Group+D+Act+Two

Throughout Act 2 Benvolio has been looking out for Romeo and really seems to care about him as though he were his brother. At the beginning of act 2:1 on page 656 Benvolio was worried about Romeo and where he had gone, then asked Mercutio to see if he could get Romeo to come back. This shows that he cares about how Romeo is and wants to help him. Also in 2:4 on page 669 Benvolio asks Mercutio to stop mocking Romeo about Rosaline, because neither of them know he now loves Juliet. This shows he cares for how Romeo feels and doesn't want Mercutio to make Romeo feel any worse. Also in 2:4 on page 668 when the topic of Tybalt's challenge comes up Benvolio is confident in Romeo that he will accept the challenge and protect his dignity against the Capulet. This shows that he has confidence in Romeo, thinks highly of him, and cares about Romeo's dignity. All these things show us how Benvolio cares for Romeo and looks out for him.
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__**The Nurse telling Juliet the news**__ The nurse in Act 2 goes to talk to Romeo to find out about thee wedding details. Then she goes to Juliet, who is waiting impatiently, to tell her the news. But she stalls telling of the news as if trying to make Juliet change her. As she says in act 2, scene 4, on page 675, lines 29 and 30, "Jesu, what haste! Can you not stay awhille? Do you not see that I am out of breath?" I think she feels that giving Juliet the news will cause her harm and causee her to do the wrong thing. This also an example of how the nurse likes to be prolix and how she always makes her statements longer than they should. Prolonging the telling of the news highly augments the strength of the nurses personality. In this way, I think, shakespeare is trying to make the audience/readers get to now the nurse and connect with her in order for his audience to get a better understanding of the play since the nurse is such a key character. -Agustin Baler

**__Benvolio (Literary Terms)__** In the beginning of Act 2, Scene 1, Benvolio perfectly demonstrates dramatic irony in the play. On page 657, he and Mercutio look for Romeo who has just climbed over the wall to hide from them. They are mocking Romeo about how in love he is, but they still do not know that he has forgotten about Rosaline (whom they think Romeo is still in love with), and fallen in love with Juliet. In this case, the audience knows that Romeo loves Juliet, but Benvolio still thinks he loves Rosaline. The audience knows more than the character does, which is dramatic irony. - Steven Tu

__Benvolio the peacemaker__ In 2:4 page 669-670, Benvolio listens as Romeo and Mercutio argue with one another about the previous night. Benvolio gets tired of listening to them argue and tells them to stop. This had happened before in 1:1 when Benvolio was trying to stop the fight in the street. Since Benvolio wants peace, this makes sense that him trying to create peace between people would be repeated throughout the play. -Lauren Carman

__ The Nurse(Examples that display character traits) __ In act two there were a lot of examples that displayed what kind of a person she is. In 2:5 the nurse shows once again that she is a very humurous person when she is talking about how much pain she is in, and then she adds that Romeo is a very hot guy. Also in this scene you can see that the nurse is a very trustworthy and loyal person. She knows that Juliet is marrying a Montague but she does not tell anyone because Juliet trusts her. - Galen Arbogast

__ Benvolio ( key choices) __ Benvolio makes many important chiocess in the story that effect other charactors in the story as well as him. An example is in 2:1 on page 657. Benvolio is searching for Romeo with Mercutio and they find out that Romeo jumped the orchard wall and instead of searching for him, Benvolio decides not to cross the wall because he knew that Romeo did not want to be found and trying to find him might cause trouble because he would be in Capulet area. If Benvolio chose to find Romeo the secret of the love between Romeo and Juliet might have been discovered by the wrong people which would probably stop the future wedding. -Tim Roehm