My group is performing Act IV, Scene I from Romeo and Juliet. Our scene is about when Paris and Friar Laurence enter his cell and discuss the wedding plans for Thursday. Paris tells the friar that Capulet hopes to take away some of Juliet's grief over Tybalt's death by having the wedding so soon.
Juliet arrives and makes small talk with Paris. She says that she has come to confess to the friar. The friar tells Paris to leave, and then Juliet begins to tell the friar what she really is there for. She says that death is her only answer to this horrible situation that has come up.
She would rather kill herself than be married to Paris.
The friar convinces Juliet to not commit suicide by suggesting something else. He gives her a vial of special herbs and tells her to go home and agree to marry Paris. Then, drink the herbs the next night, which is the night before the wedding is. The herbs make her appear as though she is dead for forty-two hours. Her family, thinking she is dead, and will place her in the family vault. The friar will tell Romeo, who is in Mantua, about everything that is to take place. He and the friar will then meet up at the Capulet vault and watch Juliet as she wakes up from the fake death.
Juliet then agrees to take the vial and looks to love for strength to carry out the plans.
Juliet arrives and makes small talk with Paris. She says that she has come to confess to the friar. The friar tells Paris to leave, and then Juliet begins to tell the friar what she really is there for. She says that death is her only answer to this horrible situation that has come up.
She would rather kill herself than be married to Paris.
The friar convinces Juliet to not commit suicide by suggesting something else. He gives her a vial of special herbs and tells her to go home and agree to marry Paris. Then, drink the herbs the next night, which is the night before the wedding is. The herbs make her appear as though she is dead for forty-two hours. Her family, thinking she is dead, and will place her in the family vault. The friar will tell Romeo, who is in Mantua, about everything that is to take place. He and the friar will then meet up at the Capulet vault and watch Juliet as she wakes up from the fake death.
Juliet then agrees to take the vial and looks to love for strength to carry out the plans.
2 comments:
That's really cool. Not the fact that they all think she's dead, but the fact that she's in a fake death! To watch that happen to some one, rise from the "dead". I'd want to see that... Or perhaps... have that happen to me! Sweet!
that sounds kool!! i'm excited about our plays. lol.
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