Prologue/ Act 1 Scene 1
What was the likely reason that Shakespeare began the play with a fight?
To show the broader perspective/ show how the feud impacts everyone?
Who wants to marry Juliet in Act 1 (not the rest of the play just Act 1)
Paris
Who want Juliet to marry Paris?
Her mother and her nurse
What is Romeo's characterization and give an example of how you know this
Head in the clouds, and falls in and out of love easily - this can be seen how he was very mopey over Rosaline and then immediately switches and falls in love with Juliet at first sight completely forgetting Roseline
What two words best describe the theme of the movie?
Love and Hate
What is the purpose of the Prologue?
To explain the plot of the story and get the audience interested in the story.
Please Name 4 Capulets:
Bonus Points: Name the two Servants
Juliet, Lord Capulet, Lady Capulet, Tybalt, Nurse,
Gregory and Sampson
What is the motivation of Paris? Who conflicts him in Act 1?
To marry Juliet, and Lord Capulet who tells him to wait a few years
How does Juliet react to Romeo after he left the party and asked the nurse who he is?
Realizing she has fallen in love with her enemy and was already in love before she even knew who he was
Who wrote Romeo and Juliet?
William Shakespeare
How does the play start? How does this event end?
A fight between the two families and the Prince saying the next one to start or participate in a fight will be put to death
Name 4 members of the Montague family
Romeo, Benvolio, Mercutio, Lord Montague, Lady Montague
Who seeks to have Romeo move past his lost love and what do they suggest Romeo do?
Benvolio and/or Mercutio, and go to the Capulet Party
What is the overall characterization of Benvolio?
A good friend and peace loving
Where is the play set?
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene
Find a line in the prologue that hints at the foreshadowing of the story to come
"Do with their deaths bury their parents strife"
How does Juliet's motivation change before and after the party?
At first she is obedient to her mother and agrees to marry Paris, then immediately rebels and falls in love with Romeo her known enemy and literally the one person she cannot fall in love with
Name two characters who you think will be in conflict in the next Act and why?
Paris and Romeo
Tybalt and Literally any Montague
Juliet and her family, particularly her mom
etc.
Name two characters in agreement and two in disagreement
Not one answer:
1. Benvolio and Mercutio
2. Lady and Lord Capulet
Please Paraphrase the quote from the Prince below:
"By thee, old Capulet, and Montague,
Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets
And made Verona’s ancient citizens
Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments
To wield old partisans in hands as old,
Cankered with peace, to part your cankered hate.
If ever you disturb our streets again,
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. "
He is tired of the people fighting and makes a law against it and if they get caught they will be put to death.
Explain this Quote
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
There are two fighting families that have been fighting forever and continue to fight today
What are the ages of Juliet and Romeo?
Juliet: 13
Romeo: 16-21
Please Summarize the line from Act 1 Scene 3
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Juliet says she will marry if that is what her mother wants and will do whatever her parents tell her
What is the overall characterization of Tybalt and how do we think his story will end?
Hothead
Select the quote that most clearly supports the claim that, though Tybalt won't do anything now, he is planning to do something later.
TYBALTThis, by his voice, should be a Montague.
Fetch me my rapier, boy. What dares the slave
Come hither, cover'd with an antic face,
To fleer and scorn at our solemnity?
Now, by the stock and honour of my kin,
To strike him dead, I hold it not a sin.
TYBALT
Patience perforce with willful choler meeting
Makes my flesh tremble in their different greeting.
I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall,
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitt’rest gall
I will withdraw