Act IV Notes

Romeo and Juliet

 Act IV Scene 1
 A. Paris goes to Friar Laurence
 1. and tells him that he is to marry Juliet on
Thursday.
 Friar Laurence tries to postpone it.

Line 16: Friar Laurence: “I would I knew not

why it should be slowed. Look, sir, here
comes the lady toward my cell.”
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 B. Juliet arrives at Friar Laurence’s
cell
 1. says she does not want to marry; but,
 2. she has to make confession before anything
happens.
 C. After Paris leaves, Juliet
 1. tells Fr. Laurence that he must help her
avoid this marriage
 2. or she’ll kill herself.
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 D. Friar Laurence has a plan.
 1. Juliet must pretend to die.
 2. Juliet is to go home,
 3. agree to marry Paris.
 4. On Wednesday night she is to drink a
sleeping potion.
 5. She will sleep for 42 hours.
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 6. Juliet’s family will think she is dead.
 7. They bury her in the Capulet tomb.
 8. Fr. Laurence will send a letter to Mantua
telling Romeo to return to Verona
 9. so that Romeo will be there when she
wakes up.
 10. Romeo and Fr. Laurence will get her out
of the tomb.
 11. She will leave town with Romeo.
 Act IV Scene 2
 A. Juliet returns home and agrees to
marry Paris.
 B. Her family happily prepares for the

wedding.
 C. Her father moves the wedding up one

day to Wednesday.
Guided reading of Act IV scenes 3&4
 3 Part Response
 Question (CHOOSE 1):
 A. How does Juliet get rid of the
Nurse in Act IV scene 3.
 B. What is the Capulet family
preparing for in Act IV scene 4?
 3 Part Response continued…
1.) Restate the question chosen in your own
words and then answer the question.

2.) Find a sentence from the text that

supports your answer to the question, and
use the correct quotation method:
(e.g. “the people agreed with me…” (p.17)

3.) Explain why you picked the

sentence/quote from the text.
 Act IV Scene 3
Lines 15-55 is an example of a
“soliloquy”
 A. Juliet goes to bed and tells the Nurse to
leave her alone.
 B. Juliet worries that the potion won’t
work right.
1. She is afraid that she might wake –up
too soon and be trapped in the tomb
2. She thinks she’ll see Tybalt’s ghost.
 C. Juliet drinks the potion anyway.
 Act IV Scene 4
 A. On Wednesday morning, wedding
preparations continue happily at the
Capulet house.
 B. The Nurse is sent to wake-up Juliet.
 Act IV Scene 5
 A. The Nurse finds Juliet “dead”.
 B. Juliet’s parents, Paris and Friar
Laurence arrive and mourn her death.
 C. Fr. Laurence blames Juliet’s parents for
her death because they pushed her to
marry Paris.
 D. They leave and take Juliet to be buried
in the Capulet’s tomb.