Romeo and Juliet Act 4 Name ______

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Act 4 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 well accept his plan?

6.  Describe the friar’s plan for Juliet.

Act 4 Scene 2

1.  What does Juliet say that makes her father happy?

2.  How does Capulet change the wedding plans? What implication does this have?

Act 4 Scene 3

1.  How does Juliet show her maturity and independence in this scene?

2.  If the potion does not work, what will Juliet do?

3.  What are some of the fears Juliet has about the potion?

Act 4 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 Capulets now preparing for?

Act 5 Scene 1

1.  What news does Balthasar bring to Romeo?

2.  What does Romeo mean when de says, “Then I defy you, stars!”?

3.  What actions does Balthasar’s news prompt Romeo to do?

Act 5 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?

Act 5 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.  What is it about Juliet that should have told Romeo that she was not dead?

10.  Why doesn’t Friar Laurence stay in the tomb with Juliet after she awakens?

11.  Why does Juliet kiss Romeo after he is dead?

12.  When Montague first arrives on the scene, what does he tell those gathered?

13.  Relate the events that lead to Romeo and Juliet’s death as they are told by Friar Laurence near the play’s end.

14.  What information does Romeo’s letter give?

15.  How do Montague and Capulet plan to honor the memories of their children?

Act 3 Quotes

"A plague o' both your houses!"

"This day's black fate on more days doth depend:

This but begins the woe others must end."

Art thou a man? Thy tears are womanish

“Oh, I am Fortune’s Fool”

"Methinks I see thee, now thou art so low,/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb."

Act 4 Quotes

If in thy wisdom thou canst give no help,
Do thou but call my resolution wise
And with this knife I'll help it presently.

And in this borrowed likeness of shrunk death
Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours,
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

Act 5 Quotes

“O happy dagger!
This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die.”

“There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,

Doing more murder in this loathsome world

Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.”

“Tempt not a desperate man”

“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 pardoned, and some punished;
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“O, here will I set up my everlasting rest

And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars

From this world wearied flesh!”