AcT 4, ScEnE 3 To whose foul mouth no healthsome13 air breathes in,


And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes? Or, if I live, is it not very like, The horrible conceit14


of death and night, 40


Together with the terror of the place, – As in a vault, an ancient receptacle,15 Where, for these many hundred years, the bones Of all my buried ancestors are packed – Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in earth,16 Lies festering in his shroud17


At some hours in the night spirits resort18


Alack, alack, is it not like that I, So early waking, what with loathsome19 And shrieks like mandrakes20


50 smells, torn out of the earth,


That living mortals, hearing them, run mad – O, if I wake, shall I not be distraught, Environed21


with all these hideous fears?


And madly play with my forefather’s joints? And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his shroud? And, in this rage, with some great kinsman’s bone, As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? O, look! Methinks I see my cousin’s ghost Seeking out Romeo, that did spit22


his body


Upon a rapier’s point. Stay, Tybalt, stay! – Romeo! Romeo! Romeo! Here’s drink. I drink to thee! [She drinks and falls upon her bed]


A: AcT 4 ScEnE 3 - SuMmArY


Write a summary of this scene by copying out and completing the sentences below. In this scene: 1. 2.


Juliet tells the Nurse and Lady Capulet… In soliloquy, Juliet expresses her fears that… 3. Finally, at the end of the scene, Juliet…


B: TaLkInG PoInT FiLmEd VeRsIoNs Of JuLiEt'S SoLiLoQuY


Juliet’s soliloquy in this scene illustrates the hugely difficult situation in which she finds herself. Her words and actions offer us real insight into her character. However, different performances present Juliet in different ways. In some productions the actor shows her as a brave young woman, willing to risk death to be with the one she loves. In other productions the actor presents her as desperate, alone and bordering on hysteria.


Click Or go to mentorbooks.ie/resources


and then select Junior Cycle English/Romeo and Juliet/Act 4 Scene 3 Resources Watch the video and as a class discuss how Juliet is presented in each of the four productions.


163 15 13


healthsome: fresh/ wholesome


14 conceit: idea receptacle: container 16


– where, as they say, –


green in earth: recently buried


17 shroud: burial cloth 18


resort: meet


19 loathsome: disgusting 20


mandrakes: a forked root. It was said that they shrieked when pulled from the ground


21 Environed: encircled


22


spit: skewer


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