Romeo and Juliet Act Three (study guide) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Choices and Consequences Character Page # Choice-Sum up the choice the character made. Consequence- What happens as a result of this choice? ACT THREE -SCENE ONE 1. After Tybalt insults Romeo, Romeo responds with lines 59-62. Explain these lines and the reason why Romeo ignores Tybalt s insults. 2. Why is Mercutio so mad that Romeo is allowing Tybalt to insult him (What does Mercutio think)? 3. Why does Lady Capulet think that Benvolio is lying about what happened? 4. What is Lord Montague s reason to the Prince to persuade the Prince to not put Romeo to death? 5. Talk to the following text: Scene 1: pg 129 (Lady Capulet) He is a kinsman to the Montague; Affection makes him false, he speaks not true. Some twenty of them fought in this black strife, And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, Prince, must give. Romeo slew Tybalt; Romeo must not live. 5. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)? ACT THREE -SCENE TWO 1. At first, who does Juliet think is dead? 2. Then, what two people does Juliet think has died? 3. What is Juliet s reaction to the news that Romeo has killed Tybalt? 4. What happens that causes Juliet to change her mind about Romeo killing Tybalt and what are some of her reasons? 4. Talk to the following text: Scene 2: pg 137 (Juliet) Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband? Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? That villain cousin would have killed my husband. Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring! Your tributary drops belong to woe, Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain; And Tybalt s dead, that would have slain my husband. All this is comfort; wherefore weep I then? Some word there was, worser than Tybalt s death, That murdered me. I would forget it fain; But O, it presses to my memory like damned guilty deeds to sinners minds! Tybalt is dead, and Romeo-banished.
5. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)? ACT THREE -SCENE THREE 1. What is Romeo s reaction when he learns he has been banished? 2.Friar Laurence tells Romeo to count his blessings, what are they? 3.Describe Friar Laurence s plan? 4. Talk to the following text: Scene 3: pg 147-148 (Friar Laurence) Hold thy desperate hand. Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art; They tears are womanish, they wild acts denote The unreasonable fury of a beast Unseemly woman in a seeming man! Or ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! Thou hast amazed me. By my holy order, I thought thy disposition better tempered. Hast thou slain Tybalt? Wilt thou slay thyself? And slay thy lady too that lives in thee, By doing damned hate upon thyself? 5. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)? ACT THREE - SCENE FOUR 1. Why does Lord Capulet change his mind about Paris s proposal toward Juliet? 2. When does he say they are to be married?
2. Talk to the following text: Scene 4: pg 153 (Lord Capulet) Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender Of my child s love. I think she will be ruled In all respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not. Wife, go you to her ere you go to bed; Acquaint her here of my son Paris love And bid her (mark you me?) on Wednesday next 4. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)? ACT THREE - SCENE FIVE 1. When Juliet refuses to marry Paris, how does Lord Capulet react? 2. What advice does the nurse give Juliet? 3. Juliet goes to Friar Laurence for help and tells him that she will do what if he can t help her? 4. What is Friar Laurence s plan now (give the details)? 3.Talk to the following text: Scene 5: pg 169 (Lord Capulet) God s bread! It makes me mad. Day, night, late, early, At home, abroad, alone, in company, Waking or sleeping, still my care hath been To have her matched; and having now provided A gentleman of princely parentage, Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly trained, Stuffed, as they say, with honorable parts, proportioned as one s thought would wish a man- And then to have a wretched puling fool, A whining mammet, in her fortunes tender, To Answer I ll not wed, I cannot love; I am too young, I pray you pardon me! But, an you will not wed, I ll pardon you. Graze where you will, you shall not house with me. Look to t, think on t; I do not use to jest.
Thursday is near; lay hand on heart, advise: An you be mine, I ll give you to my friend; An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For by my soul, I ll ne er acknowledge thee, Nor what is mine shall never do thee good. 4. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)? Act One Figurative Language/Lit Devices Find one example of each of the following literary terms used anywhere in Act One (pay attention in class during class discussions). First define the term then give the example citing the line numbers/scene numbers. Term Definition of term Example of term Act 1 location(scene/lines) Pun Alliteration Oxymoron Allusion Metaphor Hyperbole Irony Foreshadow Aside Personification