romeo+and+juliet

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=PROLOGUE=

4. Highlight lines 5 and 6. Explain the importance of these two lines//**."From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life," It means that the children of the Montague's and Capulet's (Romeo and Juliet) are going against fait in order to be together. This costs them their life. This is telling hte audience that no matter what they do, there is no way for them to survive.**// 5.Why does Shakespeare tell us how the story is going to end? //**it gives you a different point of view of the story. It shows that no matter what they do, they can not change their fait.**// 6. What themes are established in the Prologue? //**It establishes a theme of romance and tragedy.**//
 * 1) Who speaks the Prologue? //**The Chorus**//
 * 2) What is the purpose of the Prologue?//**To let people know what is going on. This tells people what has happened in the past and gives clues on what is going to happen.**//
 * 3) In what poetic form is this Prologue? **//a sonnet//**

=ACT 1 SCENE 1= 1. How does Shakespeare start the play so that he gains the attention of the “groundlings?” //**Shakespeare starts off with two servants fighting from the Capulet house.**// 2. Highlight lines 58-59. Our first introduction to Benvolio comes when he says these words. What do they reveal about his character? //**It reveals that Benvolio wants to fight.**// 3. Highlight lines 64-65. Our first impression of Tybalt occurs in these lines. What do we learn about his character? //**Tybalt does not like peace, he doesnt like Benvolio, and he doesnt like the Montagues.**// 4. Highlight lines 90-91. What is the tone of the Prince’s speech? In these lines he makes a new decree. What is it, and why is it important? //**The prince is mad about the two families that are fighting.**// 5. When we first see Romeo he shows all the signs of a **Petrarchan Lover**—**someone who is in love with the idea of being in love**. How does Romeo act (lines 125-136)? //**Romeo is sobing and moping around because he is afraid that his lover will not love him back.**// 6. When describing his feelings to Benvolio, Romeo uses **Oxymorons—pairs of contradictory words** in lines 170-177 and 184-188. Why does he speak in contradictions and paradoxes? 7. We then learn that Romeo is suffering from **Unrequited Love—He loves someone who does not love him back.** What suggestion does Benvolio make to Romeo to help him get over is unrequited love for Rosaline (lines 221-223)? //**He suggests that there are lots of fish in the sea. Which means he is telling Romeo he can find another love.**//

=ACT 1 SCENE 2=

1. In this scene Lord Capulet talks to Paris about marrying his daughter Juliet. What two reasons does he give for not wanting Juliet to marry at this time (lines 8-14)?

2. Highlight line 16-19. On what condition will Lord Capulet agree to Juliet’s marriage with Paris? //**He will only agree if he has her consent.**// 3. What does this reveal about Lord Capulet’s love for his daughter? //**That he really loves her and that he considers her feelings. Because in that society it is not common for people to consider their daughters feelings.**// 4. From the servant who cannot read we learn that Rosaline, with whom Romeo believes he is in love, will be at the Capulet party. Why does this excite Benvolio? What is his plan (lines 84-89)? //**For other people to compare Rosaline, so he can see she is not as beautiful as he thinks she is.**// 5. Highlight lines 86-89. Explain Benvolio’s analogy: //**At the party there will be lots of more beautiful girls, and hopefully Romeo will acknowledge the more beautiful girls.**// 6. Why does Romeo agree to go to the party (lines 102-103)? //**He agrees to go to the party so he can watch Rosaline.**// 7. What coincidence takes place in this scene? Explain what theme is being developed. //**Just going to the party and meeting Juliet is fate, which is the theme.**// =ACT 1 SCENE 3= In this scene Lady Capulet is informing Juliet and her nurse of Count Paris’ proposal of marriage. 1. What is the nurse’s relationship with Juliet? //**The nurse is practically Juliets mother, she took care of Juliet since she was a small child.**// 2. How would you describe the nurse’s personality? //**She is a very nice relaxed person, she enjoys life, and likes to hear about Juliets life.**// 3. Highlight lines 62-63. What is the nurse’s one wish for Juliet and why? //**The nurse wants Juliet to marry when she is older, and to someone who is right for her.**// 4. When Lady Capulet asks Juliet how she feels about being married, what is Juliet’s answer (line 67), and what does it reveal about her character? //**It reveals that Juliet is very patient because she wants to wait.**// 5. The nurse and Lady Capulet are both excited and pleased by Paris’ proposal but for different reasons. The nurse says Paris is “a man of wax” and at the end of the scene encourages Juliet to “Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days.” What does the nurse see in Paris, and what does it reveal about her attitude toward love and marriage? //**The nurse wants Juliet and Paris to get married because she believes that he is the right guy for her. It reveals that she is very into the whole idea about love and marriage.**// 6. Lady Capulet’s lines 82-95 compose a **conceit. A conceit is an extended** **,** **exaggerated comparison or metaphor between two unlike things** —in this case, between Paris and a book that needs to be bound. What does Lady Capulet see in Paris that would make him a good match for Juliet? What is Lady Capulet’s attitude toward love and marriage? //**She believes that they will make a good pair as well. She also likes the whole idea about love and marriage.**// 7. Highlight lines 98-100. Explain Juliet’s answer to her mother when asked if she can love Paris. What does it reveal about her knowledge of being in love? What is her attitude toward love and marriage? I'll look to like, if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
 * //She is waiting to see if she loves him.//**

=ACT 1 SCENE 4=

1. Highlight lines 106-111. Why does Romeo feel uneasy about going to the party? What dream-like premonition has he had? //**Romeo is afraid to go to the party because it is a Capulet party, and he also had a dream that night that something bad was going to happen at this party.**// 2. Comment on this speech in terms of the Elizabethan attitude toward the stars and astrology.

3. What decision does Romeo make in lines 112-113, and what is the thematic importance of this decision? //**Romeo still decides to go to the party even though he had a bad feeling about the party. It is an important decision because this is the night he meets Juliet.**// =ACT 1 SCENE 5=

1. We learn from Romeo’s **soliloquy** **(a speech delivered while the speaker is alone, calculated to inform the audience of what is passing in the character’s mind)** that he is struck by love at first sight when he sees Juliet at the party. Paraphrase Rome’s speech (lines 43-53). To what does he compare Juliet? //**He said that he revolves around Juliet, and compares her to the sun.**// 2. How does this speech about his love for Juliet compare to his speeches about being in love with Rosaline? //**It compares that he no longer loves Rosaline, and he has fallen in love with Juliet.**// 3. Tybalt recognizes Romeo’s voice and tries to start a fight. What two reasons does Lord Capulet give for stopping him (lines 65-69)? //**Lord Capulet doesn't want his guest to be unpleased with his party, and he doesn't want Tybalt to be put to death.**// 4. Highlight lines 90-91. What threat does Tybalt make as he agrees to withdraw? //**Tybalt threatens to have revenge for this embarrassment.**// 5. In lines 92-105 Romeo and Juliet speak to each other. Their lines form a sonnet. Paraphrase the lines of the sonnet. //**It's ironic because she is speaking about a Montague.**// Act 1 Podcast
 * 6.** **Dramatic Irony is when the audience knows something the characters do not.** What is ironic about Juliet’s line 134?

Create a podcast for Act 1 using Garage Band based on one of the following options:
==**//Introduce your topic, use music and sound effects to create mood and atmosphere. Save as iTunes mp3 and upload to your wiki.//**==

=ACT 2 SCENE 2=

1. Juliet is on the balcony outside her bedroom but cannot hear the words that Romeo says to himself as he looks at her from the hiding place below. Answer the following questions about lines 2-25:

a. Romeo repeats the light and dark images he introduced when he saw Juliet for the first time. Why does Romeo compare Juliet to the sun? //**Romeo campares Juliet to the sun because she is his love.**// b. Why does he want the sun to kill the envious moon? //**He wants the sun(Juliet) to kill the envious moon(Rosaline) because he wants to get over Rosaline.**// c. Why is the moon envious? //**Because it is compared with Rosaline.**// d. Why does he compare Juliet’s eyes to the stars? //**Because Juliets eyes glisten in the moonlight just as the stars do.**// e. Why is this comparison to stars another example of foreshadowing? //**It compares that their lifes will soon come together.**// 2. Highlight lines 33-36. Juliet is still unaware that Romeo is nearby. Paraphrase these lines. O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. //**O Romeo, Romeo! Why must you be Romeo Go against your father, and change your name; Or, if you do not, but swear that you love me, I will change my name**//

3. Highlight lines 43-44. Paraphrase lines 38-49. What is Juliet’s attitude toward the feud that has separated the two families? What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part

4. After Juliet asks some pertinent questions (lines 58-84), she realizes that Romeo has overheard her intimate thoughts about him. How does her attitude change in lines 85-105? What is she worried about?

5. Why does Juliet object to Romeo’s swearing on the moon (lines 109-111)? //**Because the moon changes every month.**// 6. Juliet speaks of her fears in lines 116-119. Explain. //**Juliet fears that when they get married their relationship will end.**// 7. Paraphrase lines 142-148.

=ACT 2 SCENE 3=

1. Friar Laurence is introduced in a lengthy soliloquy in which he philosophies about nature and about mankind. Paraphrase his speech (lines 7-30).

2. What does Romeo tell Friar Laurence, and what does he want from the Friar (lines 43-64)? //**Romeo says that it is true that he hasn't had any sleep, but it is not because he was with Rosaline. He is now in love with Juliet, and does not even think about Rosaline. Romeo wants Frier Laurence to marry them that same day.**//

3. What is Friar Laurence’s reaction to hearing of Romeo’s new love (lines 65-80)? //**His reaction is that he doesnt believe that Romeo can change his mind so fast, to liking Juliet.**// 4. Highlight lines 89-92. What reason does Friar Laurence give for agreeing to marry Romeo and Juliet? But come, young waverer, come, go with me, In one respect I'll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households' rancour to pure love.
 * Frier Laurence thinks that it might end the fued between the two families. They will then bring the towns together.**

=ACT 2 SCENE 4=

1. This scene shows us more of the nurse’s character as she trades quips and puns with Mercutio. What **malapropisms (an inappropriateness of speech resulting from the use of one word for another which resembles it** **)** does the nurse use (line 115)? //**"If you be he sir, I desire some confidence with you." The nirse said "confiedence" instead of saying conference.**// 2. What message does Romeo urge the nurse to give to Juliet (lines 163-166)? //**Romeo tells the nurse to give Juliet a message to meet him and they will get married.**//

ACT 2 SCENE 5

 * 1) Juliet is very impatient to hear news from Romeo (lines 1-17). What images does she use in her soliloquy to express this?
 * 2) The nurse knows Juliet is impatient, but she keeps putting her off. Why does the nurse do this? //**The nurse is amused by Juliet wondering what has happened. the nurse could easily tell Juliet, but she have fun and joke around.**//
 * 3) Why does the Nurse agree to help Juliet marry Romeo? //**She wants Juliet to be happy, because she really cares about her. And she know marrying Romeo will make her happy.**//

**Create a podcast for Act 2 using Garage Band based on one of the following options:**
==//Introduce your topic, use music and sound effects to create mood and atmosphere. Save as iTunes mp3 and upload to your wiki.//== ==== 1. Paraphrase then Podcast the "Balcony Scene" between Romeo and Juliet ====

====2. Friar Laurence is introduced in a lengthy soliloquy in which he philosophies about nature and about mankind. Paraphrase and Podcast his speech==== ====3. This scene shows us more of the nurse’s character as she trades quips and puns with Mercutio. Paraphrase and Podcast.====

**ACT 3 SCENE 1**

1. Why do you think Tybalt approaches Mercutio and Benvolio and wants a “word” with one of them (line 36)? //**He knows that they're friends with Romeo, and Tybalt wants to know where Romeo is.**// 2. Mercutio tries to provoke Tybalt to fight (lines 37-38). Why doesn’t Tybalt want to fight him (line 53)? //**Tybalt knows that he will be executed if he starts the fight with Mercutio, and he doesn't want to waste it on him. Tybalt only wants to kill Romeo.**// 3. After Tybalt insults Romeo, Romeo responds with lines 59-62. Explain his lines. What is the “reason” Romeo has for ignoring the insult? //**Romeo says that he has reasons to love Tybalt, and that he loves the name Capulet like it was his own. Romeo says these things because he is know married to Tybalt's cousin, so they are now related.**// 4. Highlight lines 65-69. Explain the meaning of the lines and the dramatic irony of the situation. 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 my own,--be satisfied. 5. Why does Romeo’s answer to Tybalt’s insults upset Mercutio? What does he think Romeo is doing (line 70)? //**Mercution thinks that Romeo is trying to suck up so he doesn't have to fight.**// 6. Romeo tries to stop Mercutio and Tybalt from fighting by reasoning with them (lines 82-85). Paraphrase what he says. Gentlemen, you should be ashamed, stop the fighting. Tybalt, Mercutio! The Prince has said that there is no fightin allowed in the streets of Verona. Stop Tybalt! Nice Mercutio** 7. Even when he is dying, Mercutio continues to joke and to make puns. Explain the pun he makes in lines 92-99. This means that they will find him in a grave, because he would be dead, and he would also be very upset.** 8. Highlight lines 102-103. Mercutio repeats the following line (106) three times and then adds the next line. Explain what he means: They have made worm’s meat of me.”** 9. What does Romeo mean when he says lines 119-120? //**He is saying that he must get revenge on Tybalt. Mercutio is dead, and now Tybal deserves to die.**// 10. After Mercutio dies, why does Romeo decide to kill Tybalt instead of accepting Mercutio’s death as an unfortunate accident? //**Romeo doesn't think, he just lets his anger take control. Romeo wants to get revenge on Tybalt for killing Mercutio.**// 11. Highlight line 132. What does Romeo mean? Romeo means that it id because of fait that he killed Tybalt.** 12. Highlight lines 176-177. What reasoning does Lady Capulet use in begging the Prince for vengeance for Tybalt’s death? Affection makes him false. He speakes not true." Lady Capulet says that Benvolio is related to Romeo, and is lying to protect him. He is not going to tell the truth.** 13. Highlight lines 180-183. What is Lord Montagues’ reasoning in his attempt to persuade the Prince not to kill Romeo for killing Tybalt?14. What is the Prince’s decree, and what are the reasons he gives for making it (lines 182-185)?
 * This is ironic because Romeo is saying that Capulet is a name that is like is own, even though their families have always been fighting and hate eachother.**
 * Come, Benvolio; take away their weapons.
 * He said "Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a grave man."
 * “A plague O’ both your houses!
 * "O, I am fortunes fool."
 * "He is a kinsman to the Montague.

=ACT 3 SCENE 2=

1. In lines 37-68 the nurse confuses Juliet as she tells Juliet of the fight. What misconception does Juliet make? //**Juliet thinks that Romeo is dead. She thinks that he has killed himself.**// 2. Highlight line 73. When Juliet receives news of Tybalt’s death, what is her first reaction? Juliet thought that something terrible came over Romeo to kill him.** 3. Highlight Juliet’s lines 90-92. When the nurse agrees with Juliet, Juliet has a different reaction to Romeo’s killing of Tybalt. Explain. For such a wish! He was not born to shame." Juliet loves Romeo, even if he did kill her cousin. She would rather have Romeo than her cousin.** 4. How does the scene end? //**Juliet gets upset, not because of Tybalt's death, but of Romeo's exile. She tells the nurse to find where Romeo is hiding and get him to meet her that night.**// =ACT 3 SCENE 3=
 * "O God! Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood"
 * "Blistered be thy tongue

1. Highlight line 12. What is Romeo’s reaction when he learns that he has been banished? Romeo feels that he might as well be dead if he is not with his true love. Being without Juliet is worse than death.** 2. From the beginning of the play, Romeo acts impulsively. In what way is he still impulsive in this scene (lines 102-108)? //**Romeo almost kills himself. He is so upset that he can not see Juliet that he doesnèt think and take a dagger to try to stab himself.**// 3. Friar Laurence tells Romeo to count his blessings. What are they (line 135-140)? //**Romeo should be thankful that he is alive, and was not killed my Tybalt or the Prince. Romeo should also be thankful that Juliet is still alive. Romeo is only exiled, and neither he or Juliet have been killed.**// 4. Explain Friar Laurence’s plan (lines 146-154). //**Romeo is to spend the night with Juliet. Romeo must leave before morning and go to the next town. When the word gets out about his and Juliet's marriage, the Prince will probably let romeo back into the town.**//
 * "Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say "death." "

1. Why is Friar Lawrence reluctant to marry Paris to Juliet?
 * Because he has already married Romeo and Juliet, and he could get into a lot of trouble if everyone finds out.**

2. How does Paris explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans?
 * He thinks that Juliet needs to forget about her cousins death, and this is the prfect way to make her happy. Paris is very pleased to be marrying Juliet**

3. What is ironic about the conversation between Juliet and Paris?
 * Paris keeps going on about how he loves Juliet, and how Juliet loves Paris. This is ironic because Juliet does not love Paris, she loves Romeo**

4. If Friar Lawrence cannot help her, what does Juliet threaten to do?
 * Juliet threatens to kill herself, because to her, there is no pont in living if it means living without Romeo.**

5. Why does Friar Lawrence think that Juliet will accept his plan?
 * Because if Juliet is willing to kill herself, then she will be willing to do the plan. Juliet will do anything to be with romeo.**

6. Describe the friar’s plan for Juliet. ====**Friar Laurence has given Juliet a potion, which she will take the night before her wedding. The poition is to make it look like Juliet is dead. Everyone will think that Juliet is dead, and when Juliet wakes up Romeo will bring her back to Mantua, where the two will live.**====

**scene ii:**
1. What does Juliet say that makes her father happy?
 * Juliet says that she now wants to marry Paris. She says that she is very happy and is excited for the wedding.**

2. How does Capulet change the wedding plans? What implications does this have?
 * Capulet moved the wedding up to wednesday instead of Thursday. This means that Juliet will have to take the poition one day sooner. This means that Romeo might find out that Juliet is dead before he gets the letter about the plan.**

**scene iii:**
1. How does Juliet show her maturity and independence in this scene? 2. If the potion does not work, what will Juliet do?
 * She no longer needs her nurse in her life. Juliet did not tell the nurse about the plan, which shows that she is growing up.**
 * Juliet will kill herself with the dagger if the potion does not work. She does not want to continue to live if it means she can not be with Romeo.**

3. What are some of the fears Juliet has about the potion?
 * Juliet fears that Friar Laurence has given her a potion that will kill her. She thinks that he might be scared that people will find out that he married romeo and Juliet, and this is his way to get Juliet out of the way.**

**scene iv:**
1. What is happening in this brief scene?


 * They are preparing for the wedding in this scene.**

**scene v:**
1. Describe the imagery Shakespeare uses in describing Juliet’s “death.” "Death lies on her like an untimely frost..." Shakespeare uses imagery to show Juliet's death**
 * "Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff."

2. What does friar Lawrence say to comfort the Capulet family?
 * Friar Laurence says that Juliet is now in a better place. He says that she is now in Heaven.**

3. What event are the Capulets preparing for now?
 * The capulets are now preparing for a funeral instead of a wedding.**

ACT 5 SCENE 1

1. What premonition does Romeo have at the beginning of this scene (lines 1-11)?
 * He had a dream that he was dead, and Juliet rivied him with kiss.**

2. What news does Balthasar bring? How does this disrupt the Friar’s plan?
 * Balthasar tells Romeo that juliet is dead. this distrupts Friar's plan because noe Romeo think that Juliet is actually dead, and he os going to kill himself.**

3. Highlight line 24. Paraphrase. Why is this a brazen thing to say? Is this true? Then I go against destiny! This is a brazen thing to say because you can't go against destiny.**
 * "Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars!"

4. What does Romeo decide to do after he hears Balthasar’s story (lines 34-57)? He is going to go to an apothecary, so he can get some poison.**
 * Romeo decides to kill himself, so that he can be with juliet.

=ACT 5 SCENE 2=

1. What story does Friar John tell Friar Laurence as explanation as to why he could not deliver the letter to Romeo? =ACT 5 SCENE 3=
 * Friar John says that he can not deliver the letter because searchers found people with the plague, and put eveyone under quarentine.**

1. Highlight lines 91-96. What does Romeo notice about Juliet? Explain the dramatic irony. Death that has sucked the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty Thou aren't not conquered. Beauty ensign yet. Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks." Romeo notices that Juliet doesn't look dead, she looks as beautiful as ever. This is ironic because Juliet actuallly isn't dead.**
 * "Call this a lightening, oh my love, my love

2. Highlight line 167. What does Juliet realize about the situation? **"What's here? A cup, closed in my true love's hand?" Juliet realizes that Romeo has poisoned himself. She now knows that Romeo is dead, and she is now going to kill herself.**

Highlight lines 169-170. Explain the lines. Haply some poison yet doth hang on them To make me die with a restorative." Juliet is going to kiss Romeo in hope that there is some poison left on his lips. These lines are simialr to when Romeo and Juliet first met.**
 * To help me after? I will kiss thy lips.