Romeo and Juliet
Act FIVE (study guide)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Choices and Consequences
Character
Page #
Choice-Sum up in the choice the character
made.
Consequence- What happens as a
result of this choice?
ACT FIVE - SCENE ONE:
1. What premonition does Romeo have at the beginning of this scene?
2. What news does Balthazar bring?
3. What does Romeo decide to do after he hears the news that Balthazar has brought?
4. Talk to the following text:
Scene 1: pg 209 (Romeo)
Well, Juliet, I will lie with thee tonight.
Let’s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men!
I do remember an apothecary,
And hereabouts he swells, which late I noted
In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows,
Culling of simples. Meager were his looks,
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones;
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Noting this penury, to myself I said,
“An if a man did need a poison now
Whose sale is present death in Mantua,
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him.”
5. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
ACT FIVE - SCENE TWO:
1. What does Friar John tell Friar Laurence and how is this going to mess up Friar Laurence's plan?
2. Talk to the following text:
Scene 2: pg 215 (Friar Laurence)
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood,
The letter was not nice, but full of charge,
Of dear import, and neglecting it
May do much danger. Friar John, go hence,
Get me an iron crow and bring it straight
Unto my cell.
3. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
ACT FIVE-SCENE THREE:
1. Why is Paris at Juliet's grave and what does he promise her?
2. Paris attacks Romeo even though Romeo warned him not to mess with a madman. What happens?
3. After Romeo lays Paris's body in the tomb, what does he notice about Juiet?
4. What do we really know is happening to Juilet?
5. What does Romeo do in the tomb?
6. What does Juliet do after she finds Romeo in the tomb?
7. Talk to the following text:
Scene 3: pg 221 (Paris/Romeo
Paris: Condemned villain, I do apprehend thee.
Obey, and go with me; for thou must die
Romeo: I must indeed; and therefore came I hither
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desp’rate man.
Fly hence and leave me. Think upon these gone;
Let them affright thee. I beseech thee, youth,
put not another sin upon my head
By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself.
For I come hither armed against myself.
Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say
A madman’s mercy bid thee run away.
8. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
9. Talk to the following text:
Scene 3: pg 223 (Romeo)
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Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath,
Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
thou are not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet
Is crimson in thy lips and in thy cheeks,
And death’s pale flag is not advanced there.
10. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
11. Talk to the following text:
Scene 3: pg 239 (Prince)
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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
12. What is "going on" here (one sentence or more summary of what this passage is saying)?
Act FIVE Figurative Language/Lit Devices
Find as many examples of literary terms used anywhere in Act Five (pay attention in class for hints). This time you
must also fine your own.
Term
Definition of term
Example of term
Act 5 location(scene/lines)