Act 2 Scene 3 by Miss Holmes https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty Jennah, Bella and Jess B en-us 2017-03-08 11:13:26 UTC 2017-03-13 11:24:45 UTC hello@padlet.com Click the cross in the bottom corner to post. e_holmes https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/158614047
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]]> 2017-03-08 11:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/158614047 Act 2, Scene 3 (first page) https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/158801016 Friar Lawrence reflects on how flowers and herbs are similar to people's in that they have both poison and healing - such a people's have good and bad.

The key character in this scene is Friar Lawrence, who seems a philosophical man - " in man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;" Romeo enters but does not speak on the first page. Friar Lawrence is obviously someone who works with plants for he talks of them, " with baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers." He talks of their uses with healing and destruction, " poison hath residence, and medicine power:"


This could reapresent Shakespeare showing love and hate as reucurrimg topics throughout the play. The use of nature could be a reference to the idea of love being natural and thus something that merely happens rather than Is man-made or created. By comparing the nature of man to that of plants it creates an idea of man being no more than nature.

]]> 2017-03-08 20:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/158801016 In the second page of Act 2 Scene 3 Romeo speaks with Friar Lawrence (the priest). To begin with, the priest vocalises his concern of Romeo spending the night with Rosaline but the conversation moves quickly on from Rosaline to Juliet as Romeo tells the priest of their love and asks him to marry them. Shakespeare represents Friar Lawrence as the key character in this scene as he shows a close relationship between him and Romeo. In line 47 the priest refers to Romeo as his ‘good son’. This use of possession could represent the fact that the priest was almost like a father to Romeo, as well as a father in religious term, as he cares for him and shows his concern for Romeo in a way that Lord Montague would be unable to. Had Romeo told Lord Montague of his love with Juliet, a Capulet, he would have been livid and narrow minded about her being someone from the opposite house. It represents him as a key character as he is Romeo’s confident in the way that the nurse was for Juliet. Through his conversation with Romeo we see Romeo’s feelings exposed as he would confide his thoughts and heed advice from the priest further into the play. This could represent Shakespeare’s views on family. It could suggest that Shakespeare believed that family could be chosen and that the fact that Romeo was Lord Montagues son and family was irrelevant as he would’ve been the one who stopped him from being with Juliet. Whereas the priest would give unbiased advice to Romeo in a way that would allow him to love Juliet. https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/159503106 2017-03-12 15:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/159503106 Act 2 Scene 3 (last page) https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/159613936 In the third page of act 2 scene 3, Friar Lawrence is agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet because he believes that marrying the couple will end the feud and rivalry between the two families.
Due to this, Friar Lawrence is perceived as a peaceful person who doesn't agree with all the fighting that goes on. 


In this page, Friar Lawrence is making Romeo aware of his past, reminding him that he was in fact deeply in love with another girl called Rosaline. This portrays Romeo as a forgetful person, keen to disown his past- making the reader think that if he forgot about Rosaline so easily, someone that he claimed to love so much, he could easily fall out of love with Juliet. At this point, the reader is uncertain about Romeo's motives. 

Friar Lawrence seems like a caring, genuine person because he cares about love and that Romeo won't leave Juliet easily.]]> 2017-03-13 10:29:20 UTC https://padlet.com/e_holmes/f9s1eei6ggty/wish/159613936