Romeo and Juliet Act 2-3 Study Guide (Rohan LOOK HERE)
Translate lines 145-150 to explain 3 reasons Friar Lawrence gives Romeo that he should be happy.
(Friar Lawrence talking) [Prince is saying Romeo got it easy] You still have Juliet and she is alive and well. You could of gotten killed by Tybalt, but he killed you. The Prince gave you banishment not death.
After lecturing Romeo (know about what), he agrees to marry Romeo and Juliet. Why?
Friar Lawrence allows Romeo and Juliet because it might be able to solve the feud between the families.
What is Friar Lawrence's reaction to hearing about Romeo's new love, Juliet? What line shows how he feels?
Friar Lawrence's first reaction is "Holy Saint Francis, what a change is here! Then he shows disappointment that Romeo is jumping from women to women. He also says "Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes." This is said in lines 71-72.
Lines 156-164: What is Friar Lawrence's plan now?
His plan for Romeo is to go see Juliet, then to leave before sun rises (sneak out), then Friar will make the marriage between Romeo and Juliet public, and to beg for the prince to let Romeo come back.
Juliet's first speech is beautiful and famous. It is fulled with several of Shakespeare's language tricks. Read to see if you can find some. [By the last lines of the speech, what is comparing this day to and what is she comparing herself to?
Juliet is comparing this day to "the night before some festival" and comparing herself to "an impatient child that hath [have] new robes and may not wear them
Once the nurse arrives, how does Juliet react to the nurse? And how does the nurse react to Juliet and her impatience?
Juliet reacts to the nurse very nicely because she wants the nurse to tell her anything about Romeo. The nurse reacts to Juliet and her impatience by basically saying to hold on because she had gone on such a long trip. -"I am aweary. Give me leave awhile. Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunt have I!
Lines 93-113 As Mercutio is dying, he says, "A plague o' both your houses." Why does he say this and what does it mean?
Mercutio is saying this because he is dying and he is blaming injury/death on the family feud and fighting of the Capulet and Montague.
Lines 114-120 Try to translate Romeo's lines. [What is he saying about Juliet?]
Romeo is basically saying that his good friend got killed his actions [by stepping into the fight]. Also his reputation is now stained because he killed Tybalt. [He is blaming himself for what happened and his love for Juliet has made him more emotional or less manly.]
How does the Prince punish Romeo.
The Prince Punishes Romeo with banishment for the killing of Tybalt and if he comes back in Verona, he will be killed.
According to Juliet, why is the nurse so slow?
The nurse is so "slow" because "she had never had affections and warm youthful blood." Also the nurse is "unwieldy, slow, heavy, and pale as lead.
Lines 149-182: What is the plan that Romeo and Juliet make? What are the details of that plan?
The plan that Romeo and Juliet make, is to meet up the next day and to get married. The details of the plan, is Juliet will send word of the marriage the next day, to ask when the wedding will be. Also to keep the plan only between them and Romeo will be greeted with someone at 9 o'clock in the morning.
Lines 112-121: What are they saying? Why doesn't Juliet want Romeo to swear his love on the moon?
They are talking about the future of their marriage by connected it to the moon. Juliet doesn't want Romeo to swear his love on the moon because the moon is unpredictable and she does not want their love to be unpredictable. -Lines 114-116 O, swear not by the moon, th' moon, that monthly changes in her circled orb, lest thy love prove likewise variable.
