Romeo and Juliet - journal 7 - act 2 scene 6
Today in class my group had to create 2-3 tablos of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in Act 2 scene 6. We had to analyze the scene and find two important quotes that we would make tablos for. When my group first started analyzing it was very confusing. Not only was our scene shorter than others which gave us fewer options to pick from, but to understand Shakespear’s thoughts we had to read sentences and the words in the sentences separately.
Scene 6 was when Romeo and Juliet were getting married. However, Shakespeare didn’t spend much time describing the wedding, which we speculated is because their marriage isn’t the main point, but why they got married. We found this out when we were wondering why Friar would support the couple’s marriage despite having said, “These violent delights have violent ends.” We felt that this line was initiating that as much as Romeo’s and Juliet’s love is uncontrollably strong and violent in the midst of the feud along with their reputation their love could die out very fast and violently too. Regarding what they are risking to love each other foreshadowing their fate. If he cared for them and new it could only end violently why would he let them marry? Because he pities them? For love beats all? Then we realized in scene 3 from act two it mentions how at first Friar was reluctant to help their marriage, but later agrees hoping that this marriage will end the feud between the two families. Gathering this information we realized that the quote, “These violent delights have violent ends” does not only symbolize Romeo's and Juliet's dangerous love that could have dangerous ending but the feud as well. The feud symbolizes the "violent delight" that the two houses are somehow drawn into this competition. You can see this in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet. The capulet despite saying unpleasant things like rape, "They must take it in sense that feel it" just jokes around. You can see how they initiate fights as well, "My naked weapon is out. Quarrel! I will back thee." To end such violent fight Friar believes the solution can only be that violent and hard. Which he believes is the shocking news of the couple's love but really is a foreshadowing of their death that will end the feud.
Before analyzing and deeply understanding the quote my team just thought we should grab each other's hair and collars with someone dead to represent how the feud and fighting led to violent deaths as well. However, after realizing the true meaning we thought about how we would represent the deep meaning of this feud and each character's role. Finally, after some pondering, we decided to have Romeo point a gun straight out to represent when he's running into the church. At that scene not only were their angry mobs of people and cops who had found out that Romeo has entered Verona, but it created high tensions with many weapons representing violence. Romeo with the other hand has a poison bottle next to his lip, and Juliet behind Romeo touching his shoulder and having a gun against her head which shows how the feud only could end violently by the death of those two. The two couple were to represent the violence of the feud and the consequences of it. To express Fryer's role in this which is as well important, we had fryer have his hand out to where Romeo is pointing the gun at which is meant to show how he's telling them to stop with the feud but also hand out across Romeo and Juliet which explains how he wants to protect the couple as well.
Our second quote tablo was the last line in scene 6 which is: For by your leaves you shall not stay alone, till holy church incorporate two in one. We thought the fact that leaves were incorporated into this was very cool. It felt like they were foreshadowing if one leaf falls the other falls down as well. This tablo is shown by Romeo symbolizing the leaf where he on the ground falling which leads Juliet to be falling as well. The last line of the church is another foreshadowing of the line how they will be one together when they die in the church. At first, for the second quote, we just thought of giving Romeo and Juliet lying on the ground not thinking about how we would show Friar's feeling despite that he has an important role in the happening of all this as well. We decided to have friar hands on top of his hand upset that he couldn’t help the feud or couple. The making of tablo was very hard. However, it was no doubt though that this project was EXTREMELY helpful in us understanding such an important scene that we would have just skipped and thought of marriage as well as the respect of Shakespeare that we once that was blabbers of the word actually had deeper meanings to each sentence.
Scene 6 was when Romeo and Juliet were getting married. However, Shakespeare didn’t spend much time describing the wedding, which we speculated is because their marriage isn’t the main point, but why they got married. We found this out when we were wondering why Friar would support the couple’s marriage despite having said, “These violent delights have violent ends.” We felt that this line was initiating that as much as Romeo’s and Juliet’s love is uncontrollably strong and violent in the midst of the feud along with their reputation their love could die out very fast and violently too. Regarding what they are risking to love each other foreshadowing their fate. If he cared for them and new it could only end violently why would he let them marry? Because he pities them? For love beats all? Then we realized in scene 3 from act two it mentions how at first Friar was reluctant to help their marriage, but later agrees hoping that this marriage will end the feud between the two families. Gathering this information we realized that the quote, “These violent delights have violent ends” does not only symbolize Romeo's and Juliet's dangerous love that could have dangerous ending but the feud as well. The feud symbolizes the "violent delight" that the two houses are somehow drawn into this competition. You can see this in the first scene of Romeo and Juliet. The capulet despite saying unpleasant things like rape, "They must take it in sense that feel it" just jokes around. You can see how they initiate fights as well, "My naked weapon is out. Quarrel! I will back thee." To end such violent fight Friar believes the solution can only be that violent and hard. Which he believes is the shocking news of the couple's love but really is a foreshadowing of their death that will end the feud.
Before analyzing and deeply understanding the quote my team just thought we should grab each other's hair and collars with someone dead to represent how the feud and fighting led to violent deaths as well. However, after realizing the true meaning we thought about how we would represent the deep meaning of this feud and each character's role. Finally, after some pondering, we decided to have Romeo point a gun straight out to represent when he's running into the church. At that scene not only were their angry mobs of people and cops who had found out that Romeo has entered Verona, but it created high tensions with many weapons representing violence. Romeo with the other hand has a poison bottle next to his lip, and Juliet behind Romeo touching his shoulder and having a gun against her head which shows how the feud only could end violently by the death of those two. The two couple were to represent the violence of the feud and the consequences of it. To express Fryer's role in this which is as well important, we had fryer have his hand out to where Romeo is pointing the gun at which is meant to show how he's telling them to stop with the feud but also hand out across Romeo and Juliet which explains how he wants to protect the couple as well.
Our second quote tablo was the last line in scene 6 which is: For by your leaves you shall not stay alone, till holy church incorporate two in one. We thought the fact that leaves were incorporated into this was very cool. It felt like they were foreshadowing if one leaf falls the other falls down as well. This tablo is shown by Romeo symbolizing the leaf where he on the ground falling which leads Juliet to be falling as well. The last line of the church is another foreshadowing of the line how they will be one together when they die in the church. At first, for the second quote, we just thought of giving Romeo and Juliet lying on the ground not thinking about how we would show Friar's feeling despite that he has an important role in the happening of all this as well. We decided to have friar hands on top of his hand upset that he couldn’t help the feud or couple. The making of tablo was very hard. However, it was no doubt though that this project was EXTREMELY helpful in us understanding such an important scene that we would have just skipped and thought of marriage as well as the respect of Shakespeare that we once that was blabbers of the word actually had deeper meanings to each sentence.
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