Romeo and Juliet Act III questions

Act III Scene 1
1. At the beginning of the scene, why does Benvolio think that there will be a fight?
2. What does Mercutio accuse Benvolio of in lines 15-30?
3. Why won’t Romeo fight Tybalt?
4. Why does Mercutio keep repeating, “A plague o’ both your houses”?
5. What does Romeo say that Juliet’s love has done to him?
9. Why does Romeo call himself “fortune’s fool”?
10. What does Lady Capulet accuse Benvolio of? Why?
11. What is Romeo’s punishment for killing Tybalt?

Act III Scene 2
1. Why is Juliet so impatient for the nurse to return?
2. Describe Juliet’s rapidly changing attitudes toward Romeo in this scene.
3. What piece of news has upset Juliet the most?
4. What does the nurse promise to do?

Act III Scene 3
1. Explain Romeo’s reaction to the news of his banishment.
2. What argument does Friar Laurence use to prevent Romeo from killing himself?

Act III Scene 4
1. What does Capulet tell his wife to say to Juliet/

Act III Scene 5
1. As Romeo is preparing to leave Juliet, what argument does she use to convince him to stay?
2. Why does Lady Capulet think Juliet is crying?
3. After Lady Capulet breaks the news about Paris, what is Juliet’s response?
4. What is Capulet’s reaction to Juliet’s threats?
5. What is the nurse’s advice to Juliet?
6. How does Juliet’s attitude toward the nurse change?

Who speaks these lines?

a) Tybalt, the reason that I have to love thee
Doth much excuse the appertaining rage
To such a greeting. Villain am I none.
Therefore farewell. I see thou knowest me not.

b) I am hurt. A plague a both houses! I am sped.

No, ’tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ’tis enough, ’twill serve.
Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

c) Thy beauty hath made me effeminate
And in my temper soften’d valour’s steel!

d) O, I am fortune’s fool!

e) He is a kinsman to the Montague;
Affection makes him false; he speaks not true:
Some twenty of them fought in this black strife,
And all those twenty could but kill one life.
I beg for justice, which thou, prince, must give;
Romeo slew Tybalt, Romeo must not live.

( f) Not Romeo, prince, he was Mercutio’s friend;
His fault concludes but what the law should end,
The life of Tybalt.

g)There is no world without Verona walls,
But purgatory, torture, hell itself.
Hence banished is banished from the world,
And world’s exile is death.

h) 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.

h) Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
The unreasonable fury of a beast:
Unseemly woman in a seeming man!

i) Go get thee to thy love, as was decreed,
Ascend her chamber, hence and comfort her.
But look thou stay not till the watch be set,
For then thou canst not pass to Mantua.

j) Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day.
It was a nightingale, and not the lark,
That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear.
Nightly she sings on yond pomegranate tree.
Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

k) Hang thee, young baggage! Disobedient wretch!
I tell thee what–get thee to church a Thursday
Or never after look me in the face.

l) Go in; and tell my lady I am gone,
Having displeased my father, to Lawrence’ cell,
To make confession and to be absolved.