WARM UP
We read through Act II, scene ii on block day this week. Take out
your Romeo and Juliet analysis packet and complete the Act 1
page.
*Draw your picture for the most important scene from Act I.
REMEMBER: I need to be able to recognize who is in the scene
(consider labeling your people if necessary or writing a mini
synopsis underneath the picture) and what is actually happening.
*Make sure to complete the theme box. Create a theme statement
and then explain how that theme was developed in Act I.
*Flip to the Act II page and write a few notes about how Romeo
and Juliet behaved in the balcony scene (character box – top right).
This scene can also help you create a theme statement about love.
Character foil assignment due today!
ACT 2, SCENE 2
Juliet: Three words, dear Romeo, and good
night indeed. / If that thy bent of love be
honorable, / Thy purpose marriage, send me
word tomorrow, / By one that I’ll procure to
come to thee, / Where and what time thou wilt
perform the rite
Romeo: Hence will I to my ghostly father’s cell,
/ His help to crave and my dear hap to tell.
ACT 2, SCENE 3
Pg. 1073
Romeo
Friar Laurence
What is a friar?
What was their role in the church?
What is a soliloquy?
Pg. 1073
“Oh, mickle is the
powerful grace that lies /
In herbs, plants, stones,
and their true qualities.”
“Within the infant rind of
this small flower
Poison hath residence
and medicine power.
For this, being smelt,
with that part cheers
each part;
Being tasted, stays all
senses with the heart.
Two such opposèd kings
encamp them still,
In man as well as herbs—
grace and rude will.”
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Contrasting ideas that are presented in a
balanced way.
Love / Hate
Light / Dark
Day / Night
Capulet / Montague
Life / Death
Violence / Peace
Youth / Experience
ANTITHESIS
 Opposition of words or phrases against each other.
 Antithesis intensifies the sense of conflict!
Friar Lawrence’s first speech (lines 1-30)
contains at least fifteen antitheses as he
gathers plants and ponders on the potential for
good and evil in every living thing.
 “baleful weeds” versus “precious-juiced flowers”
 “tomb” against “womb”
 “virtue” against “vice”
“But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households' rancor to pure love.”
ACT 2, SCENE 4
Tybalt sends Romeo a letter
challenging him to a dual.
Romeo speaks privately with Juliet’s nurse
telling her to bring Juliet to the Friar’s
church that afternoon for their wedding.
Speaking Parts – II.v, II.vi
Pg. 1083
Juliet
Nurse
Romeo
Friar Lawrence
ACT 2, SCENE 5
Pg. 1083
What do Juliet’s allusions to Venus and to Cupid emphasize
about her state of mind a she waits for the nurse to return?
(Act II, scene vi)
FORESHADOWING
How does Friar Laurence foreshadow
Romeo and Juliet’s downfall?
“These violent delights have
violent ends / And in their
triumph die”
ANALYSIS PACKET
 Draw your picture for the most important scene from
Act II. REMEMBER: I need to be able to recognize
who is in the scene (consider labeling your people if
necessary or writing a mini synopsis underneath the
picture) and what is actually happening.
 Add characterization notes for Friar Laurence and the
Nurse.
 Create a theme statement and then explain how that
theme was developed in Act II.
 Consider Friar Laurence’s warning: “These violent delights
have violent ends.”