ROMEO AND JULIET Study Questions

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1 ROMEO AND JULIET Study Questions As you read the play either at home or in class, try to answer the questions as best you can and plan to come to class seeking the answers you could not get on your own. During class discussions, be certain you record the answers. It is your responsibility to ask about what you do not understand. Once you have answered each question to your own satisfaction, post your answers to your blog. With respect to the inevitable Unit test, any of these questions are fair game. In addition, you should be able to identify the speaker, describe the circumstances, and be able to interpret or paraphrase significant quotations from the play. Words in bold print are terms for which you should know the definition. They may be technical terms or simply vocabulary terms. 1. Who speaks the Prologue? PROLOGUE 2. What is the purpose of the Prologue? 3. In what poetic form is this Prologue? 4. Consider lines 5 and 6. Explain the importance of these two lines. 5. Why does Shakespeare tell us how the story is going to end? 6. What themes are established in the Prologue? ACT I SCENE i 1. How does Shakespeare start the play so that he gains the attention of the SRO crowd? 2. Consider lines Our first introduction to Benvolio comes when he says these words. What do they reveal about his character? 3. Consider lines Our introduction to Tybalt occurs in these lines. What do we learn about his character?

2 4. Consider lines What is the tone of the Prince s speech? In these lines he makes a new decree. What is it, and why is it important? 5. When we first see Romeo he shows all the signs of a Petrarchan Lover someone who is in love with the idea of being in love. How does Romeo act (lines )? 6. When describing his feelings to Benvolio, Romeo uses Oxymorons pairs of contradictory words in lines and Why does he speak in contradictions and paradoxes? 7. We then learn that Romeo is suffering from Unrequited Love He loves someone who does not love him back. What suggestion does Benvolio make to Romeo to help him get over is unrequited love for Rosaline (lines )? ACT I SCENE ii 1. In this scene Lord Capulet talks to Paris about marrying his daughter Juliet. What two reasons does he give for not wanting Juliet to marry at this time (lines 8 14)? 2. Consider lines On what condition will Lord Capulet agree to Juliet s marriage with Paris? What does this reveal about Lord Capulet s love for his daughter? 3. From the servant who cannot read we learn that Rosaline, with whom Romeo believes he is in love, will be at the Capulet party. Why does this excite Benvolio? What is his plan (lines 84 89)? 4. Consider lines Explain Benvolio s analogy: 5. Why does Romeo agree to go to the party (lines )? 6. What coincidence takes place in this scene? Explain what theme is being developed.

3 ACT I SCENE iii 1. What is the nurse s relationship with Juliet? 2. Describe the nurse s personality use a specific example from the text to support your description? 3. Consider lines What is the nurse s wish for Juliet and why? 4. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about being married, what is Juliet s answer (line 67), and what does it reveal about her character? 5. The nurse and Lady Capulet are both excited and pleased by Paris proposal but for different reasons. The nurse says Paris is a man of wax and at the end of the scene encourages Juliet to Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. What does the nurse see in Paris, and what does it reveal about her attitude toward love and marriage? 6. Lady Capulet s lines compose a conceit. A conceit is an extended, exaggerated comparison or metaphor between two unlike things in this case, between Paris and a book that needs to be bound. What does Lady Capulet see in Paris that would make him a good match for Juliet? What is Lady Capulet s attitude toward love and marriage? 7. Consider lines Explain Juliet s answer to her mother when asked if she can love Paris. What does it reveal about her knowledge of being in love? ACT I SCENE iv 1. Consider lines Why does Romeo feel uneasy about going to the party? Is this an example of foreshadowing? 2. What decision does Romeo make in lines , and what is the importance of this decision? Would you say this reflects one of the themes of the play? ACT I SCENE v

4 1. We learn from Romeo s soliloquy (a speech delivered while the speaker is alone, calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character s mind) that he is struck by love at first sight when he sees Juliet at the party. To what does he compare Juliet (lines 43 53)? 2. How does this speech about his love for Juliet compare to his speeches about being in love with Rosaline? 3. Tybalt recognizes Romeo s voice and tries to start a fight. What two reasons does Lord Capulet give for stopping him (lines 65 69)? 4. In lines Romeo and Juliet speak to each other. Their lines form a sonnet. Paraphrase the lines of the sonnet. 5. Dramatic Irony (when the audience knows something the characters do not). What is ironic about Juliet s line 134? ACT II SCENE ii 1. The balcony scene is perhaps one of the most famous in all of drama. Initially Juliet cannot hear what Romeo says whilst he is in hiding. Answer the following questions about lines 2 25: a. Romeo repeats the light and dark motif he introduced when he saw Juliet for the first time. Why does Romeo compare Juliet to the sun? b. Why does he want the sun to kill the envious moon? c. Why is the moon envious? d. Why does he compare Juliet s eyes to the stars? e. Why is this comparison to stars another example of foreshadowing? 2. Consider lines Juliet is still unaware that Romeo is nearby. How do you know this? 3. Consider lines What is Juliet s attitude toward the feud that has separated the two families?

5 4. After Juliet asks some pertinent questions (lines 58 84), she realizes that Romeo has overheard her intimate thoughts about him. How does her attitude change in lines ? What is she worried about? 5. Why does Juliet object to Romeo s swearing on the moon (lines )? 6. Juliet speaks of her fears in lines Explain. ACT II SCENE iii 1. Friar Laurence is introduced in a lengthy soliloquy in which he philosophises about nature and about mankind. What is your initial impression of him? Why? 2. What is Friar Laurence s reaction to hearing of Romeo s new love (lines 65 80)? 3. Consider lines What reason does Friar Laurence give for agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet? ACT II SCENE iv 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 (line 115)? 2. What message does Romeo urge the nurse to give to Juliet (lines )? ACT II SCENE v 1. Juliet is very impatient to hear news from Romeo (lines 1 17). What images does she use in her soliloquy to express this? 2. The nurse knows Juliet is impatient, but she keeps putting her off. Why does the nurse do this?

6 3. Why does the Nurse agree to help Juliet marry Romeo? ACT III SCENE i 1. Why do you think Tybalt approaches Mercutio and Benvolio and wants a word with one of them (line 36)? 2. After Tybalt insults Romeo, Romeo responds with lines What is the reason Romeo has for ignoring the insult? 3. Consider lines Explain the meaning of the lines and the dramatic irony of the situation. 4. Why does Romeo s answer to Tybalt s insults upset Mercutio? What does he think Romeo is doing (line 70)? 6. Even when he is dying, Mercutio continues to joke and to make puns. Explain the pun he makes in lines Consider lines Mercutio repeats the following line (106) three times and then adds the next line. Explain what he means by: A plague O both your houses! They have made worm s meat of me. 8. After Mercutio dies, why does Romeo decide to kill Tybalt instead of accepting Mercutio s death as an unfortunate accident? 9. Consider lines What reasoning does Lady Capulet use in begging the Prince for vengeance for Tybalt s death? 10. Consider lines What is Lord Montagues reasoning in his attempt to persuade the Prince not to kill Romeo for killing Tybalt? 11. What is the Prince s decree, and what are the reasons he gives for making it (lines )?

7 ACT III SCENE ii 1. In lines the nurse confuses Juliet as she tells Juliet of the fight. What misconception does Juliet make? 2. Consider line 73. When Juliet receives news of Tybalt s death, what is her first reaction? 3. Consider Juliet s lines When the nurse agrees with Juliet, Juliet has a different reaction to Romeo s killing of Tybalt. Explain. ACT III SCENE iii 1. Consider line 12. 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 )? 3. Friar Laurence tells Romeo to count his blessings. What are they (line )? 4. Explain Friar Laurence s plan (lines ). ACT III SCENE v 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 (lines )? 2. What is Juliet s response when she is told the news that she is to marry Paris (lines )? How has she changed since Act 1? 3. What is her mother s reaction to Juliet s response (line 124 and lines )?

8 4. Consider lines What is Lord Capulet s response to Juliet s refusal to marry Paris? 5. What does the Nurse advise Juliet to do (lines )? Is this consistent with her attitude in Act 1? 1. Why is Paris visiting Friar Laurence? ACT IV SCENE i 2. Consider lines The Friar says he has thought of a way out, but what would it require? Summarize Friar Laurence s plan as described in lines ACT V SCENE i 1. What premonition does Romeo have at the beginning of this scene (lines 1 11)? 2. What news does Balthasar bring? How does this disrupt the Friar s plan? 3. Consider line 24. Why is this a brazen thing to say? 4. What does Romeo decide to do after he hears Balthasar s story (lines 34 57)? ACT V SCENE ii 1. What story does Friar John tell Friar Laurence as explanation as to why he could not deliver the letter to Romeo? ACT V SCENE iii 1. Consider lines What does Romeo notice about Juliet? Explain the dramatic irony. 2. Consider line 167. What does Juliet realize about the situation?

9 3. Consider lines Explain the lines. A couple of larger essay questions to consider. For these, create a TREE outline and post it to your blog. 1. Why do the Nurse and the Friar ultimately fail in their attempts to help Romeo and Juliet? Scholar Marjorie Garber writes, "The Friar is all authority and no experience, the Nurse all experience and no authority. Once again the older generation is inadequate to the tragic world of reality, of love and circumstance." Do you agree with this assessment? 2. What responsibility should the Nurse and the Friar bear for the play's tragic ending? The Prince announces that "some shall be pardoned and some punished." Do either the Nurse or the Friar deserve punishment? Who else, in your opinion, might bear some responsibility for the two lovers' deaths? 3. "The Nurse and Mercutio, both of them audience favorites, are nevertheless bad news, in different but complementary ways," Shakespeare scholar Harold Bloom writes. Do you agree with this assessment? What is similar or different about Mercutio and the Nurse's attitudes towards love, sex, and marriage? 4. What would have happened to Romeo and Juliet if they hadn't died? Is their relationship sustainable over time? Do they have anything to offer each other once the initial burst of passion calmed down? Would Romeo move on from Juliet as quickly as he moved on from Rosaline?

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