Juliet

Question 1

How is J presented in act 1?

Answer 1

Respectful and obedient: ‘I’ll look to like, if looking liking move’

Disconnected from Lady C:’Madam, I am here. What is your will?’

Naive and innocent: ‘Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much…For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch, And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.’

Doesn’t understand the feud: ‘My only love sprung from my only hate!’

Question 2

How is J presented in act 2?

Answer 2

Lovesick: ‘O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name… What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.’

Cautious: ‘If they do see thee, they will murder thee.’
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden, Too like lightning’

Worried: ‘O, swear not by the moon, th’inconstant moon’

Young: ‘This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower’.

In Love: ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’

Question 3

How is J presented in act 3?

Answer 3

Internally conflicted: ‘Beautiful tyrant, fiend angelical.’
‘O’ serpent heart hid with a flowering face! Dove-feathered raven, wolvish ravening lamb!’

Rebellious: ‘Good father, I beseech you on my knees, Hear me with patience but to speak a word. [She kneels down]’

Question 4

How is J presented in act 4?

Answer 4

Independent: ‘Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in, And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?’

Question 5

How is J presented in act 5?

Answer 5

Desperate and distraught: ‘Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger, This is thy sheath. There rust and let me die. (stabs herself with ROMEO’s dagger and dies)’

Question 6

Key Plot points (Juliet)

Answer 6

1. Romeo Montague and his friends gatecrash a Capulet party and Romeo meets Juliet Capulet. He falls in love with her instantly. They are shocked to discover they are sworn enemies due to their feuding families. Friar Laurence marries Romeo and Juliet.
2. Romeo goes to celebrate his marriage with his friends, Mercutio and Benvolio, but gets into a fight with Juliet’s cousin, Tybalt. Tybalt kills Mercutio and Romeo avenges his death by killing Tybalt.
3. The Prince banishes Romeo because he killed Tybalt. Both Romeo and Juliet are heartbroken.
4. Capulet, Juliet’s father, decides she should marry Paris. Juliet refuses and goes to Friar Laurence where they come up with a plan for Romeo and Juliet to be together.
5. Juliet fakes her death and lies in a tomb waiting for Romeo to come so they can run away together. Romeo doesn’t receive the message about the plan, so thinks Juliet has actually died. He goes to Verona and sees Juliet in her tomb, ‘dead’.
6. Romeo drinks poison so he can be with Juliet in death. She wakes up to discover Romeo is dead. Juliet kills herself with his dagger.