Romeo and Juliet
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Exam Review
Name That Character
Balthasar
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Tells Romeo Juliet is
dead
Falls asleep outside
the Capulet vault
Benvolio
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Is the peacemaker in
the play
Advises Romeo to
get over Rosaline by
looking at other
girls
Lord Capulet
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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
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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
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Is Juliet’s
“arranged” husbandto-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).
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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.”
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.
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“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.
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“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).
As he dies, Mercutio curses
the Montagues and the
Capulets for their feud cost
him his life. Example of foreshadowing.
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“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.
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“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
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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
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Agrees to marry
Romeo and Juliet to
hopefully end the
feud
Runs out of the tomb
leaving Juliet alone
Juliet
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Is closer to the
Nurse than her
mother
Has doubts about
drinking Friar’s
potion
Lady Montague
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Dies from grief over
her son’s exile
Mercutio
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Likes to joke around
Believes that dreams
mean nothing
Curses the houses of
Montague and
Capulet
Hodgepodge
(It Could Be Anything)
Nurse
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Tells Juliet to
marry Paris for her
first marriage is
“dead”
She finds Juliet
dead
Hasty/Rash Actions in Romeo
and Juliet
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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
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The main setting of
Romeo and Juliet
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!
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“These violent
delights have
violent ends.”
Rosaline
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Romeo’s love at the
beginning of the
play
Lord Montague
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Romeo’s father
Tybalt
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Is saucy and fiery
Challenges Romeo
to a duel
Kills Mercutio
Potpourri
Turning Point/Climax in the
Play
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Romeo kills Tybalt
Act III
What Is the Catastrophe?
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The deaths of Romeo
and Juliet
Act V
What Is the exciting force?
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Romeo reads the
party invitation for
the illiterate servant
Act I
What Type of Play Is Romeo
and Juliet?
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Tragedy
Fate/Uncontrollable Events in
Romeo and Juliet
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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
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Falls in and out of
love quickly
Comes between
Mercutio and Tybalt
as they fight
Kills Tybalt
Apothecary
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Sells Romeo poison
Friar John
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Is unable to deliver
the letter to Romeo
because he was
locked up because
they thought he was
infected
Mantua
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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.
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“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.
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“ 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.”
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.
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“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.
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“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.
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“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
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“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
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Types of Love
Unrequited Love
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Love that is onesided
Loving someone from
afar
Love that is nonphysical
EXAMPLES:
Romeo for Rosaline
Paris for Juliet
Love of Family Honor
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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
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Love that is shared
between two people
It does lead to
physical contact
EXAMPLES:
Romeo & Juliet
Parental Love
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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
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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.
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“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.
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“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. This is an
example of foreshadowing because the next time she
sees him he is dead
in the vault.
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“O God, I have an illdivining 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
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During the
Renaissance Period,
the father controlled
the family
In order to be with
Romeo, Juliet defied
Lord Capulet’s
control over her
Church
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Romeo and Juliet’s
double suicide goes
against the Christian
faith
Law
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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
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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