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Paris greets Juliet at Friar Lawrence's cell as his future wife. Each answer she gives him is true for her and misleading for him, since her love belongs to Romeo.
PARIS. Do not deny to him that you love me. JULIET. I will confess to you that I love him. PARIS. So will ye, I am sure, that you love me. JULIET. If I do so, it will be of more price, Being spoke ...
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Narration Prompt
Retell the act as a chain of performances: what Juliet, the Friar, and the family each say and do, and which audience knows the truth at each step.
Discussion Questions
- Paris hears Juliet's lines as agreement, yet each one can be read two ways. Take 'That may be, sir, when I may be a wife.' What does Juliet gain by speaking so Paris can never hear her correctly?
- Juliet's staged repentance moves Capulet to pull the wedding from Thursday to tomorrow morning. Does the act present her deception as courage, entrapment, or both?
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Item 1
An overwhelming flood. Paris says the rushed wedding will stop the inundation of Juliet's tears, treating her grief like water to be dammed up.
Item 2
A cure for what is wrong. Juliet demands a remedy from the Friar and shows she has another cure ready if he offers none.
Item 3
Lying face down in total submission. Juliet performs being prostrate before her father, a pose of surrender she does not mean.
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