MODULE ON ROMEO AND JULIET

Short Summary on Romeo and Juliet

The play is set in Verona, Italy, where a feud has broken out between
the families of Montagues and the Capulets. Romeo, a Montague, has fallen
in love with Julieta Capulet. Juliet finds out who Romeo is, and laments the
fact that she is in love with her enemy. She wishes Romeo could shed his
name and marry her, Juliet is obligated to marry another man named Paris.
Juliet then goes to Friar Laurence, her confidant, who gives her a potion that
will make her seem dead for at least two days. She takes the potion and
drinks it that night. The next morning, the day Juliet is supposed to marry
Paris, her nurse finds her dead in bed. Romeos servant arrives and tells his
master that Juliet is dead and buried. Romeo hurries back to Verona. Seeing
Juliet dead within the tomb, Romeo drinks some poison he has purchased
and dies kissing her. Friar Laurence arrives just as Juliet wakes up within the
bloody vault. He tries to get her come out, but when she sees Romeo dead
beside her, Juliet takes his dagger and kills herself with it. The rest of the
town starts to arrive, including the Capulets and Montagues. Friar Laurence
tells them the whole story. The two family patriarchs agree to become
friends. Each family erects a golden statue of the others child.

ROMEO AND JULIET

ACT 2 SCENE 2
SCENE II. Capulets Orchard
Enter ROMEO
ROMEO: He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
JULIET appears above at a window
But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief,
That thou her maid art far more fair than she:

Be not her maid, since she is envious;

Her vestal livery is but sick and green
And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.
It is my lady, O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks yet she says nothing: what of that?
Her eyes discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold, tis not to me she speaks;
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars,
As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven
Would through the airy region stream so bright
That birds would sing and think it were not night.
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand!
O, that I were a glove upon that hand,
That I may touch that cheek!

JULIET: Ay me!

ROMEO: She speaks:

O, speak again, bright angel! For thou art
As glorious to this night, being oer my head

As is winged messenger of heaven

Unto the white upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.

JULIET: O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And Ill no longer be a Capulet.

ROMEO: (Aside) Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?

JULIET: Tis but thy name that is my enemy;

Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
Whats Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
Whats in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were not he not Romeo calld,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.

ROMEO: I take thee at thy word:

Call me but love, and Ill be new baptized;
Henceforth, I will never be Romeo.

Comprehension Response
1. What metaphor did Romeo used to compare Juliet in the first
paragraph?
2. What metaphor did he use to compare himself to in the first paragraph
to be near Juliet?
3. What two families are Romeo and Juliet are from?
4. Why did Juliet offer to deny her family name and why did she ask
Romeo to do the same?
Life Connection
1. Romeo and Juliet come from two feuding families and cannot be
together, even though they are in love. Would you risk dishonoring
your family and not ever seeing them again for the love of your life?
Explain in no less than three sentences.
2. If you were Romeo/ Juliet and you were caught in a similar situation,
how would you have handled/ solved the conflict so as not to have a
tragic ending?
3. How would you describe true love? Is falling in love at first sight
considered true love? What qualities does a couple with true love
have?

References: Lapid, M. & Serrano, J. (2011). English communication

arts and skills through anglo american and Filipino literature.
Phoenix Publishing house: Quezon Ave., QC