ROMEO AND JULIET---ACT II

SCENE I:

While Romeo is going home from Capulet's party,he turns back and jumps the wall of Capulet's garden.He wants to be near his love.Then,Benvolio and Mercutio enter and look for him.They talk about Rosaline because they don't know of his love for Juliet.Romeo don't appear,then his friends eventually leave.

SCENE II:

ln Capulet's garden,Romeo sees Juliet on the balcony.He is affected by her beauty and listens her while she is talking to herself.She says she loves Romeo and wishes that he hadn't been an Montague.At first, Juliet wonders about Romeo's safety and then she worries that he may be a deceiver.Then Juliet sees Romeo and they pledge their love to one another then Juliet is called by the Nurse.She goes into the house,then comes back and tells Romeo that next day she will send a messenger to find out when and where to meet and marry him.Romeo tells that the messenger should come at nine o'clock in the morning.They say goodby to eachother, and after Juliet has gone,Romeo decides to go to the cell of Friar Laurence to get his help.

SCENE III:

Romeo visits Laurence.He gathers herbs and comments on how,in both plants and people,everything has some beneficial aspects,but every good can be turned to evil.Then Romeo appears and tells him that he has fallen in love with Juliet and wants him to marry them.At first,he surprises,however;he accepts to do what Romeo wants thinking that their marriage may end the feud between the Capulets and Montagues.

SCENE IV:

Benvolio and Mercutio wonder where Romeo is.Tybalt has sent a challenge to Romeo,and Benvolio believes that Romeo will accept it.Mercutio describes Tybalt as an arrogant killer.Romeo comes and debates with Mercutio over where he has been.While Mercutio and Benvolio are leaving,the Nurse comes.Romeo tells her that this afternoon,he will be at Friar Laurance's cell where they will be married.He tells the Nurse that she should hide behind the abbey wall to send her a rope ladder so that he can enter Juliet's room that night.

SCENE V:

Juliet impatiently waits for the return of the Nurse with news from Romeo.The Nurse tries all kinds of ways not to deliver the joyful news,but eventually tells that she should go to the cell of Friar Laurance to be married to Romeo.

SCENE VI:

Romeo and Juliet meet at the Friar Laurance's cell.Just before the wedding,Friar Laurance advises Romeo to love moderately.Romeo and Juliet tell eachother how much they love one another,and Friar Laurance leads them off to be married.

                                                                     QUOTES

“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun”

*He is referring to her beauty and all those things associated with sun. Shakespeare deliberately used the sun metaphor to describe Juliet, because he wanted to emphasise her rationality. In his time, the sun represented all that was constant, rational and masculine; the moon, on the other hand, represented the changeable, irrational and feminine.

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet''

*Juliet knows that the blood feud prevents her from loving a Montague. She ponders it. It's only your name that's the enemy. You are what you are, even though you may be a Montague.

“Good night,good night!Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till it morrow.”

*Good night,good night!Parting is so sweetly painful that I say good night until tomorrow.

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

*Do something nice and easy because those who are in hurry will fail.