Answer To: I need some help with Romeo and Juliet. Could someone please help me out with the attached file....
Robert answered on Dec 23 2021
1) What causes the fatal sword fight between Mercutio and Tybalt in Scene I? How is Mercutio killed?
-Tybalt comes looking for Romeo, as he was still angry for Romeo coming to the ball. He wants to fight Romeo, but Romeo, considering he is now part of Tybalt's family, doesn't want to, and offers to be friends. Mercutio gets annoyed at Romeo's "cowardness" and insults Tybalt, causing them to fight. When Romeo tries to break the pair up, Tybalt stabs Mercutio, and runs off. Apparently, it's just a scratch, but Mercutio knows his times up, and curses both houses (Capulet and Montague).
2) Why does Romeo kill Tybalt?
- Romeo basically had a very kind soft heart. He was very simple and never took parts in the family quarrels. When Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio were encountered by Tyvbalt and his friends, Tybalt abused Mercutio and thus they fell to fighting. Romeo was a very sensible young lad. He tried to part the combats but was unsuccessful. When Tybalt slained Mercutio Romeo could not keep his temper and murdered him after which he was sent out of Verona.
Basically Romeo doesnt mean to kill Tybalt. As Mercutio was Romeo's best friend he could no longer take it and killed. At the end of the play, Romeo while meeting Juliet in her grave he also beg pardoned for Tybalt's murder.
3) Now the young lovers are in serious trouble. What does Juliet threaten in Scene 2, after hearing of Romeo’s banishment?
- She threatens to kill herself, because life is no longer worth living without the love of her life.
4) What is the friar’s plan to help them in Scene 3?`
- Friar Laurence proposes a complicated plan to help Juliet reunite with Romeo. The Friar will give Juliet a special potion that will effectively kill her for 48 hours; she will exhibit no signs of life. Following their family tradition, her parents will place her body in the Capulet vault. Meanwhile, Friar Laurence will send a letter to Romeo, instructing him of the plan so that the boy can meet Juliet in the tomb and then lead her away from Verona. Juliet approves of the plan.
5) A new complication has arisen by the end of Scene 4. What plans have Juliet’s parents made for her?
- Romeo has just been exiled and goes to see Juliet for one last time. Just after Romeo leaves Juliet's bedroom, Capulet enters to tell the news to his daughter that he has arranged for her to marry Paris in three days' time.
6) Romeo’s killing of Tybalt is the turning point of the play – the point when something happens that turns the action toward either a happy ending (a comedy) or an unhappy ending (a tragedy). What actions does the killing set in motion with what possible tragic consequences?
- After Romeo kills tybalt, he is banished from verona. This causes complications because he still wants to get married to Juliet. They devise the plan that Juliet will fake her death and Romeo will meet up with her later. But since he is banished they have to discuss this over letters and the letter telling Romeo that Juliet is going to fake her death doesn't get to Romeo in time and he thinks she's really dead. So he kills himself and then Juliet wakes up and finds him dead and she kills herself.
It causes tragic consequences because if Romeo didn't kill tybalt he wouldn't have been banished and all the miscommunication wouldn't have to happen since Romeo was in manturia. They could have just gotten married.
7) We already know (from the Prologue, page 787) that the play ends in the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Their willingness to die comes as no surprise to us, because we have been warned. Point out the instances in this act where each of them mentions this willingness to die if they are separated.
- "Come, cords, come, nurse, I'll to my wedding-bed,
And death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"
Juliet, Act III, Scene ii, Lines 136-7
"O, tell me, friar, tell me,
In what vile part of this anatomy
Doth my name lodge? Tell me, that I may sack
The hateful mansion."
[Romeo takes out his dagger and offers to stab himself.]
Romeo, Act III, Scene iii, Lines 105-8
"If all else fail, myself have power to die."
Juliet, Act III, Scene v, Line 242
8) How does the nurse offend Juliet in this act and cease to be her ally? How does this development add to the tragedy of the events that follow?
- The nurse tells Juliet to forget Romeo and marry lord Paris. Obviously this is unacceptable to Juliet so she brushes the Nurse off. It's a problem because Romeo and Juliet have few enough people they can trust, and they don't need to lose the confidence of those few.
9) Romeo and Juliet are dynamic characters, characters who change during the course of the play. Describe how the lovers have changed in this act. What hard lessons have they learned about love?
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