Themes and Resolution in Romeo and Juliet, Part 8 Answers

Read the excerpt from Act III, scene v of Romeo and Juliet. Lady Capulet: But much of grief shows still some want of wit. Juliet: Yet let me weep for such a feeling loss.80 Lady Capulet: So shall you feel the loss, but not the friend Till thou shalt know the reason of my love: Which you weep for. Juliet: Feeling so the loss, I cannot choose but ever weep the friend. Lady Capulet: Well, girl, thou weep'st not so much for his death,85As that the villain lives which slaugher'd him. Juliet: What villain, madam? Lady Capulet: That same villain, Romeo. Juliet: [Aside.] Villain and he be many miles asunder. God pardon him! I do, with all my heart;90

Which best describes dramatic irony?

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Here comes Romeo, here comes Romeo.20Mercutio: Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified! Now is he for the numbers that Petrarch flowed in: Laura to his lady was but a kitchen-wench; marry, she had a better love to be-rime her; Dido a dowdy; Cleopatra a gipsy; Helen and Hero hildings and harlots; Thisbe, a grey eye or so, but not to the purpose. Signior Romeo, bon jour! there’s a French salutation to your French slop. You gave us the counterfeit fairly last night.Romeo: Good morrow to you both. What counterfeit did I give you?Mercutio: The slip, sir, the slip; can you not conceive?

In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Tybalt is an antagonist because he is a

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iv of Romeo and Juliet.Benvolio: Tybalt, the kinsman of old Capulet,Hath sent a letter to his father’s house.Mercutio: A challenge, on my life.10Benvolio: Romeo will answer it.Mercutio: Any man that can write may answer a letter.Benvolio: Nay, he will answer the letter’s master, how he dares, being dared.Mercutio: Alas! poor Romeo, he is already dead; stabbed with a white wench’s black eye; shot through the ear with a love-song; the very pin of his heart cleft with the blind bow-boy’s butt-shaft; and is he a man to encounter Tybalt?

Read the excerpt from Act II, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Romeo: We met we woo'd and made exchange of vow, I'll tell thee as we pass; but this I pray, That thou consent to marry us to-day. Friar Laurence: Holy Saint Francis! what a change is here; Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear,70So soon forsaken? Young men's love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. Jesu Maria! what a deal of brine Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline; How much salt water thrown away in waste,75To season love, that of it doth not taste!

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet. Nurse: Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. Lady Capulet: She’s not fourteen. Nurse: I’ll lay fourteen of my teeth— And yet to my teen be it spoken I have but four— She is not fourteen. How long is it now 20To Lammas-tide? Lady Capulet: A fortnight and odd days. Nurse: Even or odd, of all days in the year, Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen.

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.Romeo: A fair assembly: whither should they come?Servant: Up.Romeo: Whither?Servant: To supper; to our house.65Romeo: Whose house?Servant: My master’s.Romeo: Indeed, I should have asked you that before.Servant: Now I’ll tell you without asking. My master is the great rich Capulet; and if you be not of the house of Montagues, I pray, come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry! [Exit.]

Read the excerpt from Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene v.Romeo: O! then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.Juliet: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.105Romeo: Then move not, while my prayers’ effect I take.Thus from my lips, by thine, my sin is purg’d. [Kissing her.]Juliet: Then have my lips the sin that they have took.Romeo: Sin from my lips? O trespass sweetly urg’d!Give me my sin again.

Read the excerpt from Act IV, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet. Capulet: Now, afore God! this reverend holy friar, All our whole city is much bound to him. Juliet: Nurse, will you go with me into my closet, To help me sort such needful ornaments35As you think fit to furnish me to-morrow? Lady Capulet: No, not till Thursday; there is time enough. Capulet: Go, nurse, go with her. We’ll to church to-morrow. [Exeunt JULIET and Nurse]