romeo & juliet - act 5

what was Romeo’s dream?

* Romeo died
* Juliet kisses him
* He comes back to life & becomes emperor

What does Balthasar come to tell Romeo?

he tells Romeo that **Juliet died**

“And this same needy man must sell it me” (V.i.56).

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Who is the speaker and what does he want from the apothecary?

* Romeo says this
* He’s talking about buying the potion to kill himself

What does Romeo say is worse than poison?

money

Why was Romeo’s letter never delivered?

There was a plague and Friar John couldn’t enter mantua.

What is Paris doing at Juliet’s tomb?

leaving flowers at her grave

what two reasons does Romeo give Balthasar for entering the Capulet’s tomb?

* to see Juliet one last time
* Take her ring

“And here is come to do some villainous shame / To the dead bodies” (V.iii.52-53)

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Who is the speaker and what is he referring to?

* Paris says this
* He sees Romeo at the tomb & thinks that Romeo is about to do something terrible
* Wants Romeo to be punished b/c he killed Tybalt

“Thou art not conquered. Beauty’s ensign yet / Is crismon in thy lips and in thy cheeks” (V.iii.94-95)

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What is it about Juliet that should have told Romeo that Juliet may not have been dead?

* Juliet still has some color in her face; she isn’t pale
* dead bodies are usually pale

What does Montague say caused Lady Montague’s death?

grief of Romeo’s banishment/death

“How fares my lady Juliet?  

That I ask again,

For nothing can be ill if she be

well.”

* **Speaker:** Romeo
* **Context:**
* After Balthasar enters, Romeo asks him if he has news.
* Romeo asks about Juliet and any updates Balthasar has for him.

“Come coridial and not

poison, go with me

To Juliet’s grave.  For there I 

must use thee.” 

* **Speaker:** Romeo
* **Context:** After buying the poison, Romeo reveals how money is worse than poison and then says that he plans to drink the poison at Juliet's grave.

“Now must I to the monument 

alone. 

Within three hours will fair

Juliet wake”

* **Speaker:** Friar Lawrence
* **Context:**
* Talking about how Romeo will not get to Juliet on time
* Friar will go instead and get Juliet from her tomb to keep her in his cell until Romeo can go and get her

“Sweet flower, with flowers thy 

bridal bed I strew.”

* **Speaker:** Paris
* **Context:**
* Paris is talking about covering Juliet’s %%bridal bed%% with flowers after she died.
* referring to Juliet as a sweet flower.

“Death, that had sucked the

honey of thy breadth,

Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.” 

* Speaker: Romeo
* Context:
* Romeo says this when he sees Juliet in her tomb.
* He says that even though she isn’t alive anymore, she is still beautiful.
* He says that what killed her has no power over her beauty.

“I will kiss thy lips;

Haply some poison yet doth

hang on them To make me die

with a restorative.” 

* Speaker: Juliet
* Context:
* Juliet has just awoken from her sleeping potion and sees dead Romeo with the cup of poison.
* A restorative is a medicine that would help restore Juliet from her sleeping potion.
* Here, she is saying that the kiss with Romeo would be her restorative before she takes her life.

“Capulet, Montague,

See what a scourge is laid upon 

your hate

That heaven finds means to kill

your joys with love.

And I, for winking at your discords

too,

Have lost a brace of kinsmen 

All are punished.” 

* Speaker: Prince
* Context:
* The prince is scolding the two families for always fighting and he asks them if they see what their hate and fighting has come to.
* He says that everyone should be punished.