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Romeo & Juliet: Meet our Cast/Act One
Sound Familiar to you? “Romeo and Juliet is about the crazy, exciting, mixed
world we live in, where we sometimes fight with our parents ; we get bored and
look for a fight , and we fall in love … and it doesn’t work out
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v Revelations: play will end in tragedy; characters will be ruined, not from faults in their
personalities but because of the dominant role fate will play
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Do we really have control over our
own lives? Are we pawns ?
v Major contrast between the passionate love between Romeo & Juliet and the wicked (but
passionate ) hate between the two families
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In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, The play is set in Verona, Italy
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From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Based on an old feud the starting reason is pretty much
forgotten
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Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean
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From forth the fatal loins of these two foes It was fatal for the too families to birth Romeo and Juliet
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Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows Unlucky adventure


Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife
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The fearful passage of their death-marked love, The story of their doomed love
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Which but their children’s end naught could remove, Romeo and Juliet’s deaths are the only end to the
fighting
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What here shall miss, our toil

shall strive to mend
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The Cast – Who Are They?
Directions: After the *, write the
adjectives that appear on the slide of each character
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Support your answer with a
quotation/evidence
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Character Trait: Lovesick Evidence: “Out of her favor where I am in love” (1
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173)
Benvolio (Romeo’s best friend and cousin): (Act I, Scene 1 50-60) * Loyal, Romeo’s Cousin, Level-headed
Character Trait: Romeo’s Cousin Evidence: “Here comes one of my master’s kinsmen” (1
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59-60)
Mercutio (Good friend of Romeo, related to the Prince): (Act I, Scene iv 18-44)* Garrulous,
unpredictable, intense, prankster, imaginative, wild, risk-taker, relative of the prince
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4
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How does Romeo describe her?): (Act I, Scene I
201-209) * Romeo’s Crush, Chaste, Unattainable, Disinterested
Character Trait: Romeo’s Crush Evidence: “Who is that you love?” (1
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207)
Juliet: (Act I, Scene v 144-147) * Young, Naïve, Passionate, Decisive, Beautiful, “the Sun”
Character Trait: Naïve Evidence: “What’s he that now is going out of door?” (1
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144)
Abraham, Sampson, Gregory, Peter (servants from the two houses): (Act I, Scene I 1-46) *Uneducated,
Foolish, Unintentionally Funny
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How? Turn thy back and
run?” (1
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34-36)
Paris (Juliet’s suitor): (Act I, Scene II 4-6) * Eager, Earnest, Squeaky Clean, Pursues Juliet
Character Trait: Eager Evidence: “But now, my lord, what say you to my suit?” (1
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6)
Lord Capulet (Juliet’s father): (Act I, Scene ii 5-35) * Juliet’s Father, Wealthy, Authoritarian, StatusConscious, Demanding

 Character Trait: Wealthy Evidence: “This night I hold an accustomed feast whereto I have invited many
a guest” (1
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20-21)
Lady Capulet (Juliet’s mother): (Act I, Scene iii 73-99)* Juliet’s Mother, Wealthy, Authoritarian, StatusConscious, Demanding
Character Trait: Status-Conscious Evidence: “Verona’s summer hath not such a flower” (1
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83)
Prince Escalus: (Act I, Scene i 68-90) * Prince of Verona, Fair, Lenient-then-stern
Character Trait: Prince of Verona Evidence: “Hear the sentence of your moved prince” (1
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90)
Tybalt: (Act I, Scene I 50-60) * Juliet’s Cousin, “Prince of Cats”, Fiery, Bellicose, Violent
Character Trait: Bellicose Evidence: “Turn thee, Benvolio; Look upon thy death
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1
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” (1
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134-36)
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1
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” (1
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65)
Friar Laurence: Verona’s priest, Romeo & Juliet’s confidant and adviser Advises/Assists the couples;
(appears later in the play)
Act I
v Characters are introduced
v Conflict begins
v Background given
v Rising action begins
v Mood/atmosphere set
Thefeud between the two families has gotten so bad that the servants are fighting with each other on
behalf of the Capulets/Montagues
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Others are marked by

verbal sparring
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”* (Paraphrase:
One of those people at the Montague’s house can make me angry)
The entire play is marked by puns, or plays on words
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” (Paraphrase: You’re lighthearted and can move freely I am weighed
down with troubles and cannot move freely)
Play also includes double entendres: Phrases with two meanings, one of them usually a little bawdy
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One way is through Paradox: a
statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible
truth
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“O brawling love! O loving hate! Loving hate is and oxymoron and paradox that shows how confusing
love is
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Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health…” These are all paradoxes, that deomonstrate how
nothing is what is seems
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Ex: “Love is a smoke made with fume of sighs;/ Being
purg’d, a fire sparkling in lovers’ eyes; Being vex’d, a sea nourish’d with lovers’ tears…”
What literary device is at work? Metaphor
Explain: This directly compares dissimilar things, ie “Love is a smoke”
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After the
presentation, find the following passage in the play and annotate
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But no more Not more
deep will I Her mother’s will
endart mine eye Fall in love
Than your Not more, than your
consent gives She won’t go past her mother’s consent
strength to make it fly
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Find the passage below, annotate it
and answer the following questions
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till this night
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Based on this statement of love for Juliet, could Romeo truly have been in love with
Rosaline? Explain your answer
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How can Romeo move from such passionate feelings about Rosaline to more intense feelings about
Juliet? Romeo is young and naïve
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He is almost more obsessed with the
idea of love than love itself and wants to have true love

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