Can anyone summerize what happens in  ACT II (2) in Romeo And Juliet?
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If this is for homework you really should do the work yourself.  Everyone thinks Shakespeare is confusing because of the complicated language, but there really are some fun stuff in his plays, and some of it isn't that different then todays movies.  Shakespere used a lot of sex, violence, and paranormal.  The trick is don't read it.  It was never meant to be read directly. It wasn't even written down originally, just memorized by actors. Go rent Romeo and Julitte, and see it performed. If they are good actors they will convey it in a way that's easier to understand. Another good resource is: http://absoluteshakespeare.com\n\nAny, Act II starts out with the famous "balcony scene" where Juliet wishes Romeo wasn't Montague.  He overhears it and says he loves her so much he'll swear off the name. They complain for a while about dealing with the problem of being from feuding families, then fter some shameless flirting Romeo proposes.  Juliet says she'll think about it and send her nurse to answer tomorrow.  Romeo goes and tells Friar Laurence what he's done and the Friar accuses Romeo of just trying to get into Juliet's pants, expecially since yesterday he was telling the Friar he was in love with Rosalind.  Be he agrees to wed them because he thinks it will solve the feud between the families.  In the mean time Rome's friends give him a hard time, Juliet's Nurse agrees to help, and ends with them secretly getting married.\n\nFor an even funnier version rent The Complete Works of Wllm Shkspr (abbridged) by the Reduced Shakespere company.  Also rend the recent Romeo and Juliet movie by Baz Luhrmann (the guy that did Moulin Rouge)
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continue from here.\n\n\n [Inside the castle the coronation is held in Latin. Marke and \n               Isolde are crowned and take their seats on their thrones. Back \n               at the lookout point the flag bearers are stabbed by the Irish. \n               Dancing happens at the coronation celebrations]\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         Tristan! Seems I worried for nothing.\n \n                         \n                                     WICTRED\n                         May I dance with the Queen, or does \n                         Tristan have the next one?\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         That’s right, you have never danced \n                         with Isolde before!\n \n               [Tristan is pushed forward to dance with Isolde]\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         A new song for Tristan. Slow.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Why did you burn it?\n\n                                     TRISTAN\n                         You know.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Meet me there in an hour or I’ll die.\n \n                         \n               [The dance ends]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         I could still teach you a thing or two, \n                         dancing being one of them.\n \n                                     KAYE\n                         Accuse him now.\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         No, no, no. We’ll have more than accusations.\n \n                         \n               [Tristan leaves]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         Is something the matter?\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         I’m just feeling a little weary that’s \n                         all. I might just go and have a lie \n                         down.\n \n                                     MARKE\n                         Of course.\n\n               [Isolde leaves]\n\n                                     WICTRED\n                         Friends, friends hear me! We’ve forgotten \n                         the full moon isn’t it time to ride \n                         out?\n \n                                     GENERAL\n                         No. Tonight it cause for exception.\n \n                         \n                                     WICTRED\n                         But the coronation should uphold tradition, \n                         surely it is not to be neglected already?\n \n                         \n                                     MARKE\n                         We honour it. In half a night. Ride \n                         out! Where’s Tristan?\n \n               \n\n               [Everyone leaves to hunt while Tristan and Isolde race to be \n               with each other]\n \n                                     ISOLDE\n                         I miss Ireland\n\n                                     TRISTAN\n                         Isolde, this must end.\n\n                                     ISOLDE\n                         That’s like asking me to stop breathing.\n \n                         \n                                     TRISTAN\n                         It cannot be.\n\n               [Elsewhere Wictred leads the hunt to where Tristan and Isolde \n               are]\n \n                                     ISOLDE\n                         Please don’t leave me. Please!\n\n               [They kiss only to have the hunting party come upon them]\n\n                                     MARKE\n                         Isolde? There is someone...  No.\n\n                                     KING DONNCHADH\n                         I see how it is in Cornwall. My money \n                         is good enough, my
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Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, have both been killed in battle. Creon, new ruler of Thebes, has declared that Eteocles will be honored and Polyneices disgraced. The rebel brother's body will not be sanctified by holy rites, and it will lay unburied to be the food of carrion animals. Antigone and Ismene are the sisters of the dead brothers, and they are now the last children of the ill-fated Oedipus. In the opening of the play, Antigone brings Ismene outside the city gates late at night for a secret meeting: Antigone wants to bury Polyneices' body, in defiance of Creon's edict. Ismene refuses to help her, fearing the death penalty, and she is unable to dissuade Antigone from going to do the deed by herself.\n\nCreon enters, along with the Chorus of Theban elders. He seeks their support in the days to come, and in particular their support for his edict regarding Polyneices' body. The Chorus pledges their support. A Sentry enters, reporting fearfully that the body has been buried. A furious Creon orders the Sentry to find the culprit or face death himself. The Sentry leaves, but after a short absence he returns, bringing Antigone with him. Creon questions her, and she does not deny what she has done. She argues unflinchingly with Creon about the morality of the edict and the morality of what she has done. Creon grows angrier, and, thinking Ismene must have helped her, summons the girl. Ismene tries to confess falsely to the crime, seeking to die with her sister, but Antigone will have none of it. Creon orders that the two women be temporarily locked up inside.\n\nHaemon, Creon's son and Antigone's fiancé, enters to pledge allegiance of his father. He initially seems willing to obey Creon. But when Haemon tries gently to persuade his father to spare Antigone, the discussion deteriorates and the two men are soon bitterly insulting each other. Haemon leaves, vowing to never see Creon again.\n\nCreon decides to spare Ismene but to imprison Antigone in a cave. She is brought out of the house, and she bewails her fate and defends her actions one last time. She is taken away, with the Chorus expressing great sorrow because of what is going to happen to her.\n\nTeiresias, the blind prophet, enters. He warns Creon that the gods side with Antigone. Creon accuses Teiresias of being corrupt, and Teiresias responds that because of Creon's mistakes, he will lose one child for the crimes of leaving Polyneices unburied and putting Antigone into the earth. All of Greece will despise him, and the sacrificial offerings of Thebes will not be accepted by the gods.\n\nThe Chorus, terrified, asks Creon to take their advice. He assents, and they tell him that he should bury Polyneices and free Antigone. Creon, shaken, agrees to do it. He leaves with a retinue of men to help him right his previous mistakes. The Chorus delivers a choral ode on/to the god Dionysis, and then a Messenger enters. He tells them that Haemon has killed himself. Eurydice, Creon's wife and Haemon's mother, enters and asks the Messenger to tell her everything. The Messenger reports that Haemon and Antigone have both taken their own lives. Eurydice disappears into the palace.\n\nCreon enters, carrying Haemon's body. He understands that his own actions have caused these events. A Second Messenger arrives to tell Creon and the Chorus that Eurydice has killed herself. With her last breath, she cursed her husband. Creon blames himself for everything that has happened, and, a broken man, he asks his servants to help him inside. The order he valued so much has been protected, and he is still the king, but he has acted against the gods and lost his child and his wife. The Chorus closes by saying that the gods punish the proud, but punishment brings wisdom. \n\n\nSee this for a summary and analysis:\n\nhttp://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/antigone/
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I can't really say because we read it in play form in my English class and I played Tybalt so I kinda feel like I shouldn't dis him.\n\nI don't have the play right in front of me but I think he's arranged for them to get married but this will later become Wednesday after Juliet apologizes to Capulet for being so against him; he thought it was because of Tybalt's death but it was because Romeo was banished for killing Tybalt.\n\nHe describes her as still beautiful even though she may be dead (which she isn't). He says something about the color of roses not being gone from her lips or something like that.\n\nThe agony Romeo and Juliet's death caused their families was tremendous and showed their families that fighting was not the answer to things. The loss of one's only child is not worth the dumb excuse of fighting between families.\n\nShakespeare never gave anyone birthdates in the play since it didn't really matter, but we can estimate that Romeo was about 17 or 18 from accounts of historians who examined the play with great care.
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Dynamic = artistically dramatic? Artistically dramatic in Shakespeare's plays usually means "conflict between two good choices". When one good comes into conflict with another good, this kind of conflict is (artistically) tragic because no matter what the eventual choice is, good will suffer. There can never be one right answer when good conflicts with good. What are the two 'goods' that come into conflict in Juliet? (1) It is good that she falls in love spontaneously with Romeo when she does not know who he is. Spontaneous (or romantic) love is always a great good in art and poetry. (2) This good comes into conflict with her sense of loyalty to her family when she learns Romeo is a Montague, the enemy of her family. Being loyal to her family is good in the play since Shakespeare never tells us what the original quarrel was that caused the feud. Hence, we cannot assume one is wrong and the other is right. \nIf this helps, please use you own words for your paper. Using my words will constitute cheating.
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Juliet's long soliloquy before she drinks the potion focuses on her fears.  She at first calls the nurse, then changes her mind, realizing that she must act alone.  At first she fears that the potion won't work at all and lays a dagger beside her in case it doesn't.  She then fears that Friar Laurence may have lied, and really plans to kill her in order to avoid being punished for performing their marriage. \n\nAfter deciding that the Friar is honest and trustworthy, Juliet fears that she will wake up before Romeo arrives.  This prospect frightens her the most.  She fears strangling to death for lack of air, and then thinks about being in the vault with the bones of her ancestors, including Tybalt's recently dead body.  In horrible images, she imagines herself playing with the bones of her dead relatives and even smashing her own brains out with one of the bones.  As she imagines Tybalt's ghost seeking out Romeo, his murderer, she drinks the potion as a toast to Romeo.\n\nEven though Juliet's worst fear is that she will wake up too soon, it is ironic that this is the one thing that could have saved both their lives.\n\nJuliet is tragically alone in this scene, expressing her deepest fears in total isolation.  She shows her bravery as proof of her intense love for Romeo. In fact, it is her love for him which allows her to overcome her worst fears.
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It takes place in the summer. This is significant because the heat is a parallel to the ignition of violence between the families and to the passion between Romeo and Juliet.
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William Shakespeare authored Romeo and Juliet and it was one of his most famous plays alongwith Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer's Night Dream etc. It was extensively potrayed during his time.
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The real life Romeo and Juliet died in Verona , Italy in 1303.  So I assume it is based on that actual time.  It is believed that the play was first performed between 1594-1595.  A little more than you asked, but I hoped it helped.
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Well think about it -- what is going on at this point? Hamlet's father has died and his mother is marrying his uncle "hard upon" the heels of his father's death. Now Horatio tells Hamlet that he saw his father's ghost. What does Hamlet do? What state of mind is he in right now? What relationship does he have with Horatio? What questions does he ask Horatio? Please re-read the scene. It's all there in black and white.
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The Baudelaire's meet Count Olaf, and his neighbour Justice Strauss, who is possibly the only nice adult they ever do meet, apart from Uncle Monty.  They learn that their inheritance will  not be paid to them until Violet reaches 18.\nCount Olaf decides to marry Violet, which is a little disconcerting given she is about 14 in the book, and he puts a ply on called The Marvellous Marriage intending to marry Violet legally during the play.\nKlaus sits up all night reading about laws and works out the Counts evil plan.\nCount Olaf  locks their baby sister in a cage high up in the air to blackmail Violet into agreeing to the marriage.\nViolet signs the marriage document and it looks as though the Count has his evil plan all sorted out, until Violet announces that she signed it with her left hand and so her signature isn't legal.  The count protests and Justice Strauss said it would probably be upheld in a court of law because if Violet signed her name using her right hand the two signatures would be difficult to prove as belonging to the same person.\nJustice Strauss offers the orphans a home with her but Mr Poe says he can't allow it because the parents will stipulated the children must be raised by a relative
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Ok, I will help - but I will not give you the answers, that's not help.  If the Shakespearean-era language is difficult to get through, I suggest checking out a noted version of the play (Penguin Publishing has some excellent, quite affordable paperback versions) to help you understand who's saying what.  You might also try to find a full production of the play or a video version. (Zeffirelli's is visually stunning, but leaves out a lot of the by-play.  The newer version with DiCaprio & what's-her-name is visually odd, but leaves in more of the dialogue.  Most libraries also will have the odd BBC or Canadian production in their media library, and these are usually complete dialogue without anything too extreme in the way of visuals.)\n\n1. Think about social conventions of the time - Juliet is a young, unmarried but highly marriageable woman.  Also, think about any parents' natural reaction if they were to find their daughter in the company of any young man - especially if that young man was a member of a family you hated.\n\n2 & 4 are very closely related.  Think about modern divorce rates in marriages that are made quickly - then think about a society where annulments were possible but difficult and divorce as such was not really an option.\n\n3. Reread the scene, and think about Juliet being a young woman besotted, while the nurse is somewhat of a doddering old lady who tends to ramble on and on and on (and some of her lines do amount to Elizabethan toilet humour, by the way).\n\n5.  Think about the purpose of a foil.  Mercutio & Nurse are both close to the main characters, and marginally involved/possibly condoning their behaviours.  Pick out a few key points in the act and you should have no trouble getting 8 to 10 sentences.  For example, do these characters encourage this lovelorn behaviour between the main characters? How? Why?\n\nPersonal sidenote/pet peeve about this play: Why does everyone perform the Queen Mab speech as though it's a huge dramatic foreshadowing?  It is, even the densest people grasp that after seeing the play once - but keep in mind Mercutio's playful, sarcastic character - why on earth would he of a sudden burst into this long prophetic rant?  I've gotten a few people to read it as a mocking, sarcastic sort of monologue, and have been far more pleased with it...
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Hmm I quite forgot Shakespeare's novels but for now I can say I could be like Juliet's maid. Haha! Because I like taking care of people... hehe. Sorry... haven't fell in love yet... so can't completely relate to... like Romeo and Juliet...
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The irony is that both Juliet and Romeo were reluctant to attend the ball, but consented - Romeo to see Rosaline and Juliet to see Paris. But then they see each other and start their relationship.\n\nOthers have also added that Romeo's words--Hers is a “beauty rich for use, for earth too dear!” contain dramatic irony since Juliet’s beauty is too rich for use in the sense that it will be laid in the tomb too early. \n\nHope this helps! Happy New Year!
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I give that assignment to my students. :-D\n\nOne of the best ones I saw had a gameboard with a path to follow. The tokens were cutouts with pictures of Romeo and Juliet (printed off the internet, I assume). They were pasted on cardboard and put in another piece of cardboard to stand. He also used dice and a set of cards with instructions. An example of one card he used: "'Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow!' (Act II, Scene 2) For parting with your love, go back 2 spaces." You'll need to come up with the rules of the game yourself, but you probably want a simple objective (i.e. make it around the board once, collect certain objects like poison and dagger, reunite Romeo and Juliet, etc.). It's all up to you and your creativity.
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Romeo and Juliet is a great love story. Basically they fall in love, but their families forbid them to marry because they're from too very different families. They go through alot of triumps to get together, but in the end she thinks he was poisoned and then she satbs herself in the gut.....but he wasn't dead and then I believe he kills himself after he notices she is dead. If you want a more detailed version I would google it....and see what you find.\n\nps. If you have time rent the movie Romeo and Juliett with Leonardo dicaprio and Claire Danes...good movie!!
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OK try this, I'll keep adding if I find anything else  :)\nhttp://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/beech/RandJ%20TT.html\nhttp://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/romeo_and_juliet/15.html\nThe second one here has an explanation for you.\n\nNo it was King Lear.\nhttp://www.rsc.org.uk/lear/teachers/bonds.html\n\nHere are some example of dutiful love.  Its a pdf file so just let it load.  I hope this helps.\n\nhttp://www.biblemaps.com/products/LegacySample.pdf