Act 4 Scene 4-5

Act 4 Scene 4-5
Wedding or Funeral?

Prompt A: In scene 4 and 5 of Act 4, the Capulets are preparing for the wedding. It is morning time and several preparations are being made for the wedding between Juliet and Paris. The nurse goes to wake Juliet only to find her dead. She beings crying and soon Capulet and Lady Capulet enter. Paris arrives and they all are mourning. Friar Laurence pushes them to get started on the funeral process, and they agree. The guests are still coming in but they send the musicians home. Peter, a Capulet servant, asks the musicians to play a happy song to rid him of his sorrows. The musicians refuse, and Peter begins insulting them.

Prompt D: When Capulet finds Juliet dead, he shrieks,
"Ha? Let me see her. Out, alas! She’s cold.

Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff.

Life and these lips have long been separated.

Death lies on her like an untimely frost

Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."

I like this excerpt, especially the last three lines. It's a really beautiful way to describe death. He's saying that Juliet was like a flower, killed by an untimely frost- too soon. I like 'life and these lips have long been separated' too.