Romeo and Juliet Questions

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Act III, Scene III
1. When Friar Lawrence announced to Romeo the news that he is banished, Romeo said, “There is no world without Verona walls / But purgatory, torture, hell itself. / Hence “banishèd” is banished from the world, / And world’s exile is death” (III.iii.18-21). He was saying that living outside Verona was like a torture because he did not want to leave Verona since he compared being banished to being dead when he realized he cannot be with Juliet anymore. He continued, “'Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, / Where Juliet lives, nd every cat and dog / And little mouse, every unworthy thing, / Live here in heaven and may look on her, / But Romeo may not. (III.iii.31-35). He was comparing Verona as heaven since Juliet lives there and all the living things as well as the non living things he said are lucky because they can see her and he could not. In addition, he said, “Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, / No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean, / But “banishèd” to kill me?—“Banishèd”! ” (III.iii.46-49). He was asking Friar Lawrence if he had anything that could just kill him such as a knife or poison rather than being banished which was also a foreshadowing. He was so emotional that he wanted to commit suicide but he ended up drowning from his tears and blubbering while lying on the ground.

2. The Friar Lawrence chastised Romeo for the way he was acting in this scene because he noticed that Romeo was complaining about his misfortune when he was technically fortunate for being alive up to this moment. Friar Lawrence said to him, “Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, / Killing that love which thou hast vowed to cherish; / Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, / Misshapen in the condu...

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...o quick, so fair an eye / As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, / I think you are happy in this second match, / For it excels your first. Or if it did not, / Your first is dead, or ’twere as good he were, / As living here and you no use of him” (III.v.230-238). The Nurse compared Romeo and Paris, however, she had chosen Paris over Romeo in the context of Paris’ physical appearance and his wealth. The Nurse believed that it was better for Juliet to marry Paris because Romeo was exiled and she considered that Romeo will not come back for her anymore if he leaves Verona. She also believed that this second marriage will make Juliet happier than her first marriage and even if it was not better, her first marriage was now considered as over. Also, she said that even if Romeo was as good as Paris, he would not be in Verona to live with Juliet and that it would be useless.

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