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H/W Translation and Act 2 Scene 3 summary

October 15, 2014 / / 1 Comment

Translation:

Quote:

But come, young waverer, come, go with me,

In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,

For this alliance may so happy prove

To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.

My Translation:
But come young man,come with me, I will help you with your wedding, for this wedding might bring the peace between the two families.
Quote:
Within the infant rind of this small flower
Poison hath residence and medicine power:
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers each part;
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart.
Two such opposed kings encamp them still
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will;
And where the worser is predominant,
Full soon the canker death eats up that plant.
My translation:
Inside this rind of flower there is both poison and powerful medicine when you smell it it makes you feel good but you taste and you die and when evil is in the flower you become evil too.
Act 2 Scene 3
Setting: Somewhere in Verona
Time: Monday morning.
Characters: Friar Lawrence, Romeo.
Events:In this scene what happens is that Friar(the priest) is talking about how an evil and a positive can become evil because of evil always being dominant.Then Romeo enters early in the morning to talk to Friar and Friar says you must of had fun with Roselin all night and Romeo deny’s he says he was with another girl and then tells the priest but she is in the foes side.Romeo then asks if  the priest could help them arrange a wedding immediately and the priest says yes because it might bring the families back together.
Quote:
Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell.
But come, young waverer, come, go with me,
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be,
For this alliance may so happy prove
To turn your households’ rancor to pure love.

Act 1 Scene 5 Review

October 9, 2014 / / 1 Comment

Setting: Inside the Capulet’s House. Mascaraed party started.

Time: Late at night.

Characters:Capulet,Capulet cousin,Tybalt, Lady Capulet,Juliet,Romeo,Benvolio,Mercutio,Maskers.

Event:In this scene Montague’s (Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio) go to the mascaraed and enjoy themselves when suddenly Romeo sees a girl in an arm of a knight.Romeo asks a serving man “Who is that girl over there” the serving man responds “I don’t know” Then Tybalt finds out that there is a Montague in the party and tells Capulet.However Capulet does not mind and says that a young gentleman like should have no problems in this party, Tybalt responds “but he is an enemy of ours he cant just be in our party”,Capulet says” you would rather spoil the party than let one Montague stay at the party” .Meanwhile, the people starts to dance again and the music plays on, then Romeo moves to the girl he thinks she shows the torches how to burn bright.Romeo says to the girl(Juliet)”can I kiss you?” the girl flirts with Romeo for a bit until, Romeo kisses her.Than the nurse say to Juliet “your mother is calling you” and Romeo starts to think is she really a Capulet.Than Romeo leaves the party when the party is most fun as said by Benvolio.

Quote:

TYBALT
This, by his voice, should be a Montague.—
(to his PAGE) Fetch me my rapier, boy.—
What, dares the slave
Come hither, covered with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honor of my kin,
To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.

H/W Romeo and Juliet Act 1 Scene 4 Explain Shakespeare’s use of Metaphor

October 2, 2014 / / 1 Comment

Point

William Shakespeare uses metaphor to create a better understanding of his script or play, so the comparison of an action to his play would make understand more of what is not just happening with the character but also, to create an atmosphere of whats is happening around the character/s (Setting).

Example

Act 1 Scene 4 Mercutio talks rough about about love to Romeo

“If love be rough with you, be rough with love.
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.—
Give me a case to put my visage in!
A visor for a visor.—What care I
What curious eye doth cote deformities?
Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.”
Modern Translation from NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE
“If love plays rough with you, play rough with LOVE
-Mercutio suggests that- Romeo cure himself of love by having sex.
love. If you prick love when it pricks you, you’ll beat love down.
Give me a mask to put my face in. A mask to put over my other mask.
What do I care if some curious person sees my flaws?
Let this mask, with its black eyebrows, blush for me. (they put on masks)”
Explanation
The metaphor “Give me a case to put my visage in!” this mini quotation suggest that Romeo’s feelings, mood and his own atmosphere;
His feelings right now would be sad, lonely and love needing.
 His mood would be depressed.
His atmosphere would be dark ,silent  and hollow
Extension Component
There is load of quotations in the script to prove my point of Romeo being depressed because of love such as
“BENVOLIO
Tut man, one fire burns out another’s burning.
One pain is lessened by another’s anguish.
Turn giddy, and be helped by backward turning.
One desperate grief cures with another’s languish.
Take thou some new infection to thy eye,
And the rank poison of the old will die.”
This quotation is from Act 1 Scene 2  this little paragraph shows Romeo’s emotions to what love has led him to.