonor’d
Because he married me before to Romeo?
I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not,
For he hath still been tried a holy man.
How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point!
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?”
(having second thoughts. Does not know if Friar is trying to kill her for what he has done or if he is actually trying to help her)


“LADY CAPULET
O me, O me, my child, my only life!
Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!
Help, help! Call help. ”
(nurse originally tried to wake Juliet. You can see here how her mother is very upset. Juliet washer only daughter and she chose to ignore Juliet.)

NURSE
“O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day, most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day, O woeful day!”
(you can see here that the Nurse is saying more than Juliet's own mother)

Act 5 Scene 1
ROMEO
“Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!”
(Romeo thinks Juliet is dead and now is going to kill himself so he can be with her)


ROMEO
“Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favor can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe
That unsubstantial Death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee,
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! And, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavory guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here’s to my love”
(Romeo killed Tybalt, Paris… And with one last kiss, he drinks the poison and dies)

FRIAR LAWRENCE
“Romeo, O, pale! Who else? What, Paris too?
And steep’d in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour
Is guilty of this lamentable chance!
The lady stirs.”


JULIET
“O comfortable friar! Where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?”
( Friar sees that Romeo drank poison and Juliet rises and sees what has happened and takes Romeo's dagger and stabs herself and lies dead next to him)

“CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more
Can I demand.

MONTAGUE
                But I can give thee more,
For I will raise her statue in pure gold,
That whiles Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.

CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie,
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!

PRINCE
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.
 (after everything they decide that there will be no more fighting and no more feud. It took both their people to die just for them to come together.)