Notes on Acts 4 and 5

ACT 1

Scene 1:

• Juliet finds out that Paris is making arrangements to marry her. 
• After Juliet confesses to Friar Lawrence-- he creates a plan and gives Juliet a vial that will make her appear dead. 
• Her family will think she is dead and will put her in a cemetery, where Romeo will come to find her so the lovers can sneak off to Mantua.

Scene 2:

• Capulet is planning the wedding when Juliet arrives home. 
• Juliet asks for forgiveness for her disobedience, and explains to Capulet that she will indeed marry Paris.
• Capulet sets off to plan for the wedding feast and tells Paris the News

Scene 3:

• Juliet goes into her room and tells the nurse and Lady Capulet to leave her alone for awhile to rest. 
• She contemplates drinking the vial because she is scared the plan Friar Lawrence came up with will not work. (Kinda goes crazy in her own thoughts. Off on tangent.)
• She drinks the vial anyways and goes along with the plan. 

Scene 4:

• As the wedding gets prepared, Capulet gets chastised by both the Nurse and Lady Capulet for being a "meddler."
• Servants bring in supplies for the wedding-- Capulet is very overexcited about making his family look good after the fights.
• Capulet hears music and announces Paris' arrival-- Capulet runs to meet him.
• Tells the nurse to go find Juliet. 

Scene 5:

• The nurse tries to wake Juliet and sees that she is "dead."
• Everyone gathers around Juliet to find that they will now be mourning her instead of celebrating. (Lady Capulet, Capulet, Nurse, Paris)
• Friar Lawrence orders everyone to leave to take her body to be buried. 
• The mood changes-- everyone is sad and over the top depressed. 

ACT 2

Scene 1: 

• Expecting news from Friar Lawrence, Romeo instead hears about Juliet's "death."
• He finds out that she has been put in the Capulet family tomb from Balthazar 
• He decides to Purchase poison from an apothecary-- he decides to kill himself next to Juliet's body.
• Romeo has no clue that Juliet is only in a deep sleep, because Friar Lawrence never told her. (Friar Lawrence evil??)

Scene 2:

• Friar Lawrence talks to Friar John. Friar John tells the other Friar that his letter to Romeo about Juliet being in a deep sleep did not get to Romeo because he (Friar John) was quarantined in a house suspected of being infected by the plague. 
• Friar Lawrence orders Friar John to get a crowbar and go to the tomb by himself so that someone will be with Juliet when she wakes up from her sleep. 

Scene 3:

• Romeo arrives at Juliet's tomb and finds Paris mourning. 
• The two men fight and Romeo kills paris. 
• Romeo enters the tomb and finds Juliet-- He drinks the poison and dies. 
• Friar Lawrence enters the tomb, seeing Paris' blood.
• Friar Lawrence discovers that Romeo and Paris are both dead. 
• Juliet wakes up and the Friar tries to convince her to leave, Juliet says no.
• Friar leaves, and Juliet is alone
• She tries to drink the poison, but there is none left-- she stabs herself to death
• Montague announces that Romeo's mother died of grief the same evening.
• Friar Lawrence explains what happened 
• Everyone is left upset and looking to resolve the feud between the Montagues and the Capulets.