Directions: Answer the Following Questions in Your Journals

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English 9R

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare

Study Guide Questions- Act IV

Directions: Answer the following questions in your journals.

Act IV, Scene I

1. Why does Paris call on Friar Laurence?

2. What is Juliet’s reason for visiting Friar Laurence?

3. Judging from Juliet’s conversation with Paris, what is Juliet’s attitude towards him?

4. (a) What is the friar’s plan to prevent Juliet’s marriage to Paris?

(b) What is Juliet’s reaction to that plan?

Act IV, Scenes II and III

1. (a) In carrying out the friar’s instructions, how does Juliet resort to deceit?

(b) Explain whether or not Juliet was justified.

2. What questions and doubts come to Juliet’s mind during the “potion” scene?

Act IV, Scenes IV and V

1. Irony: the contrast between what is expected to happen and what actually happens

How is the hustle and bustle of preparation for the wedding feast ironic?

2. How do Lord and Lady Capulet and the Nurse handle Juliet’s death?

3. Why did Juliet not take the Nurse into her confidence considering the friar’s plan?