#1 The two families are fighting because of an old grudge. Who is involved in the fight besides the two families? The townspeople are also involved. 3. This is a sad story of a young couple’s demise. 4. The parents’s anger is finally ended by their children’s deaths. 5. How many hours will it take for this story to be acted on stage? It will take two hours. `•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´ #2 Scene I opens in the streets of Verona, which is a city in Italy. Two families in the play hate each other. These families are the Montagues and the Capulets. Prince Escalus breaks up a fight caused by the feud between the two families. He says that if a fight happens again, those involved will be killed for disturbing …show more content…
How do you think Benvolio feels about love? He has a certain disregard for it, seemingly, but he may just realize than Romeo is only in love with Rosaline because he doesn’t have anyone to compare her to. `•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´ #4 On pages 37 and 39 the Nurse talks about Juliet’s childhood. Write two phrases below that show the Nurse is fond of Juliet. List the page and line numbers for each phrase. “You were the prettiest baby I ever nursed.” Page 39, line 64 “If I weren’t your only nurse, I’d say that you sucked wisdom from your nurse’s breast.” The Nurse is impressed with Paris because he’s handsome. 3. Lady Capulet says that Paris will make a fine husband because Paris is wealthy, and she would share what he has. 4. What does Juliet promise her mother? Juliet agrees to keep an open mind and meet Paris, but she doesn’t seem very interested. 5. Romeo is afraid to go to the banquet because he had a dream and is worried that the banquet will “bring to an end this hateful life of mine with some terrible, untimely death.” `•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´ …show more content…
Choose the statement that best describes what the Friar tells Paris. Juliet will be married to two men. Paris doesn't know how Juliet feels about the marriage. Juliet doesn’t love Paris. It is too soon after Tybalt’s death for Juliet to marry. 2. Juliet tells the Friar that if he can’t help her, she will kill herself. 3. Explain the Friar’s unusual plan by completing the list below. On Wednesday night, Juliet will go to her room alone and will drink the distilled liquor. Immediately, Juliet will remain in a deathlike stillness for 42 hours. Thursday morning, Paris will discover that Juliet is “dead”. The Juliet’s family will take her to the vault where all Capulets are buried. To let Romeo know of Juliet’s condition, the Friar will send him a letter. Finally, Romeo will return to retrieve Juliet, and take her to Mantua with him. `•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´`•.¸¸.••´´¯``•• .¸¸.•´
pg.101, III, v, l.219) This treachery by the Nurse abandoned Juliet. Juliet was now left to make
The Nurse, a woman who is supposed to help guide Juliet on the right path, yet mistakenly confuses Juliet’s needs with her father’s wants. Although the Nurse does not realize it, the attempt at provoking Juliet to marry Paris could have further convinced Juliet that she did not want to live with her family any longer, and ask Friar Lawrence for help, which is important because this resulted in her death (Act
When people hear of Romeo and Juliet they think about a tragic love story of two young people who died because they could not bear being without one another, but how did that tragedy come about? Romeo and Juliet meet at a party one night and immediately fall in love. They soon find out they are from families that greatly despise one another and know that they should not be together but they are already too far fallen for each other. Romeo is soon exiled and so they decide to run away together because Juliet does not want to be without him and that plan ends up going downhill. Romeo and Juliet's parents were bad influences on their kids because of their refusal to end a long lasting feud, teaching hate towards the opposing family and pushing their kids to do things against their will.
Throughout the play, Romeo repeatedly ignores what is completely obvious. In the beginning, he refuses to accept that there are more girls in the world than just Rosaline. This is showcased when Benvolio tells him about how there are going to be many girls at the Capulet party, but Romeo ignores him (I.ii.4-9). This behavior shows that he is blinded by love, impairing his logic. This behavior escalates when he fails to see how dangerous it might be to be involved with a Capulet as a Montague, brought front and center when he goes to Juliet’s balcony knowing that she is a Capulet. If Romeo had chosen the obvious choice of staying away, then their relationship would have ended right there and then, saving both Juliet’s life as well as his own. Romeo’s ignorance climaxes in his final moments, when he finds Juliet’s supposedly
Upon hearing this Juliet becomes desperate and makes multiple bad decisions. If the Nurse had truly thought through the consequences of her decisions, maybe these two lovers would have lived.
To this Paris responds, “Younger than she are happy mothers made”(1.2.12). This shows that he is impatient about the wedding. Even though Lord Capulet wants to wait two years, Paris tries to move the wedding day sooner, showing that he cares only about himself and not of the needs and preferences of other characters.
To Romeo, this exile is worse than death, and ultimately, leads to his death. These events leading from Mercutio’s entrance to the party, until his death aided to the collapse of the lives of the young couple. Mercutio’s own tragedy in this tale of woe is his own demise.
Through the Nurse’s characterization, we see here that she wants Juliet to be protected. Juliet, in this case,
In the end both the Friar and the Nurse are face with the loss of Romeo and Juliet. The two characters
Namely, Capulet plays a huge role in how much pressure Romeo and Juliet have to endure in order to follow their family’s wishes. If Capulet had just agreed to Juliet originally marrying Paris and not said “My child is yet a stranger in the world,/She hath not seen the change of
In spite of this, is certain that the Nurse played a serious role in encouraging the lovers? relationship to blossom. Instead of advising Juliet on the dangers of a love that is ?too rash, too unadvis?d, to sudden?, she continues to place Romeo upon a pedestal, proclaiming his ?face be better than any man?s, his leg excels all men?s, his [body parts] are
The play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare shows how Romeo and Juliet meet. The play takes place in Verona, Italy. The Montagues and Capulets have ongoing feuds with each other. Romeo Montague meets Juliet Capulet at one of her family’s parties, instantly fall in love, and decide to secretly get married the the day after the party. Throughout the play, both Romeo and Juliet show character traits they have which leads to a tragic ending.
The nurse has a love for Juliet as if she was her own and you can tell this by the way she knows things her mother does not. For example her age.
Throughout the play a comparison is made between Paris and Romeo and the different aspects of love they offer Juliet. Paris is "a gentleman of noble parentage" and seems to be a sensible husband. He is rich and would be a gain to the Capulet family. The marriage to Paris is a logical arrangement, Capulet says Juliet should "count her bless'd" as he has "wrought so worthy a gentleman to be her bride". She should be proud and grateful that her father has persuaded such a worthy and noble man to marry into their family. Paris is the courtly lover that Romeo wasn't given the chance to be; he brings flowers and kisses Juliet's hand
The nurse and Friar are sophisticated characters that act as parental figures within the prolix and truculent play. The timeless classic Romeo and Juliet (RJ) by William Shakespeare revolves around the notion of determinism, death, love and deception. Despite Romeo and Juliet having warring parents who pay little regard to them, the Nurse and Friar act as parental figures towards them who guide through vexed situations in their best interest, however, this only prolongs their declivity, with the Friar acting as a motif of death and the Nurse acting as a beacon of hope. By