Ms. A’s 9th Grade Lit. and Comp.

 

 

ACT 1 SCENE 1

How does the first scene establish the conflict between the Capulets and the Montagues? 

What role does Benvolio  play in the scene?

What does the Prince declare in his monologue?

What strange behaviors have Benvolio and Montague observed in Romeo?

What is Romeo’s problem?

What does Benvolio suggest as a solution to Romeo’s problem?

 

ACT 1 SCENE 2

What does Paris want?

What is Capulet’s response to Paris’ request?

What information does the servant give to Benvolio and Romeo?

What plan does Benvolio create to help Romeo get over Rosaline?

 

ACT 1 SCENE 3

1)  Why do you think that Lady Capulet sends the nurse away and then immediately calls her back at the beginning of the scene?

2)  What does Lady Capulet talk to Juliet about?

3)  What role does the Nurse serve in this scene?

4) What Does Lady Capulet mean when she says the following lines? Paraphrase each line in the space provided.

  Read o’er the volume of young Paris’ face,

And find delight writ there with beauty’s pen;

Examine every married lineament,

 And see how one another lends content

And what obscured in this fair volume lies

Find written in the margent of his eyes.

 

5) What does Juliet mean when she says the following lines in response to her mother’s request?  Paraphrase each line in the space provided.  

I’ll look to like, if looking liking move:

But no more deep will I endart mine eye

Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.

  

ACT 1 SCENE 4

 1) What does Romeo argue as his reason for not wanting to dance tonight at Capulet’s party?

 2) Who is Queen Mab???

 

• a. Her Job:

 

• b. Her Drivers:

 

• c. Her Ride:

 

• d. Her Habits (what does she do?):

 

 4) What does Mercutio seem to think of Romeo’s wistfulness and moping over his unrequited love?

 

5) What fear, or bad feeling does Romeo have at the end of the scene?

 

ACT 1 SCENE 5

 1) What is the mood at the beginning of the scene? How is that mood created?

 2) What first draws Romeo to Juliet?

 3) What is the conflict that almost results in violence in this scene?

 4) How is this conflict calmed?

 5) What do Romeo and Juliet learn (separately) at the end of the scene that disturbs them both?

 6) “Internal monologue”- the thoughts inside a character’s mind. Write an internal monologue for Romeo and Juliet that corresponds with their shared sonnet. What are the characters thinking as they say these lines?

ROMEO: [To JULIET]  If I profane with my unworthiest hand
This holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.

JULIET: Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much,
Which mannerly devotion shows in this;
For saints have hands that pilgrims’ hands do touch,
And palm to palm is holy palmers’ kiss.

ROMEO: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too?

JULIET: Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

ROMEO: O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do;
They pray, grant thou, lest faith turn to despair.

JULIET: Saints do not move, though grant for prayers’ sake.

ROMEO: Then move not, while my prayer’s effect I take.