What is the subtext in act IV in romeo and Juliet?

Answer 1

• Act 4 Scene 1: Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, while everyone else thinks Juliet went to the Friar to make a confession.
• Act 4 Scene 4: The Capulets are all in a giddy mood preparing for the marriage that day. The Capulets and the servants are making jokes and busily preparing for the wedding, while Juliet already drank the potion and is "dead" in her bedroom.
• Act 4 Scene 5: Juliet is "dead". Lord Capulet said "Hath death lain with thy wife. There she lies, Flower as she was, deflowered by him." Capulet is saying that Juliet is a virgin, and death had deflowered her. But the ironic thing is that Romeo was the one who deflowered Juliet.

Answer 2

Act 4.1 (Paris)

In this seen Paris is clueless as to what is truly going on. For example, when Juliet said that her face is not her own, Paris may have thought that her face is now his because they are getting married in a few days, but in reality she meant that her face belongs to Romeo. When Paris says that Juliet weeps for Tybalt's death he does not realize that although she is sad she is weeping for the banishment of Romeo. Overall, throughout this scene Paris is making the false connection that everything Juliet says is directed towards him out of love when in fact she is plotting to not marry Paris and does not love him, for she loves Romeo.

Act 4.2 (Juliet)

When Juliet told Capulet that she repented sin and learned from the Lawrence's cell, he thought that she learned to listen and follow her father's directions. What Juliet actually meant was that she learned how to avoid marrying Paris. Also, when Juliet said that she met a youthful lord in Lawrence's cell, she said it as if she meant Paris for the "youthful lord" but she actually meant Friar Lawrence as the "youthful lord" because Friar Lawrence was the one who told Juliet how to escape from marrying Paris.

Answer 3

A subplot is a secondary plot, a different story from the main one. Subplots are easy to find in Shakespeare's comedies: the main plot of Twelfth Night is about Viola and the love triangle she is in, but the subplot is the trick played on Malvolio. The main plot of Merchant of Venice is Bassanio's romancing of Portia, but the subplot is Shylock's lawsuit against Antonio. Subplots are rarer in the tragedies, although King Lear has one: the story of Lear and his daughters is the main plot whereas the story of Gloucester and his sons is the subplot, and in Hamlet the whole Fortinbras thing is a subplot. A subplot is a story; it has to consist of a sequence of events leading from an initial situation to a different one, and it differs from the main plot in that its main protagonists are different. So, you need to ask yourself what story is told in the play which does not primarily involve the love affair of our main characters Romeo and Juliet. There are two such stories: the story of Tybalt and his desire to fight the Montagues, which ends up getting him killed, and the negotations between Paris and Capulet about Paris marrying Juliet. Because these subplots involve the main characters closely, they impinge on the main plot much more than the subplots in King Lear or Hamlet do.

Answer 4

The main plot is about the love relationship between Romeo and Juliet, the subplot is about the enemity between the two families, Montague's and Capulets

Answer 5

The subplot of romeo and Juliet is that there families hate each other.

The plot would be Romeo and Juliet's love story.

Answer 6

I know that the families conflict is one but, I need to find another subplot.

Answer 7

It's all about the plans for Juliet's marriage to Paris: both Capulet's plans and Juliet's very different plans.

Answer 8

figure it out yourself

Answer 9

Death? Forgiveness?

Answer 10

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