| Term | Definition |
|---|
| How does Mercutio treat Tybalt | He purposely misunderstands what he says and makes puns out of his comments. |
| Why is Mercutio horrified that Romeo is being forgiving and polite to Tybalt? | Mercutio knows that Romeo has been formally challenged to a duel and thinks he is being cowardly. |
| What is the source of the conceit of the cat metaphors as they apply to Tybalt. | Mercutio is playing off Tybalt's name which is the same as the King of Cats in a story,. |
| Why don't Romeo and the others realize right away that Mercutio is seriously hurt? | Mercutio is joking with them to the last minute. |
| Who does Romeo blame for the fact that he didn't fight Tybalt himself? | It is Juliet's fault because her love has softened his courage and made him effeminate. |
| Romeo is angry at Tybalt and kills him in a sword fight but who is to blame then? | "O I am fortune's fool! II.i.130 He blames fate. |
| Who convinces the Prince that Romeo was not the instigator of the fighting? | Benvolio is the witness who tells the whole story, |
| What does Lady Capulet want? | She wants Romeo killed in revenge for Tybalt's death. |
| How does old Montague defend Romeo? | He claims that Romeo was justified in killing Tybalt since the law would have had him killed anyway. |
| What is Romeo's punishment? | He is banished from Verona and may not return on pain of death, |
| When the nurse comes in crying about a death, who does Juliet think is dead? | She thinks it it Romeo and then that it is both Romeo and Tybalt. |
| With two people she loves dead, one at the other's hand, who does she side with? | She follows her duty and supports her husband even though he killed her cousin. |
| Where does the Nurse find Romeo? | He is weeping and blubbering in Friar Lawrence's room in the church. |
| What sets Romeo off to try to kill himself? | He hears that Juliet is grieving for Tybalt and he tries to kill himself because she must think he is a murderer. |
| What does Friar Lawrence point out to get Romeo to see that life isn't so bad? | Juliet is alive and still his wife, Tybalt wanted to kill Romeo but Romeo killed him instead, the Prince could have condemned him to death but he banished him instead. |
| What does old Capulet decide to do to try to comfort Juliet? | Capulet decides to marry her to Paris in a few days. |
| What "vision" does Juliet see just as Romeo is leaving her after their wedding night? | She thinks she sees him pale and in a tomb. |
| What is Lady Capulet's plan for getting revenge on Romeo? | She'll pay someone to poison him in Mantua. |
| How does Juliet react to the new marriage plan with Paris? | She refuses and cries some more. |
| How does Capulet react to Juliet's refusal? | He threatens to disown her if she doesn't cooperate. |
| What does the Nurse recommend that Juliet do about Paris? | She recommends that she forget Romeo and marry Paris because he is the better choice. |
| How does Juliet react to the Nurse's apparent change of heart? | She vows to cut her out of her confidence from then on. |
| Since the Nurse is now out of the picture, to whom does Juliet go for help? | She goes to Friar Lawrence, thinking that if he can't help her she can always kill herself. |
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