Act IV Quotes
1. “I do spy a kind of hope,
Which craves as desperate an execution
As that is desperate which we would prevent.”
p.99
A) Friar Lawrence
B) Juliet
C) Desperate times call for desperate measures. His plan is desperate (crazy), as is the situation that is he trying to prevent.
2. “Twixt my extremes and me this bloody knife
Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that Which commission of thy years and art
Could to no issue of true honour bring”
p.98
A) Juliet
B) Friar Laurence
C) If the Friar cannot give her good advice, or a good solution, then she will let the knife call the shots. She is so desperate that suicide seems to be the only option.
3. “ I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life.”
p.111, 233, 103
A) Juliet
B) Herself
C) She suddenly realizes that she will never see the Nurse or her mother and father again! She may be dead or gone for another reason. She is suddenly aware of what she is about to do and becomes afraid.
4. “Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
p.109
A) Capulet
B) Everyone in the bedroom – Nurse and Lady Capulet and Paris
C) He is comparing Juliet to a beautiful flower. Having touched her, she is cold, dead like!
Death has done to Juliet what frost does to flowers, robs them of their natural beauty.
5. “ Most lamentable day, most woeful day,
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!”
p. 109
A) Nurse
B) Lady Capulet
C) This is the worst day that she has ever had in her life; it is the saddest day.
6.”... everyone prepare
To follow this fair corse unto her grave.
The Heavens do low’r upon you for some ill,
Move them no more by crossing their high will.”
p. 110
A) Friar Lawrence
B) Everyone on the scene
C) Prepare for Juliet’s Funeral. It is a sad day, the heavens brought you this bad day.
Don’t disobey the Gods or something bad will happen.