1. Act 2
THE RISING ACTION

2. SETTING UP YOUR NOTEBOOK FOR ACT II:
BEHIND everything for ACT I, you will need to set up a section for ACT II. While this is the same unit, this is a different ACT of the play and we will focus on different devices and themes.
The title for Act II is IDENTITY and LOVE. You will need four tabs: DARTS, CLOSE READING, VOCABULARY and NOTES. Go ahead and set those up.

3. VOCABULARY FOR ACT II: 1. Soliloquy 2. Aside
Here are the words you will need to know for this ACT. Please write them down and begin making a list of their definitions as we read the ACT. At the end of it, you will complete a thorough review:
1. Soliloquy 2. Aside
3. Dramatic Irony 4. Simile
5. Personification 6. Metaphor
7. Hyperbole 8. Pun
9. Apostrophe 10. Perverse
11. Loathsome 12. Enmity
13. Forsaken 14. Devise
15. Lamentable

4. DARTS:
1. I can interpret the meaning of dialogue and soliloquies in the text. 2. I can analyze the function of dialogue, soliloquies, and asides in dramatic literature. 3. I can analyze dramatic irony and its effect on the outcome of events in the text. 4. I can find examples of figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification) in the text and analyze its purpose.

5. INTRO TO ACT II:
Act I reveals a bitter, long-standing feud between the Montagues and the Capulets. It also introduces the play’s title characters, who meet at a feast and immediately fall in love, only to discover they come from opposing sides of the feud. Based on what you have learned about the personalities of Romeo and Juliet, Discuss in your teams, member 2 going First and each speaking for about a minute, how you predict them to respond to their love for each other and to the problems it poses? Also, how will their families react?

6. Act II, Scenes 1-2: Questions
1. Quote and restate Romeo’s metaphor involving Juliet on page In Scene II, the play begins to explore the meaning of identity. Explain how. (Hint: examine lines 33-61) 3. When Juliet speaks about “light love” or her “light” behavior (lines ), what does she mean by the word “light”? 4. What “stony” limits, besides the orchard wall, separate the young lovers? How do they dismiss these obstacles? 5. What troubles Juliet about the arrangement she makes with Romeo?

7. Act 2: Scene 1 Summary
Leaving the Capulet feast, Romeo hides from Benvolio and Mercutio.
Mercutio speaks mockingly about Romeo’s love for Rosaline and he and Benvolio leave.

8. Act 2: Scene 2 Summary
Romeo stands in the shadows beneath Juliet's bedroom window. Juliet appears on the balcony and thinking she's alone, reveals in a soliloquy her love for Romeo. She despairs over the feud between the two families and the problems the feud presents. Romeo listens and when Juliet calls on him to "doff" his name, he steps from the darkness saying, "call me but love."
After the two exchange expressions of devotion, the Nurse calls Juliet from the balcony. Juliet leaves, but returns momentarily. They agree to marry. Juliet promises to send a messenger the next day so that Romeo can tell her what wedding arrangements he has made. The scene concludes as day breaks and Romeo leaves to seek the advice of Friar Laurence.

9. The Balcony Scene
Perhaps the most famous scene from any play in the whole world! Can you explain what happens before we begin reading? Do you know any of the words?

10. O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name, Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
Balcony Scene
As Mercutio and Benvolio leave the Capulet estate, Romeo jumps over the orchard wall into the garden, unable to leave Juliet behind. From his hiding place, he sees Juliet in a window above the orchard and hears her speak his name. He calls out to her, and they exchange vows of love.
“What’s in a name?” Juliet asks.
“That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet”

11. Have a little think about this….
What do the images Romeo uses suggest about the way he views Juliet?
Look at lines 4-9, 15-22, and 26-32
Using PEE!

12. Shakespeare's imagery
In this play, many different views of love are expressed, often through imagery. What do the images in the following lines suggest that love is:
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13. My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep. The more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.

14. What is an oxymoron?
‘Good night, good night. Parting is such sweet sorrow,
That I shall say ‘good night’ till it be morrow’
Oxymoron – two words that contradict each other placed beside each other, for example ‘deafening silence’
Bitter Sweet
Act naturally
Sweet Agony
Awful Nice
Growing smaller
Can you think of any examples of your own?
Work in pairs to see what you can create

15. Dear diary….
Write a diary entry that Romeo/Juliet wrote after they part in the orchard garden.
Remember that diary entries should contain lots of feelings and emotions.
Try your best to show how strong their love for each other is.
Lets plan some ideas…

16. Shakespeare the romantic!
This scene contains some exquisite quotes & imagery
Identify three quotes from this balcony scene which you believe are extremely romantic
Skim read the scene again!

17. Act 2 Scene 3 Summary
Romeo visits Friar Lawrence and tells him that he and Juliet have fallen in love.
The Friar finally agrees to marry the couple, believing that their marriage will bring their two families together.

18. Act 2 Scene 4 Summary
Mercutio and Benvolio diskuss Tybalt, who has sent Romeo a challenge to a duel.
Romeo appears and enjoys some wordplay with Mercutio
The Nurse arrives, looking for Romeo. He gives her instructions about when and where Juliet is to meet him so that they can be married.

19. ‘Here’s goodly gear! A Sail, a sail!’
‘her fan’s the fairer face’
‘young Romeo will be older when you have found him than he was when you sought him’

20. What do we learn about the Nurse?
On a clean page in your book, draw the nurse as you think she would look on stage. Leave space on either side of your drawing for writing.
What we learn from what Romeo and Mercutio say:
What we learn from what the Nurse says:

21. ‘I am aweary: give me leave a while. Fie, how my bones ache!’
Act 2 Scene 5 Summary
When the nurse returns to Juliet, she keeps putting off giving Romeo’s message, complaining of tiredness.
She finally tells Juliet when and where she is to meet Romeo and be married.
‘I am aweary: give me leave a while. Fie, how my bones ache!’

22. What effect would this scene have on the audience?
What is the purpose
of this scene?
diskuss

23. Performance Question
Nurse I am aweary: give me leave a while. Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I! Juliet I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. Nay, come, I pray thee, speak: good, good Nurse, speak. Nurse Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay a while? Do you not see that I am out of breath? Juliet How art thou out of breath, when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath? The excuse that thou dost make in this delay Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. Is thy news good or bad? Answer to that.

24. Act 2 Scene 6 Summary
The Friar advises Romeo about the nature of love.
Juliet arrives and she and Romeo go off to be married.

25. The ‘secret’ marriage? Why Shakespeare should not show the marriage?
have shown the marriage?