R&j act 2

• Act two of Romeo and Juliet

  1. Prologue explains Romeo no longer loves Rosaline, but loves Juliet

  2. Act 2 Scene 1: Romeo jumps garden wall to find Juliet, Mercutio and Benvolio try to find him

  3. Act 2 Scene 2: Romeo overhears Juliet confessing her love, they plan to get married

  4. Act 2 Scene 3: Romeo asks Friar Lawrence to marry him and Juliet

  5. Act 2 Scene 4: Mercutio and Benvolio mock the Nurse, Romeo tells her he will marry Juliet

  6. Act 2 Scene 5: Juliet worries, the Nurse tells her Romeo's proposal is genuine

  7. Act 2 Scene 6: Friar Lawrence marries Romeo and Juliet
• Romeo no longer loves Rosaline, but is in love with Juliet
• Romeo jumps garden wall

  To find Juliet
• Mercutio and Benvolio


  Try to find Romeo
• Romeo overhears Juliet


  Confessing her love
• Romeo and Juliet


  Plan to get married
• Romeo


  Asks Friar Lawrence to marry him and Juliet
• Mercutio and Benvolio


  Mock the Nurse
• Romeo


  Tells the Nurse he will marry Juliet
• Juliet


  Worries, the Nurse tells her Romeo's proposal is genuine
• Friar Lawrence


  Marries Romeo and Juliet
• Act two prologue


  The chorus enters again delivering another sonnet explaining how Romeo's love for Rosaline has now faded and that his new love for Juliet will cause complications
• Shakespeare writes "but passion lends them power time means to meet tempering extremities with extreme sweet"
• Act 2 scene 1

  Romeo has left the Capulet ball with new knowledge that Juliet his love is a Capulet, with a sudden urge to meet Juliet again he climbs over the orchard wall into the garden
• Act 2 scene 2

  Romeo makes his way through the orchard towards the Capulet house and suddenly notices light from an upstairs window, expectant of Juliet's arrival
• Romeo: 'It is the East and Juliet is the sun'
• Juliet's response


  Expresses her frustration that her love is a Montague, and questions the importance of the name Montague, suggesting she would give up her name to be with him
• Juliet: 'Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Or why are you Romeo?'
• Romeo's response


  Expresses that henceforth he will never be Romeo
• Juliet's reaction


  Initially questions how Romeo came to her and warns him of the danger if he is caught, but is undeterred by the danger
• Juliet's concerns


  Questions if Romeo's love is true and reliable, and expresses her fear that things are moving too fast
• Romeo's proposal


  Proposes that they marry
• Juliet's response


  Agrees to arrange a time for Romeo's messenger to call on her
• Romeo's language


  • Full of imagery of nature which expresses his idealistic vision of love, comparing Juliet to the sun
• Juliet's response


  • Frustration with Romeo's insistence on using natural imagery, instructing him not to swear by the inconstant moon
• Act 2 scene 3


  Friar Lawrence is collecting plants and considering the good and evil inside humans, Romeo then enters and tells the friar he has fallen in love with Juliet and wishes to marry her
• Friar Lawrence's reaction


  Initially shocked at how quickly Romeo has shifted his affection, but consents to marry them as it may heal the rift between the two houses
• Friar Lawrence: 'For this Allegiance may so happy prove to turn your household's ranker to pure love'
• Act 2 scene 4


  Benvolio and Mercutio discuss what happened to Romeo after the Capulet ball, suspecting he is still chasing after Rosaline. The nurse then enters and tells Romeo that Juliet sent her with a message, and Romeo arranges to meet Juliet at Friar Lawrence's cell so they can be married.
• Act 2 scene 5


  Juliet impatiently waits for the nurse, who eventually explains that if she has permission to leave for confession, Romeo will meet her at Friar Lawrence's cell so they can be married. Juliet blushes with excitement and exits to meet Romeo.
• Act 2 scene 6

  Romeo and Friar Lawrence wait for Juliet at the friar's cell. Romeo tells the friar that he is not afraid of any sorrows, but the friar cautions Romeo to love moderately if he wishes their love to last. Juliet arrives and they depart to be wed.
• Friar Lawrence: 'These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder'
• The friar's words foreshadow the trouble that almost immediately follows Romeo and Juliet's union, and speak of his wisdom in his concern for Romeo's unbridled passion.