Romeo and Juliet Group

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shakurah1
shakurah1
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High School - 9th Grade

What do the Capulets plan to do after they find Juliet's seemingly lifeless body?

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Posted by shakurah1 on Friday March 20, 2009 at 3:42 AM and tagged with death, juliet, juliets lifeless body, potion, romeo and juliet, shakespeare, text.

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  1. amy-lepore Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Have a family funeral, of course. Once her body is discovered, Capulet says:

    All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral; Our instruments to melancholy bells, Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast, Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change, Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corpse, And all things change them to the contrary.

    The Friar, of course, is the only one in the Capulet house who knows that Juliet is not truly dead.  He responds to Lord Capulet with:

    Sir, go you in, and madam, go with him, And go, Sir Paris.  Everyone prepare to follow this fair corpse unto her grave. The heavens do lour upon you for some ill.  Move them no more by crossing their high will.

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    Posted by amy-lepore on Friday March 20, 2009 at 3:49 AM