1. To explore characters’ reactions to Juliet’s death.
Act 4, Scene 5
To explore characters’ reactions to Juliet’s death.

2. Acting Parts Nurse Lady Capulet Capulet First Musician Peter
Second Musician
Friar Lawrence
Paris

3. Characters’ Reactions
How do each of the following characters react to Juliet’s death?
Lady Capulet
Capulet
Nurse
Friar Lawrence
Paris
For each character, find a quotation to
support your answer.

4. Part (a)
How does Shakespeare present the feelings of Juliet’s parents in the following extract from Act 4 Scene 5?
Alack the day, she’s dead, she’s dead, she’s dead!
Hah, let me see her. Out alas, she’s cold,
Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff:
Life and these lips have long been separated;
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.
O lamentable day!
O woeful time!
Death that hath tane her hence to make me wail
Ties up my tongue and will not let me speak.
Enter FRIAR [LAWREN CE] and the COUNTY [PARIS with the MUSICIANS].
Come, is the bride ready to go to church?
Ready to go, but never to return. –
O son, the night before thy wedding day
Hath Death Iain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowerèd by him.
Death is my son-in-law, Death is my heir,
My daughter he hath wedded. I will die,
And leave him all; life, living, all is Death’s.
Part (b)
How does Shakespeare present the behaviour of Juliet’s parents in a different part of the play?
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
NURSE
LADY CAPULET
CAPULET
FRIAR LAWRENCE
CAPULET

5. SOLO Peer Evaluation
They have identified an a key point/ideas and appropriate evidence to support in response to the question. (Point & Evidence) They have explained the literal meaning of the evidence. (Explanation) They have analysed language and explained the effect on the audience/the image that is created. (Lang. Analysis) They have hypothesised about extended/alternative meanings in texts and evaluated the overall significance of language. (Extended/Alternative View)