Act One
What do the following lines tell us? "The fearful passage of their death-marked love, / And the continuance of their parents' rage, / Which but their children's end nought could remove, / Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage."
The play will be about Romeo and Juliet's love and how it resolved the Capulet's and Montague's fighting.
What does the following line mean? "What's in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other word would smell as sweet."
Names are meaningless / They only have meaning that we give them. If we renamed a rose something else, it would still smell sweet.
How is Mercutio killed? Be specific!
Tybalt stabs him under Romeo's arm.
What type of figurative language is this? "O son, the night before thy wedding day / Hath Death lain with thy wife."
Personification
What type of irony is this? "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep / My dreams presage some joyful news at hand."
Dramatic Irony - The audience knows that Romeo should receive a letter about Juliet's plan.
What is being foreshadowed? Benvolio advises Romeo to try to get over Rosaline by attending the party: “Take thou some new infection to thy eye, / And the rank poison of the old will die” (1.2.49-50).
When Romeo attends the party, he immediately falls in love with Juliet and forgets all about Rosaline.
What type of irony is it when Mercutio says he will "conjure [Romeo] by Rosaline's bright eyes, / By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, / By her fine foot, straight leg, and quivering thigh"
Dramatic Irony because the audience knows Romeo no longer loves Rosaline.
What type of irony is this? "I do protest I never injured thee, / But love thee better than thou canst devise / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love, / And so, good Capulet, which name I tender / As dearly as mine own, be satisfied."
Dramatic Irony- The audience knows that Romeo has married Juliet, but Tybalt does not know this.
What is being foreshadowed? Juliet: "I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, / That almost freezes up the heat of life."
Juliet's death
What is this foreshadowing? "I dreamt my lady came and found me dead - / Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think! - / And breathed such life with kisses in my lips / That I revived and was an emperor."
Romeo's death and Juliet kissing him to try and get some of the poison off his lips.
What is being foreshadowed? In Act One, Scene 5, after meeting and falling in love with Romeo, Juliet says, “If he be married. / My grave is like to be my wedding bed” (1.5.135).
Juliet’s grave is her wedding bed, as she dies in the arms of her husband at the end of the play.
What is being foreshadowed? Friar Lawrence warns Romeo and Juliet before they are married: “These violent delights have violent ends . . . Therefore love moderately” (2.5.9–14).
Romeo and Juliet will die violently because of how quickly they are trying to be together.
After being told she must marry Paris, and her father threatening to disown her, Juliet pleads: “O, sweet my mother, cast me not away! / Delay this marriage for a month, a week / Or, if you do not, make the bridal bed / In that dim monument where Tybalt lies” (3.5.198-201)
Juliet will die in her wedding dress in the Capulet tomb.
What is being foreshadowed? "Or hide me nightly in a charnel-house [tomb] / O'erecovered quite with dead men's rattling bones, / With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls, / Or bid me go into a new-made grave, / And hide me with a dead man in his shroud"
Juliet is put in the Capulet's tomb in Act 5.
What is this foreshadowing? "Then I defy you, stars! / Thou know'st my lodging. Get me ink and paper, / And hire posthorses. I will hence tonight."
Romeo is defying fate and will kill himself tonight.
What is being foreshadowed? At Capulet's party, Capulet stops Tybalt from attacking Romeo. To this, Tybalt replies: “I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall / Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall” (1.5.91-92).
Tybalt will want to go after Romeo and challenge him. This will eventually lead to Romeo killing Tybalt.
What is being foreshadowed?
In the balcony scene, Romeo states that he would rather die by Juliet’s kinsmens’ hand at that moment, than never feeling Juliet’s love. “And but thou love me, let them find me here: / My life were better ended by their hate, / Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love” (2.2.77-78).
Romeo gets to love Juliet for a short while, but because of the family feud, Romeo is killed.
After spending the night together, Juliet, looking down at Romeo, says: “Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look'st pale” (3.5.55-57).
Juliet sees Romeo dead in the tomb. Romeo dies first.
What is being foreshadowed? "If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help, / Do thou but call my resolution wise, / And with this knife I'll help it presently. / God joined my heart and Romeo's, thou our hands; / And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo's sealed, / Shall be the label to another deed"
Juliet uses a dagger to kill herself in Act 5.
What does Romeo mean when he is at the tomb and says, "Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open, / And in despite I'll cram thee with more food."
He is personifying the tomb and saying he will feed his dead body to the tomb.
What is being foreshadowed?
Before entering the party, Romeo has doubts: I fear, too early: for my mind misgives / Some consequence yet hanging in the stars / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night's revels and expire the term /Of a despised life closed in my breast / By some vile forfeit of untimely death. (1.4.104-113)
Romeo's own death.
What is being foreshadowed? Before Romeo and Juliet are officially married, Romeo says: "Do thou but close our hands with holy words, / Then love-devouring death do what he dare; / It is enough I may but call her mine" (2.6.6-8).
Romeo sort of “tests” the fates with his comment “Then love-devouring death do what he dare.” Fate, or death, does eventually do what he wants, taking Mercutio, Tybalt, and eventually Romeo and Juliet’s lives.
What is being foreshadowed?
After he has fought and killed Tybalt, Romeo cries: “O, I am fortune's fool!” (3.1.136).
Romeo tempts fate, and realizes that his life is out of his own control, and he is right where fate wants him. Because of this Romeo has not changed his fate, and will still die at the end.
What is being foreshadowed? As a “backup plan” in case the potion does not work, Juliet has a knife with which to kill herself. “What if this mixture do no work at all? / Shall I be married then to-morrow morning? / No, no: this shall forbid it. Lie thou there. [Laying down a dagger] (4.3.21-23)
Juliet ends up stabbing herself with a dagger in Act 5.
What does the following line the Prince says mean? "See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love; / And I, for winking at your discords too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished."
Because of the Capulet and Montague feud, Heaven has put a curse on them by having their children die because of love. The Prince has also lost two family members because he didn't stop them from fighting.