8. What happens in Act V Scene 3?

Romeo and Paris fight outside of the Capulet tomb

The families, full of grief, reconcile their differences

9. Translate this into modern English: "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." (Juliet, 4.1)

All these things that would have once made me shudder just to hear about. I would do it all without any fear or doubt to live as a virtuous wife to my sweet love.

Therefore, based on the experiences of your long life, give me some advice.

If, in all your wisdom you can’t help me, then you must acknowledge the wisdom of my resolving my problems with this knife. God joined my heart and Romeo’s, and you joined our hands.

When I hear these things I go cold, but with fear and doubt, I will live a clean wife to my love.

10. Translate this into modern English: "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" (Juliet 4.3)

But my gentle nurse, please, leave me by myself tonight. I have many prayers to make in order to get heaven to smile on my coming marriage

If it’s okay with you, I’d prefer to be left alone tonight and let the nurse stay with you, for I’m sure you’ve got your hands full with this business and could use some extra help

Farewell! God knows when we’ll meet again. I feel a thrill of fear in my veins that almost seems like it could freeze up my life’s warmth

Maybe I’ll call them back to comfort me. Oh but why should the nurse be here? I must go through this grim process alone. Potion, let’s do this. But what if this mixture doesn’t work at all?

11. Translate this into modern English: "Most detestable Death, by thee beguiled; By cruel, cruel thee quite overthrown!" (Paris 4.5)

Death, you detestable cruel thing, I’ve been tricked by you, almost completely defeated!

The night before your wedding day Death has slept in your wife’s bed. There she lies, a beautiful flower deflowered by death.

This most terrible death has been tricked, and now the cruelness is done!

I’ve been spited, distressed, nearly martyred and killed by this death!

12. Translate this into modern English: "Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars! Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper, And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight." (Romeo 5.1)

Is it really true, she’s dead? Then I defy you, Fate! You know where I’m staying. Get me some pen and paper, and hire some fast horses. I’m leaving here tonight.

I dreamed that I was dead — isn’t it strange how in dreams you can think when you’re dead? I dreamed I was dead, and then Juliet found me and kissed me, bringing me back to life.

Is it even like that? Then I hate the stars! They know where I live. Get me pens and paper, and hire a postage stamp. I will hance tonight.

Well, she is well in the sense that no more misfortune can touch her. Her body lies in the Capulet family mausoleum, and her soul is with the angels above.

13. Translate this into modern English: "Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty." (Romeo 5.3)

Death, which has taken away your sweet breath, has not yet taken away your beauty.

Are you lying there in your bloody shroud? Oh what more can I do for you than to kill myself?

Ah dear Juliet, why are you still so beautiful? Is invisible death in love with you?

Here, right here, I’ll remain with the worms that are your chambermaids now.

14. Translate this into modern English: "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" (Prince 5.3)

Where are those enemies? Lord Capulet! Lord Montague! Look what a terrible punishment has come from your shared hate, that Heaven found a way to kill your children with love.

Where are those enemies? Lord Capulet! Lord Montague! Come, see what your hatred has caused, killing both your joy with the bonds of hatred.

Where are those enemies? Lord Capulet! Lord Montague! See what darkness is descended from the hatred that heaven gave you to kill your happiness.

Where are those enemies? Lord Capulet! Lord Montague! See this sourness that has happened because of you, because Heaven thought you shouldn't be happy.

15. "Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth" What does this line from Romeo mean?

Romeo is talking to the Capulet tomb, which, like a hungry mouth, has consumed Juliet.

Paris' body, which Romeo hates because he drove Juliet to her death

Romeo's talking to the site of Juliet's death.

It's figurative language for the feud between the two families, which have taken Juliet, the "dearest morsel of the earth"

17. Dramatic irony is...

When the audience knows something but the characters don't

Saying the opposite of what you mean

Doing the opposite of what is expected

18. Situational irony is...

Doing the opposite of what is expected

When the audience knows something but the characters don't

Saying the opposite of what you mean

19. Which of these is an example of situational irony in Romeo and Juliet?

Instead of Romeo and Juliet's love bringing joy to their families, it brought tragedy to them

Romeo goes to the Capulet ball to see Rosaline, but instead meets and falls in love with Juliet

Instead of Paris seeing his happy bride on their wedding day, Juliet has died

20. What does "thee" and "thou" mean, as exemplified in this line? "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate"

"Thee" and "thou" are ways of saying "you"

"Thee" and "thou" are Shakespeare's invented way of saying "he" and "him"

"Thee" and "thou" are ways of saying "they"

"Thee" and "thou" are different ways of saying "though" or "although"

21. How is the theme of impulsivity seen in Act IV?

Juliet says she will kill herself before marrying Paris without considering other solutions

Romeo decides to return to Verona without knowing what he is going to do when he gets there

Juliet tells her parents that she married Romeo so that she doesn't have to marry Paris

Mercutio fighting and killing Paris in front of the Capulet family tomb

22. How does this line show the theme of Fate vs. Free Will? "O, here [the Capulet tomb] Will I set up my everlasting rest / And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars" (Romeo 5.3).

Romeo plans to kill himself in the Capulet tomb and be rid of the bad luck Fate has given him.

Romeo believes that kissing Juliet will end their bad luck from Fate.

Romeo believes that killing himself will force Fate to bring Juliet back to life, like in his dream.

Romeo plans to force Fate's hand by killing himself, and he believes Fate will stop him.

23. When Paris flirts with Juliet at the church in Act IV Scene 1, how does she respond?

She evades his attempts to flirt

She tells him that she is already married

She asks Friar John to send Paris away

24. In Act IV Scene 1, what does Juliet say she'll do if the Friar can't get her out of marrying Paris?

Give me some present counsel; or behold, 'Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife Shall play the umpire

And he and I Will watch thy waking, and that very night Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.

Give me, give me! O, tell not me of fear!

And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

27. What is Romeo's plan now that he believes Juliet is dead?

He will return to Verona and let the Prince kill him

He will find Lord and Lady Capulet and tell them the truth

28. What does Romeo do when he sees Juliet in the tomb?

Kisses her, drinks the poison, and dies

Kisses her and talks to the ghost of Tybalt

Kisses her, promises to meet her in Heaven, and stabs himself with his dagger

Comments on how pretty she still is, and kills himself with his dagger

30. How does Juliet die?

She stabs herself with Romeo's dagger

She drinks the rest of the poison

She lets the tomb door crush her

She uses the poison from Romeo's lips

31. What do Capulet and Montague do after learning of their children's deaths?

They reconcile (the feud is over)

They promise to pay all their fines and try to get along

They weep and try to kill themselves, too

32. What eternal icons do the parents vow to complete for the star-crossed lovers?

They will create statues in their honor

They will bury them in the same grave

They will name their future children after Romeo and Juliet

They will write the story of their children and share it for generations

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1. What happens in Act IV Scene 1?

Juliet meets Romeo in the dead of night to run away

Friar Laurence comes up with a plan for Juliet to escape her marriage to Paris

Paris marries Juliet at Saint Peter's Church

Juliet meets her true love, Romeo, at the Capulet ball

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2. What happens in Act IV Scene 2?

Friar Laurence gives Juliet a sleeping potion

Romeo moves to Mantua with Balthazar

Lord and Lady Capulet spend the night preparing for Juliet's wedding

Juliet agrees to marry Paris, so Capulet moves up the wedding to Wednesday

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3. What happens in Act IV Scene 3?

Romeo learns that Juliet has died while he is in Mantua

Paris gets married to Juliet at Saint Peter's Church

Juliet decides to trust the Friar's plan and finds the courage to take the potion

Lord and Lady Capulet learn that Juliet is actually married to Romeo

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4. What happens in Act IV Scene 4?

Lord Capulet spends the night prepping for Juliet's wedding the next day

Romeo buys poison from an old apothecary

Romeo and Tybalt fight in the streets of Mantua

Tybalt is buried in the Capulet family vault

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5. What happens in Act IV Scene 5?

Tybalt is buried in the Capulet family tomb

Romeo learns that Juliet has been found dead

Juliet is discovered "dead," and the Friar gets her body to the family vault

Romeo learns that Paris and Juliet have been married

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6. What happens in Act V Scene 1?

Friar Laurence learns that his letters to Romeo weren't delivered

Romeo and Paris fight in front of the Capulet tomb

Juliet awakens in the family tomb and finds Romeo and Paris waiting for her

Romeo learns that Juliet has died, and he plans to return to Verona

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7. What happens in Act V Scene 2?

Friar Laurence discovers that Friar John didn't deliver the letters to Romeo

Romeo kills Paris with the apothecary's poison

Tybalt's ghost convinces Juliet to die for Romeo

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R & J Act 4-5 Study Guide

1. What happens in Act IV Scene 1?

2. What happens in Act IV Scene 2?

3. What happens in Act IV Scene 3?

4. What happens in Act IV Scene 4?

5. What happens in Act IV Scene 5?

6. What happens in Act V Scene 1?

7. What happens in Act V Scene 2?

8. What happens in Act V Scene 3?

9. Translate this into modern English:"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." (Juliet, 4.1)

10. Translate this into modern English: "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" (Juliet 4.3)

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9. Translate this into modern English:
"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." (Juliet, 4.1)

10. Translate this into modern English:

"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" (Juliet 4.3)