1. Act 4, scene 3 – the recap Act 5, scene 3 The End
ROMEO AND JULIET
Act 4, scene 3 – the recap
Act 5, scene 3
The End

2. Act 4 Scene 3 Look back at your ‘desperate measures’ slides
2 mini ‘scaffolded’ paragraphs to recap…….
Shakespeare exposes Juliet’s emotional turmoil through the reflective and sinister soliloquy. The statement “I have faint cold fear thrills through my veins” reveals……………..and foreshadows the coldness of death. Shakespeare further emphasises Juliet’s anxiety and troubled mindset through the rhetorical questions: “……………”. A contemporary audience……….However, it could be considered that a feminist critic may perceive……
Shakespeare explores Juliet’s altered emotional state through disturbing and delusional images. The sinister image “pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud” emphasises………..the adjective “mangled” is particularly………….Furthermore, the fearful question “And in this rage, with a club, dash out mu desp’rate brains?” implies that…………Modern audiences might perhaps ……….. ‘Pink Think’ (emma)

3. Act 5 Scene 1/2 Before scene 3 begins: FATE Romeo is in Mantua
In scene 1 – ‘Pink Think’ (Erin today) locate the quote that shows Romeo’s dream in which Juliet brings him to life with a kiss (foreshadows ending but reversed outcome – audience response?)
Balthazar informs Romeo that Juliet is dead – crossed wires – letter wasn’t delivered/increased tension
Romeo vows to return to Verona to kill himself
The Friar has lost control – plot is escalating toward unavoidable disaster…..
Connie – cake whilst the above is going on..
FATE
Scene 1 explores the importance of fate in Romeo’s tragic death. It is purely fate that the letter didn’t arrive, but Romeo’s impatience is also part of his downfall. His decision to commit suicide might seem rushed and foolish – it doesn’t even occur to him to contact the Friar.
There is an interesting debate developing about fate/individual actions, and the role of both in the devastating outcomes of all involved…..

4. Scene 3 Devastation/grief/guilt of Romeo
Death of Paris
Romeo’s soliloquy – find/discuss/’explode’
“Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp’rate man”
“Put not another sin on my head”
“A madman’s mercy bid thee run away”
“Wilt thou provoke me?”
“O, I am slain!”
“O give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book!”
“slaughtered youth”
Personification of death
Rhetorical questions
Imagery that exposes his guilt
Disturbing imagery - his desire for death
Imagery of sea to show conflict/danger/loss
Exclamatory statements
Structural mirroring (previous dream/Juliet’s soliloquy)
Is it fate or Romeo’s actions that lead him to his death? It is left to interpretation…
Modern and contemporary responses (AO3)

5. Scene 3 Death of Juliet Friar Lawrence
“I will kiss thy lips, Haply some poison doth hang on them”
“O happy dagger” (oxymoron)
“O heaven’s! O wife, look how our daughter bleeds!” (Capulet)
“O me, this sight of death is as a bell /That warns my old age to a sepulchre” (Lady Capulet)
“I am the greatest, able to do least”
“a tedious tale”
“Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, And she dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife..”
In pairs, read the Friar’s explanation – is it his fault?
Audience response….

6. The Ending The Prince
“Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague?/See what scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven’s finds means to kill your joys with love!” (AO2 – what is again emphasised?
“All are punished”. (AO2 – inference/auditory)
Iambic pentameter
Astrological imagery
personification
Rhyming couplet
Tone
“A glooming peace this morning with it brings,/The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head. /Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things./ Some shall be pardoned, and some punished,/ For never was a story of more woe /Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”.

7. Critic view
‘This story of star-crossed lovers is one of William Shakespeare’s tenderest dramas. Shakespeare is sympathetic toward Romeo and Juliet, and in attributing their tragedy to fate, rather than to a flaw in their characters, he raises them to heights near perfection, as well as running the risk of creating pathos, not tragedy. They are both sincere, kind, brave, loyal, virtuous, and desperately in love, and their tragedy is greater because of their innocence. The feud between the lovers’ families represents the fate that Romeo and Juliet are powerless to overcome’.

8. Critic view
‘The fall is caused traditionally and in Shakespeare’s play by the workings of fortune. Insofar as Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, it is a tragedy of fate rather than of a tragic flaw. Although the two lovers have weaknesses, it is not their faults, but their unlucky stars, that destroy them. As the friar comments at the end, “A greater power than we can contradict/ Hath thwarted our intents.”’