1. Even if removed entirely from its contextualized placement at this moment of Romeo and Juliet, the dialogue of scene iv would still convey clearly an atmosphere of anxious anticipation and feverish work. How, exactly, does Shakespeare create that effect here? Consider in your answer not only the characters' diction, but also their syntax.
2. Numerous times in this individual scene (5) both characters and their audience are subjected to an emotional process of buildup and subsequent release, build up and release, build up and release. How many instances of this flux can you identify in scene V, and what is their overall effect on an audience watching or reading, especially considering its context near the end of the play/s dramatic arc?
1. This part of the book conveys that everyone is anxious because everyone is trying to get the wedding ready and they're running around the house yelling at eachother. Capulet especially in axious because he says that he stayed up all night working on the preparations; He's also rushing everyone because he says "Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.The curfew bell hath rung. 'Tis three o'clock.—Look to the baked meats, good Angelica.Spare not for the cost." so he's trying to get everyone to wake up because he wants to work more on the wedding stuff. The syntax shows that they are stressing and working fast becasue there's lots of explanation points, and they repeat a lot of important information. "A jealous hood, a jealous hood!"(Shakespeare 195)
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DeleteI agree with your opinion on Capulet rushing ariund for wedding preparations.
Delete2.Examples of the build ups and releases were when the Nurse went to wake Juliet up, found that she was "asleep", but the it goes back up because she realizes that she's dead. Then Lady Capulet comes in, not knowing hat is going on, then realizes that Juliet is dead. "What is the matter?"-"O me! O me! My child, my only life...(Shakespeare 199) This effect gives the reader the feeling of surprise that the characters get.
DeleteI like the way you worded your first answer. The word choice is exquisite. I think the example of capulet when he's trying to get everyone awake fits perfectly.
Delete1. I agree with Ben with the fact that a lot of repetition and reiterating is used, making it sound like Capulet needs all of these things done. "Come, stir, stir, stir!... A jealous hood, a jealous hood!... Make haste, make haste." (Shakespeare 195) Shakespeare is able to make Capulet sound stressed and you can lmost hear him yelling around to get things done.
ReplyDelete2. I noticed that the Nurse was rousing her, then freaked out to find her lifeless body, and then Lady Capulet no knowing as she walked into Juliet's bedroom, then finding out, so it's kind of calm and then stressful. It really makes the audience feel the strong emotions the characters feel.
Whoops, I just read yours Reagan and realized that I typed almost the same thing. Well, in that case I agree with all of your points.
Delete1. He conveys feverish work by making them all communicate with each other about their work and they're all yelling at each other about the wedding preparations. "They call for dates and quinces in the pastry!" Or "come stir stir stir! The second cock hath crowed!"
ReplyDeleteA syntax example would be how the sentences get shorter as if the characters are talking in haste. "Go waken Juliet. Go and trim her up. I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste,Make haste. The bridegroom he is come already.Make haste, I say!"
2. I found 4 examples of the fluxes; people kept coming in the room and asking what was going on and the nurse and lady capulet had to keep saying that Juliet was dead. It has the effect of an emotional roller coaster because you see all their dramatic reactions one by one. It makes you kind of feel bad for them because they're all saying things like "oh she was my only daughter and now she's gone" or "oh death has tricked her." But then your like wait, she's not really dead but their reactions make you forget that fact for at least a moment because you start to feel bad for the family. But also it's appropriate for them to feel the pain now because she's going to die anyways.
-Hannah Blankenship
I agree that it's good they're going ahead and grieving now since she dies anyways but if the plan worked she would have lived and not even left a note for her family because she fell in love with some guy, which is a pretty crappy thing to do.
Delete1. I think the Anxious mood in this part is created by all the characters trying to rush around getting things done. Juliet's parents and all the servants are running around trying to get prepared for the wedding, Juliet is trying to get out of it, and romeo is freaking out about being banished.
ReplyDelete2. I agree with Reagan and Ben and think it is when Juleit's body is found and the reactions that follow
-Haley
I agree that the mood was created by everyone rushing around.
Delete-Grace
1. I think the anxiousness and tense mood is created by the characters running around to make sure the wedding is perfect. "Come, stir, stir, stir! The second cock hath crowed.
ReplyDeleteThe curfew bell hath rung. 'Tis three o'clock.—
Look to the baked meats, good Angelica.
Spare not for the cost." (Shakespeare R&J Act 4 Scene 4)
Capulet makes the wedding such a huge deal, just to find out that Juliet is dead.
2. An example of the fluxes is when Nurse is too busy grieving to let Capulet know that Juliet is dead, so it builds up suspense and leaves the audience wondering how Capulet is going to react. Another example is when Capulet tells Paris about his daughter's passing "Ready to go, but never to return.
O son! The night before thy wedding day
Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies,
Flower as she was, deflowered by him." (Shakespeare R&J Act 4 Scene 5) This gives the audience a bit more insight on how Juliet had an impact on each character.
-Aissa
I think that the mood is set by the rushing around like haley said but also in the repitition of expressing the same emotions using different words and the repetition also creates a sense of denial.
ReplyDeleteI think the sense of build up and release allows the audience to go on the same emotional roller coaster that the charectars are going through and if you had not heard the classic romeo and Juliet details with the double3 suicide thing before you read the book like i did then it takes you on a very different very suspenseful viewing or reading of the play, which in a way allows you to empathize with the characters. I don;t know if I made any sense whatsoever but i tried. :)
1)In scene 4 of act 4 the atmosphere that is convoyed is anxious anticipation. Shakespeare pulls off this atmosphere with an array of exclamation marks repetition and short choppy sentence which are examples of syntax. "Make haste, make haste." "Nurse! Wife! What, ho? What, Nurse, I say!" Go, you cot-quean, go.
ReplyDelete2)One example that I found in scene 5 was when Friar Lawrence had just learned of his bride to be's death but then soon after the tone releases because Fair Lawrence talks about how she is better of in heaven and that she will have eternal life up there. "And all the better is it for the maid." "But heaven keeps his part in eternal life."
-Grace
1. You can tell this is a very anxious event in the play because of the way everyone is rushing around trying to do everything just right. Capulet also keeps telling all of the servants to hurry or go faster. Even though a lot of them have been up all night and the nurse is telling Capulet to go to bed, for he will be tired in the morning, everyone keeps hustling. As I read I can picture all these people bumping into each other and Capulet, the boss, yelling and telling everyone what to do. Which gives the sense that they are trying to anxiously get everything perfect for the wedding. I agree with Ben when he said the syntax of the moment is shown by the punctuation but also the short hasty responses when characters are talking.
ReplyDelete2. Two examples I found were when the nurse was like "wake up, wake up" and then they found Juliet to be "dead". The other one is when Peter kept asking the musicians what they lyrics of the song meant. He disagreed with all three of them and then at the end, he gave his answer and left before they could argue. Both these situations suspense or doubt was built up just to find out something different. They were all thinking Juliet would be super excited for her big day but so ended up being "dead." Then the musicians all gave their interpretation of the song just to be told they were wrong because Peter had a different opinion.
-ashlyn
1. This scene stresses the urgency of the situation by having people constantly moving around and ordering eachother to do tasks in preparation. Lots of sentence fragments like "Make haste, make haste... Call Peter," show how hurried they are, especially in relation to the other scenes where most speaking is done in a long, very thorough but slightly vague metaphor(s). The dialogue alone brings the image of a busy kitchen full of people running around yelling at eachother while simultaneously working to my head.
ReplyDelete2. 1) Nurse goes to awaken Juliet. Nurse figures out Juliet is dead.
2) Lady Capulet finds Nurse weeping. Lady Capulet discovers Juliet is dead.
3) Capulet comes into the room and acts like an idiot. Capulet discovers Juliet is dead.
4) Parents and Nurse grieve. Friar tells them not to be irrational and that she is in a better place.
These moments create a sense of suspense. Keeping the reader alert. This whole story is one emotional buildup to the dam breaking when Juliet actually dies.