Question Sheet Three Act Three

1) Act 3 Scene 1 lines 184-190
a. The Prince is asking who killed Mercutio who owes his life for Mercutio's death.
b. Romeo's punishment is banishment instead of death

2) Act 3 scene 2 lines 11-31
a. She is asking that night hide her virginally blushes, until she becomes confident in the consummation of their marriage. Romeo is her light in the dark night. When he dies put him in the stars so he can light up the night sky for everyone. She is talking about the fact that their married but they still haven't had sex
b. Juliet describes Romeo as her sun that will come during the night. Or the white snow on the black night.
c. Because it takes up to much time it slows down the plot. we already know she's got to be a virgin.

3) Act 3 Scene 2 lines 72-75
a. The bad news that nurse brings to Juliet is that her cousin Tybalt is dead and Romeo is the one that killed him.

4) Act 3 scene 2 lines 76-94
a. 'O Serpent Heart' l 76, 'did ever dragon keep so fair a cave' l 77, 'Wolvish-ravening lamb!' l 79
Juliet refers to Romeo's look of goodness she did not believe him capable of murder.
b. Juliet contradicts herself because she is torn between her love for Romeo (the murderer) and her love for Tybalt (her cousin and the murdered)
c. 'theres no trust, no faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, all forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.'
Yes what nurse is saying does remind me about what the friar is saying because they are both talking about Romeo's fickle heart, as fickle as the changing winds.
d. Line 194 means wheres my servant i need a strong drink.

5) Act 3 scene 2 lines 95-106
a. Juliet Changes her mind about Romeo because Nurse attacks him and she realizes that he is a good man and he is her husband.
b. 'Shall i speak ill of him that is my husband?' Juliet is asking nurse a rhetorical question. should she speak badly of someone who she is bond to in the eyes of god.

6) Act 3 scene 3 lines 11-19
a. Romeo is upset about being banished because he believes that outside of Verona is hell itself.
Heaven is where Juliet lives and she lives in Verona
b. 'There is no world without Verona walls' the world does not exist outside of Verona.
c. This scene shows us that Romeo is a little boy with a mans responsibility he begins to throw a tantrum. He is a sultry child

7) Act 3 scene 3 lines 30-34
a. Romeo is saying how unfair it is that he should be banished when all unworthy things may see and talk to Juliet and he is not allowed.

8) Act 3 scene 3 lines 102-123
a. 'O, tell me, Friar, tell me, in what vile part of this anatomy doth my name lodge?' Romeo is asking if their is anywhere in his body where his name lives. So he can cut it out, because his name brings pain to Juliet.
b. The Friar asks Romeo if he is a man. The Friar says that he looks like a man but that the tears he cries are not. He tells romeo that he will kill Juliet completely if he kills himself, as he has already killed the other that she loved he killed Tybalt. The Friar asks Romeo if he wishes to hurt Juliet more than he already has.
c. 'Hast though slain Tybalt? Wilt though slay thyself? and slay thy lady in thy life lives, by doing damned hate upon thyself' This foreshadows the fact that Romeo and Juliet commit suicide believing that the other is dead.

9) Act 3 scene 5 lines 11-36
a. In this scene Romeo and Juliet wake after spending a night together, Romeo leaves Juliet to go to Mantua reluctantly. Lady Capulet talks to Juliet about her plan of revenge against Romeo. Lady Capulet also tells Juliet that she is to marry Paris on Thursday and Juliet says she will not. Juliet's father comes in very angry about Juliet's refusal and says that she will marry Paris or he will no longer consider her his daughter. After finding that nurse is not on her side about the marriage, Juliet decides to go to Friar Laurence for advice.
b. 'I must be gone and live, or stay and die' and ' Let me be ta'en, let me be put to death. I am content, so thou wilt have it so.
At first Romeo says that he has to leave so he can live and then he wants to be taken and put to death so he can stay a little longer with Juliet. he changes his mind because Juliet begs him to stay.
c. Juliet is saying that it is daylight. It is the Lark that sings the unpleasant song of Romeo's necessary goodbye. This shows Juliet is maturing she realizes that although she cant bear being apart from Romeo he has to leave so that he can live.
d. 'O, now be gone! More light and light it grows. ROMEO' Juliet is saying that Romeo needs to go because its getting lighter. The lighter its gets outside the darker Romeo and Juliet's worries get.