1. Romeo secretly marries Juliet with the help of Friar Laurence, hoping it will unite their families. 2. The marriage happens quickly after Romeo and Juliet fall in love at first sight. Friar Laurence marries them but worries their love developed too rapidly. 3. During the wedding, images of happiness and marriage are paired with references to impending violence and death, foreshadowing the tragedy to come.

1. Romeo and Julietby William Shakespeare Act 2 Outline By Erin Salona

2. Act 2, Prologue Summarizes Act 1 Addresses the speed in which Romeo and Juliet have fallen in love Makes fun at the way in which Romeo abandoned Rosaline quickly for Juliet Now old desire doth in his death-bed lie,And young affection gapes to be his heir;That fair for which love groan'd for and would die,With tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair.

4. They think that Romeo is still in love with Rosaline.

5. Benvolio and Mercutio do not know that Romeo is headed to the Capulet orchard.

6. They do not know Romeo is now in love with Juliet

7. Mercutio calls out to Romeo in search of him by teasing him about Rosaline’s seductive beauty.

8. Romeo hides.

9. Benvolio asks that he leave Romeo alone.

10. After much joking around, Mercutio and Benvolio give up and go home to bed. Mercutio: I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes,By her high forehead and her scarlet lip,By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thighAnd the demesnes that there adjacent lie,That in thy likeness thou appear to us!

12. He cannot let his friends know he is in love with Juliet.

13. For Mercutio, love is a physical conquest.

15. Juliet is the sun, a torch, bright angel

16. Juliet = light & truth

17. Rosaline = darkness & moon

20. Her monologue lets Romeo know she is interested in him

21. Juliet says that she will disown her family so she can be with Romeo.

22. Juliet hates the name “Montague” not the person “Romeo.”Juliet: What's in a name? that which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet;So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,Retain that dear perfection which he owesWithout that title. Romeo, doff thy name,And for that name which is no part of theeTake all myself.

24. Romeo is willing to change his name just to be with Juliet

25. and says that Juliet’s family cannot stop their love.

26. Juliet says that she is afraid that her family will kill Romeo if they find him.

29. Romeo proposes and Juliet accepts.

30. Juliet says that if Romeo is serious about marriage, he must go and arrange the wedding.They have not known each other 24 hours!

32. Darkness = secrecy

33. Romeo must leave Juliet when it becomes light.

35. Romeo says he will have the wedding arranged by 9:00 am.

36. Romeo goes to the Friar to arrange the marriage.

38. Friar Laurence is alone in his garden tending to plants and herbs

39. He says that nothing is completely good or evil. It is how it is used.

40. His monologue hints at his involvement in the tragedy to come.

42. Act 2, Scene 3 Friar Lawrence is shocked! He tells Romeo: that Romeo says the words of love but he really doesn’t really understand true love. Friar Lawrence: Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here!Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,So soon forsaken? young men's love then liesNot truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

43. Act 2, Scene 3 Friar Laurence isn’t sure this marriage is a good idea but he agrees to marry them because he thinks it will stop the feud between the two families. Friar Laurence: In one respect I'll thy assistant be;For this alliance may so happy prove,To turn your households' rancour to pure love.

44. Act 2, Scene 3 Friar Lawrence gives Romeo good advice: “Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

45. Act 2, Scene 4 The morning after the Capulet party, Benvolio & Mercutio search for Romeo. Mercutio blames Romeo’s absence on Rosaline. They still don’t know about Juliet. Rosaline

47. Benvolio believes Romeo will respond.

49. Tybalt is still upset because Romeo was at the Capulet party.

51. Mercutio is happy that Romeo is over Rosaline.

52. Romeo and Mercutio trade a long series of puns.Happy Romeo

54. Mercutio teases the nurse & upsets her.

55. Mercutio lifts her veil and calls it a sail; he refers to her as a madam of a prostitution house; he makes fun of her age and of her lack of beauty Nurse & Romeo

56. Act 2, Scene 4 Romeo tells the nurse about the plan for the wedding. Juliet is to go to confession at Friar Laurence’s room that afternoon. They will be married there. Romeo’s servant will give a rope ladder to the Nurse. Romeo will use it to climb into Juliet’s room for their wedding night.

57. Act 2, Scene 4 Nurse tells Romeo that she thinks that Paris would make a Juliet better husband. Juliet doesn’t agree with her.

59. Nurse is 3 hours late.

60. Nurse teases Juliet by not giving her Romeo’s message immediately.

62. Juliet will tell her parents she is going to “shrift”/ confession.

64. Friar Laurence prays that God will bless the wedding regardless of what else might happen to the couple, and

65. warns that “things” that happen so fast often end just as quickly (and explosively). FORESHADOWINGFriar Laurence: These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder. . . Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

67. Romeo believes that not even death can compete with his love for Juliet

69. Act 2, Scene 6 These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite:Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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