RJ Act V Notes

Act V, scene 1 (Thursday, day 5, late morning)
highlight each line given, unless otherwise noted and add notes (in italics) where given

2, Romeo probably shouldn't have interpreted this dream as a positive one
6-9, foreshadowing: J does kiss R to get the poison off of his lips, but doesn't revive him
15-16: "That I ask again, / for nothing can be ill if she be well"
17-18, J is well b/c she is in Heaven (according to Balthasar)
24, FATE -- defies the stars (challenges them)
26: "I will hence to-night." R will go to J's tomb tonight
32, R expected to hear from FL
35: "And hire those horses." obtain transportation to Verona
36, plans to take his life tonight
39, will get poison from apothecary
block 40-59, note the physical description of the apothecary's house / living quarters
61: "I see that thou art poor."
69-70, has poison, but not willing to sell it because of the law
75-77, R tells the A: ignore the law and get money by breaking it -- better yourself
78, he's only taking the money because he's poor
79
83, money corrupts more than poison -- who does R have in mind when he says this?

Act V, scene 2 (Thursday, day 5, afternoon)


3-4, FL wants to know what R said
8 "and finding him"
9-10, one of the other monks was visiting the sick and so FJ was guilty by association and could not leave
13
block 14-16, the letter to R was never delivered so R doesn't know J isn't really dead
17: "Unhappy fortune!" FATE
18-20, the letter was really important -- bad things might happen because it was never sent
21: "iron crow," crow bar
25, Juliet will wake in 3 hours
28, will sent another letter to R

Act V, scene 3 (Thursday, day 5, evening)
We will read this scene in class, but please highlight or block the following lines ahead of time.

4
7: "Whistle then to me"
9: "Give me those flowers"
12
between 17-18 "The page whistles"
23-24
35-36
41-42: "Take thou that. / Live, and be prosperous."
block 45-48
50-53, start with "with which grief--/" and end with "to the dead bodies."
56
block 59-67
77-79, start with "I think"
81-82, start with "O, give"
block 91-96
block 101-105
112-115, start with "Eyes, look"
119-120

133
139-140, start with "Fear comes"
142-143
149-151
153-155
block 158-164
164: "I dare no longer stay."
block 166-172
172
174: "O happy dagger!"
175

182: "whoe'er you find attach"
block 183-187
195
198: "A great suspicion."
206-208
block 213-216
221-222
block 234-238

FRIAR'S SPEECH ON PAGE 104: (please highlight only what's listed)
244: "I married them" "stol'n marriage day"
245: "Was Tybalt's doomsday"
246: "Banished"
247: "Juliet pin'd"
249: "Betroth'd"
250: "To County Paris"
253: "would kill herself"
255: "A sleeping potion"
257: "I writ to Romeo"
261: "Friar John"
262: "Was stay'd by accident"
266: "keep her closely at my cell"
269: "here untimely lay"
270
271
275: "did violence on herself"
276: "to the marriage"
277: "her nurse is privy"
278: "let my old life"
279: "be sacrific'd"

283
286
295
297
302-306
block 307-316
317-322