ROMEO AND JULIET ACT 5- STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
Act 5, Scenes 1-2
Act 5, Scene 3
- List all the events in these scenes that involve chance, circumstance, or coincidence.
- Describe Romeo’s dream. Why is it significant?
- How have dreams and premonitions intensified the work of fate?
- Think about the consequences to Europe of the plague. Now, why is it ironic that the fear of death by the plague kept Friar John from delivering the letter?
- Why does Romeo call the poison a “cordial potion”?
Act 5, Scene 3
- Again, list all of the events of this scene that can be attributed to chance, circumstance, or coincidence.
- What is ironic about the scene where the families honor the lovers’ deaths?
- How is their society guilty of breeding the circumstances of the tragedy that unfolded?
- What does the Prince mean when he says, “That heaven finds means to kill your joys with love.”?
- Who is suspected the most of murder and why?
- What is so ironic about Friar Lawrence’s speech to Juliet when she wakes up and he wants to take her to a “sisterhood of holy nuns”?