Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Tybalt: What! art thou drawn among these heartless hinds?Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.Benvolio: I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,50Or manage it to part these men with me.Tybalt: What! drawn, and talk of peace? I hate the word,As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.Have at thee, coward! [They fight.]
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Which lines from the excerpt support the inference that Romeo is emotionally conflicted? Select 3 options.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Servant: God gi’ good den. I pray, sir, can you read?55Romeo: Ay, mine own fortune in my misery.Servant: Perhaps you have learn’d it without book: but, I pray, can you read any thing you see?Romeo: Ay, if I know the letters and the language. Servant: Ye say honestly; rest you merry! [Offering to go.] Romeo: Stay, fellow; I can read.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Here were the servants of your adversaryAnd yours close fighting ere I did approach:I drew to part them; in the instant cameThe fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepar’d, 95Which, as he breath’d defiance to my ears,He swung about his head, and cut the winds,Who, nothing hurt withal hiss’d him in scorn.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: At this same ancient feast of Capulet’s,70Sups the fair Rosaline, whom thou so lov’st,With all the admired beauties of Verona:Go thither; and, with unattainted eyeCompare her face with some that I shall show,And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Montague: Many a morning hath he there been seen,With tears augmenting the fresh morning’s dew,Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep sighs:But all so soon as the all-cheering sunShould in the furthest east begin to draw120The shady curtains from Aurora’s bed,Away from light steals home my heavy son,And private in his chamber pens himself,Shuts up his windows, locks fair daylight out,And makes himself an artificial night.125Black and portentous must this humour proveUnless good counsel may the cause remove.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: I do but keep the peace: put up thy sword,50Or manage it to part these men with me.
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.Capulet: What noise is this? Give me my long sword, ho!Lady Capulet: A crutch, a crutch! Why call you for a sword?60Capulet: My sword, I say! Old Montague is come,And flourishes his blade in spite of me.Enter MONTAGUE and LADY MONTAGUE.Montague: Thou villain Capulet! Hold me not; let me go.Lady Montague: Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.65
Read the excerpt from Act I, scene i of Romeo and Juliet.So early walking did I see your son:Towards him I made; but he was ware of me,110And stole into the covert of the wood:I, measuring his affections by my own,That most are busied when they’re most alone,Pursu’d my humour not pursuing his,And gladly shunn’d who gladly fled from me.
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