1. Marriage of True Minds Act 2, Scenes 5 & 6
Friday, 23 November 2018
Marriage of True Minds
Act 2, Scenes 5 & 6
To explore Juliet’s character and her use of imagery
To analyse the use of foreshadowing in the play

2. Act 2, Scene 5
Juliet
Nurse

3. Highlight any language techniques that Juliet uses:
Juliet’s Character
The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.
O, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,
Driving back shadows over low’ring hills;
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me.
But old folks, many feign as they were dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.
Enter NURSE [with PETER].
O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news?
Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
Perchance = maybe
Heralds = messengers
Glides = flies
Low’ring = Slopes
Nimble-pinioned = captured-yet-quick
Hath = has
Highmost = highest
Affections = feelings, emotions
Swift = quick
Bandy = bend, curve
Feign = pretend
Unwieldy = awkward
Highlight any language techniques that Juliet uses:
Exclamatory sentences, similes, metaphors, personification, rule of three, semantic fields of light/dark & semantic field of time

4. Juliet’s Character Exclamatory sentences Metaphors Similes
The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.
O, she is lame! Love’s heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glides than the sun’s beams,
Driving back shadows over low’ring hills;
Therefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me.
But old folks, many feign as they were dead,
Unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.
Enter NURSE [with PETER].
O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news?
Hast thou met with him? Send thy man away.
Exclamatory sentences
Metaphors
Similes
Personification
Rule of Three
Semantic field of light/dark
Semantic field of time

5. Juliet’s Character PEELACs 1 & 2:
How does Shakespeare present Juliet’s character in Act 2, Scene 5?
PEELACs 3 & 4:
How does Shakespeare present Juliet’s character differently in a different part of the play?
Act 1, Scene 3
Act 1, Scene 5
Act 2, Scene 2
DUE: Friday, 18 May

6. Act 2, Scene 6
Friar Lawrence
Juliet
Romeo

7. Romeo and Juliet’s Wedding
For each extract from the scene, answer the following:
Annotate your speech, analysing the language fully.
What does each speech reveal about the emotions of the assigned character?
Do any of the characters foreshadow future events?
2 tables should do one of the speeches

8. Romeo
Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight: Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine.

9. Friar Lawrence
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

10. Juliet
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, Brags of his substance, not of ornament: They are but beggars that can count their worth; But my true love is grown to such excess I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.