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| Act 4 Scene 4
| The Nurse and the Capulets: The Nurse finds Juliet’s lifeless body and is truly devastated over the loss. Lady Capulet then enters who is understandably distraught over the apparent loss of her daughter. The capulets arrange for Juliet’s funeral in their family tomb as soon as possible.

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| Act 4 Scene 3
| Juliet, Lady Capulet and the Nurse: Juliet plans to take the potion the night before the wedding. She convinces her mother and the Nurse to let her sleep alone that night. She has a knife by her bedside incase the potion should fail, however when she drinks the potion she falls motionless to her bed.

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| Act 4 Scene 2
| Juliet and Lord Capulet: Now that Juliet is happy to soon be reunited with Romeo, she apologises to her father for being disobedient and as a result the wedding is then made for the following day. Lord Capulet is very pleased with Juliet and pardons her for her behaviour and tells Paris of her change in heart.

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| Act 4 Scene 1
| Friar Lawrence and Paris: Paris talks of the doubts he has about his and Juliet’s upcoming wedding as he knows there will be difficulties occurring.
| Juliet and Paris: Juliet finds Paris in the Chapel when she was trying to find Romeo. Paris is arrogant towards her now that their wedding is final but she declines him through her vague and frustrating answers. She then asks to speak with Friar Lawrence alone.
| Juliet and Friar Lawrence: Friar Lawrence introduces his plan for Juliet to drink a special potion that will give the illusion that she is dead for 48 hours - she will show no signs of life. The capulets will place her body in the family tomb where she will wait. Romeo will have been sent a letter by Friar Lawrence explaining the plan so that Romeo will collect Juliet from the tomb and take her away from Verona.

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Act 4 in full with modern day equivalent: http://nfs.sparknotes.com/romeojuliet/page_208.html

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Ed
More quotes Act 4:

Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! Here's drink: I drink to thee.
(Juliet, Act 4 Scene 3)

On Thursday, sir? The time is very short.
(Friar Laurence, Act 4 Scene 1)

To paly ashes, thy eyes' windows fall

Like death when he shuts up the day of life.
( Friar Laurence, Act 4 scene 1)

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Act 4 scene 1 Key quote 1 explained:
Shakespeare really portrays Juliet's desperation within this extract. Juliet is suggesting that she would rather take her own life than spend the rest of it with Paris. As Elizabethans were strongly religious,it is shocking to the audience that a girl of just 13 is willing to commit a sin in the eyes of god in order to prevent the marriage.

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Act 4 scene 5 quote explained:
This quote is taken from when nurse attempts to wake up Juliet on the morning before she is due to marry Paris. The repetition of cursing throughout outlines the mother like figure that the Nurse was towards Juliet and therefore the pain due to loss felt.

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Romeo's absence from this act shows that since the majority of the play has been about Romeo, it shows we need to pay extra attention for detail in this act, as it is aimed on Juliet

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Act 4 scene 1 key quote 2 explained:
Juliet is attempting to justify her suicide. She believes that her death will re-unite her with her dead husband and that they are bound to be together by gods wish. Her naivety is clearly shown here as a strong religious believer, she overlooks the fact that suicide is a big no in Christian culture. This could also offer an insight to the true love felt between the two characters as Juliet feels she cannot live without Romeo.

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Act 4 scene 1 key quote 2:
JULIET
"God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands;
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo sealed,
Shall be the label to another deed,"
Or my true heart with treacherous revolt
Turn to another, this shall slay them both.

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Act 4, Scene 5

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Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. Young Romeo Montague goes out with his friends to make trouble at a party the Capulets are hosting, but while there he spies the Capulet's daughter Juliet, and falls hopelessly in love with her.

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Act 4 scene 5 key quote:
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!" Act 4, Scene 5, lines 49-54

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Act 4 scene 1 key quote 1:
JULIET "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." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 84-88

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Juliet drinks the concoction in hope that Paris and the rest of the Capulets will believe she has passed, but instead her intentions are to wake up with Romeo holding her, and for them both to run away together to marry.

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The climax of the play in my opinion starts when Friar Lawrence's messenger fails to deliver the message to Romeo about Juliet's current condition. Everything still could have gone well at that point, but this is when the tragedy is fully set in place.

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Supposedly 'dead' Juliet, whereas she is actually in a state of unconsciousness caused by Friar Lawrence's concoction

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By: Sophia Choles and Athena Levesque

In Act 4, Scene 3 Juliet has a soliloquy. A soliloquy is the act of talking while or as if the character is alone. In Juliet's soliloquy, she is questioning taking the potion, that will allow her to be seen as dead. Near the end of her internal debate she thinks she sees the ghost of her slain cousin, Tybalt. He is seeking revenge on Romeo. This results in Juliet drinking the potion with no hesitation because of her love for Romeo.

Goodbye. Only god knows when we'll meet again. There is a cold fear overcoming through me. It almost freezes up the heat of life. I'll call them back here to comfort me. Nurse! What good would she do here? In my situation I must act alone. Here is the vial. What if the mixture doesn't work? Will I be married tomorrow morning? No, this knife will stop it. Lie down right there. What if the Friar mixed the potion to kill me? Is he worried that he will be looked down upon if I marry Paris, since he has already married me to Romeo? I'm afraid it is poison, however, It shouldn't be poison because he is a holy and trustworthy man. What if I wake up before Romeo comes to save me and I am left to suffocate and die in the tomb. That is a frightening thought. There is no healthy air in the tomb and if I live i will be surrounded by death and darkness. It will be terrible. My ancestors' bones will lie in the tomb with me. Tybalt's body will be rotting in the tomb. They say that during the night the spirits are in the tombs. When I wake up I will smell awful things. I will hear screams that would drive anyone crazy. I will probably go insane if I wake up too early due to all these horrible and frightening things that I will be surrounded by. Will I start playing with my ancestors' bones and take Tybalt out of his grave? Will I bash in my head with my ancestors' bones? Oh, look! I think I see Tybalt's ghost looking for his killer, Romeo. Wait, Tybalt, wait! Romeo, Romeo, Romeo! I drink to you!

In conclusion, Juliet decides to put her worries and fears aside and drink the potion. She knows that there are risks, but she would rather undergo them then to be married to Paris, rather than her true love Romeo.

S hakespeare, William. Romeo & Juliet. New York: Simon &Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. Print.

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By: Sophia Choles and Athena Levesque In Act 4, Scene 3 Juliet has a soliloquy. A soliloquy is the act of talking while or as if the character is alone. In Juliet's soliloquy, she is questioning taking the potion, that will allow her to be seen as dead.

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Friar Lawrence's Concoction

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englishwithrobey [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Romeo and Juliet

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A monologue of the scene where Juliet drinks the poison.

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Romeo and Juliet • Act 4 Scene 3 • Juliet's Poison Monologue

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Here's a peek at Juliet's monologue before taking Friar Lawrence's 'poison' in Shakespeare at Play's production of Romeo & Juliet. Shakespeare at Play's iOS app combines full-length video productions of Shakespeare's alongside the text, so that users can watch Shakespeare while they read. For more information visit: www.shakespeareatplay.ca

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In scene 3 of the act. Juliet believes that the Friar has given her poison so to cover his tracks for marrying the children of a feuding family. She decides to keep a dagger, yet more foreshadowing , by the side of the bed so that she could kill herself if the potion doesn't work

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Lady Capulet and Nurse are distraught over Juliet's 'death'

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Analysis: Act 4, scenes 1–2

Friar Lawrence is the wiliest and most scheming character in Romeo and Juliet: he secretly marries the two lovers, spirits Romeo to Mantua, and stages Juliet’s death. The friar’s machinations seem also to be tools of fate. Yet despite the role Friar Lawrence plays in bringing about the lovers’ deaths, Shakespeare never presents him in a negative, or even ambiguous, light. He is always treated as a benign, wise presence. The tragic failure of his plans is treated as a disastrous accident for which Friar Lawrence bears no responsibility.

In contrast, it is a challenge to situate Paris along the play’s moral continuum. He is not exactly an adversary to Romeo and Juliet, since he never acts consciously to harm them or go against their wishes. Like almost everyone else, he knows nothing of their relationship. Paris’s feelings for Juliet are also a subject of some ambiguity, since the audience is never allowed access to his thoughts. Later textual evidence does indicate that Paris harbors a legitimate love for Juliet, and though he arrogantly assumes Juliet will want to marry him, Paris never treats her unkindly. Nevertheless, because she does not love him, he represents a real and frightening potentiality for Juliet.

( Taken from Sparknotes)

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Summary: Act 4, scene 2

Juliet returns home, where she finds Capulet and Lady Capulet preparing for the wedding. She surprises her parents by repenting her disobedience and cheerfully agreeing to marry Paris. Capulet is so pleased that he insists on moving the marriage up a day, to Wednesday—tomorrow. Juliet heads to her chambers to, ostensibly, prepare for her wedding. Capulet heads off to tell Paris the news.

(Taken from Sparknotes)

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Throughout the act, Juliet appears suicidal. In scene one of the act, she says '(shows him a knife)

God joined my heart and Romeo’s, thou our hands.

And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo sealed'. This quote foreshadows the ending of the play as Juliet already appears to be ready to kill herself for Romeo with a knife. Her suicidal nature could be due to her being 'blinded' by love or because of her family issues such as Capulet forcing her to marry Paris and the death of her siblings.

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In act 4 scene 3, Juliet is grieving about her cousin, Tybalt, who has just been killed by Romeo. She fears that his ghost will visit Romeo whilst she sleeps as she intends to marry the person who killed him. At this point, she drinks the vial of the Friar's potion in the hope that the plan will succeed.

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Juliet drinks the Friar's concoction.

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Some people interpret the Friar's plan as being the point where Romeo and Juliet's deaths are certain as it may be viewed as an extremely foolish plan. However the Friar is only trying to help the pair of lovers

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Romeo and Juliet - Act 4, Scene 3 Summary

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See and hear how Juliet pretends to prepare for her wedding to Paris while at the same time she really prepares to drink the potion that will make her sleep look like death.

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In their mourning for Juliet, the Capulets appear less as a hostile force arrayed against the lovers and more as individuals. The audience gains an understanding of the immense hopes that the Capulets had placed in Juliet, as well as a sense of their love for her. Similarly, Paris’s love for Juliet seems wholly legitimate. His wailing cannot simply be taken as grief over the loss of a wife who might have brought him fortune. It seems more personal than that, more like grief over the loss of a loved one

(Taken from Sparknotes)

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In act 4 scene 3, there is clear foreshadowing as Juliet drinks a potion to simulate death which links to act 5 when Romeo drinks the poison. It also links to the fact that in act 5, Juliet will kill herself so this is yet more foreshadowing towards the tragic ending of the play.

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In Act 4 scene 1, the Friar devises a plan for Juliet to drink a concoction that will simulate death. Her grieving family will take her to the Capulet vault and Romeo will be sent a letter to inform him to meet her there. However in hindsight, the Friar's plan seems ridiculous and destined to go wrong

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In act 4 scene 3, Juliet uses dramatic irony from lines 1-12 to trick her mother and nurse into leaving her alone for the night. This allows for her to carry out her plan to fake her own death using Friar Lawrence's potion.

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Aaron Viles, Ed Baker, Jess Chamberlain, Arlo Freeth and Sophie Falla