Then as the scene ends with Romeo urging speed in arranging their lovers’ meeting, we hear the Nurse commanding Peter, ‘Before and apace’. We hear Romeo exclaiming ‘Switch and Spurs, switch and spurs’. At the end of the exchange of wit Mercutio complains that his wits faint from the quick give and take. The fourth scene presents dialogue between Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio, in which the theme of oppressive haste continues. Romeo: O, let us hence 1 stand on sudden haste.įriar: Wisely and slow : they stumble that run fast. And here is an outright statement of the haste theme, at the close of the third scene. Then the Friar speaks of Rosaline who is ‘so soon forsaken’. “what early tongue so sweet saluteth me?” In the third scene Shakespeare makes the Friar spokesman of the haste theme: his greeting dwells solely upon Romeo’s earliness Romeo and Juliet have closed the scene with lines on morning and the haste it brings. Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be It is too rash, too unadvis’d, too sudden, It brings a necessary lull in the fast pace, but the exchange between lovers continues the theme of haste. In the Second Scene of Second Act we witness the balcony scene. Tybalt’s threat of violence which is restrained by his uncle, and the meeting of the lovers which brings discovery that one is Montague, the other a Capulet. Plot movement then extends this statement of theme with a quick sequence composed of Romeo’s first glimpse of Juliet. In the next portion of this scene old Capulet and his kinsman supplement the theme with dialogue on the rush of time since their last masking. Action presents haste on the comic plane. Cheerly, boys be brisk a while, and the longer lover take all. Third Servant: We cannot be here and there too. Romeo, sensing untimely death, consigns the steerage of his course to God, his sudden final words, “On, lusty gentlemen !” evoke Benvolio‘s command, “Strike, drum.” Choric comment upon speeding fate is thus succeeded instantly by the drum and a quick time march of maskers.Īs the fourth scene closes with this expression of the haste theme, the next scene continues it with a comic device servants hastily preparing for the feast.įirst Servant: You are look’d for and callid for, ask’d for and sought for, in the great chamber.
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