| What argument does Romeo use to persuade the apothecary to sell him a dram of poison? | The apothecary is poor and desperately needs the money. |
| What substance does Romeo consider to be worse than poison? | Gold |
| Why does Romeo consider the poison to not be a harmful substance at all? | He says that greed is worse than death. Poison kills you and you no longer suffer while gold and greed ruin your life. |
| Why was Friar John unable to deliver the message to Romeo? | The black plague is spreading and he is not allowed to enter Mantua. |
| What events occur when Paris and Romeo are at Juliet’s “tomb?” | Paris brings her flowers, Romeo goes to die with her, they fight and Romeo kills Paris. |
| What is Paris’ dying wish? How does this affect Romeo? | to be buried next to Juliet. Romeo decides that Paris should have married Juliet. |
| How does Juliet first attempt to take her life and eventually succeed? | Shes tries to take Romeo’s poison but he drank it all. She stabs herself with a dagger. |
| What does the Prince say is responsible for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths? | The feud between the families |
| Her body sleeps in Capel’s monument, / And her immortal part with angels lives. / I saw her laid low in her kindred’s vault, / And presently took post to tell it you: | Balthasar |
| Come, cordial and not poison, go with me / To Juliet’s grave; for there must I use thee. | Romeo |
| Here in this city visiting the sick, And finding him, the searchers of the town, / Suspecting that we both were in a house / Where the infectious pestilence did reign,/ Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth; / So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d. | Friar John |
| Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man; / Fly hence, and leave me . . . Put not another sin upon my head, / By urging me to fury: O, be gone! | Romeo |
| Death, that hath suck’d the honey of thy breath, / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty: / Thou art not conquer’d; beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death’s pale flag is not advanced there. | Romeo |
| Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. | Juliet |
| Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! / 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 punish’d. | Prince |
| A glooming peace this morning with it brings; / The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: / Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; / Some shall be pardon’d, and some punished: / For never was a story of more woe | Prince |
| Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, / Gorged with the dearest morsel of the earth, / Thus I enforce thy rotten jaws to open,/ And, in despite, I’ll cram thee with more food! | Romeo |
| I do remember an apothecary, / And hereabouts he dwells, which late I noted / In tatter’d weeds, with overwhelming brows, / Culling of simples; meagre were his looks, / Sharp misery had worn him to the bones . . . Noting this penury, to myself I said /’An if a man did need a poison now, Whose sale is present death in Mantua, Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.’ | Romeo |
| Then I defy you, stars? | Romeo |
| O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. – Thus with a kiss I die. | Romeo |
| For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo. | Prince |
Romeo and Juliet Act V
August 8, 2019