Students are responsible for typing a five paragraph essay that answers the following question:
Does Romeo truly love Juliet.
Students must take a yes or no stance to answer this question. The final draft of the paper is due Monday, June 13th
ACT 3 SCENE 4
1. What does Capulet decide about Juliet and Paris?
2. Why does Capulet think this decision will make Juliet feel better?
3. What is “the big day?” and when is “the big day?”
ACT 3 SCENE 5
1. Lady Capulet misunderstands Juliet’s sadness, and Juliet does not want her to know what has happened between Romeo and Juliet. What does Juliet say about Tybalt and Romeo to keep the truth from her mother?
2. What is Juliet’s response when she is told the news that she is to marry Paris? How has she changed since Act 1?
3. What is her mother’s reaction to Juliet’s response?
4. Highlight lines. What is Lord Capulet’s response to Juliet’s refusal to marry Paris?
5. What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do? What is her reasoning?
6. After the Nurse leaves and Juliet is alone, what does Juliet decide to do?
Please read Act III scenes 2 and 3 and answer the questions below:
1. In lines 42-79 the nurse confuses Juliet as she tells Juliet of the fight. What misconception does Juliet make?
2. In lines 83-91 Juliet reacts to the news of Tybalt’s death. What is her first reaction?
3. In Juliet’s lines 99-104. When the nurse agrees with Juliet, Juliet has a different reaction to Romeo’s killing of Tybalt. Explain.
4. Summarize the end of the scene?
ACT 3 SCENE 3 The lines are correct this time I promise!
1. What is Romeo’s reaction when he learns that he has been banished?
2. From the beginning of the play, Romeo acts impulsively. In what way is he still impulsive in this scene (lines 110-117)?
3. Friar Laurence tells Romeo to count his blessings. What are they?
4. Explain Friar Laurence’s plan (lines 156-168).
please read Act III scene 1 and answer the questions below:
1. Why do you think Tybalt approaches Mercutio and Benvolio and wants a “word” with one of them?
2. Mercutio tries to provoke Tybalt to fight. Why doesn’t Tybalt want to fight him?
3. After Tybalt insults Romeo, Romeo responds. Explain his lines. What is the “reason” Romeo has for ignoring the insult?
4. . Explain the meaning of the lines and the dramatic irony of the situation.
5. Why does Romeo’s answer to Tybalt’s insults upset Mercutio? What does he think Romeo is doing?
6. Romeo tries to stop Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting by reasoning with them. Paraphrase what he says.
7. Even when he is dying, Mercutio continues to joke and to make puns. Explain the pun he makes.
8. Highlight lines. Mercutio repeats the following line three times and then adds the next line. Explain what he means:
“A plague O’ both your houses!
They have made worm’s meat of me.”
9. What does Romeo mean when he says lines?
10. After Mercutio dies, why does Romeo decide to kill Tybalt instead of accepting Mercutio’s death as an unfortunate accident?
11. Highlight line. What does Romeo mean?
12. Highlight lines. What reasoning does Lady Capulet use in begging the Prince for vengeance for Tybalt’s death?
13. Highlight lines. What is Lord Montagues’ reasoning in his attempt to persuade the Prince not to kill Romeo for killing Tybalt?
14. What is the Prince’s decree, and what are the reasons he gives for making it?
Please read Act II scenes 3 & 4 and answer the questions below:
1. This scene shows us more of the nurse’s character as she trades quips and puns with Mercutio. What malapropisms (an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it) does the nurse use
2. According to Mercutio, what kind of man is Tybalt?
3. What is the nurse saying to Romeo in lines?
4. What message does Romeo urge the nurse to give to Juliet?
5. According to Mercutio, what kind of man is Tybalt?
6. The nurse is supposed to be gone only a half hour, but she is actually gone for how long?
7. Juliet is very impatient to hear news from Romeo. What images does she use in her soliloquy to express this?
8. How is the nurse behaving that is frustrating to Juliet?
9. The nurse knows Juliet is impatient, but she keeps putting her off. Why does the nurse do this?
10. Why does the Nurse agree to help Juliet marry Romeo?
Please read Act II scene 3 of Romeo and Juliet and answer the questions below:
Romeo and Juliet | Act II, Scenes 3 and 4: Questions 1. What is Friar Laurence’s special skill or area of knowledge?
2. With what does Friar Laurence compare the beneficial and poisonous parts of the plant?
3. About what does the Friar caution Romeo?
4. Why does the Friar agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
5. Who has sent Romeo a challenge for a duel?
6. What excuse is Juliet to give for going to Friar Laurence’s cell?
7. Where are Romeo and Juliet to be married?
Act II scene 3 begins with Friar Lawrence alone onstage collecting flowers and placing them in a basket. He discusses the various properties that can come from nature's plants and flowers. Please paraphrase lines 1 - 23 (stop once Romeo enters).
Please read Act II scenes 1 and 2 and answer the questions below:
Romeo and Juliet | Act II, Scenes 1 and 2: Questions
1. Instead of returning home, where does Romeo go after the ball?
2. What is a soliloquy and how is it used in Scene 2?
3. By whose name does Mercutio call for Romeo?
4. How does Romeo learn of Juliet’s love for him?
5. What does Romeo say helped him climb over the high walls of the Capulet orchard and find Juliet’s window?
6. What do Romeo and Juliet exchange?
7. What do Romeo and Juliet plan to do the next day?
8. To what does Romeo compare Juliet’s beauty?
9. Who keeps interrupting the balcony?
On Thursday and Friday, May 5th and 6th we read Act I scene 5 up to where Romeo and Juliet meet for the first time. We then paraphrased the sonnet that Shakespeare weaves together through combinining Romeo and Juliet's lines.
