Act V Scene 3

Question 1

What happens in this scene?

Answer 1

1. Paris comes to visit Juliet but notices Romeo. They duel and Paris is wounded and dies
2. Romeo describes juliets beauty and kisses her before he drinks poison and dies at her side
3. Juliet ignores the friars warnings to leave and kills herself with Romeo’s dagger
4. The two families are reconciles

Question 2

What quote shows Romeo’s savage-like behaviour?

Answer 2

‘strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs’

Question 3

Why does the last scene take place in a dark place?

Answer 3

Because their relationship was started ‘in the dark’ and so would end ‘in the dark’

Question 4

Wha quote shows that Romeo admired Juliet’s beauty even when she was dead?

Answer 4

“Why art thou yet so fair”

Question 5

What does Romeo say to Paris that shows that Romeo had no intention to kill Paris?

Answer 5

‘By heaven i love thee better than myself’

Question 6

What makes Romeo feel compassionate towards Paris?

Answer 6

The fact that he (paris) would die without enlightenment or exposure to true, transcendent, spiritual love

Question 7

What quote by the prince suggests the families reconcile at the end?

Answer 7

“For never was a story of more woe/ than this of Juliet and her Romeo’

Question 8

Analyse a quote that the Page says, in Act 5 Scene 3?

Answer 8

‘where the torch doth burn’

• this reminds the audience of when Romeo first meets Juliet, and could perhaps imply that Romeo/Juliets love for each other stayed constant, from act 1 to act 5