Stephanie Medeiros Brandi Wightman Edward Eubank dominic mauro marcos mendieta Connor Reilly Brandon Ventura Anthony DiPietro
Act V Study Guide Catherine Moreau
1. Summarize Romeo's last soliloquy in scene iii. Romeo's last soliloquy in act 5 scene 3 is where romeo is depressed because he thinks Juliet is dead and that he would kill himself so he could be with her
How often are men happy right before they die! They call it the lightness before death. Oh, how can I call this lightness? Oh, my love! My wife! Death has sucked the honey from your breath, but it has not yet ruined your beauty. You haven’t been conquered. There is still red in your lips and in your cheeks. Death has not yet turned them pale. Tybalt, are you lying there in your bloody death shroud? Oh, what better favor can I do for you than to kill the man who killed you with the same hand that made you die young. Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, why are you still so beautiful? Should I believe that death is in love with you, and that the awful monster keeps you here to be his mistress? I don’t like that idea, so I’ll stay with you. And I will never leave this tomb. Here, here I’ll remain with worms that are your chamber-maids. Oh, I’ll rest here forever. I’ll forget about all the bad luck that has troubled me. Eyes, look out for the last time! Arms, make your last embrace! And lips, you are the doors of breath. Seal with a righteous kiss the deal I have made with death forever. (ROMEO kisses JULIET and takes out the poison) Come, bitter poison, come, unsavory guide! You desperate pilot, let’s crash this sea-weary ship into the rocks! Here’s to my love! ROMEO drinks the poison. Oh, that pharmacist was honest! His drugs work quickly. So I die with a kiss.
2. Are fate or the characters mor respossible for the outcome of the play? Explain. I think it's mostly fate because they met at a Capulet party, and Romeo is a Montague who was at the time their enemy. Also the fact how they didn't know who each other were has to deal with fate, how fast they fell in love, and how many ups and downs they had encountered in their short time of knowing each other.
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3. Why do you think Balthasar ignores Romeo's threats and stays near the vault?
4. Why does Paris challenge Romeo? Paris thinks Romeo is going to do something bad to Juliet or cause havoc to the Capulet Tomb.
5. Friar Lawrence runs from the tomb after Juliet awakens. Decide whether or not this action is "in character." Why might Shakespeare have him do this?
6. Why do you think Shakespeare includes the deaths of Paris and Lady Montague in Act V? I think Shakespeare included those deaths because of dramatic irony. Another thing I noticed is when one person dies on the Capulet's side another dies on the Montague's side. The main reason I think their deaths were apart of the play is to add to the tragedy and make the reader feel sorry for the people still left in the play.
7. Do you think the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is really over? Explain. I believe that the that the feud between the Capulets and Montagues is over because they both lost their only child.
8. In what way are the adults responsible for the fate of Romeo and Juliet? Name some of the things they could have done differently. The way the adults are responsible for the fate's of Romeo and Juliet it that the Capulets and the Montagues could have ended the feud before anything tragic happened, also the friar or the nurse could have said something about the secret marriage. It might have ended the feud seeing that their children could be happily married. Quotes:
a. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee. Romeo says this, hes say this to the hobo because he wants to buy poison from him and he thinks Juliet is dead. He tells him to buy food and stuff he needs with the money he gets. He talks to the poison bottle and says at Juliet's grave he will use it.
b. Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--
O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:The obsequies that I for thee will keep Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep. juliet says this when she is in the capulet's garden when she is wondering if romeo is dead.
c. Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death's pale flag is not advanced there. Romeo says this, he's saying this to Juliet when shes in the tomb, he sees that she doesn't look dead and the irony is she isn't dead she looks like shes alive.
d. Thus with a kiss I die. Romeo says this, he says this when he takes the poison and kisses Juliet when shes "dead" in the tomb. It was the last thing that he did before he died.
e. What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,To make die with a restorative. Juliet says this, When she wakes up she see romeo dead and there's a poison bottle in his hand, she kisses him to see if there is any poison left on his lips for her but there isnt
f. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath This is Juliet talking to herself, this is right after she has found Romeo dead in her catacombs. What she is referring to as an,''O happy dagger'' is a sword it happens to be Romeos sword and this sword was used to kill her couson Tybalt who is also with her in the catacombs.
g. A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. Prince Escalus says this. he says this in Verona after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. he means it is sad morning, he wants people to talk about this tragedy, and some will pay the consequences and some will be forgiven.
Connor Reilly Brandon Ventura
Anthony DiPietro
Act V Study Guide
Catherine Moreau
1. Summarize Romeo's last soliloquy in scene iii.
Romeo's last soliloquy in act 5 scene 3 is where romeo is depressed because he thinks Juliet is dead and that he would kill himself so he could be with her
How often are men happy right before they die! They call it the lightness before death. Oh, how can I call this lightness? Oh, my love! My wife! Death has sucked the honey from your breath, but it has not yet ruined your beauty. You haven’t been conquered. There is still red in your lips and in your cheeks. Death has not yet turned them pale. Tybalt, are you lying there in your bloody death shroud? Oh, what better favor can I do for you than to kill the man who killed you with the same hand that made you die young. Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet, why are you still so beautiful? Should I believe that death is in love with you, and that the awful monster keeps you here to be his mistress? I don’t like that idea, so I’ll stay with you. And I will never leave this tomb. Here, here I’ll remain with worms that are your chamber-maids. Oh, I’ll rest here forever. I’ll forget about all the bad luck that has troubled me. Eyes, look out for the last time! Arms, make your last embrace! And lips, you are the doors of breath. Seal with a righteous kiss the deal I have made with death forever. (ROMEO kisses JULIET and takes out the poison) Come, bitter poison, come, unsavory guide! You desperate pilot, let’s crash this sea-weary ship into the rocks! Here’s to my love!
ROMEO drinks the poison.
Oh, that pharmacist was honest! His drugs work quickly. So I die with a kiss.
2. Are fate or the characters mor respossible for the outcome of the play? Explain.
I think it's mostly fate because they met at a Capulet party, and Romeo is a Montague who was at the time their enemy. Also the fact how they didn't know who each other were has to deal with fate, how fast they fell in love, and how many ups and downs they had encountered in their short time of knowing each other.
3. Why do you think Balthasar ignores Romeo's threats and stays near the vault?
4. Why does Paris challenge Romeo?
Paris thinks Romeo is going to do something bad to Juliet or cause havoc to the Capulet Tomb.
5. Friar Lawrence runs from the tomb after Juliet awakens. Decide whether or not this action is "in character." Why might Shakespeare have him do this?
6. Why do you think Shakespeare includes the deaths of Paris and Lady Montague in Act V?
I think Shakespeare included those deaths because of dramatic irony. Another thing I noticed is when one person dies on the Capulet's side another dies on the Montague's side. The main reason I think their deaths were apart of the play is to add to the tragedy and make the reader feel sorry for the people still left in the play.
7. Do you think the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues is really over? Explain.
I believe that the that the feud between the Capulets and Montagues is over because they both lost their only child.
8. In what way are the adults responsible for the fate of Romeo and Juliet? Name some of the things they could have done differently.
The way the adults are responsible for the fate's of Romeo and Juliet it that the Capulets and the Montagues could have ended the feud before anything tragic happened, also the friar or the nurse could have said something about the secret marriage. It might have ended the feud seeing that their children could be happily married.
Quotes:
a. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none.Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh.Come, cordial and not poison, go with meTo Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee.
Romeo says this, hes say this to the hobo because he wants to buy poison from him and he thinks Juliet is dead. He tells him to buy food and stuff he needs with the money he gets. He talks to the poison bottle and says at Juliet's grave he will use it.
b. Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew,--
O woe! thy canopy is dust and stones;--Which with sweet water nightly I will dew,Or, wanting that, with tears distill'd by moans:The obsequies that I for thee will keep Nightly shall be to strew thy grave and weep.
juliet says this when she is in the capulet's garden when she is wondering if romeo is dead.
c. Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath,Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty:Thou art not conquer'd; beauty's ensign yetIs crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Romeo says this, he's saying this to Juliet when shes in the tomb, he sees that she doesn't look dead and the irony is she isn't dead she looks like shes alive.
d. Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo says this, he says this when he takes the poison and kisses Juliet when shes "dead" in the tomb. It was the last thing that he did before he died.
e. What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,To make die with a restorative.
Juliet says this, When she wakes up she see romeo dead and there's a poison bottle in his hand, she kisses him to see if there is any poison left on his lips for her but there isnt
f. Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath
This is Juliet talking to herself, this is right after she has found Romeo dead in her catacombs. What she is referring to as an,''O happy dagger'' is a sword it happens to be Romeos sword and this sword was used to kill her couson Tybalt who is also with her in the catacombs.
g. A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Prince Escalus says this. he says this in Verona after the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. he means it is sad morning, he wants people to talk about this tragedy, and some will pay the consequences and some will be forgiven.