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ROMEO AND JULIET - Entire play study guide already passed In which town is the play set? In what country do you suppose this town exists? ✔✔Verona italy How could knowing the deaths of Romeo an... d Juliet are coming improve the play? ✔✔Builds up suspense and/or tension. Since the plot line was supposed to be a tragedy, but it is at first a comedy it throws the audience off because they will have forgotten that it was going to happen. It re-surprises them When Sampson says he will not "carry coals," what does he mean? What literary techniques is being used in this silly exchange between Sampson and Gregory? ✔✔He will not be insulted by capsules men. Puns are being used In Shakespearean times biting your thumb was... ✔✔An insult Is Benvolio a montague or capulet? ✔✔Montague Why doesn't lady capulet want her husband to get involved in the fight? ✔✔Because he is too old to fight How many times have the Capulets and Montagues had street fights recently? ✔✔Three times How has Romeo been spending his days recently? ✔✔Locked in his room being moody List three oxymorons Romeo uses to describe the conflict between his family and the Capulets. Then, explain how the family feud is oxymoronic in its nature. ✔✔Brawling love, loving hate, heavy lightness, serious vanity, bright smoke, cold fire, and sick health In your own words, we wrote Romeo speech about love in scene 1, lines 176-180, line by line. ✔✔Love brings me anger and griefs lie in my heat but when you try to help you are just making it worse Romeo is heartsick over a girl (it's not Juliet) who is not at all interested in Romeo. Name three of the ineffective romantic strategies Romeo has used in his attempt to woo this girl. ✔✔1. Gold 2. Notes 3. Gifts Why doesn't this girl like Romeo? ✔✔She's a nun What does Benvolio tell Romeo to do in order to forget the girl who doesn't want him? ✔✔Benvolio tells Romeo to see other girls and to forget about her. Look at how there are so many other beautiful women out there What "suit" does Paris bring to Capulet in scene 2? ✔✔It's a legal marriage agreement to marry Juliet. How old is Juliet? What are her fathers thought about allowing her to marry? ✔✔Juliet is 13. Capulet, her father, won't be easily persuaded by Paris. Capulet thinks she's too young and needs to wait 2 more years before she gets married. Also Juliet has to agree to the marriage if it were to happen. Lord Capulet's willingness to allow Juliet to have a say in whom she marries is pretty progressive, since most marriages for the social class at the time would have been arranged by parents. Why, do you suppose, Capulet is willing to take Juliet's feelings into consideration? ✔✔Because she is an only child or was the only child to survive into adulthood so her parents just want Juliet to be happy . Why is the Capulet servant upset about having been given a pay of party guests to find? ✔✔He can't read; he is illiterate Why does Benvolio want to crash the party? Why does Romeo agree? ✔✔Benvolio wants to prove to Romeo there are other girls better than Rosaline. Romeo agrees because he wasn't a to be able to look at Rosaline for the night. What does Romeo want to happen to his eyes if they find someone other than Rosaline desirable at the party? What does this show is about Romeo? ✔✔He wants his tears to turn to fire because nobody is more beautiful than Juliet. It tells us Romeo is a drama queen. Also it tells us that Romeo once he is and he is all in. Once he falls for someone that will be his whole focus, he is willing to take big leaps world by his heart not his head. In your own words, explain the Nurse's two storied about Juliet as a toddler ✔✔When Juliet was two the nurse decided to put wormwood on her nipples to get a bad taste to make Juliet stop breast feeding so when Juliet sucked on it it was gross so she wouldn't breadth feed anymore. When Juliet fell the nurses husband picked her up and made a sex joke to say when she's older to fall on her back not forward on a (marriage) bed and Juliet said yes. Does lady Capulet want Juliet to marry Paris? ✔✔Yes. She says Paris is a gorgeous book and Juliet will be the cover What is Juliet's reaction to her mothers request? What does this show us about Juliet? ✔✔Juliet says she will give him a chance and to try to develop feelings for him but there are no promises. This shows us that Juliet is obedient to her parents request and also that she's practical According to mercutio, who or what is queen mab, and what does she do? ✔✔Queen Mab is the fairies midwife, person that delivers babies, that appears in dreams. She delivers the dreams. What does Romeo say about the value of dreams? ✔✔Romeo says the value of dreams are they are the truth and happen for reason. They're real, and he believes that dreams are fate and or destiny. What does Mercutio say about the value of dreams? ✔✔Mercutio says dreams are just lies and they are not real. He thinks they are nonsense, and there is no truth to what we are dreaming. At the end of scene 4, Romeo mentions the subject of his latest vivid dream. What did Romeo dream? Why isn't he changing his course of action? What does this show us about Romeo? ✔✔Romeo has a dream of predestination that will lead to his death and the death of an enemy who he loves by going to this party. He still goes because Romeo believes in fate and that nobody can change it. This tells us Romeo is a believer in fate, and that he acts first and speaks second this tells us also that Romeo is carefree. When Romeo first sees Juliet, what term does h [Show More]

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