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NOTES FOR SHAKESPEARE
CLUB CONTINUED.

w nat IS the motive OF the play?
Which is the main action? The
ross action2
What are the two sub-actions?
DO they assist the action OF the as
sOciation?
What are the two motive accidents?
Which begins the action? Which ends
Who are the two motive person
ages (F'Iiar and apothecary1 why
Is the general influence Of each?
What is the enFeIoping aCuon2
How is the tone relief secured
Passion Movement Of plo--The lire
nj passion is an arch; the emotional
effect passes from calm interest to q
greater and greater degree of aEita-
tlun urtI it eliminates, and turning,
We pass to the calmeU emotions of
iJy and despair
Where is the turning point in this
play tho point which decides the
end
The Irresistible Circumstances Of
the Play-In the prologue the author
suggests changing circumstance
when the speaker Of the fatal lOins,'
81 the parents. the "star-cr0ss'd low
ea's," ana their "misadventmed piteous
oVertirOws."
Dramatic foreshadowing carry on
the suggestion OF the prologue. Ponce
on the threshold Of the capuIet man
sion has such a fOreShadOwing.
Ny mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in
the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this nights revels, and expire
the term
OF disposed life closed in my breast
BY some Vile forfeit Of untimely death.
The feeling recurs Just IS the en-
counter with swords is entering
its last phase.
This days black fate on more days
doth depend. IS.
A shock Of iIl-omeu visits Juliet as
she watches Romeo descend the
rope ladder to go into exile.
. God, ] have an ul-divining soul!
Methinks I see thee, now thou art
As one dead in the bottom Of tomb
1O2.
In ominous phrase Lady Capulets
pctulance Expresses itself when her
daughter resists the suit Of Paris:
would the fool were married TO her
grave. 106.
Strangely ironic is the language in
which juliet begs for time.
Delay this marriage for a month. a
Or, if you do not, make the bridal
In that dim monument where Tybalt
And there Is both irony and weird
omen in the unnatural citation with
which Romeo is awaiting the mes
seHger of doom.
My dreams presage some joyful news
at hand. .....
I dreamt my lady came and found me
Strange dream. that gives a dead man
leave 70 Think
And breathed such life with kisses in
my lips.
That ! revived ana was an emperor.
100.
In passages like these Destiny IT.
self seems to he speaking through the
Inns Of the dramatis peT5onae. In
their more ordinary speech the per
sonages Of the play reiterate the one
idea of misfortune and fate. Romeo
after the fall of Tybalt feels that he
is fortunes fool -. The FrIar takes
the same view.
Romeo. come forth; come forth, thou
fearful man:
Affliction is enamord Of thy parts,
And thou art welded to calamity.S9.
Juliet feels the same burden of hos
lie fate:
Alaclz, alack. that heaven should prac-
tice stra tagems
T-pon so soft a subject as myself! ITO. !
Romeo recognizes the slain Paris as
"one welt with me in sour misfOrtune's |
book" 143; his last fatal act is a strug-
gle ITO shake the yoke OF nauSpic1Ous !
stars from this world YEA ied flesh |
146 The wisdom of the F'riar receives |
the detention of the messenger as ''un- /
happy fortune" 1873; in the final issue
Of events he tremblingly feels how
ian unkind hour is guilty of this la
men able chance" 14S; how "a greater /
power than we can contradict hath |
thwarted our intents," 14S. The note |
struck by the prologue rings in the !
final cOurlet Of the poem: no moral /
lesson is read, but the word pathos is
found in its simple English equivalent;
For never was a story OF more woe |
Than this of Juliet and her Renee.
-Moulton. |
SUSPENDED Animation-A sleep so /
profound as to stimulate death. How
produced, duration, efTect.-Hudson's
Law Of Psychic Phenomena 309, 10. II. /
mind active during sleep,
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