Romeo and Juliet Review

Why do we study Shakespeare?

• He is good at what he does.

• He influenced many others.

• The stories are still good and relevant.

What about Romeo and Juliet?

• Good play for an introduction

• Story is easy to follow• Teenagers• Simple motifs

Why do we watch Clips

• Because the state wants us to.

• To ‘see’ what the playwrite intended.

• To ‘see’ directors interpretations.

• To ‘see’ how sound and images influence understanding.

Who are the major characters?

Where does the action take place?

• Verona

• A public place• Friar Lawrence’s cell• Capulet mansion• Capulet orchard

What events happen on what days?

• Sunday– Fight– Party– Balcony

• Monday– Wedding– Mercutio’s death

• Tuesday– Wedding morning– Plan to fake death

• Wednesday– Romeo dies– Juliet dies second time

• Thursday– Adults find those crazy kids

Why do those crazy kids die?

• Bad advice• Fate – something that

unavoidable– “Some consequence

yet hanging in the starsShall bitterly begin his fearful date”

– “O, I am fortune's fool!”– “Is it even so? then I

defy you, stars!”

What should you get out of it?

• Motifs– Light &dark– Water (new version)– Colors (old version)

• Theme

What are the themes?

• Love leads to violence

• Love can conquer all difficulties

• Fate can not be overcome

Act 1

• Who starts the brawl in the beginning of the play?

• Where is Romeo during the fight? Why is he so upset? How would you compare his behavior and charac ter to his friends? How is he different?

• . “But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part.”

• What does Romeo think of Juliet the first time he sees her?

• “What, dares the slave come hither, covered in an antic face, to fleer and scorn at our solemnity?

Act 2

• “But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun.

• Why does Friar Lawrence criticize Romeo when he hears about his love for Juliet? Compare and contrast the at titudes toward love held by Romeo and Friar Laurence.

• What advice does Friar Laurence give to Romeo? How might his words explain the tragedy to come (foreshadow ing?)

• . ‘My life were better ended by their hate than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.”

Act 3

• Why does Romeo try to ignore Tybalt’s insults? Why does he finally fight with him?

• What retribution for Tybalt’s death does Lady Capulet demand from the Prince? Why is the Prince so angry about the fight?

• How is Lord Capulet depicted in the new movie? Why do you think he changed his mind about allowing Juliet to choose her husband?

• Do you think Juliet’s position at the end of Act III is one of bravery or stubborness? Why do you think as you do?

Quotes

• Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

• Her wagon-spokes made of long spiders' legs,The cover of the wings of grasshoppers,The traces of the smallest spider's web,The collars of the moonshine's watery beams,Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film,

Quotes

• If ever you disturb our streets again,Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.

• These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which as they kiss consume: the sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousness

Quotes

• No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as achurch-door; but 'tis enough,'twill serve: ask forme to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

• Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.

Quotes

• I dreamt my lady came and found me dead--Strange dream, that gives a dead man leaveto think!--And breathed such life with kisses in my lips,That I revived, and was an emperor.

• For never was a story of more woeThan this of Juliet and her Romeo.