The Feud
These two households are described as "both alike in dignity" (Prologue, line 1).
What are the Capulets and Montagues?
This mentor can cite Juliet's "unto an hour."
Who is The Nurse?
When we meet Romeo, he is completely head over heels for this Verona youth.
Who is Rosaline?
This young nobleman is constantly trying to stop the feud from escalating.
Who is Benvolio?
Though not belonging to either house, this nobleman threatens members of both houses with execution if caught brawling in the streets.
Who is The Prince? or Who is Prince Escales?
Though the feud is ancient, this is the current state of the feud?
What is bloody? What is violent?
The Nurse call this young Verona nobleman a "man of wax" and "a flower."
Who is Paris?
When we meet Juliet at the young age of 13, she reveals this attitude about getting married.
What is she hasn't dreamed or thought of it?
This Verona nobleman craves attention and doesn't might throwing around some poetic trash talk.
Who is Mercutio?
This down and out character make a little cash for selling lethal poison to Romeo.
Who is The Apothecary?
Two members of this house instigate a brawl in Act One, Scene One.
What is the Capulet house?
When we meet this person, he's wondering aloud about the awesome power of nature.
Who is Friar Lawrence?
When the lovers meet, they compose a sonnet in which they pretend to be these two religious terms for holy people.
What are pilgrim and saint?
When listening to his coz describe his heartsickness, Benvolio implores to look elsewhere for love, promising to turn the object of Romeo's affection from [this bird] into [this bird].
What are a swan and a crow?
This seldom heard-from character dies of grief even before learning of Romeo's and Juliet's deaths.
Who is Lady Montague?
This young nobleman thrives on the hatred of the feud and even hates the word "peace."
Who is Tybalt?
What is banished?
In the famous balcony scene, Juliet considers the importance of names and says "That which we call [this flower] By any other word would smell as sweet."
What is a rose?
When Romeo asserts that a dream has told him not to go to the big Capulet party, Mercutio suggests that this mischievous fairy has visited him.
Who is Queen Mab?
This one-scene character fails to deliver the crucial news that Juliet is alive.
Who is Friar John?
This is proposed as a symbolic representation of the end of the feud.
What is a statue of Romeo & Juliet?
When Juliet begs the Nurse for some "comfort" after harsh treatment from her parents, the Nurse gives this advice.
What is to get married to Paris?
Before drinking poison, Romeo remarks on how death has not "conquer'd" Juliet's beauty, referring to the rosiness of these two features.
When fatally wounded by Tybalt, Mercutio finds these people to blame.
What are both houses? or Who are the Capulets and Montagues?
This crude and rude Capulet thug expresses the nature of the feud threatening violence to Montague men and women alike.
Who is Sampson?