Scene I
True or false:
Mercutio says he wants to go home and wants to avoid a fight with the Capulets.
False; It was Benvolio.
Which does Juliet mourn for more? Tybalt's death or Romeo's banishment?
Romeo's banishment.
True or false:
Romeo says being banished from Verona is like hell.
True
True or False:
They made a large public wedding for Paris and Juliet because of Tybalt's death.
False; They made a small, private wedding
"It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale. Look, love, what envious streaks
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east.
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
What do the nightingale and the lark represent in this passage?
Night and Day
True or false:
Romeo tries to avoid a fight while Tybalt wants to engage in a fight.
True
When the Nurse tells Juliet "He is dead!", who does Juliet think has been killed?
Romeo, her husband.
What did Romeo try to do when the Nurse told him about Juliet's grief?
Stab himself with a dagger out of guilt.
What day did they change the wedding to?
Thursday
What does Lady Capulet think the reason of Juliet's grief?
Good-will; peacemaker.
At the end of the scene, what does Juliet instruct the nurse to give to Romeo?
A ring.
What does Friar Laurence offer Romeo for his banishment?
A) Armor
B) Wisdom and reason
C) Money
D) Refreshments
B) Wisdom and reason
How does Paris feel about the wedding being moved to Thursday?
He is excited.
"I tell thee what. Get thee to church a Thursday,
Or never after look me in the face."
What is Capulet's tone?
A) Paternal
B) Threatening
C) Forgiving
D) Worried
B) Threatening
Did Benvolio act like how Mercutio described him? How did he describe him?
No. Mercutio described him as an aggressive guy but in reality, he avoids fights and is calm.
"Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but 'Ay,'
And that bare vowel 'I' shall poison more
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice.
I am not I if there be such an 'I,'"
In this context, what do each of the "I" sounds mean?
"I" as in the first-person pronoun"
"Eye" as in the organ of sight
"Ay" as in yes.
"Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast.
Unseemly woman in a seeming man,
And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both."
What does Friar Laurence want Romeo to control?
His emotions
Why was the marriage of Paris and Juliet moved earlier for the next day?
Juliet was in a depressed mood because of the death of Tybalt so quickly marrying Paris would cheer her up.
"Thou counterfeits a bark, a sea, a wind;
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea,
Do ebb and flow with tears; the bark thy body is,
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy sighs,
Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them,
Without a sudden calm, will overset"
What is Capulet trying to do for Juliet?
To make her calm and not be dramatic.
What is Montague's argument to the Prince for Romeo killing Tybalt?
In the Capulet's house talking about the Sun God, what imagery does Juliet talk about Romeo? (3)
Night and day, light and dark, celestial imagery.
What is Friar Laurence's plan to protect Romeo and Juliet's marriage in act 3? (Different from the potion plan told to Juliet)
Go to Juliet and comfort her about the marriage. Then secretly leave to Mantua and hide temporarily. Friar Laurence will announce the marriage at the right time in hopes the news will end the feud. Then he will ask the Prince to bring back Romeo and they will live happily ever after in Verona.
What type of wedding did Lord Capulet plan for Juliet?
A private wedding with few friends.
What will happen to Juliet if she doesn't marry Paris?
She will be disowned and not receive Capulet's inheritance.