SummaryIV

 Act IV Summary Edited and Created By: Courtney Addison, Grace Garde, & Haley Nelson 
 * Scene i
 * Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for his advice on what to do about Romeo's banishment and her father's insistence on her marrying Paris.    
 *  When Juliet gets there, she finds that Paris is also talking to Friar Laurence about their wedding on Thursday. She uses verbal irony to answer Paris's questions, leading Paris to believe she is in love with him.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(132, 26, 26)"><span style="background-color: rgb(216, 213, 213)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> Friar Laurence tells Juliet he has a plan for her to avoid marrying Paris and to be reunited with Romeo.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(132, 26, 26)"><span style="background-color: rgb(216, 213, 213)"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)">Juliet is to take a vile of potion that Friar Laurence has prepared. The liquid will make her appear to be dead, and slow her heart so that no one can feel her pulse. When her parents discover her dead, they will bury her in the Capulet tomb which she will continue to sleep in for 42 hours. When she wakes, Romeo will be there waiting for her and they will leave together to live in Mantua.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(127, 118, 118)"><span style="color: rgb(176, 176, 176)"> Scene ii
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(146, 30, 28)">The Capulet house is getting ready for the big wedding coming up, and Juliet says hello to her father and pretends to be sorry, so that her father forgives her  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(146, 30, 28)"> for her stubborness earlier   <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(146, 30, 28)">.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(146, 30, 28)">She lies to her father by saying when she went to the Friar, she became prepared to get married.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(146, 30, 28)">Lord Capulet then becomes excited when he finds out about his daughters change in decision.

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 * <span style="color: rgb(189, 189, 189); font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Scene iii
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(127, 21, 21)">The Nurse and Lady Capulet are trying to help Juliet with what she should wear to her wedding.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(127, 21, 21)">Juliet makes her mother and the Nurse leave so she can be alone and get ready.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(127, 21, 21)">She now becomes nervous and begins to think of all the possibilities that could go wrong when she drinks the potion and how the plan will work.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(201, 201, 201)"><span style="color: rgb(182, 175, 175)"><span style="color: rgb(127, 21, 21)"><span style="color: rgb(174, 163, 163)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Scene iv
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(127, 21, 21)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The Nurse and a servant are preparing for the wedding when Lord Capulet enters and tells the Nurse to wake     <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> up Juliet.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(163, 163, 163)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Scene v
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The Nurse enters Juliet's suite to wake her for her wedding day.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Juliet appears dead to the Nurse so she calls for Lord and Lady Capulet.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The Nurse, Lord Capulet, and Lady Capulet mourn over Juliet's dead body.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> Friar Laurence enters, acting surprised, and helps them come to their senses.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)">Lord Capulet decides to use the wedding decorations/musicans for the funeral.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color: rgb(134, 25, 25)">Juliet is of course not dead but is following through with the plan Friar Laurence that she devised in Scene i.
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