1 The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet (Shortened Version)
2 PROLOGUE |
3 Chorus: In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
4 A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;
5 Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. |
6 Watch this video on the Hatfields and the McCoys. QUESTION 1: What are the similarities between these real-life families, and the Capulets and Montagues?
Like the Montagues and Capulets,the McCoys and Hatfields are in a feud because of the death of Ellison Hatfield,he recieved an election-day fight in Pike County with three of the sons from the McCoy family being there are victims/witnesses.
I agree with A’niyah that just like the Capulet’s and the Montague’s these families do not like each other because of the death of one of the Hatfield’s son.
In Romeo and Juliet, the Montagues and the Capulets are at odds for an untold reason. You can see that the two families hate each other but don’t know why. The same can be said or the Hatfields and the McCoys.
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8 Romeo and Juliet is often criticized because they fall in love so quickly, but that’s a modern approach to an older text. QUESTION 2: How does the prologue serve as more of a warning against blind hatred instead of blind love?
Romeo and Juliet killed themselves as a result of their families blind hatred of each other. This is a warning that if you hate someone else blindly it will have consequences.
9 ACT I.i |
10 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
11 (Sampson and Gregory enter the town square.)
12 Sampson: A dog of the house of Montague moves me.
13 Gregory: The quarrel is between our masters & us, their men.
14 (Montague servants enter.)
15 Sampson: Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it.
16 (Sampson bites his thumb at them.)
17 Abraham: Do you bite your thumb at me sir?
18 Sampson: No sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I do bite my thumb, sir.
19 Gregory: Do you quarrel, sir?
20 Abraham: Quarrel, sir? No, sir.
21 Sampson: I serve a better man than you.
22 Abraham: You lie.
23 (They fight. Benvolio and Tybalt enter.)
24 Benvolio: (entering) Part, fools, put up your swords!
25 Tybalt: Turn thee, Benvolio, and look upon thy death.
26 Benvolio: I do but keep the peace.
27 Tybalt: I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee!
28 (They fight, Prince enters and separates them)
29 Prince: Three civil brawls have disturb’d the quiet of our streets. If ever you disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. Once more, on pain of death, all men depart!
30 (Exeunt all but Benvolio. Romeo enters)
31 Benvolio: Good morrow, cousin.
32 Romeo: What fray was here? Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love. Ah me, sad hours seem long.
33 Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? In love?
34 Romeo: Out of love. Out of her favor where I am in love.
35 Benvolio: She has sworn she will live chaste?
36 Romeo: She hath. It is a huge waste of such beauty.
37 Benvolio: Be ruled by me; forget to think of her by giving liberty unto thine eyes; examine other beauties. |
38 ACT I.ii – Sunday Afternoon in Capulet’s House & Verona Square |
39 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
40 (Exeunt. Paris and Capulet enter)
41 Paris: What say thee of my proposition?
42 Capulet: My child is yet a stranger in the world / Let two more summers wither in their pride / Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
43 Paris: Younger than she are happy mothers made.
44 Capulet: Woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart / Come to the old accustomed feast I hold this night. (Gives guest list to his servant) Go find those persons out whose names are written here.
45 (Paris and Capulet exit. Servant goes outside and runs into Benvolio & Romeo.)
46 Servant: Sir, can you read?
47 Romeo: Stay fellow, I can read. (Reads guest list). Whose house?
48 Servant: My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine! (Exits)
49 Benvolio: At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s / sups the fair Rosaline whom thou so lovest. Compare her face with some that I shall show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. |
50 ACT I.iii – Sunday Afternoon in Juliet’s Room |
51 Lady Capulet: Nurse, where’s my daughter? Call her forth to me.
52 Nurse: What, ladybird! Where’s the girl? What, Juliet! [enter Juliet]
53 Juliet: Madam, I am here. What is your will?
54 Lady Capulet: Nurse, give leave awhile, we must talk in secret. (Nurse begins to leave). Nurse, come back again. Thou know’st my daughter’s of a pretty age. She’s not fourteen.
55 Nurse: How long is it now to *Lammas-tide?
56 Lady Capulet: A **fortnight and odd days.
57 Nurse: Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen. Susan and she were of an age. Susan is with God now. My husband – God be with his soul – took up Juliet and said “Thou wilt fall backward when thou hast more wit; Wilt thou not, Jule?’ and, by my holidame, / the pretty wretch left crying and said ‘Ay’.
58 Lady Capulet: Enough of this; I pray thee, hold thy peace.
59 Nurse: Yes, madam. Yet I cannot choose but laugh!
60 Juliet: I pray thee, nurse.
61 Nurse: Peace, I have done. If I might live to see thee married once, I have my wish.
62 Lady Capulet: Tell me, daughter Juliet, how stands your disposition to be married?
63 Juliet: It is an honor I dream not of.
64 Lady Capulet: Well, think of marriage now. Younger than you ladies of esteem are made already mothers. The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. Could you love the gentleman?
65 Juliet: I'll look to like, but no more deep will I indart mine eye than your consent give strength to make it fly.
66 Lady Capulet: Juliet, Count Paris is waiting. (exits)
67 Nurse: Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days!
68 * Lammas-tide = the Harvest festival
69 **fortnight = two weeks
70 ***disposition = feelings |
71 WATCH THIS POEM ON “Black Woman (Motherhood)” by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Georgia Douglas Johnson is a Black poet during the Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s) who like other Black artists during this period, used her work to highlight the Black experience. In “Black Woman (Motherhood),” the poet recognizes that having children would mean bringing them into a world where they’d be treated as inferior. Read the poem to identify how she decides to handle that issue. Do you think she makes the right decision?
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73 QUESTION 3: Who do you think acts as a better mother: the speaker in the poem “Black Woman (Motherhood) or Lady Capulet? Write a thesis statement and then explain your points. Remember, you must include at least 2 reasons why one is the better mother in your thesis statement.
I believe that the speaker in the poem “Black Women” is a better mother than Lady Capulet because she never really payed attention to Juliet or her feelings.Plus she didn’t really raise Juliet.Juliet was raised by her nurse.
Foe one, she forgets her daughter’s name, have a formal relationship, and wants her to marry someone her daughter doesn’t love. The speaker on the other hand, is torn between the love of her child who she longs to be with and the need to protect him or her from the harsh realities and “monster men” She believes that she is protecting him or her because sometimes it is better to have never been born at all than experience the agony of life’s trials and tribulations.
74 ACT I.iv - Sunday Evening/Night in Verona's Townsquare. |
75 Watch Mercutio give his Queen Mab speech.
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77 ACT I.v – Sunday Night at Capulet’s Party |
78 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
79 (Romeo and his friends enter Capulet’s party in masks.)
80 Romeo: (seeing Juliet) What lady's that which doth enrich the hand of yonder knight? I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. (Crosses to Juliet)
81 Tybalt: This, by his voice, should be a Montague. To strike him dead I hold it not a sin.
82 Capulet: Young Romeo, is it? Let him alone; take no note of him.
83 Tybalt: I’ll not endure him.
84 Capulet: He shall be endured! Am I the master here, or you? You’ll make a muting among my guests! Be quiet, or I’ll make you quiet.
85 Tybalt: I will withdraw, but this intrusion shall / Now seeming sweet convert to bitter gall.
86 (Tybalt exits)
87 Romeo: If I profane with my unworthiest hand / This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this: / My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand / To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
88 Juliet: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much, / Which mannerly devotion shows in this; / For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, / And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.
89 Romeo: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?
90 Juliet: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.
91 Romeo: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do; / They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.
92 Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.
93 Romeo: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.
94 [They kiss.]
95 (Nurse enters)
96 Nurse: Your mother craves a word with you. (Exit Juliet)
97 Romeo: What is her mother?
98 Nurse: Her mother is the lady of the house.
99 Romeo: Is she a Capulet?
100 (Exit Romeo, enter Juliet)
101 Juliet: Go, ask his name!
102 Nurse: (asks someone and returns) His name is Romeo, and a Montague. / The only son of your great enemy.
103 Juliet: My only love sprung from my only hate! |
104 CHOOSE TO WATCH AT LEAST ONE MOVIE VERSION OF ACT I.v.
105 Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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107 Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
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109 QUESTION 4: What is something that the movie version changes from the play? How does the director’s decision change how the audience views the characters and/or conflict in the play?
In the play, Romeo went pretty much from meeting Juliet to kissing her. In the movie, after the part where they meet and dance they use a song which is a way to slow down the pacing. During this song Romeo and Juliet, entranced by each other, walk slowly towards one another from opposite sides of the room. This could be a symbolism for their families. Next, they meet up with each other at the end of the room, then they kiss. This change in the pacing made their bond appear a lot deeper than it was in the play.
110 QUESTION 5: Are Romeo and Juliet wrong for wanting to explore their new relationship over pledging their allegiance to their families? Write a thesis statement and then explain your points. Remember, you must include at least 2 reasons why in your thesis statement.
Because though they may be in love and believe that their marriage will end the feud between their families,thinking realistically that wouldn’t happen because it’s been going on for so long. Unless they are willing to do form an allegiance for their kids then it wont happen so suddenly.
Romeo and Juliet are not in the wrong for wanting to pledge allegiance to each other over their families because no one is obliged to align with their families and blind love is better than blind hate.
111 ACT II.ii – Very Late Sunday Night to Early Morning Monday, Juliet’s Balcony |
112 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
113 (Romeo wonders around the Capulet’s gardens and finds Juliet standing on her balcony.)
114 Romeo: What light through yonder window breaks?
115 It is the east, and Juliet is the son!
116 Juliet: Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name; / What's Montague? It is not hand, nor foot, / Nor any other part belonging to a man. / That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet / Romeo, doff thy name, / And for that name, which is no part of thee,/ Take all myself.
117 (Romeo comes out of hiding.)
118 Romeo: Henceforth I will never be Romeo.
119 Juliet: If that thy bent of love be honorable, thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow. |
120 CHOOSE TO WATCH AT LEAST ONE MOVIE VERSION OF ACT II.ii.
121 Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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123 Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
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125 QUESTION #6: In the play, Romeo and Juliet don’t kiss in this scene, but they kiss a lot in the movie. How does this change make us view the two teenagers? And do you think the directors made a good choice by adding more “romance” to the play?
The directors probably made Romeo and Juliet kiss a lot more because the theme of the play is romantic and kissing is an integral part of that. Also, a lot of people already criticized Romeo and Juliet for getting married so fast after they met; they would probably criticize it even more if they didn’t even kiss before it.
126 ACT II.iii - Early Monday Morning at Friar Lawrence's church garden. |
127 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
128 Romeo: My heart’s dear love is set / On the fair daughter of rich Capulet/
129 Friar Lawrence - What a change is here! / Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, so soon forsaken? young men's love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.
130 Romeo: I pray thee, chide not. Her I love now / and love for love, allow; The other did not so.
131 Friar Lawrence: In one respect I'll thy assistant be; / For this alliance may so happy prove, / To turn your households' rancour to pure love. |
132 ACT II.iv - Monday morning in Verona's Town Square. |
133 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
134 Nurse: Tell me ye, if you would lead her in a fool's paradise.
135 Romeo: I protest unto thee. Bid her come to Friar Laurence's cell be shrived and married.
136 Nurse: God in Heaven bless. |
137 ACT II.v - Monday early afternoon in Juliet's room. |
138 Nurse: Have you got leave today?
139 Juliet: I have.
140 Nurse: Then go to Friar Laurence's cell. There waits a husband to make you a wife.
141 WATCH ACT II.v.
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148 ACT III.i – Monday late afternoon in Town Square |
149 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
150 **Remember, Tybalt is angry with Romeo because Romeo crashed his family’s party.**
151 Benvolio: I pray thee, good Mercutio, let’s retire. / The day is hot, the Capulets abroad, / And, if we meet, we shall not scape a brawl.
152 Mercutio: Thou art as hot a jack in thy mood as any in Italy. / And yet thou wilt tutor me from quarreling!
153 Benvolio: By my head, here come the Capulets.
154 Mercutio: By my heel, I care not.
155 (Tybalt and Capulets enter.)
156 Tybalt: Gentlemen, good e’en. A word with one of you.
157 Mercutio: Make it a word and a blow.
158 Tybalt: Mercutio, thou consortest with Romeo.
159 Mercutio: Consort! What, dost thou make us musicians? [Points to his sword.] Here’s my fiddlestick; here’s that shall make you dance!
160 Benvolio: Either withdraw unto some private place, and reason calmly of your grievances, or else depart. Here all eyes gaze on us.
161 Mercutio: Let them gaze. I will not budge for no man’s pleasure.
162 Tybalt: (Romeo enters) Ah, peace be with you, sir, here comes my man. Romeo, thou art a villain.
163 Romeo: Tybalt, I see thou knowest me not.
164 Tybalt: Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that thou hast done me. Therefore turn and draw.
165 Romeo: I do protest, I love thee better than thou canst imagine / Till thou shalt know the reason of my love. / And so, good Capulet - which name I tender as dearly as my own – be satisfied.
166 Mercutio: (drawing sword) Tybalt, will you walk?
167 Tybalt: (drawing sword) I am for you.
168 Romeo: Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up! (Mercutio and Tybalt fight.) Hold, Tybalt! Good Mercutio!
169 (Tybalt goes under Romeo's arm and stabs Mercutio. Tybalt and friends leave.)
170 Mercutio: I am hurt. A plague on both your houses!
171 Benvolio: What, art thou hurt?
172 Mercutio: Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. (to Romeo) Why the devil came you between us? I was hurt under your arm.
173 Romeo: I thought all for the best.
174 Mercutio: A plague on both your houses! They have made worms’ meat of me.
175 (Exit Mercutio and Benvolio.)
176 Romeo: The prince’s relative and my very friend, hath got his mortal hurt in my behalf; my reputation stained with Tybalt’s slander – Tybalt, that for an hour hath been my kinsman! O sweet Juliet, thy beauty hath softened valor’s steel!
177 Benvolio: (reenters) Brave Meructio’s dead! Here comes the furious Tybalt back again.
178 Romeo: Alive in triumph and Mercutio slain! Fire-eyed fury be my conduct now. (Tybalt reenters) Mercutio’s soul is but a little way above our heads. Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
179 (Tybalt and Romeo fight. Romeo kills Tybalt.)
180 Benvolio: Romeo, away, be gone!
181 Romeo: O, I am fortune’s fool!
182 (Romeo exits. Capulets, Montagues, citizens, and Prince enter.)
183 Prince: Where are the vile beginners of this fray?
184 Benvolio: There lies the man, slain by young Romeo, that slew your cousin, brave Mercutio.
185 Lady Capulet: O, my brother’s child! Benvolio is a kinsman to the Monatgue; affection makes him false, he speaks not true. I beg for justice which thou, prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live.
186 Prince: Immediately we do exile him hence. My cousin doth lie a-bleeding. I’ll punish you with so strong a fine that you shall all repent the loss of mine. Let Romeo hence in haste [to Mantua], else, when he’s found, that hour is his last. |
187 Question #8: Who’s actions to do agree with most in this scene and why? (Mercutio, Romeo, or Tybalt)
For him to nearly get stabbed to stop a silly argument between two men and not him but his friend,Mercutio to die while cursing the two families can show that he was being mature and reasonable right then and for the Prince to try to reason with Benvolio when he told the truth puts shame to the Prince as well.
I agree with Mercutio the most because he defended his friends honor. As a friend he stood up for him and unfortunately that ended with his death. Bu because of his death Romeo killed Tybalt to defend Mercutio’s name. So almost like he’s returning the favor.
Though he died,he died while showing his respect to his friend. Tybalt’s death by Romeo could be a sign of some sort of thank toward Mercutio.
188 ACT III.ii – Monday late afternoon in Juliet’s room |
189 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
190 Nurse: We are undone, lady, we are undone! Alack the day, he’s gone, he’s killed, he’s dead! O Tybalt, the best friend I had!
191 Juliet: O break, my heart, poor bankrupt, break at once! Is Romeo slaughtered, or is Tybalt dead?
192 Nurse: Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished.
193 Juliet: O God, did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?
194 Nurse: It did, it did, alas the day! It did.
195 Juliet: Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical! / Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! / O! that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace.
196 Nurse: There’s no trust, / No faith, no honesty in men. All perjured, / All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.
197 Shame come to Romeo!
198 Juliet: Blistered be thy tongue for such a wish! He was not born to shame. O, what a beast was I to chide at him!
199 Nurse: Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?
200 Juliet: Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain, and Tybalt’s dead that would have slain my husband. O, find him! Give this ring to my true knight and bid him come to take his last farewell. |
201 QUESTION #9: How does Juliet feel about Romeo now? Do you agree with her choice in loyalty? Why or why not?
Juliet wants to find Romeo and talk to him about what happened. I don’t agree or disagree with her decision. However, I do think it makes sense because she was in love with him and would not immediately assume that he is a bad person because of the events that have conspired.
From this I can see how Juliet thinks so quickly of Romeo from hearing this about him Killing Tybalt. However,when they first met and she found out he was from the opposite family,why did that not make her feel some type of way about him? Why this? Regarding her loyalty towards him,she lacks it. She only heard the news from her nurse,sure that could be enough because she’s not allowed out but if she remembered how he confessed his love for her plus asking to marry her so quickly,that would seem like she didn’t like him at all.
202 ACT III.iii – Monday evening in Friar Lawrence’s cell |
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204 QUESTION #10: How does Romeo feel about his punishment? What do you think about his reaction? ![]() ![]()
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May 18
Romeo feels as though his punishment is too extreme for what he has done. He thinks that it is worse than death. His immediate reaction is to grab what looks to be garden shears and harm himself. ![]()
May 20
I assume people in this time would’ve had far worse punishments then being banned and locked up in a dungeon. How ever Romeo is making it look worse then it seems. The Friar the Nurse seem to think so as well because of his actions. |
205 ACT III.iv – Monday night in Capulet’s house |
206 Paris: These times of woe afford no time to woo. Commend me to your daughter.
207 Capulet: Paris, I think she will be ruled in all respects by me. Nay, I doubt it not. What day is this?
208 Paris: Monday, my lord.
209 Capulet: Well, Wednesday is too soon. A Thursday tell her, she shall be married. What say you to Thursday?
210 Paris: I would that Thursday were tomorrow. |
211 ACT III.v – Tuesday morning in Juliet’s room |
212 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
213 *Pay attention to Juliet’s use of verbal irony, or saying one thing but meaning something else.*
214 Juliet: Wilt thou be gone?
215 Romeo: I must be gone and live, or stay and die. Farewell, farewell, one kiss, and I’ll descend.
216 (Romeo leaves for Mantua.)
217 Lady Capulet: Ho, daughter! Are you up?
218 Juliet: Madam, I am not well.
219 Lady Capulet: That is, because the traitor murderer lives.
220 Juliet: Ay, madam, beyond the reach of these my hands.
221 Lady Capulet: we will have vengeance for it, fear thou not. I’ll send to one in Mantua, who shall give him such a strange potion that he shall soon keep Tybalt company; and then I hope thou wilt be satisfied.
222 [Think about what Lady Capulet just said she’s going to do to Romeo.]
223 Juliet: Indeed, I never shall be satisfied with Romeo till I behold him – dead.
224 Lady Capulet: Marry, my child, early next Thursday morn County Paris shall make thee a joyful bride.
225 Juliet: He shall not make me a joyful bride! I will not marry yet; and, when I do, I swear it shall be Romeo, whom you know I hate, rather than Paris.
226 Lady Capulet: Here comes your father, tell him so yourself.
227 (Enter Nurse and Capulet)
228 Capulet: Wife, have you delivered to her our decree?
229 Lady Capulet: Ay, sir; but she will have none of it, she gives you thanks. I wish the fool were married to her grave!
230 Capulet: Doth she not count her blest, unworthy as she is, that we have persuaded so worthy a gentleman to be her bridegroom?
231 Juliet: Thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate.
232 Capulet: Dress up your fine joints ‘gainst Thursday next, to go with Paris to Saint Peter’s Church, or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. Out, you baggage, you useless coward!
233 Lady Capulet: What, are you mad?
234 Juliet: Father, I beseech you, hear me with patience but to speak a word.
235 Capulet: Disobedient wretch! Get thee to church a Thursday, or never after look me in the face. We scarce though us blessed that God had lent us but this only child, but we have a curse in having her.
236 Nurse: God in heaven bless her! You are to blame, my lord, to scold her so.
237 Capulet: Peace, you mumbling fool!
238 Lady Capulet: You are too hot.
239 Capulet: If you'll be my daughter, you'll marry Paris. If not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, and I'll never acknowledge thee! (Exits)
240 Juliet: O sweet mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week.
241 Lady Capulet: Talk not to me, for I’ll not speak a word. Do as thou wilt, for I have done with thee. (Exits)
242 Juliet: O nurse, how shall this be prevented? Hast thou not a word of joy?
243 Nurse: Faith, here it is. Romeo is banished and odds are that he dares ne’er come back to lay claim to you. I think it best you married with the County Paris. O, he’s a lovely gentleman! I think you are happy in this second match, for it excels your first.
244 Juliet: Speakest thou from thy heart?
245 Nurse: And from my soul too.
246 Juliet: Amen! Well, thou hast comforted me marvelous much. Tell my lady I am gone, having displeased my father, to Lawrence’s cell to make confession and to be absolved. [Nurse exits] O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish I break my marriage vows or to insult my lord Romeo which she hath praised many thousand times? I’ll to the friar, to know his remedy. If all else fail, myself have power to die.
247 WATCH MOVIE VERSION OF Act III.v
248 Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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250 Question #11: Remember, as a rich parent of a daughter, your sole goal is to see her married to someone who can provide for her. Love is not something to consider. The Capulets have arranged for Juliet to marry the most sought after bachelor in Verona, but suddenly, their obedient daughter is being rebellious and they don’t know why. What do you think about their choices in parenting Juliet in scenes 4 and 5 of Act 3? ![]() ![]()
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May 18
As parents I understand what they are trying to do and the intentions they have. But I think they are wrong for not caring about Juliet’s feelings considering she’s the one getting married off. Obviously if she is being rebellious it is for a reason. ![]()
May 20
Though in this time love was considered last when it comes to marriage. They aren’t considering her concerns or thought on the matter about it. ![]()
May 27
I do not like how Juliet’s parents treat her. They tried to marry her off only a few days after her family member died so she shouldn’t want to get married right away in the first place. Even though they don’t know she’s in love with Romeo they should still at least think about that. |
251 ACT IV.i - Tuesday afternoon in Friar Lawrence's cell |
252 *Pay attention to Juliet’s use of verbal irony, or saying one thing but meaning something else.*
253 Paris: “Come to you to make confession to this father?”
254 Juliet: “To answer that, I should confess to you.”
255 Paris: “Do not deny to him that you love me.”
256 Juliet: “I will confess to you that I love him.”
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258 Paris: “Thy face is mine, and thou hast sland’red it.”
259 Juliet: “It may be so, for it is not mine own.”
260 WATCH MOVIE VERSION OF Act IV.i.
261 Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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263 Question #12: Which adult provides the best advice: Nurse or Friar Lawrence? Explain why.
264 ACT IV.ii - Tuesday evening in Capulet’s house |
265 Capulet: How now my headstrong! Where have you been?
266 Juliet: To church where I have learned to repent the sin of disobedient opposition. Henceforward I am ever ruled by you.
267 Capulet: We’ll go to church tomorrow! |
268 ACT IV.iii - Tuesday night in Juliet’s room |
269 Watch:
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271 Question #13: Juliet questions whether Friar’s plan will work, and even wonders if the potion is meant to kill her and cover up the fact he married them secretly. If you were Juliet, would you completely trust the potion Friar gave to you, or would you have doubts as well? ![]() ![]()
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May 27
I would have doubts because as previously stated Friar Lawrence isn’t the most trustworthy of individuals. Since the entire plan is a lying scheme, technically it could go however he wants it. However, I do believe that Friar Lawrence wouldn’t betray Juliet because it seems like he has the best intentions. |
272 ACT IV.iv & v – Wednesday Morning in Juliet’s room |
273 Watch:
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285 ACT V.ii – Thursday Evening in Friar’s church |
286 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
287 Friar Lawrence: Welcome from Mantua. What says Romeo?
288 Friar John: The searchers of the town, suspecting that we both were in a house where the infectious plague did reign, would not let us go forth.
289 Friar Lawrence: Who bore my letter then to Romeo?
290 Friar John: I could not send it – here it is again.
291 Friar Lawrence: Unhappy fortune! The letter was of dear import and the neglecting it may do much danger. Now must I to the monument alone. Within 3 hours will Juliet awake. But I will write again to Mantua, and keep her at my cell till Romeo come.
292 Question #15: Who do you blame for this: Friar Lawrence, Friar John, or fate? Why? |
293 ACT V.iii – Thursday night in the Capulet’s Vault (where they keep dead bodies) |
294 If you all read together, who read which roles? |
295 Both Romeo and Paris are at the vault to mourn Juliet.
296 Romeo: Take this letter. See thou deliver it to my lord and father. Do not interrupt me in my course. Hence, be gone. (Romeo goes into the vault)
297 Balthasar: His looks I fear, and his intents I doubt. (Hides by entrance of vault)
298 Paris: That is the banished Montague that hath murdered my love's cousin! It is this grief that killed my fair Juliet. (confronts Romeo) Condemned villain, I do arrest thee. Obey and go with me, for thou must die.
299 Romeo: I must indeed, and therefore came I here. Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee! (They fight. Romeo stabs Paris)
300 Paris: O, I am slain! Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet. (dies)
301 Romeo: This is Mercutio’s cousin, noble County Paris! I think he told me Paris should have married Juliet. (Lays Paris beside Juliet)(to Juliet) O my love, death has no power over your beauty. Crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks. Here’s to my love! (He drinks the poison). Apothecary, thy drugs are quick.
302 Thus, with a kiss, I die. (Kisses Juliet and dies)
303 Friar Lawrence: (enters) What blood is this? The lady stirs.
304 Juliet: (wakes up) Where is my Romeo?
305 Friar Lawrence: I hear some noise. A greater power than we can contradict hath thwarted our plans. Com away. Thy husband lies dead, and Paris too. I’ll hide you among a sisterhood of holy nuns. The watch is coming. Come, Juliet. I dare no longer stay.
306 Juliet: Go, I will not away. (Friar Lawrence runs away.) Poison hath been his timeless end! O, selfish one, drunk it all, and left no friendly drop for me? I will kiss thy lips. (kisses Romeo). Thy lips are warm! (Hears watchmen outside.) I’ll be brief. O, happy dagger. (stabs herself and dies)
307 (Prince, Watchmen, Capulets, and Lord Montague arrive.)
308 Prince: What fear is this which startles in our ears? Search, seek, and know how this foul murder comes.
309 Montague: My wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopped her breath. What further woe conspires against my age?
310 Friar Lawrence: I married them, and their secret marriage-day was Tybalt’s doomsday. She came to me, and with wild looks bid me devise some mean to rid her from this second marriage. I gave her a sleeping potion which wrought on her the form of death. When I came, here untimely lay the noble Paris and true Romeo dead. She would not go with me, but did violence on herself. Her nurse is aware of their marriage too.
311 Prince: (gets letter from Balthasar) This letter doth make good the friar’s words.
312 Capulet: O brother Montague, give me thy hand.
313 Montague: I can give thee more. I will make Juilet a statue in pure gold.
314 Capulet: As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie.
315 Prince: Some shall be pardoned, and some punished. For never was there a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
316 Question #16: Other than Romeo or Juliet, which character do you blame for their part in Romeo and Juliet’s death?
317 Question #17: If you’re the Prince, which characters would you punish and what punishment would you give them? ![]() ![]() ![]()
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I would punish the Capulets for lying about the cause of Mercutio’s death, and I would also punish Friar Lawrence for scheming and it resulting in the death of Romeo, Juliet, and Paris. I do not think the Montagues deserve as much punishment because although the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues was the result of both families actions, the Montagues did not directly impact the outcome of what happened. I would still punish the Montagues to a lesser extent for causing this situation to escalate between the families. I think the punishment for the Capulets and the Montagues would be financial. I think that the Capulets deserve to lose most of their wealth. As previously stated, the Montagues wouldn’t lose as much. I think Friar Laurence deserves at least a small prison sentence.
318 Question #18: Watch at least two different endings. Which ending do you prefer and why?
319 West Side Story (1961) – Instead of Romeo & Juliet, it’s Tony & Maria.
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321 Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968)
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323 Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet (1996)
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326 Question #19: Romeo & Juliet is a common text for all 9th graders to read. Do you think it should be? Why or why not? ![]() ![]()
No paragraph-level conversations.
Start one.
327 Question #20: Watch the Modern-Day Romeo and Juliet. What do you think about their love story, and is love worth dying for?
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