Romeo and Juliet's Act 3-5: An Analysis
Assignment: Reading Journal, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Acts 3–5
(35 points)
Instructions:
Respond to each of the questions below using complete sentences. Keep in mind that your instructor will be evaluating both the quality of the content in your responses, as well as the quality of your writing that communicates these ideas. Be mindful of the basic principles of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Explicit and Implicit Meaning
Select three passages that you were able to make sense of because you could explicitly interpret them. Then select three passages that you were able to interpret their meaning by making an inference. Explain why you chose each passage.
Why Is the Passage Explicit or Implicit?
Passage:
Act, Scene, Lines
Explicit
Explicit
Explicit
Implicit
Implicit
Implicit
Text that Supports Theme
Choose three passages that develop key themes in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and explain how the theme is developed.
Theme
Love
Time
Destiny
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Passage:
Act, Scene, Lines
How Does the Passage Develop Theme?
Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines springs fate takes first sight victim. Mercutio,
Romeo's
and and up its at first between Romeo and best
Juliet.friend
In Romeo
89 -90 companion, by overpowering fighting Tybalt,force
Romeo's
enemy whoall is Juliet, love isavenges a violent,Romeo ecstatic, that supersedes
Romeo
and cousin.
Juliet
see omens throughout thecourse play, continually also Juliet's
Mercutio
is slain and foreshadows Romeo's future; other values, loyalties, and emotions.
In
the of the play, the
Act 5, Scene 3 reminding audience of defy their fate.
Their
a catalyst for Love
"Ask
methe to-morrow, youtheir shallentire / finddeath me a is grave man"
Romeo
is youngforlovers are driven and to social world: families. change in
Verona:
the dueling families are united in their grief creating extremely grave theme
(35 points)
Instructions:
Respond to each of the questions below using complete sentences. Keep in mind that your instructor will be evaluating both the quality of the content in your responses, as well as the quality of your writing that communicates these ideas. Be mindful of the basic principles of spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Explicit and Implicit Meaning
Select three passages that you were able to make sense of because you could explicitly interpret them. Then select three passages that you were able to interpret their meaning by making an inference. Explain why you chose each passage.
Why Is the Passage Explicit or Implicit?
Passage:
Act, Scene, Lines
Explicit
Explicit
Explicit
Implicit
Implicit
Implicit
Text that Supports Theme
Choose three passages that develop key themes in The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and explain how the theme is developed.
Theme
Love
Time
Destiny
AV011413
Passage:
Act, Scene, Lines
How Does the Passage Develop Theme?
Love is naturally the play’s dominant and most important theme. The play focuses on romantic love, specifically the intense passion that
Act 3, Scene 1, Lines springs fate takes first sight victim. Mercutio,
Romeo's
and and up its at first between Romeo and best
Juliet.friend
In Romeo
89 -90 companion, by overpowering fighting Tybalt,force
Romeo's
enemy whoall is Juliet, love isavenges a violent,Romeo ecstatic, that supersedes
Romeo
and cousin.
Juliet
see omens throughout thecourse play, continually also Juliet's
Mercutio
is slain and foreshadows Romeo's future; other values, loyalties, and emotions.
In
the of the play, the
Act 5, Scene 3 reminding audience of defy their fate.
Their
a catalyst for Love
"Ask
methe to-morrow, youtheir shallentire / finddeath me a is grave man"
Romeo
is youngforlovers are driven and to social world: families. change in
Verona:
the dueling families are united in their grief creating extremely grave theme