1. R&J Significant Passage #1
Reflect on the meaning and significance (to the characters, to the play, to life) of the words, images, and message of the following passage from Act 2, scene 2 (lines 41-47).
“Tis but thy name that is my enemy.
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What’s Montague?. . . O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.

2. R&J Significant Passage #2
Read, analyze, and respond to the language and message of the following passage from How do the language choices help to convey meaning? How does the meaning connect with the characters and play?
Friar Lawrence:
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

3. R&J Significant Passage #3
“Unpack” these excerpts from Juliet’s speech in Act 3, scene 2 when she first learns that Romeo killed her cousin Tybalt.
Literal and metaphorical meanings of individual lives and the speech as a whole.
Implications for the characters and for the play as a whole.
J: O God, did Romeo’s hand shed Tybalt’s blood?
N: It did, it did, alas the day it did.
J: O serpent heart hid with a flow’ring face!
Dove-feathered raven, wolvish-ravening lamb!
A damned saint, an honorable villain.
Was never a book containing such a vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous place.

4. R&J Significant Passage #4
Remembering that “happy” means “fortunate,” reflect on this passage from Friar Lawrence’s long speech to Romeo in 3.3 (l ). What are the meanings and the implications of these lines?
FL: What, rouse thee, man! Thy Juliet is alive,
For whose dear sake thou wast lately dead:
There art thou happy. Tybalt would kill thee,
But thou slewest Tybalt: there are thou happy.
The law that threatened death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile: there art thou happy.
A pack of blessings light upon thy back;
Happiness courts thee in her best array;
But like a misbehaved and sullen wench,
Thou pouts upon they fortune and thy love.
Take heed, take heed, for such die miserable.

5. R&J Significant Passage #5
At the end of Act 4, scene 5, Lord Capulet gives instructions to the musicians assembled for the wedding, telling them to prepare to play for a funeral. Reflect on the meaning and significance of these lines.
LC: All things that we ordained festival
Turn from their office to black funeral:
Our instruments to melancholy bells,
Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast,
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change,
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse,
And all things change them to the contrary.

6. R&J Significant Passage #6
Prince:
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 pardoned, and some punished.
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
Act 5, scene 3, lines