| what is the tone of benvolios opening speech? | cautionary, worried, he is concerned because the day is hot and tempers might flare |
| why is mercutios speech ironic/ | he is teasing benevolio of being aggressive and stirring up fights and enjoying violence, benvolio tries to make peace and avoid fights |
| what is benvolio trying to do in lines 45-48? | he wants mercution and tybalt to move their argument off the street and if they fight and other see them than they will be put to death |
| what injury has romeo romeo supposedly done to tybalt ? | he insulted tybalt and the capulets by crashing lord capulets party |
| what is the meaning of romeos speech in lines 63-67? | he tries to tell tybalt that he loves him and doesn’t want to fight him, he explains why he loves him |
| who is mercutio fighting with in like 68? | romeo because he refuses to fight tybalt |
| what 2 men get into a physical fight first? | tybalt and mercutio |
| what is romeos position? | he wants to stop the fight |
| what happens in the fight? | benevolio and romeo try to break up the fight, romeo holds mercuito back, and while he is holding him, tybalt stabs him with his sword and mortally wounds him |
| how does mercutio use understatement? | he says it is just a scratch |
| who does he blame and why? | romeo for coming between them while they were fighting |
| what pun does mercutio deliver? | ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man |
| who does mercutio curse? | both houses, for their feud that has cost him his life, he says “a plague o’ both of your houses!” and repeats it several times |
| what is foreshadowed in romeos lines 112-113? | “this black days fare” ,will lead to more problems for everyone |
| when tybalt returns what is romeos position? | he is ready to avenge mercutios death, he feels guilty about the death of his good friend mercutio and vows to fight tybalt to the death |
| what does romeo realize in line 129? | “O, i am fortunes fool’ |
| summarize lady capulets speech in line 169-174? | lady capulet wants the prince to put romeo to death |
| how does lord montague try to defend romeo? | he says that romeo killed tybalt because he killed mercutio, who is the prince’s kinsman so romeo did what the prince would’ve done |
| what punishment does the prince pronounce at the conclusion of this scene? | romeo has been banished from verona, and if he turns up in town again he will be put to death |
| why does the prince decide not to sentence romeo to death? | romeo did what the law would’ve done,mercutio was a relative to the prince and mercutio and romeo were friends and romeo avenged his death |
| what doe we the audience know that juliet does not know? | romeo has killed tybalt and is banished from verona |
| what type of irony is this? | dramatic irony |
| how does juliets speech continue with the light imagery? | she makes allusions to phoebus apollo and phaethon, who drive his chariot to close to the sun and burned up |
| how does juliets opening speech foreshadow events to come? | she speaks to the gentle night and says that when romeo dies night can cut him into little stars so he will make the face of heaven even more beautiful |
| why does it take the nurse so long to tell juliet the news | the nurse is upset over the killing of tybalt |
| what does juliet think has happened? | romeo has been killed |
| what puns does juliets speech contain? | I for “aye” or yes, but it sounds like eye which has to do with the mythological story of the cockatrice which could kill in just a glance of an eye |
| how does juliet react to the news at first? | her words are hateful, and she speaks in oxymorons that show her confusion and hysteria,she suggests that romeo is not a horrible person |
| how does juliet react to he next speech in lines 91-95? | the nurse begins saying there is no honesty in men so juliet begins to think about romeos honesty and good character, she tells the nurse to speak no more |
| why does juliet turn on the nurse? | the nurse asks her if she speaks ill of her cousin Tyblat, and juliet answers ” shall I speak is that as his wife, she should support him” |
| how does juliet react to the idea of romeos being banished? | it is as awful as the word dead, her sorrow has no measure and she has lost everything |
| what has juliet decided to do with the ropes romeo gave her? | she is going to use them to kill herself |
| what does juliet give the nurse to pass on to romeo? | a ring |
| how does the friars speech remind us that romeo seems fated for ill fortune? | he tells him “thou art wedded to calamity” in other words he can’t seem to escape danger and misfortune |
| what news does the friar give romeo? | the prince has decided to banish romeo from verona rather than put him to death |
| how would friar laurence probably expect romeo to react to this news? | he would expect him to be relieved he is not going to die, but also to be upset about leaving juliet |
| how does romeo react to it? | beyond despair, he says banishment is worse than death |
| how does the friar try to console him? | he tells him he would be grateful for the prince for sparing his life |
| how does romeo view the prospect of banishment? | he says it would be torture without juliet and that he would rather die |
| how does friar laurence scold romeo? | scolds him for being “rude unthankfulnes” and tells him the kind prince showed mercy on him by going against the law |
| according to the nurse what state is juliet in? | just like romeo, inconsolable and is sobbing so much that she can’t even speak |
| what points does friar laurence make in lines 109-113 and lines 137-140? | romeo is acting more like a women than a man and that he needs to get himself together, quit crying and be a man |
| what provides the dramatic irony in the opening of this scene? | lord capulet is meeting with paris to arrange juliets marriage to paris while juliet is sleeping with romeo upstairs |
| why would the audience feel tension as the capulet sends lady caplet to juliets chamber? | if lady capulet goes to her room, she will discover romeo there with juliet |
Romeo and Juliet act 3 study guide
August 24, 2019