Today we continued our study of Romeo and Juliet. Journals #1 and 2 are due tomorrow. After tomorrow, students will post their journals on this blog.
1/ completed Act I, Scene i -Romeo is lovesick for Rosaline. Benvolio urges him to "examine other beauties" in order to forget her.
2/ began Act I, Scene ii -Paris asks for permission to marry Juliet. Lord Capulet is reluctant. Juliet is his only living child and is only fourteen years old. He invited Paris to attend his party and to look at other girls.
"Among frsh female buds shall you this night/Inherit at my house; hear all, all see,/And like her most whose merit most shall be:/Which on more view, of many mine being one,/May stand in number, though in reckoning none."
Notice the parallels between the request made by Benvolio and that made by Lord Capulet to their listeners.
3/ began Act I, Scene iii -here we meet Lady Capulet, the Nurse and Juliet
Lady Capulet encourages a union with Paris and Juliet. She tells her daughter, that girls as young as she are already made mothers and that Paris is quite a catch.
Notice the parallels between Lady Capulet's advice and Paris's suit to Lord Capulet for Juliet's hand in marriage.
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