Author: Anna

Around me I see buildings mirror the ice cold water as I sneak towards the  intimidating, damp prison . Outside the gates the men effortlessly stand in strict uniforms with dogs trained well. The smooth reliable tarcel creates the butterflies in my stomach. My eyes gaze out the window as the car breaks and mums window screeches its way down. The guard gets straight to it asking for identification.

Sight
I See the lenses fogging up
Terror: I try to look ahead but i see nothing but fog.
Fun: I can see nothing but blue as i rush down the waterslide
Smell
I smell the chlorine lingering in my hair.
Terror: I can smell the chlorine as it gushes over my head
Fun: I smell the chlorine which reminds me of my favourite memories
Taste
I taste the liquid gushing into my mouth
Terror: I taste nothing but chemicals as I start choking
Fun: I can taste the chlorine that gushes into my mouth as i zoom around the corners.
Hear 
I hear the water splashing around me
Terror: I Hear nothing around me.
Fun: I hear the screams and laughter of the kids around me
Touch
I feel the coldness become warm.
Terror: I feel the coldness come over me as I sink further down.
Fun: I can hardly feel my face as my eyes are squished. 

1. Dad wakes me up
   As a rough hand shakes my shoulder and a deep strong voice alarms be to wake up.
2. Get changed
   My eyes adjust to the light as I slip on my uniform.
3. Eat breakfast
   I walk down the corridor to a smell of a cooked breakfast.
4. Brush teeth : T
   he mint flavour wakes up my taste buds.
5. Pack up bag
   The sound of the zip riding up my bag prepares me for the day at school.

4 Main Body Paragraph Ideas:
–  Dramatic technique (Dramatic Irony)
When Juliet had taken the potion to “die” and Friar Lawrence sent a letter to Romeo but he did not receive it and he went to buy a potion to kill himself when he goes to see Juliet.  Friar Lawrence ” Stay, Then; ill go alone, fear comes upon me: O, much I fear some ill unlucky thing:”.
– Refers to God and Fate
–  Language
–  Prologue, in the prologue they tell us what is going happen throughout the play. it tells us about the fated couple which refers to “star-crossed” which basically means against the stars. Prologue ” A pair of two star-crossed lovers take their lives”.
– Plot (Timing and Co-incidence)
romeo gets to Juliet’s tomb without knowing she’s not actually dead, he has the deadly potion with him and says his goodbyes. as soon as Romeo takes the potion Juliet wakes up to find him dead. Juliet-   ” O, comfortable Friar! where is my lord? I do remember well where I should be, and there I am. Where is my Romeo?”.  The second example would be when the Capulet tells the servant who can not read to send out the invitations. as the servant can’t read he walks along a street in Verona and comes across Romeo who helps him read, as Romeo helped him the servant asked him to come to the party. Servant- ” if you be not of the house of Montagues, i pray come crush a cup of wine”.

Act 2 Scene 5

Juliet: At nine o’clock I sent the nurse,
She ensured me she would be back In half an hour.
Perhaps she cant find him, thats not good!
Oh she’s too slow, loves runner should be thoughts,
which fly ten times faster than sunbeams
They should be strong enough to push shadows over the dark hills.
That’s the way doves carry Venus so fast,
and that’s why Cupid has wings that let him fly as fast as the wind.
Now it’s noon.
That’s three hours since nine o’clock,
but she hasn’t come back.
If she was young and passionate,
she’d move as fast as a ball.
My words would bounce her to my sweet love,
and his words would bounce her back to me.
But a lot of old people act like they’re already dead
sluggish, slow, big , and colourless, like lead.

Oh my god here she comes, what the news?
Did you see him?

Nurse: Peter, may you stay at the gate.

Juliet: Now my beautiful nurse, why do you look so sad.
Is it bad news? Tell me with a smile.
If its good news your ruining it with that sour face.

Nurse: I am aware, but leave me alone.
I am so tired my bones ache!
I have been running around everywhere.

Juliet: I wish you had my bones and i had yours news,
Please tell me nurse, I beg you, speak.

Nurse: oh sweet heaven, Your is such a rush.
Cant you wait until i catch my breath?

Juliet: How can you be out of breath
When you have enough breath to tell me your put of breath.
The excuse you make to delay the news is longer than the news itself
Is it good or bad? Answer that question
tell me if it good or bad, and ill wait for the details.

Nurse:Well, you have made a foolish choice.
You don’t know how to pick a man. Romeo?
No, not him, though his face is more handsome than any man’s,
and his legs are prettier, and as for his hands and feet and body,
they’re not much to speak of, and yet they’re beyond compare.
He’s not the most polite man in the world, but believe me,
he’s gentle as a lamb. Well, do what you want.
Be good. Have you had lunch yet?

Juliet: No i Haven’t its the least of my worries,
everything you told me i already new.
what about the marriage?

Nurse: Oh lord my head is pounding
I feel like im going to break into millions of peices.
My back aches so bad too ( Juliet rubs her back)
Oo yes and on the other side too,
Curse your heart for making me run all over the town.
I could get sick and die.

Juliet: Oh trust me, I apologize that your in pain,
Please sweet, sweet nurse, what did my Romeo say?

Nurse: Your love says, like a polite gentlmen,
who is aware, kind and handsom
where is your mother?

Juliet: Where is my mother? shes inside, why you ask
Where else could she be? Your answers are so strange.

Nurse: Holy God, you are so impatient.
My bones are still aching,
Next time do your messaging yourself.

Juliet: Your making such a fuss,
What did my romeo say.

Nurse: Do you have permission to go out
and take confession today?

Juliet: I do.

Nurse:Then hurry up and rush over to Friar Lawrence’s cell.
There’s a husband there who’s waiting to make you his wife.
Now I see the blood rushing to your cheeks.
You blush bright red as soon as you hear any news.
Go to the church. I must go by a different path to get a rope ladder.
Your love will use it to climb up to your window while it’s dark.
I do the drudge work for your pleasure.
But soon you’ll be doing a wife’s work all night long.
Go. I’ll go to lunch.
You go to Friar Lawrence’s cell.

Juliet: Wish me luck
Thankyou, my nurse.

 

The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse;
In half an hour she promised to return.
Perchance she cannot meet him: that’s not so.
O, she is lame! love’s heralds should be thoughts,
Which ten times faster glide than the sun’s beams,
Driving back shadows over louring hills:
Therefore do nimble-pinion’d doves draw love,
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill
Of this day’s journey, and from nine till twelve
Is three long hours, yet she is not come.
Had she affections and warm youthful blood,
She would be as swift in motion as a ball;
My words would bandy her to my sweet love,
And his to me:
But old folks, many feign as they were dead;
Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.

Act 5 Scene 3

Time: Thursday night.
Location: Tomb of the Capulets in Verona.
Characters: Paris, Page, Romeo,  Juliet,  Friar Lawrence, Balthasar, Prince, Capulet, Lady Capulet, Montague.
Events: Paris arrives at the tomb with flowers to say goodbye to Juliet as they were meant to get married as he is saying his goodbyes page alerts him that someone is coming, Paris hides to see who it is. Of course, that person was Romeo that was going to see Juliet to take the deadly potion because Juliet was supposedly dead. Paris comes out and wants to fight Romeo because he thinks Romeo is here to cause more danger, Paris does not know that Juliet is his wife. They fight, Romeo kills Paris and shortly after he looks at Juliet and wonders why she looks so fair and gives her one last kiss then he takes the deadly potion and dies. Friar Lawrence gets there too late and sees Romeo lying there dead, Romeo wakes up and Friar Lawrence convinces her to run away Juliet wants to take the potion that Romeo took but there was none left so she took the dagger off Romeo and stabs herself. they kept referring Juliet to a sheath.  The Prince arrives at the scene that Paris, Juliet and Romeo are all lying dead and think that Friar Lawrence killed them. Friar Lawrence explains that he did kill them but did not physically kill them he explains everything. Montague and Capulets decide to end their feud for the sake of there children that died. They also decide to make statues of there children to commemorate them. Prince says that those of them involved with Romeo and Juliet’s death will somewhat be punished and some will be pardoned. Prince- ” for never was a story of more woe. Than this of Juliet and her Romeo”.
The End.

Act 5 Scene 2

Time: Thursday  Morning.
Location: Friar Lawrence Cell.
Characters: Friar Lawrence, Friar John.
Events: Friar John comes to see Friar Lawrence and tells him that Romeo did not get the letter, Friar Lawrence explains that the letter was very important and may cause danger. Friar Lawrence gives Friar john instructions to follow as Friar Lawrence has to get the Capulets vault before Romeo finds her lying dead and kills himself.  Friar Lawrence- ” Poor living corse, clos’d in a dead man’s tomb”.

Act 5 Scene 1
Time: Wednesday Morning.
Location: A street in Mantua.
Characters: Romeo, Balthasar and Apothecary.
Events: Romeo has a wonderful dream that Juliet found him dead and gave him a kiss and gave him new life. Ashes thinking about this dream Balthasar walks towards him. Romeo instantly asks him questions such as how is my wife, is my father well?. Balthasar gives him the news that poor Juliet is dead. Romeo doesn’t take the news well and asks Balthasar to get horses so he can start heading to Verona tonight to lie with Juliet.  He asks Balthasar if he has a letter from Friar Lawrence but he doesn’t as Friar Lawrence had sent Romeo the plan but the letter had not gotten to him. Romeo talks about some type of herb he can take when he sees Juliet dead he will take his own life by drinking the herb. Romeo- ” A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear as will disperse itself through all the veins, that the life-weary taker may fall dead”.

Romeo- ” There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, doing more murder in this loathsome world, than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell”.

Act 4 Scene 5
Time: Wednesday Morning.
Location: Juliet’s Bedroom.
Characters: Nurse, Lady Capulet, Capulet, Friar Lawrence, Paris, Peter, Musican 1, 2 and 3.
Events: Nurse goes to wake Juliet up and walks in to find her dead but really she had just taken that potion, Shakespeare used dramatic irony in this scene. She calls out for help. Lady Capulet comes into the room asking what the noise is, the nurse tells her that Juliet is not waking up and that she must be dead. Lady Capulet calls out for capulet. Lady Capulet pretends to care as Friar Lawrence enters asking if the bride is ready. Capulet explains to him  shes dead and Friar Lawrence convinces the family that she has gone to heaven and that she’s in a higher place than shes ever been, he also mentions that it is best to die married young but no one in Juliet family know shes married except the nurse so they won’t know what he’s talking about. Friar Lawrence- ” She’s not well married that lives married long, but she’s best married that dies married young”.  Peter and the musicians argue to add humour.