Romeo Juliet Characters

Question 1

Diary

Answer 1

do auslassen 
do - doth 
Be vor come+go 
My - mine 
does- doth
has - hath 
you can - canst, didst, camest
Will+shall - wilt+shalt
If - and
v weglassen

Question 2

Romeo

Answer 2

• Montague
• no simple relation to love (rather juvenile)
• great reader of 💗poetry >wants to re-create feelings for Rosaline he read about
• kisses ‘by the book’ >according rules + lacks originality
• lacking capacity for moderation; love>sneak balcony/risking death/ anger>kills wife’s cousin/ despair>suicide
• intelligent, passionate, unafraid, idealistic
• Petrarchan lover
• likes to use religious elements in love speeches

Question 3

Juliet

Answer 3

• Capulet
• beautiful 13-year-old
• beginning: naïve child, obedient, sheltered
• after falling in 💗: determination, strength, loyal, capable
• able to see + criticize R’s rash decisions
• logical, heartfelt decisions
• normally chose good behavior for society
• leading part of relationship
• love from the inner; feud product of outer
• straight to the point
• emotional maturity

Question 4

Friar Laurence

Answer 4

• kindhearted cleric
• good advices
• sole figure of religion
• most scheming + political
• servant of fate

Question 5

Mercutio

Answer 5

• clever mind
• scene stealer
• puns, jokes, teases
• punctures romantic sentiments + blind self-love
• mocks R’s self-indulgence to fashion
• force to deflate possibility of romantic 💗+ power of tragic fate
• anti-romantic

Question 6

Benvolio

Answer 6

• Montague
• wants to end conflicts
• matter-of-fact
• well-wishing
• doesn’t change (for position)
• name=goodwill
• phlegmatic

Question 7

Paris

Answer 7

• Capulet
• gets married to J
• polite, rich, charming
• related to Prince
• wants to always go the right way

Question 8

Nurse

Answer 8

• better mother
• sentimental
• loyal
• bawdy language
• vulgar
• contrast to J
• comic character

Question 9

Tybalt

Answer 9

• Capulet
• vain
• fashionable
• aware of courtesy + lack of it; aggressive, violent, quick to draw his sword when feels pride injured
• loathes Montague

Question 10

Lady Capulet

Answer 10

• cold

- ineffectual mother

Question 11

Lord Capulet

Answer 11

• beginning peaceful
• takes care of what he wants
• dominant
• prudent
• impatient