There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, tortue hell itself,
According to Romeo, banishment is just a nice name for death, and he complains,
Romeo says that you should cut my head with axe while you smile and not feel sorry. Friar is shocked at Romeo's attitude and behaviour he says
O deadly sin! O rude unthankful ness!
He accuses Romeo of the sin of ingratitude and points out that the law demands Romeo's life for his crime, but the Prince has kindly reduced the sentence. He says, [precious]
Romeo still adamant tells friar that its not mercy but torture because heaven is where is in Verona where Juliet lives and every thing else is hell. Like he says
“This is torture, and not mercy, heaven is here. Where Juliet lives and
.
He means that flies can touch her gentle and beautiful hands and he can’t because he’s been banished and he also thinks that he is unworthy. He is describing her as a goddess and emphasising her pureness and innocence. He also says that
Flies may do this, but I may fly from this;.
This means that he has to stay away from her because his path is blocked because of what he has done. This quote is also a pun word.
With bitter irony he asks the Friar
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
But "banished" to kill me? "Banished"?
"Romeo is saying that the Friar could have used the usual ("mean") methods of killing him, rather than torturing him to death with the word "banished." He even accuses the Friar of being cruel to him. He asks Friar how he, Romeo's spiritual father and friend, has the heart to him with the word banished.
Friar Laurence frustration and anger is shown he is says
[silly] ,
because nothing is getting through to Romeo
Friar Laurence gives him words which might help him come into his senses. That he’s clearly not in at this moment.
. Philosophy is "adversity's sweet milk" because when you have problems, philosophy nurtures you by enabling you to put those problems in perspective. The Friar wants to talk some sense into Romeo, but Romeo doesn't want to listen, and besides, the Friar said that "banished" word again. Romeo exclaims,
Romeo angrily tells friar to hang his philosophy because it doesn’t make her or bring her. Like shown in this quote
“Yet banished Hang up your philosophy!
Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,”
But the Friar does talk, and even gets a bit sarcastic, saying,
, to which Romeo replies,
.
The wise man that Romeo is thinking of is Friar Laurence, who could see, if only he would really look at Romeo, that talking will do not good. Nevertheless, the Friar tries again, saying,
.
The Friar only wants to discuss ("dispute") Romeo's situation ("estate"), but Romeo gets downright petulant. He tells the Friar that he can't talk about what he doesn't feel, and that he can't possibly feel what Romeo feels because he isn't young, isn't newly married to Juliet, hasn't just killed Tybalt, isn't in love, and isn't banished. A modern teenager would yell, "YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!" Then, to prove just how terrible he feels, Romeo throws himself on the floor, as though he's jumping into his own grave.
Friar Laurence is making no progress because he doesn’t understand want he is going through and most importantly he’s not mentioning Juliet the most important person in Romeo life.
There is sudden knocking outside which makes the scene more dramatic and creates a tension because friar thinks that guards have come to arrest him. Sense of panic is shown when Friar Laurence says
“Hark how they knock!-whos there?-Romeo, arise
Though wilt be taken.-stay a while! Stand up;”
Friar Laurence is trying to make Romeo hide but he is not budging because there is lack of communication between Romeo and Friar Laurence. Friar Laurence goes to the door and asks who it is and we find out it’s only the nurse. This makes the scene anticlimax.
Friar open the door nurse enters and asks for Romeo. Friar tells him that he is drowning himself in self petty. This tells us that friar Laurence is fed up because of his childish behaviour.
Nurse says
“O he is even in my mistress’ case,”
We are learning how Juliet is through nurse. She feels sympathy towards Romeo.
We also see difference in language. Friar language is suffocated where as nurse language is simple and direct as shown in the coat
“Piteous predicitment! even so lies she,
Blubb’ring and weeping, weeping and blubb’ring”
Nurse tells Romeo to stand for sake of Juliet. This is the first time Juliet name is mentioned. This is having an effect of Romeo because this makes him think about Juliet. Romeo asks the nurse if Juliet thinks he’s a murderer.
The Nurse urges Romeo, for Juliet's sake, to stand up and be a man, and offers her own little bit of philosophy:
“Ah sir! ah sir! Death's the end of all”.She means that it won't do any good for Romeo to just lie there and die. It's the simple truth, but such a simple truth that it might get a chuckle from the audience.
In all that the Nurse says, the only thing Romeo hears is "Juliet," and he asks,
Spakest thou of Juliet? how is it with her?
Doth she not think me an old murderer,
Now I have stain'd the childhood of our joy
With blood removed but little from her own?
He means that in the first few hours of their marriage, and the "blood” removed but little from her own" is the blood of Tybalt, her cousin. He is afraid that because he has killed Tybalt, Juliet will hate him. That same fear is clear in his next questions:
“O She says nothing, but weeps and weeps,”
She has used present tense which will have an immediate effect on Romeo
Romeo talks about his name and how it has become a barrier between him and Juliet and he wishes that name wasn’t Montague. Earlier in the play Juliet says that it’s your name that is my enemy not any other part of your body. Like Juliet says
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy: It is nor hand nor foot, nor arm, nor face, not any other part belonging to a man.”
Romeo goes on to say that his body is like a building that should be destroyed. Then he tries to kill himself using a dagger. Friar stops Romeo from killing himself, and then gives him a tongue-lashing.
Friar makes Romeo ashamed by saying
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!
Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both,
Thou hast amazed me! By my holy order
As the Friar uses the words, both "Unseemly" or "ill-beseeming" mean something stronger than "inappropriate" or "offensive" -- something more like "grotesque." He is telling Romeo that he is acting worse than the worst woman, and worse than the worst beast, and appears to be some grotesque combination of both.
He says,
Hast thou slain Tybalt? wilt thou slay thyself?
And slay thy lady that in thy life lives,
By doing damned hate upon thyself?
In other words, Romeo can't make up for killing Tybalt by killing himself; that would only kill Juliet.
Not only is Romeo being beastly and absurd, says the Friar, he's also betraying himself and all he should be. He says,
“Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit;
Which, like a usurer, abound'st in all,”
According to the Friar, Romeo is doing shame to his "shape" (his appearance as a handsome man), his "love" (for Juliet), and his "wit" (his intelligence and wisdom). He's like a usurer (a moneylender and miser) who has plenty, but doesn't put that plenty to good use. Romeo's shape, love, and wit should all enhance one another; each good quality, rightly used, should make the other good qualities better. But Romeo isn't making good use of any of his good qualities, and the Friar proves it by going into detail about each quality. His shape is like a waxworks figure; it looks good, but doesn't show any real courage. His love is a lie because in trying to kill himself he would kill Juliet.
His wit is self-destructive stupidity, like the gunpowder in an inept soldier's powder horn, which explodes because of his own ignorance, blowing him to bits.
“Like a powder in a skilless soldier’s flask. Is set afire by thine own ignorance and though dismembere’d with own thine defence”. This is also a simile.
After making Romeo feels ashamed of himself .He knows tries to raise Romeo up by pointing how lucky he is. Friar point’s out that Romeo should be happy because he killed Tybalt, who would have killed him. And he should be happy because he could have been executed and was only exiled. Friar Laurence says he’s fortunate and uses a metaphor and he also exaggerates like this quote shows
“A pack of blessing light upon thy back”
Friar Laurence puts forward his plan. That will help Romeo get back on his feet.
It seems unlikely that any of these good advices rouse Romeo out of his pout, but what the Friar says next seems to do the trick:
Go, get thee to thy love, as was decreed,[planned]
Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.
The Friar adds that Romeo should leave again before the night-watchmen go on duty, because he must go to Mantua and wait until a time can be found to make his marriage known, get a pardon from the Prince, and call him back to Verona
“With twenty hundred thousand times more joy
Than thou went'st forth in lamentation.”
He uses this quote which is a hyperbibaly to keep him interested in his plan. Friar Laurence is exaggerates because he wants to get Romeo out of the situation.
He orders Nurse a job, telling her to tell Juliet to make sure that all of her household goes to bed early, which they are likely to do because of their sorrow for Tybalt. It appears these plans finally get Romeo on his feet because the Friar concludes his long speech with the announcement that
“Romeo is coming”
At this point the Nurse unintentionally adds a little humour by exclaiming,
O Lord, I could have stay'd here all the night
To hear good counsel: O, what learning is!
Nurse is impressed and likes the kind of language used by Friar Laurence. This has made Romeo feel positive. Like this quote shows
“Do so, and bid my sweet to chide”
He's thinking that Juliet will have some harsh words to say about the death of Tybalt, and he's ready to endure them, but then the Nurse remembers the ring that Juliet gave her to give to Romeo. She gives it to him and urges him to make haste.
He is also pleased to get the ring from Juliet. Like this quote shows
“How well my comfort is revived by this”
Since Juliet sent the ring, she probably won't do much chiding, and so Romeo feels much better
.
At this moment Friar Laurence has got back his authority which he didn’t have before. Romeo has made up with Romeo and sees him as a friend.
The Nurse hurries away, and the Friar tells Romeo that he ought to hurry, too, and then offers one last bit of advice, saying,
“here stands all your state:
Either be gone before the watch be set,
Or by the break of day disguised from hence.”
"Here stands all your state" means "Everything depends on what I'm about to say," and what he says is that Romeo must not be caught in Verona. He must get out very soon, before the watchmen go on duty, or he must leave at the break of day, in disguise. A minute before he told Romeo not to stay "till the watch be set," but apparently he's decided that Romeo deserves or will take a night with Juliet, despite any danger.) The Friar adds that Romeo must stay in Mantua and that he'll engage Romeo's servant as a messenger to deliver any good news from Verona. Then the Friar shakes hands with Romeo, tells him it's late, and says farewell. Romeo answers,
“ But that a joy past joy calls out on me,
It were a grief, so brief to part with thee.
Farewell.”
Romeo means that it would give him grief to leave the Friar so hurriedly, if he weren't answering the call of inexpressible joy. And so Romeo runs off to find that joy.
Romeo goes to Mantua and spends a night with Juliet. The next day Romeo leaves Juliet and head of to Verona. Juliet all alone and worried that her family (Capulet) decides to move the wedding ahead and Juliet not happy decides to go to friar and puts her problem forward. Friar Laurence tells Juliet that she should take the drug that will not kill her but put her to sleep. Friar tells Juliet that he will send a message telling Romeo about their plan. This tells us that this plan is bound to go wrong. The day before the wedding Juliet bravely takes the poison and is found dead in her room. But we know as readers that she is not dead. Juliet is taken to a mausoleum where she laid to rest. Friend of Romeo rushes to Romeo and tell him about this devastating news. Romeo shocked to hear that Juliet is dead rushes to the mausoleum. This tells us that the message near got to Romeo because it was delayed. This plan went because of lack of communication. Romeo reaches the mausoleum and divested to see Juliet dead and takes the poison and Juliet wakes seeing Romeo dead and she kills him self. Friar Laurence arrives and sees Romeo and Juliet dead.
At the end Price arrives and tells both Capulet and Montague families that because of there feud. They have lost their loved ones and make them feel ashamed.