Prince Escalus then speaks the famous lines: 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.
Senior Member. With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast, Who all as hot, turns deadly point to point, This is said by Benvolio who tells how Mercutio died because of Tybalt.
He believes he is wounded for a fight, not for a love. In shocked disbelief, he asks Romeo "Why the devil / came you between us? I was hurt under your arm." Romeo blames himself for Mercutio's death because he placed his love for Juliet before consideration of his friend.
Before he dies, Mercutio curses both the Montagues and Capulets, crying several times, "A plague o' both your houses!" (Act III, Sc. 1, often quoted as "A pox on both your houses").
In Act 3, Scene 1, Mercutio gets involved in a duel between Tybalt and Romeo and is killed by Tybalt. The first reason is that, earlier on, Mercutio learned that Tybalt has challenged Romeo to a duel due to feeling insulted by Romeo for his presence at the Capulet ball.
Lady Capulet thinks Juliet is crying because of Tybalt's death. He was her cousin. Juliet is actually crying because it was Romeo who killed Tybalt, and as a result, he has been banished from Verona. As a result of thinking Juliet is crying over Tybalt, her mother tells her she's going to send someone to kill Romeo.
dry sorrow (drinks our blood) another old belief, that sorrow caused people to go pale through lack of blood. (
While at first Lord Capulet says he will not approve Juliet's marriage to Paris without her consenting to it, when she refuses to marry Paris, Capulet becomes furious with her. He resorts to name-calling, cursing, and a threat of disowning Juliet as he yells in rage against her disobedience.
Romeo is about 14/15 in the beginning of the book. romeo has been said to be anywhere from 18-23 however, regardless of which it is, he is still quite a bit older then Juliet who is only 13. That's a good question, Romeo is supposedly to be around 18 or 19 years old.
The nightingale is the bird of the night; it sings its song while the moon is out. The lark is the bird that signifies the morning sun. Juliet doesn't want to hear the lark because it means her one night of wedded happiness is over, and she doesn't know when she will see Romeo again.
What does Juliet ask of Friar Laurence? A solution to her problem. What does Juliet say she will do if she cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris? She will kill herself if she cannot find a way to avoid marrying Paris.
The Nurse betrays Juliet by advising her to deny the marriage to Romeo and wed Count Paris instead. Her reasoning is that Romeo is banished, and cannot come back to object.
The nightingale is the bird of the night; it sings its song while the moon is out. The lark is the bird that signifies the morning sun. Juliet doesn't want to hear the lark because it means her one night of wedded happiness is over, and she doesn't know when she will see Romeo again.
Lord Capulet is incredibly angry with Juliet because Juliet becomes disobedient to him. However, when Lady Capulet acquaints Juliet with her betrothal to Paris, Juliet refuses to marry him.
It was the nightingale, and not the lark, That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. 5Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.
Why does Juliet want to believe the songbird she can hear is a nightingale, not a lark? She does not want it to be a lark because the lark's song signals daytime and she does not want Romeo to have to leave.
JULIET Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief? O, sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week; Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies.
The lark is the bird that signifies the morning sun. Juliet doesn't want to hear the lark because it means her one night of wedded happiness is over, and she doesn't know when she will see Romeo again.
What reason does Paris give for not having spent much time courting Juliet? She was mourning the death of Tybalt (and Romeo's banishment) at the time, and couldn't spend time with him as a result. Name three of the horrible things Juliet says she would find preferable to marrying Paris.
Juliet's mother tells Juliet she must marry Paris, and when she refuses, her father becomes furious. Later, at the advice of her nurse, Juliet acts as if she has changed her mind. She says she is going to Friar Laurence to confess her sins, but she is really going to seek advice on how to avoid the marriage.
Lady Capulet tells Juliet about Capulet's plan for her to marry Paris on Thursday, explaining that he wishes to make her happy. Juliet is appalled. She rejects the match, saying “I will not marry yet; and when I do, I swear / It shall be Romeo—whom you know I hate— / Rather than Paris” (3.5. 121–123).
In that scene, Lady Capulet, who is Juliet's mother, comes to give her some news. After some comical back and forth between Lady Capulet and Juliet's nurse, Lady Capulet is able to tell Juliet what she has come for. The news she brings is about marriage. She has come to tell Juliet that Paris wants to marry her.
Capulet does change his mind about Juliet's marriage to Paris after Tybalt's death. From the start, Capulet was not in favor of the marriage due to Juliet's age, although he did approve of Paris as a suitor.
Juliet tries to convince Romeo that the bird sounds they hear are from the nightingale, a night bird, not from the lark, a morning bird. She also claims that the light they see is not coming from the sun rather it is coming from a meteor. She is foreshadowing Romeo's death.
Juliet's parents believe that she is upset due to the death of Tybalt. They play to help cheer her up by arranging her marriage to Paris.
Another reason may have been money. By setting Juliet up to marry Paris, Lady Capulet is upping the family status by marrying her only daughter off to a rich man with high power. In the beginning of the play, Lord Capulet is more lenient, and says no to Paris when he asks for Juliet's hand in marriage.
Juliet. Oh, rather than ask me to marry Paris, you could tell me to leap from the castle walls, walk among highway robbers, dwell with snakes, chain myself to a post and let bears attack me.
The Capulet family are social climbers. Paris is aristocracy, a relative of Prince Escalus. The marriage would boost the Capulet's social standing. Also, being aligned with the Prince through a marriage between Paris and Juliet would give the Capulet family more leverage in their ongoing quarrel with the Montagues.
Juliet's parents did force her to marry Paris , Lord Capulet even threaten her that he would disown her if she doesn't .
Mab, also called Queen Mab, in English folklore, the queen of the fairies. Mab is a mischievous but basically benevolent figure. In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, she is referred to as the fairies' midwife, who delivers sleeping men of their innermost wishes in the form of dreams.
Romeo kills Tybalt because he feels that he must revenge his friend's death. After all, it was Romeo's fight and not Mercutio's.
190Look to 't, think on 't, I do not use to jest. Thursday is near. Lay hand on heart, advise. An you be mine, I'll give you to my friend.
Juliet dies by her own hand after awaking from the sleeping potion Friar Laurence gave her. He believed she was actually dead and took poison, collapsing dead by her side. Despite the Friar's entreaties, Juliet grabs Romeo's dagger and thrusts it into her heart. She falls dead, her body draped over Romeo's.
