Romeo and Juliet Exam Review

Name That Character

Balthasar Tells Romeo Juliet is dead Falls asleep outside the Capulet vault

Benvolio Is the peacemaker in the play Advises Romeo to get over Rosaline by looking at other girls

Lord Capulet Tells Tybalt not to mess with Romeo because he’s a good kid Tells Paris he must win Juliet’s heart Threatens to disown Juliet Moves Juliet’s wedding to Paris to Wednesday

Lady Capulet Isn’t very close to Juliet Asks Juliet how she feels about getting married Casts Juliet aside, telling her to do whatever she wants

Paris Is Juliet’s “arranged” husband-to-be Gets killed outside the Capulet vault

What’s in a Quote?

Prince Escalus tells the families at the end that their feud cost them the lives of their children. And he, for not putting a stop to it sooner, lost two relatives (Paris and Mercutio). He notes that they all are punished (punished, punished). “Where be these enemies? Capulet! Montague! / See, what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love! / And I, for winking at your discords, too, / Have lost a brace of kinsmen. All are punished.”

When Juliet finds Romeo dead, she kisses his lips to get poison and notices his lips are still warm. This is ironic because she just missed him alive. “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 me die with a restorative. / Thy lips are warm!”

Lord Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s death is ironic because the day before he told her to marry Paris or he would disown her. Now that she’s gone he realizes how important she was to him. Be careful what you wish for. “O child! O child! My soul, and not my child! / Dead art thou, dead! Alack, my child is dead, / And with my child my joys are buried!” (IV.v.71-73).

“A plague o’ both your houses!” As he dies, Mercutio curses the Montagues and the Capulets for their feud cost him his life. Example of foreshadowing. “A plague o’ both your houses!”

Friar Laurence comments on how Romeo falls in and out of love so quickly. He suggests to Romeo that it isn’t love yet; he just finds pretty girls attractive. Romeo is hasty and rash. “Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, / So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies / Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.”

I Know My Characters

Prince Escalus Warns the family if anyone fights again, the punishment will be death Exiles Romeo Is punished for the the feud also by losing two relatives

Friar Laurence Agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet to hopefully end the feud Runs out of the tomb leaving Juliet alone

Juliet Is closer to the Nurse than her mother Has doubts about drinking Friar’s potion

Lady Montague Dies from grief over her son’s exile

Mercutio Likes to joke around Believes that dreams mean nothing Curses the houses of Montague and Capulet

Hodgepodge (It Could Be Anything)

Nurse Tells Juliet to marry Paris for her first marriage is “dead” She finds Juliet dead

Hasty/Rash Actions in Romeo and Juliet Romeo rushes out and buys poison as soon as he hears of Juliet’s death.  Romeo kills Paris at the tomb.  Romeo and Juliet kill themselves without thinking things through.  Tybalt wants to fight Romeo for attending the feast.  Friar runs out of the tomb and leaves Juliet.  Lord Capulet arranges Juliet’s marriage to Paris so she’ll stop grieving over Tybalt. Romeo falls in and out of love quickly (loves Rosaline then Juliet) Romeo and Juliet marry the day after meeting each other.  Juliet drinks a death potion quickly after finding out she to marry Paris.

Verona The main setting of Romeo and Juliet

“These violent delights have violent ends.” Friar Laurence cautions Romeo that a love that starts with such power and speed can often end quickly and badly. An example of foreshadowing. Beware hasty and rash decisions! “These violent delights have violent ends.”

Rosaline Romeo’s love at the beginning of the play

Lord Montague Romeo’s father

Tybalt Is saucy and fiery Challenges Romeo to a duel Kills Mercutio

Potpourri

Turning Point/Climax in the Play Romeo kills Tybalt Act III

What Is the Catastrophe? The deaths of Romeo and Juliet Act V

What Is the exciting force? Romeo reads the party invitation for the illiterate servant Act I

What Type of Play Is Romeo and Juliet? Tragedy

Fate/Uncontrollable Events in Romeo and Juliet The feud Romeo and Juliet being star-crossed lovers Romeo reads the party invitation for the illiterate servant The wedding to Paris being moved to Wednesday Friar Laurence’s letter doesn’t make it to Romeo. Paris being at the tomb Romeo noticing Juliet’s color but kills himself Juliet wakes up just after Romeo dies Friar running out of the tomb

And Then There Were More Still More Characters (and Places) from Romeo and Juliet

Romeo Falls in and out of love quickly Comes between Mercutio and Tybalt as they fight Kills Tybalt

Apothecary Sells Romeo poison

Friar John Is unable to deliver the letter to Romeo because he was locked up because they thought he was infected

Mantua Where Romeo stays during his exile

Explaineth the Quoteth

When Romeo sees Juliet the first time, he instantly fell in “love” with her and forgot Rosaline. Hasty and rash actions. “Did my heart love till now? Foreswear is sight! / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.”

Juliet questions why her new love has to be a Montague, her family’s sworn enemy. She thinks that one of them can drop the family name so they can be together. Hasty and rash. “ O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? / Deny thy father and refuse thy name! / Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, / And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.”

“Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.” Romeo tells Tybalt that one or both of them must die to avenge Mercutio’s death. The feud between their families led to his demise. Friendship love. “Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.”

Lord Capulet refuses to listen to Juliet and threatens to disown her if she refuses to marry Paris. Hasty and rash. Doesn’t like to be challenged. “Look to ‘t, think on ‘t; I do not 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.”

When Romeo sees Juliet in the tomb, he notices that she looks beautiful and her cheeks are still pink. This is dramatic irony because the audience knows she isn’t dead; in fact, she is coming out of Friar’s trance. “O my love! My wife! / Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. / Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks, / And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.”

Lady Capulet’s grief over the loss of Juliet is ironic because the day before she told Juliet to do whatever she wanted because she was done with her daughter. Lady Capulet could have prevented tragedy if she would’ve realized how much she loved Juliet the day before. Be careful what you wish for “O me, O me! My child, my only life, / Revive, look up, or I will die with thee!” (IV.v.19-21).

How Many Times Did Romeo and Juliet See One Another? At the Capulet feast The balcony scene The marriage The after-marriage party Romeo sees Juliet fake dead at the tomb Juliet sees Romeo’s dead body after he drank the poison

Types of Love

Unrequited Love Love that is one-sided Loving someone from afar Love that is non-physical EXAMPLES: Romeo for Rosaline Paris for Juliet

Love of Family Honor Respect and loyalty to the family name, crest, or seal EXAMPLES: Tybalt wanting to fight Romeo Mercutio fighting Tybalt Romeo and Juliet realizing the complications of loving the enemy

Romantic Love that is shared between two people It does lead to physical contact EXAMPLES: Romeo & Juliet

Parental Love The bond that exists between parents and children EXAMPLES: Nurse and Juliet Friar and Romeo Lord Capulet and Juliet (beginning and end) Lady Capulet and Juliet (end)

Friendship Love The bond of respect, admiration, and loyalty between friends EXAMPLES: Nurse and Juliet Friar and Romeo Mercutio and Romeo Benvolio and Romeo

Foreshadowing in Romeo and Juliet

Romeo has a dream that he died and Juliet brought him back to life with a kiss. This foreshadows how he will kiss her later, and she does come back to life. However, when she kisses him, he does not. “I dreamt my lady came and found me dead-- / Strange dream that gives a dead man leave to think!-- / And breathed such life with kisses in my lips / That I revived and was an emperor.”

Romeo has a dream that something will start that night at the party and end with his unexpected death. This foreshadows how he will meet Juliet, and through a series of many complications, face his untimely death. “For my mind misgives / Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars, / Shall bitterly begin his fearful date / With this night’s revels and expire the term / Of a despised life, closed in my breast, / By some vile forfeit of untimely death.”

Juliet has vision of Romeo dead in a tomb as he leaves her balcony Juliet has vision of Romeo dead in a tomb as he leaves her balcony. This is an example of foreshadowing because the next time she sees him he is dead in the vault. “O God, I have an ill-divining soul! / Methinks I see thee, now thou art below, / As one dead in the bottom of a tomb. / Either my eyesight fails, or thou look’st pale.”

Romeo and Juliet’s Love Conflicts with Social Institutions

Father During the Renaissance Period, the father controlled the family In order to be with Romeo, Juliet defied Lord Capulet’s control over her

Church Romeo and Juliet’s double suicide goes against the Christian faith

Law Romeo and Juliet’s love conflicts with the Prince’s decree If the families would have found out about their relationship, it would have led to war

Family Romeo and Juliet’s love defied the respect and loyalty they should’ve had for their families To be together, their love became more important than their families