Blog Post #6 Fate of Friar Lawrence

The feud was over and everyone was happy, especially Friar Lawrence because he had gotten away clean with attempting to help Romeo and Juliet escape. He shows this deep expression when he says "But that relief wouldn't last long because sooner or later someone would find the letter that told Romeo about the potion Juliet drank and how he was going to take her to Mantua. Five days after the funeral and the golden monument had been put up, some one did find it. The note had been blowing around in the wind when it blew right to Lord Capulet's servant. He brought the letter back to show him of this shocking news. When Lord Capulet saw this message he was very angry at Friar Lawrence for giving his daughter a potion to fake her death and cancel the wedding so that Romeo could take her away to Mantua. In this madness, Capulet marched over to the Montague house and had a long arguement over whether Montague knew about this. Capulet ended up killing Montague in his chair with a sword in his throat. Next stop was Friar Lawrence. Capulet didn't care if he was sorry, he was going to kill him anyway. Once he got to the friars house, he rammed the door open and surprisingly found no one in the house. He wondered where he could have gone. He walked out and at his first glance to the right, there he was. Runnig over the hills as fast as he could. Capulet rounded up three men with horses to go kill him. When they caught up with the runner, friar turned with two swords at hand. As they rode by, friar speared two of them with the swords and threw a dagger at the other. They all died there, with friar taking a horse. Capulet got a horse and rode after him and started a hot pursuit. Friar Lawrence jumped from his horse at Capulet and took him off of his horse too. There they lie on the ground when Capulet stands up and pulls a sword from his sheath.
"I cant beleive you let my daughter take a potion so that ugly Romeo could marry her!"
"I didn't!"
"Well, that wont matter anymore," he says whil puling the sword to his head.
With one swoop, the head of Friar Lawrence comes off and rolls down the hill.


Vocabulary

apprehend: take into custody
canopy: a covering of fabric which is supported on poles
contemp: a feeling in which one regards anything considered as mean
disperse: to drive off in different directions
inexorable: not to be affected by prayers
interred: to put a dead body in a grave
penury: extreme poverty
remnants: a remaining, left over
righteous: characterized by up rightnessor morality

Post #5 #3

Have you ever felt like you have been pressured in a situation against your will? In the story, Romeo and Juliet are in this situation. Both want to marry each other but Juliet's father is forcing her marry Paris, a show off with a lot of pride. Romeo on the other hand has been banished to Mantua for taking the life of Tybalt, a Capulet. Though in this situation, I have more sympathy for Juliet. I feel this way for her because she is being forced to marry someone she doesn't want to. When it comes to relationships you can't force love. Juliet likes Romeo but no one else has agreed to this relationship except Romeo, Friar Lawrence, and Nurse. A perfect example of  anger from Juliet for her forced marriage is when she snapped at Paris, "That may be, sir, when I may be a wife" (Shakespeare 228). Juliet is probably in the worst position because all of the drama she had to face. I can see how Romeo was just mad but Prince Escalus had already warned the Capulets and the Montegues to stop fighting. The fact that everyone cared and showed so much saddness over Tybalt's death only increased the chance of Romeo getting banished for this incident. Romeo and Juliet's relationship is slowly coming to an end. Will they find a solution, or will the forced decisions of Juliet's father have her married to Paris.

Post #4 Reaction of Nurse

To Friar Lawrence,


These Past couple of days have been painful with suspense. First, Romeo gets accused for a taking a life that he didn't. Then he gets banished from here. Oh, how I am outstanded that Romeo is banished from here, from Juliet. I have worked so hard to see them two get together and now it all doesn't matter or pay off because Romeo is banished. I do not know what will go on in the house of Capulet now that this relationship is gone. I honestly think Romeo wouldn't do anything to hurt someone like that because he is a lover not a fighter, a lover of Juliet. Who knows what Juliet will do, now that Capulet is making Juliet marry Paris.


I do not know what will happen with all of these shocking events going on, but I will write again once a conclusion is made. Hopefully a good one that I can stand. If you can help Juliet or Romeo, write back and we can arrange something.


Hoping For Luck,
Nurse

Blog Post #3

Romeo and his friends treat nurse disrespectfully. They do very mean things like looking at her underwear and getting all in her dress. They also lied and said very harsh things about her.These men, especially Romeo, wouldn't treat all women in Verona the same way like he treats Juliet like a princess. A perfect example of this is when Mercutio sings "An old hare hoar,
And an old hare hoar, Is very good meat in lent; But a hare that is a hoar Is too much to score, When it hoars ere it be spent."

This is a photo of someone being bullied. The girl that is being bullied is like nurse in this scene. The bully refers to Romeo and his friends.



Chided: show the dissaproval of, scold
Confounds: to perplex or amaze
Driveling: saliva coming from the mouth or mucus from the nose
Exposition: a large scale public exhibition or show
Idolatry: the religious worship of idols
Lamentable: regrettable, unfortunate
Perjuries: the willful givings of false testimonies under oaths or affirmations

Blog Post #2

Rosaline, Romeos first love, has made a swear on her life that she would never again love someone. Romeo is deeply hurt by this and that the fact that he is being kept away from his dear Rosaline. Later on, Romeo sees Juliet. Both Juliet and Romeo know that they are destined for each other, not caring about the fact that their families are at war. Juliet will do anything to stop the wedding with Paris. These two occurrences of love are very different because Rosaline and Romeo's relationship was denied and forever to not be successful although Romeo and Juliet's relationship was in a pickle but still possible if Juliet comes out in the end and has the wedding with Romeo not Paris.

When Romeo and Juliet find out who each other is, they are not shocked, but hypnotized by love. Romeo didn't care about who she was except the fact that she was pretty to him. Juliet was worried about him being a Montague and that they may never be together. Juliet's point is true and Romeo is setting that point of view aside. Romeo didn't possibly think of the fact that if he was caught in love with Juliet, his life could be taken.

Adversary: a person, group, or force that opposes or attacks
Disparagement: something that derogates or casts in a bad light, as a remark or censorious essay.
Pernicious: causing insidious harm or ruin
Posterity: succeeding or future generations collectively
Propagate: to cause an organism to multiply by any process of natural reproduction from the parent stock

Post #1: Fate

I have seen fate before, mostly in movies. Fate is what is going to happen with your life. Sometimes your fate may be judged or said to be by religion. Personally I think that someones fate can only be told of someone that is in charge of them like a judge could determine your fate by either sending you to jail for the rest of your life or not. Also someone like your parents can determine at least a part of your fate like saying you are not ever having video games for the rest of your life.


I think that fate is only to be said when someone should be punished for unecessary actions, giving someone a complementary fate, or when how your life will be, will be how it stays. How your life will be, will be how it stays is kind of like what the setup of fate is in the beginning so far in Romeo and Juliet because Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet and Montagues don't like Capulets and Capulets don't like Montagues so that is maybe how it will always be.