Romeo and Juliet: Act 4 Scenes 4-5; The Aftermath

Prompt B:

In my life, there have been many times where I do not appreciate something until it's gone. This is similar to what Juliet's family is experiencing. When Juliet was alive a few days ago, her father threatened to disown her and made a lot of hurtful comments. Her mother, Lady Capulet didn't do anything to help her daughter, and disowned her as well. However, after they thought Juliet was dead, Lady Capulet began mourning and saying how she loved her greatly. Capulet also had a sudden change of heart and goes from controlling tyrant to grieving father. This is apparent in our real world as well, we do not appreciate the things we have until we no longer have them. I sometimes get angry at my macbook for being slow, but after using my dad's older computer, I appreciated mine more.

Prompt D:

Scene 4.5, Lord Capulet says, "All things that we ordained festival, Turn from their office to black funeral"(203). He was found out that Juliet is dead, and requires that all parts of the wedding that they were planning a few seconds ago be changed into a funeral. This shows the sudden change of mood, and a joyful wedding that had been planned needs to become a funeral in a few moments. Instruments that were going to play wedding songs are now to be used for sad, funeral ones. Flowers for the bride will be used for the corpse. It is sad how everyone who was come for a wedding are instead going to be attending a funeral.