Romeo and Juliet (2)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Monday, October 14th

Today

- 15 minutes of silent reading

- Literature: Romeo and Juliet (continued)

Read your novel

Romeo and Juliet

Act 1 Scene 5

Watch the play and read the lines in your reader (page 45, from 'Did my heart love till now? ...')

What is this scene about? 

02:05-02:08

Paris

02:09-02:12

Juliet's mother

Literary devices in this scene

• Sonnet (divided among Romeo's and Juliet's lines)
  
• Metaphor ('holy shrine', 'two blushing pilgrims')
• Simile ('As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear')
• Soliloquy (a long speech given by the speaker to himself)

The famous balcony scene

Read this extract from the famous balcony scene, in which Juliet is talking about her love for Romeo.

Shakespeare’s original version

‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.


Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.

What’s Montague?
It is nor hand, nor foot,

Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

Belonging to a man.
O, be some other name!

What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.

Modern English
Only your name is my enemy.You’d be yourself even if you weren’t a Montague.
What is a Montague?
It isn’t a hand, foot, arm, face, or any other body part.
Oh, change your name!
What does a name mean?
A rose would smell as sweet
even if we called it by some other name.

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While watching

Use your reader and look at page 49. We start at the top of the page ("Which is the god of my idolatry").

Try to find out what Romeo and Juliet have decided to do.

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Literary devices in this scene

• Sonnet (divided among Romeo's and Juliet's lines)
  
• Metaphor ('holy shrine', 'two blushing pilgrims')
• Simile ('As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear')
• Soliloquy (a long speech given by the speaker to himself)

Juliet: Just tell me where and when and I'll be there to marry you tomorrow.

Read the brief summary at the bottom of page 49, then the lines from 'Now, good sweet nurse...' until 'Honest nurse, farewell' on page 50. What's going on here?

Why would Friar Lawrence agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

Thursday

Bring your novel and Literature reader.