Act+4+Scene+3


 * ACT 4 SCENE 3**
 * amy.bee**

It is late Tuesday evening and Juliet goes into her bed chamber accompanied by the nurse who helps her pick out her wedding clothes for the next day. Juliet then tells the nurse that she wants to be by herself for the night so she can have time to pray. Juliet’s mother comes into Juliet’s chamber and asks if they need any help but Juliet replies and says no and asks her to leave along with the Nurse. After they leave, Juliet contemplates on her plan and she has worries such that the potion will not work, so instead she thinks of a backup plan and retrieves a dagger, planning to stab herself if the potion were to fail to work. She then wonders whether the Friar actually gave her real poison so she didn’t have to be part of the mess he made by marrying her and Romeo. She also begins to imagine all sorts of horrifying things such as suffocating in the tomb, waking up only to be surrounded by the rotting corpses of her family members. Juliet even thinks about seeing Tybalt’s ghost trying to avenge his death by running after Romeo. With this idea she swallows the potion and falls upon her bed. In this scene, the only props described are the potion that Juliet was given by the Friar and the dagger. Costume: Juliet is wearing her sleeping gown as she is about to go to bed. Stage Directions:  Juliet and the Nurse both enter Juliet’s chamber together, and shortly after Lady Capulet comes in. You can see the relationship between the Nurse and Juliet is more like mother and daughter than what it is between Juliet and her actual mother. Later on, the Nurse and Lady Capulet leave and Juliet picks up the dagger. This is a sign of her considering stabbing herself. She then ‘falls upon her bed within the curtain’ after taking the potion.  The worried and pedantic phrases Juliet quotes is a sign that she is stressed and worried about taking the potion as she thinks it may not work. © ‘To move upon the heavens to s mile upon my s tate.’ ® **Alliteration ** © **‘ **Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth.’ ® **<span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Paradox ** <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Because of the Renaissance, people began believing in what they wanted to and weren’t going to be swayed by what other people followed. By Juliet making the decision to ‘die’ for her Romeo is her choice made entirely up by her. This is an example of how people started to become more aware of what they believed in and began choosing what they did believe in. <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> Also __‘get thee to bed, and rest, for thou hast need.’__ This has two meanings of Lady Capulet’s interpretation and Juliet’s as she is “going to rest.” <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The setting is in Juliet’s Chamber. <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The time is late Tuesday evening when Juliet goes to bed. <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Elizabethan era, Renaissance. <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Love- ‘Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink! I drink to thee.’ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Marriage- ‘Shall I be married then tomorrow morning?’ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Death- ‘The horrible conceit (thought, image) of death and night.’ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Herbal References- “And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth.” <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">In the film, Juliet looks upon her abundance of angels that sit in her room for guidance. However, a major difference in the film compared to the play in which a large amount of text isn’t said in the movie which is Juliet’s dialogue, except the last line which is ‘Romeo, I drink to thee...” <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘What if this mixture do not work at all? Shall I be married then tomorrow?’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘Romeo, Rome, Romeo, here’s drink! I drink to thee!’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘The horrible conceit of death and night.’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">I pray thee leave me to myself tonight.’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘O look, methinks I see my cousin's ghost’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body’ <span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">▲ <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">‘Upon a rapier's point! Stay, Tybalt, stay!’
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 * <span style="color: #92d050; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Juliet: **<span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">In this scene, we see Juliet become more <span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">independent and mature <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">. She asserts her independence by asking the Nurse and Lady Capulet to leave her alone so she can contemplate on her thoughts on whether or not to take the potion. She is <span style="color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">determined <span style="font-family: 'Segoe UI',sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">to be with Romeo as she prepares to take the final step in her defiance of both her parents and fate itself. Juliet is ready to take the Friar’s potion and if the plan were to fail she would take her life with the dagger. Her maturity has blossomed. She is no longer a teenager; she is a woman and a wife who commands her own fortune. To this end, she places a dagger by her side, a deep statement of her independence.
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