Romeo & Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
Poetry
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
100

"O lamentable day! Look, look. O heavy day! She’s dead, deceased, she’s dead. Alack the day! O lamentable day! O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day, most woeful day that ever, ever, I did yet behold! O day, O day, O day, O hateful day!"

Who is the Nurse?

100

"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."

Who is Romeo?

100

"I walk into a room just as cool as you please, And to a man the fellows stand or fall down on their knees."

What is "Phenomenal Woman"?

100
"Just like Ah thought. A whole heap uh talk and nobody doin' nothin'. I god, where's de Mayor?"
Who is Jody/Joe?
100
"Ah thank yuh fuh yo' compliments, but mah wife don't know nothin' about no speech-makin'."
Who is Joe/Jody?
200

"Thus with a kiss I die."

Who is Romeo?

200

"I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden..."

Who is Juliet?

200

"We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident as the rock and ocean that we were made from."

What is "Carmel Point"?

200
"Nobody else on earth kin hold a candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom."
Who is Tea Cake?
200
"Put dat two hundred back in wid de rest, Janie. Mah dice. Ah no need no assistance tuh help me feed mah woman."
Who is Tea Cake?
300

"I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air..."

Who is Mercutio?

300

“I defy you, stars.”

Who is Romeo?

300

"I saw the whole of Baltimore from May until December; Of all the things that happened there, that's all that I remember."

What is "Incident"?

300
"Ah wants to see you married right away [to] brother Logan Killicks. He's a good man, too."
Who is Nanny?
300
"All dis bowin' down, all dis obedience under yo' voice -- dat ain't whut Ah rushed off down de road tuh find out about you."
Who is Janie?
400

"What, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death."

Who is Tybalt?

400

"Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast."

Who is Friar Lawrence?

400

"The woman leans muttering against a tree, exhausted, purged -- avenged in part for lifelong hidings she has had to bear."

What is "The Whipping"?

400
"Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves."
Who is Janie?
400
"Ah didn't cry and ah didn't do nothin' else. But then she kept on astin' me how come mah baby look white. She asted me that maybe twenty-five or thirty times, so Ah told her, 'Ah ain't nothin' but uh nigger and uh slave.'"
Who is Nanny?
500

"Romeo, away, be gone! The citizens are up, and Tybalt slain. Stand not amazed: the prince will doom thee death, If thou art taken: hence, be gone, away!"

Who is Benvolio?

500

“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

Who is the chorus?

500

"the dancers go round, they go round and around, the squeal and the blare and the tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles..."

What is "The Dance?"

500
"Ah'll phone into Palm Beach right away for the serum which he should have had three weeks ago. I'll do all I can to save him, Janie. But it looks too late."
Who is the doctor?
500
"Ah does feed 'im. He's jus' too mean tuh git fat. Don't keer whut Ah do Ah can't git long wid 'im. He fights every inch in front uh de plow, adn even lay back his ears tuh kick and bite when Ah go in de stall tuh feed 'im."
Who is Matt Bonner?
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