Romeo and Juliet act 2, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Romeo and Juliet act 2 e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! Romeo and Juliet Act 2 Scene 2 JULIET Anon(coming), good nurse! Sweet Montague, be true. -> She helps Juliet with her love story. - she calls him by his name -> she is practical (he is a person). Don’t forget about the decision(marriage) and evolution from Romeo fantasies into something more real. Scene 3 FRIAR LAWRENCE ‘Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?’ -> here he is suspicious about the new love, indeed Romeo just some hours before was madly in love with Rosaline. Scene 4 MERCUTIO ‘O, he is the courageous captain of compliments’ -> fight in the streets. ROMEO Bid her devise Some means to come to shrift this afternoon. And there she shall at Friar Lawrence' cell Be shrived and married. -> Romeo is telling the nurse what to say to Juliet to arrange the marriage Scene 5 ‘The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse; In half an hour she promised to return’. -> Juliet is waiting for the nurse to come back. NURSE Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’s cell. There stays a husband to make you a wife. Hie you to church. I must another way To fetch a ladder, by the which your love Must climb a bird’s nest soon when it is dark. -> the nurse tells Juliet what Romeo said. She is willing to help the two lovers. Scene 6 ROMEO Amen, amen. But come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy That one short minute gives me in her sight. Do thou but close our hands with holy words, Then love-devouring death do what he dare; It is enough I may but call her mine. -> He is comparing the time with Juliet with the time without her. Insistence in time. For the first time death can come with love.