Starter:
The story comes to a ………. in Act 5. Juliet and the Friar’s plan to fake Juliet’s death
has been carried out and Juliet lays in the ……...
The …………… of Act 5 sees Romeo excited with thoughts of Juliet but this quickly
fades as ………… brings Romeo news of Juliet’s death. Thinking that Juliet is ……….,
Romeo heads to an Apothecary to buy some ……..: he wants to die with Juliet, he
cannot live with his love. ……… has failed to have his letter to Romeo delivered
……….. and he knows death will come to the young loves: he is powerless to stop it.
During scene 3, Romeo and ……..sword fight; both men have arrived to see Juliet in
her tomb, but there can only be one winner in a ……. and Paris dies. On seeing
Juliet, Romeo drinks the poison and dies.
Juliet awakes from her sleep and sees her love dead. She tries to suck poison from
his ……. so she can be with Romeo in death. When this ………, she takes Romeo’s
…….., stabs herself and dies.
As a result of their deaths, …………. and Montague make ……..
Climax
Capulet
Dead
Paris
Poison
Dagger
Beginning
Duel
Fails
Tomb
Friar
Balthazar
Safely
Peace
Lips
Romeo
Learning objective:
• To focus on the character of Romeo in Act 5
Think about Romeo and his personality…what words would you use to
describe him?
R – omantic
O – pen
M – urderer
E – motional
O – ptimistic
The changing faces of Romeo
Silver Standard
1. Find a quote to show that Romeo is joyful at the start of Act 5
2. Find a quote to show that Romeo is angry in the middle of Act 5
3. Find a quote to show that Romeo is devastated at the end of Act
5
4.
5.
Make a list of all the characters that Romeo encounters during
Act 5.
Write a PEE paragraph about each one, explaining how Romeo
interacts with each of the characters and what this tells you
about Romeo’s character.
Gold Standard:
1. Reread Romeo’s death speech on Pg112-113. How would you
describe Romeo’s character during his last speech and why?
(Answer using a PEE paragraph)
Practicing with an extract
Enter Apothecary
ROMEO
Apothecary
Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes,
Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back;
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Who calls so loud?
ROMEO
Come hither, man. I see that thou art poor:
Hold, there is forty ducats: let me have
A dram of poison, such soon-speeding gear
As will disperse itself through all the veins
That the life-weary taker may fall dead
And that the trunk may be discharged of breath
As violently as hasty powder fired
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb.
Apothecary
Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law
Is death to any he that utters them.
Apothecary
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
ROMEO
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
Apothecary
Put this in any liquid thing you will,
And drink it off; and, if you had the strength
Of twenty men, it would dispatch you straight
Focussing on the extract…
1. Explain how Shakespeare presents the character of Romeo in this extract. Write a PEE
paragraph to show your point
2. Using your understanding of the extract, explain how the following lines might be
performed:
ROMEO
The world is not thy friend nor the world's law;
The world affords no law to make thee rich;
Then be not poor, but break it, and take this.
Apothecary
My poverty, but not my will, consents.
ROMEO
I pay thy poverty, and not thy will.
3. In this extract, we see Romeo
behaving in an angry manner.
Talk about another part in the
play when Romeo show this
quality
Romeo Done –
The fall of our hero
Step 1 - Put the following events in to the correct order that they happen during Act 5
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Romeo kills Paris
Romeo buys some poison
Romeo gives a speech where he plans his own death, as a result of Juliet’s death
Romeo is excited at the though of Juliet
Romeo kills himself
Romeo gives a speech focussing on Juliet’s beauty and the monster of death
Step 2 - Plot these events on a graph, to illustrate how Romeo feels as Act 5 progresses
Happy
Sad
The beginning of Act 5 --------------------------------------------------The end of Act 5
Empathy with Romeo
Your task is to write a suicide note from Romeo for the Friar.
You MUST:
Explain why you are going to kill yourself and how (make sure this is
true to the play)
You SHOULD:
Talk about how you feel about Juliet, using direct quotes from Act 5 to
form your words of love
You COULD:
Talk about how you feel you have changed as a person-from when you
first met Juliet to now-for an extra challenge, could you use quotes
from earlier in the play to show your change in character?
Sum up Act 5 in
one sentence…