If he can’t help her, she will kill herself to be true to Romeo and she will do anything to avoid marrying Paris | What does Juliet tell the Friar? |
He will give Juliet a potion that will make her seem dead, then he and Romeo will go to the crypt and Romeo and Juliet will go to Mantua | What plan does the Friar set out? |
Juliet said she’d get married to Paris and she apologized for her willfulness | Why is Lord Capulet happy? |
To commit suicide with a dagger | If the potion doesn’t work, what is Juliet’s plan? |
He might want to kill her and gave her the poison to save his reputation as a holy man | What suspicion about the Friar does Juliet voice? |
She might be stuck awake in the tomb before Romeo gets there | What worry occupies Juliet’s mind before she drinks the potion? |
Being a woman chaser | What does Capulet’s wife accuse him of? |
They’re about to have a feast | What does the action in the Capulet home indicate? |
They’re shocked. Her mother says that she’ll die, too. Her father said he lost his daughter and son-in-law and his heir is death | How to the mother and father react tot he news of Juliet’s “death”? |
Yes | Does Juliet’s mother and father’s grief seem sincere about her “death”? |
He says that she’s in heaven | How does the Friar try to comfort Juliet’s parents? |
To lighten the somber mood and introduce a lighter moment | Hoe do you suppose the comic relief with Peter and the musicians is supposed to function in the play? |
Balthasar | Who arrives in Mantua to give Romeo some news? |
He says that Juliet is dead | What news does the messenger to Romeo bring? |
He bribes a starving pharmacist with 40 pieces of gold | How is Romeo able to purchase the illegal poison? |
There was an outbreak of disease and he was confined in a house he visited | Why was Friar John not able to go to Mantua and deliver Friar Lawrence’s message to Romeo? |
He will get Juliet out of the vault and bring her back to his cell for Romeo | What revision does Friar Lawrence make in his plan? |
Scattering flowers and paying his respects | What is Paris doing at the crypt? |
Money | What does Romeo give Balthasar? |
Live, be prosperous, and go away | What does Romeo tell Baltasar to do? |
He’s suspicious that Romeo will do something bad | Why doesn’t Balthasar do what Romeo tells him to do? |
He calls the crypt the jaws of a monster and says that he will force the jaws open and add one more morsel of food | What metaphor does Romeo create regarding the crypt? |
He was going to kill himself and add himself to the rest of the bodies in the crypt | What was the meaning of Romeo’s metaphor regarding the crypt? |
Paris wanted to arrest him, but Romeo wanted Paris to go away. Romeo fought anyways because he was intent on killing himself | Why do Paris and Romeo fight, even though Romeo has no wish to fight anyone? |
He laid Paris in the tomb next to Juliet because Paris requested it before he died | What act of compassion does Romeo perform for Paris? |
A greater power | Who or what does the Friar say thwarted their plans? |
He would cloister her by hiding her in a convent with nuns | How does the Friar hope to resolve the mess after Romeo dies and Juliet is assumed dead? |
He hears a noise, doesn’t want to be found, and runs away | When Juliet refuses to leave, what does the Friar do? |
She stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger and dies | What does Juliet do in the crypt when she wakes up? |
She died out of grief because of Romeo’s banishment | What happened to Romeo’s mother? |
Arbitrating | Deciding; judging |
Culled | Chosen; selected |
Distraught | Upset; distressed |
Entreat | Plead; ask for |
Immoderately | Wastefully; extravagantly |
Inundation | Flood; outpouring |
Pensive | Thoughtful; reflective |
Prostrate | Flat; prone |
Resolution | Solution to a problem |
Solace | Find relief |
Spited | Acted maliciously or with ill will |
Surcease | Suspend; pause |
Supple | Flexible; pliant |
Abhorred | Hated; despised |
Apprehend | Arrest; take into custody |
Canopy | Covering; protection |
Contempt | Scorn; disdain |
Disperse | Scatter; distribute |
Inexorable | Unmovable; relentless |
Interred | Buried; shut in |
Penury | Poverty; destitution |
Presage | Predict; foretell |
Remnants | Remains; leftovers |
Righteous | Virtuous; moral |
Steeped | Soaked; covered in liquid |
Wretchedness | Anguish; torment |
Romeo and Juliet Acts IV and V
August 24, 2019