Day: 19 November 2015

Act 2 Scene 4 scene summary

The nurse finally gets told from Juliet that she will be marrying Romeo soon. The nurse is trying to convince Juliet to leave Romeo and marry Paris but declines as she compares marrying Paris to marrying a toad. She tells the nurse that she will be marrying Romeo later that day in the afternoon at Friar Lawrences cell. Before the scene end Juliet leaves a rope outside her balcony for Romeo to climb up in the night.

Act 5 Scene 1 scene summary

Romeo is expecting good news, he had a dream that he was dead and Juliet kissed him and he came back to life. Balthasar arrives with news for Romeo but the news isn’t good its that he found out that Juliet was dead. Balthasar says that Romeo looks like he going to hurt himself. Romeo says “Juliet, I’ll lie with you tonight” which is implying that he will kill himself, he is also wondering where he could get his hands on poison and he realises the Apothecary has some. Romeo goes to the Apothecary to get some poison and the Apothecary want to reject him as its against the law but sells it to him as the Apothecary is poor.