Romeo and Juliet
Acts 4-5 Reading Guide Notebook Check
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6. Eulogy (40 points)
ROMEO AND JULIET Character List
Character List Act 4 Scene 1
Character List Act 4 Scene 5
Stage Directions
Friar Laurence
Paris
Juliet
Stage Directions
Nurse
Lady Capulet
Capulet
Friar Laurence
Paris
First Musician
Peter
Second Musician
Character List Act 4 Scene 2
Stage Directions
Capulet
Second Servant
Nurse
Juliet
Lady Capulet
Character List Act 4 Scene 3
Stage Directions
Juliet
Lady Capulet
Character List Act 5 Scene 1
Stage Directions
Romeo
Balthasar
Apothecary
Character List Act 5 Scene 2
Character List Act 4 Scene 4
Stage Directions
Lady Capulet
Nurse
Capulet
First Servant
Second Servant
Stage Directions
Friar John
Friar Laurence
Character List Act 5 Scene 3
Stage Directions
Paris
Page
Romeo
Balthasar
Friar Laurence
Juliet
First Watchman
Second Watchman
Third Watchman
Prince
Capulet
Lady Capulet
Montague
Notebook Check 1
ROMEO AND JULIET Act IV Reading Guide
I. LITERARY TERMS: Define each term. Be sure you can identify them in the text.
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Dramatic Irony: _________________________________________________________________________
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Comic Relief: __________________________________________________________________________
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II. QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions.
Scene 1:
1. Why is Friar Laurence reluctant to marry Paris to Juliet?
2. How does Paris explain the sudden haste of the marriage plans?
3. What is ironic about the conversation between Juliet and Paris?
4. If Friar Laurence cannot help her, what does Juliet threaten to do?
5. Why does Friar Laurence think that Juliet will accept his plan?
6. Describe the friar’s plan for Juliet.
Scene 2:
7. What does Juliet say that makes her father happy?
8. How does Capulet change the wedding plans? What implication does this have?
Scene 3:
9. How does Juliet show her maturity and independence in this scene?
10. If the potion does not work, what will Juliet do?
11. What are some of the fears Juliet has about the potion?
Scene 4:
12. What is happening in this brief scene?
Scene 5:
1. Describe the imagery Shakespeare uses in describing Juliet’s “death”?
2. What does Friar Laurence say to comfort the Capulet family?
3. What event are the Capulet’s now preparing for?
Romeo and Juliet Act IV Character Quotes
Who Said it in Act IV?
“The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade
to wanny ashes, they eyes’ windows fall
like death when he shuts up the day of life…”
“ My heart is wondrous light,
since this same wayward girl is so reclaimed.”
“I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins
that almost freezes up the heat of life.”
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
upon the sweetest flower of all the field.”
“O day, O day, O day! O hateful day!
Never was seen so black a day as this.
O woeful day! O woeful day!”
Act IV Timeline
TUESDAY MORNING
Act 4
TUESDAY NOON
TUESDAY NIGHT
EARLY WEDNESDAY
MORNING
Notebook Check 2
ROMEO AND JULIET Act V Reading Guide
I. LITERARY TERMS: Define each term. Be sure you can identify them in the
text.
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Tragedy: ____________________________________________________________________________________
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Fate: _________________________________________________________________________________________
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Motive: ______________________________________________________________________________________
II. QUESTIONS: Answer the following questions.
Scene 1:
1. What news does Balthasar bring Romeo?
2. What does Romeo mean when he says, “Then I defy you, stars!”?
3. What actions does Balthasar’s news prompt Romeo to do?
Scene 2:
4. What does Friar John tell Friar Laurence?
5. After hearing this news from Friar John, what does Friar Laurence intend
to do?
Scene 3:
6. Why is Paris at Juliet’s tomb?
7. Romeo gives Balthasar two reasons for entering the Capulet’s tomb. What
are those two reasons?
8. Why does Paris think that Romeo has come to the tomb?
9. Paraphrase:
ROMEO
In faith, I will. Let me peruse this face.
Mercutio's kinsman, noble County Paris!
What said my man, when my betossed soul
Did not attend him as we rode? I think
He told me Paris should have married Juliet:
Said he not so? or did I dream it so?
Or am I mad, hearing him talk of Juliet,
To think it was so? O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!
I'll bury thee in a triumphant grave;
A grave? O no! a lantern, slaughter'd youth,
For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd.
[Laying PARIS in the tomb]
How oft when men are at the point of death
Have they been merry! which their keepers call
A lightning before death: O, how may I
Call this a lightning? O my love! my wife!
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 yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death's pale flag is not advanced there.
Tybalt, liest thou there in thy bloody sheet?
O, what more favour can I do to thee,
Than with that hand that cut thy youth in twain
To sunder his that was thine enemy?
Forgive me, cousin! Ah, dear Juliet,
Why art thou yet so fair? shall I believe
That unsubstantial death is amorous,
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps
Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee;
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again: here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
Here's to my love!
[Drinks}
O true apothecary!
Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
[Dies]
a-)Summarize the lines
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b-) Who are the speakers?
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c-) What are the stage directions?
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10.
What is it about Juliet that should have told Romeo that she was not
dead?
11. Why doesn’t Friar Laurence stay in the tomb with Juliet after she
awakens?
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12. Paraphrase:
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JULIET
Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
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Exit FRIAR LAURENCE
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.
Kisses him
Thy lips are warm.
First Watchman
[Within] Lead, boy: which way?
JULIET
Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
Snatching ROMEO's dagger
This is thy sheath;
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Stabs herself
there rust, and let me die.
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Falls on ROMEO's body, and dies
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a-)Summarize the lines
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b-) Who are the speakers?
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c-) What are the stage directions?
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13. Why does Juliet kiss Romeo after he is dead?
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14. When Montague first arrives on the scene, what does he tell those
gathered?
15. Relate the events that lead to Romeo and Juliet’s death as they are told
by Friar Laurence near the play’s end.
16. What information does Romeo’s letter give?
Enter Watch, with the Page of PARIS
PRINCE
This letter doth make good the friar's words,
Their course of love, the tidings of her death:
And here he writes that he did buy a poison
Of a poor 'pothecary, and therewithal
Came to this vault to die, and lie with Juliet.
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 punish'd.
CAPULET
O brother Montague, give me thy hand:
This is my daughter's jointure, for no more
Can I demand.
MONTAGUE
But I can give thee more:
For I will raise her statue in pure gold;
That while Verona by that name is known,
There shall no figure at such rate be set
As that of true and faithful Juliet.
CAPULET
As rich shall Romeo's by his lady's lie;
Poor sacrifices of our enmity!
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 pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.
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Exeunt
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a-)Summarize the lines
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b-) Who are the speakers?
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c-) What are the stage directions?
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17. How do Montague and Capulet plan_______________________________________________
to honor the memories of their
children?
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ROMEO AND JULIET ACT V Character Quotes
Who Said It in Act V?
“O comfortable friar! where is my lord?
I do remember well where I should be,
And there I am. Where is my Romeo?(155)”
“Is it e'en so? Then I defy you, stars!
Thou knowest my lodging. Get me ink and paper(25)
And hire posthorses. I will hence to-night.”
“Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice, but full of charge,
Of dear import; and the neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence,(20)
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.”
“This is that banish'd haughty Montague
That murdered my love's cousin—with which grief(50)
It is supposed the fair creature died—“
“As I remember, this should be the house.
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
What, ho! apothecary! “
Act V Timeline
THURSDAY LATE AT NIGHT
Act 5
Notebook Check 3 Analyzing Theme/Decision Making in Romeo and
Juliet
Examine the situations below and list other choices that Romeo or Juliet could
have made. In the third column, list the results of their actual choices.
Situation and Choice
Character’s Other Options
Direct Result of Character’s
Choice
Tybalt challenges Romeo to
Romeo could have:
a duel. Romeo refuses to
fight and then tries to
prevent Mercutio and
Tybalt from killing each
other
Juliet is told that she
Juliet could have:
must marry Paris. To
prevent this, Juliet
follows the Friar’s advice
and fakes her own death.
Romeo hears a report of
Romeo could have:
Juliet’s death. He rushes
to her tomb to commit
suicide.
After examining Romeo and Juliet’s decisions, what pattern or consistent
course of action do you notice?
Do you think that Romeo and Juliet are in part responsible for the tragedy
that befalls them? Explain.
Theme
To understand what insight about haste or urgency can be found in the play, add
four additional examples of characters speaking or acting hastily to the cluster.
Review your details, then write a single sentence that expresses Shakespeare’s
theme about haste in Romeo and Juliet.
Romeo falls in
love with Juliet
and forgets
Rosaline in an
instant.
HASTE
Tybalt wants to
kill Romeo the
instant he sees
him.
Lady Capulet
insists that it is
time for Juliet
to marry.
What do the characters think and say about love? How does their haste affect the
action and the outcome of the play.
Write the theme about haste below.
Notebook Check 4 Journal Entries
Act IV
Act V
Notebook Check 5 The Court of Verona: Some Shall Be Punished
In the last speech of the play, the Prince announces that “some shall be pardon’d, and some
punished.” Soon the day of reckoning will come, and the Prince has ordered that all in Verona
prepare for testimony that answers the question: who killed Romeo and Juliet?
Step 1: Brainstorm a list of all who played a role in Romeo and Juliet’s death and
why they have responsibility.
Step 2: Create a pie chart in the circle below indicating what proportion of the
responsibility for The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet you would assign to fate and
what proportions you would assign to Romeo, Juliet, and other characters.
Step 3: After hearing all of the evidence presented, who do you feel is the most to
blame for the outcome and why? Be thorough.
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Notebook Check 6 The Eulogy Project
In light of the recent tragedy, we have all been asked to attend a mass funeral for
the deceased. Six characters have died, and we must honor their memories. Not only
have we been asked to attend the funeral, we have been asked to deliver their
eulogies. A eulogy is a speech or writing that shows high praise for someone.
Content: The eulogy should discuss things like:
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How he/she died
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Why we should miss him/her
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How he/she was wronged.
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What he/she represented in life
Personal Information
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Person’s Age
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Family – marriage(s), children, parents, pets
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Work/Career
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Hobbies and free time activities
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Places lived
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Offices held in government, professional or community organizations
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Military service
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Special life events
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Special accomplishments, achievements and awards
Additional Notable Information
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Beliefs, cherished values
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Life philosophies
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Poems, quotes, or letters written by the deceased (as a way of bringing her or
her own voice into the service)
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Special poems, quotes, passages or verses
Reminisces and Recollections
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Family and friends’ stories and anecdotes
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Colleagues’ stores and anecdotes
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Favorite quotes, expressions of the deceased
Tips:
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Talk about the deceased in an honest and loving way
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Try not to be negative
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Have water/tissue on hand
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Be uplifting, inspiring and even humorous
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Check your facts
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Speak slowly and clearly
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Have a thoughtful, uplifting ending
introduction... you
should include a
enjoyed)
memorable quote)
(Link back to your
person may have
(specific memory)
survived by)
(qualities)
Conclusion
(things that the
Remembered for
(Name, age,
Remembered for
Remembered for
Introduction
Eulogy Planning Sheet