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 * Act IV Questions**

Lament: cry out in grief and sorrow

Shroud: a cloth or garment for a dead person

Vial: a potion

Melancholy: with sadness and grief


 * Literary Terms:**

Subtext is underlying part of a conversation or a writing. It is the true and deep meaning of a writing while it doesn’t seem like it is. An example of subtext is in Act IV Scene II, lines 18-28 where Juliet speaks to Capulet. The subtext of these lines is that Juliet is not actually asking for forgiveness or pardon. In addition, when she talks how she met Paris in the cell, she is actually taking about Romeo. A protagonist is the main character who is usually on the good side. An example of a protagonist in //Romeo and Juliet// would be Romeo, since he is the main character of the play.
 * What is subtext?**
 * What is protagonist?**

__Scene 1:__ Friar Lawrence is reluctant to marry Paris and Juliet because he knows that Juliet is in love with Romeo and even married him. So he believes that Paris and Juliet should not marry.
 * III Questions:**
 * Why is Friar Lawrence reluctant to marry Paris and Juliet?**

He explains that he doesn’t want to leave Juliet in such a sad world, so he believes that by marrying fast, Juliet will be happier. The ironic part about their conversation is that while Juliet is that while Juliet tries to push Paris off her and say how she won’t marry him and how she hates him, Paris keeps on talking like how they will marry and love each other and strongly thinks that Juliet loves him a lot.
 * How does Paris explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans?**
 * What is ironic in the conversation between Juliet and Paris?**

First of all, Juliet will tell her parents that she will marry Paris. Then the day before marriage, she will drink the vial, which makes her seem dead for 42 hours. The family, thinking that Juliet is dead, will bury her and Romeo, contacted by the Friar, will come and rescue her. After that, they will travel to Mantua and live happily forever. __Scene 2:__ Capulet change the wedding day to Wednesday, which is actually tomorrow for Juliet. __Scene 3:__ In this scene, she calmly does her work, not being freaked out by the fact that the wedding is tomorrow, and tries to show everyone how she is excited to marry. In addition, she knows that she probably will face many dangers and gross encounters in the grave, but she firmly decides to take the vial and do everything to get with Romeo. And even after seeing Tybalt’s ghost, she stays calm and takes the potion bravely, which shows how much she matured and became independence, thinking for herself and not relying on others.
 * What are the steps of Friar Lawrence’s plan for Juliet?**
 * How does Capulet change the wedding plans after Juliet says she will marry Paris?**
 * How does Juliet show her maturity and independence in this scene?**

Juliet will kill herself with the knife.
 * If the potion does not work, what will Juliet do?**

One part is that the vial is poisonous and Friar poisoned it on purpose because she thought it was a disgrace to marry both Romeo and Paris to Juliet. The other fear is that she will wake up too early before Romeo comes to rescue her. Then, she will be locked inside a tomb with Tybalt and ancestors’ body lying around. __Scene 4:__ Capulet is more anxious than excited because he goes around, ordering everyone, trying to hurry up the marriage and perfect it. He is anxious that the wedding will not be ready until Paris comes and he will fail to please Paris. Just in his lines, you can feel the anxiety in his voice as he tries to prepare everything. __Scene 5:__ The Friar says that Juliet will be in a better place with eternity. He also says that since she is in heaven, which is way better than the life on earth, the family should be happy for her that she is in such a better place.
 * What are two fears Juliet has about the potion?**
 * Does Capulet seem excited or anxious? How can you tell.**
 * What does Friar Lawrence say to comfort the family?**

The Capulets prepare for the funeral since Juliet is dead. They get ready to take Juliet’s corpse and bury her.
 * What do the Capulets prepare for?**

The musicians are quite angry that they been called in such an early time and they have to go away without even playing music or getting payed. Peter and the musicians are talking about the line in a song and what the ‘silver sound’ means. They were actually talking about useless things. Putting them into play creates enought time for the actors to get dressed and ready for the funeral.
 * What’s the deal with the musicians? What are they talking about? Why put them in the play?**