Romeo and Juliet Act 5 - Freshman English

1 NAME_____ BLOCK: _____ Romeo and Juliet Act 5 Quote Identification, Citation, and Explanation. Identify the speaker of each quote and then explain the circumstance (when and where in the plot these words are spoken and what they mean in context) in 2-3 complete sentences. Follow the example below. You may use your book. 14 points. EXAMPLE: From forth the fatal loins of these two foes/a pair of star crossed lovers take their life. Speaker: Chorus Citation: Act 1, Prologue, lines 5-6 Circumstance/Explanation: The Chorus is introducing the play by giving an overview of the whole plot. From these words the audience knows that lovers from two rival families will end up taking their lives because of the vendetta.

2 1. I will lie with thee tonight. Let s see for means. O mischief, thou art swift / To enter in the thoughts of desperate men! Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 2. There is thy gold worse poison to men s souls, / Doing more murder in this loathsome world, / Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 3. Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, / The letter was not nice, but full of charge, / Of dear import, and the neglecting it / may do much danger. Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 4.

3 O, I am slain! If thou be merciful, / Open the tomb, lay me with Juliet . Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 5. Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe / That unsubstantial Death is amorous, / And that the lean abhorred monster keeps / Thee in thy dark to be his paramour? Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 6. O happy dagger! / This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die. Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____ 7. Where be these enemies? Capulet, Montague, / See what a scourge is laid upon your hate, / That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.

4 Speaker: _____ Citation:_____ Circumstance/Explanation: _____ _____ _____ _____