1. Romeo refers to his friends mocking love when they have never experienced it, foreshadowing the wounds of love in the play. 2. Romeo praises Juliet's beauty in a soliloquy, comparing her to the stars. 3. Initially, Juliet does not know Romeo is below her balcony. She asks why he must be a Montague from her enemy family, rather than just her love.

1. Romeo & Juliet
Act 2, Scene 2
Study Guide Answers

2. 1. Romeo refers to Mercutio & Benvolio who are
making fun of the pain of love, even though they
have never felt it. It suggests those who have
never felt love don’t know what it feels like to be
rejected. It also foreshadows scars & wounds that
occur during the play and are created by the
power of love.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound. (line 1)

3. 2. Romeo’s soliloquy praises Juliet’s beauty.

4. The brightness of her cheek wouldshame those stars
L19 – Juliet makes the starts seem dull
As daylight dotha lamp..
L20 – daylight compared to a lamp
Her eyes in heaven
Would throughthe airy region streamso bright.
L21 – if she looked down from heaven her eyes would
light the earth

5. That birds would sing and think it were not night.
L22 – the birds would think it was day
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand.
L23 – she leans her cheek on her hand
O that I were a glove upon that hand.
L24 – he wishes he was a glove on her hand
That I might touch that cheek!
L25 – so he could touch her cheek

6. 3. No, Juliet does not know that Romeo is
below her balcony at first.

7. 4. Wherefore = Why?
So Juliet is asking why is Romeo a
Montague? Why does her love have
to be from the enemy’s family?
O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? (line 35)

8. Deny they father and refuse thy name.
Asks Romeo to give up being a Montague.
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love.
But if he won’t.
And I’ll no longer be a Capulet.
She will abandon her family name.
Lines 36-38

9. 5. This is significant because Juliet states
love is more important than her family.
This shows that love is so powerful it will
make people do things they ordinarily
wouldn’t.
THEME: LOVE

10. Line 52 Page 45
I take thee at thy word.
Call me but love, and I’ll be new baptized.
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Line 57
By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am.
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee.
Had I it written I would tear the word.

11. 6. Romeo says his name is hateful to him
because it makes him an enemy to Juliet. If
he wrote it down he would tear it up. This
suggests he would turn his back on his own
family to be with Juliet.

12. 7. Juliet is worried for Romeo’s
safety but Romeo says he will be
safe because:

13. a) Love made the walls easy to
climb.
With love’s light wings did I overperch these walls. (line 70)

14. b) Juliet’s kinsmen cannot kill him.
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. (line 73)

15. c) He’s more afraid of Juliet not
loving him than he is of swords.
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords. (line 75 & 76)

16. 8. Night is dark and secretive
and therefore it is easy to stay
hidden.
I have night’s cloak to hide me from their eyes (line 80)

17. 9. Juliet asks Romeo if he loves
her but realizes he might lie in
order to take advantage of her.
Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “Ay,”
And I will take thee at thy word. (lines 94 & 95)

18. Juliet thinks Romeo may think
she can be easily seduced
because she is not playing hard
to get.
I should have been more strange, I must confess,
But that thou overheardest me, ere I was ware,
My true love passion. Therefore pardon me. (lines 106 – 109)

19. 10. Juliet says the moon changes and
Romeo’s love for her shouldn’t change as
frequently as the moon. She wants him
to speak the truth from his heart.

20. 11. Juliet loves Romeo so much
she reveres him as a god.
Swear by thy gracious self,
Which is the god of my idolatry. (lines 118 – 119)

21. I have no joy of this contract tonight.
It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden,
Too like lightning, which doth cease to be
Ere one can say “It lightens.” Sweet, good night.
This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath,
May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.
(lines 123 – 128)

22. 12. Juliet states their relationship is moving
very quickly.
Literary terms used:
simile – like lightning
metaphor – summer’s ripening breath
imagery – beauteous flower

23. 13. When Juliet goes inside
Romeo fears the whole
conversation has been a dream.
Being in night, all this is but a dream, (line 146)

24. 14. Juliet returns and says if
Romeo’s love is honorable she
will marry him, all her fortunes
will become his, and she will
follow him anywhere.

25. 15. In Greek Mythology Echo is a nymph who
is madly in love with Narcissus. Echo pines
over this love until she fades away
completely and only her voice remains.
Juliet feels as strongly about Romeo and says
she will say his name over and over until she
loses her voice.

26. Good night, good night! Parting is such
sweet sorrow,
That I shall say good night till it be
morrow. (lines 198 & 199)
16. She’ll keep drawing out the good-bye
until the next day.

27. 17. Romeo decides to see his
ghostly father (spiritual leader) for
help. Friar Lawrence

28. Created by M. Riddell
March 2017