Study Guide Answers

1. ROMEO & JULIET
ACT V, SCENE 1
STUDY GUIDE ANSWERS

2. 1.
FORESHADOWING
IS A WARNING OR
INDICATION OF A
FUTURE EVENT.
“I DREAMT MY LADY CAME
AND FOUND ME DEAD”
LINE 6
This foreshadows the later misunderstanding and
Romeo’s own death.

3. 2. BALTHASAR ARRIVES AND TELLS ROMEO THAT
JULIET IS DEAD. LIKE EVERYONE ELSE HE BELIEVES
THIS TO BE TRUE. FATE HAS INTERVENED, PROVING
DESTINY CONTROLS LIFE.

4. 3. ROMEO FINDS A VERY POOR, STARVING
APOTHECARY (PHARMACIST) AND BRIBES HIM
WITH 40 DUCATS (GOLD COINS).

5. 4A. ROMEO
REMINDS THE
APOTHECARY THAT
THE LAW HAS DONE
NOTHING FOR HIM
THE WORLD IS NOT THY FRIEND, NOR THE
WORLD’S LAW.
THE WORLD AFFORDS NO LAW TO MAKE
THEE RICH;
THEN BE NOT POOR, BUT BREAK IT, AND
TAKE THIS.
LINES 75-77

6. 4B. ROMEO SEES THE LAW AS KEEPING HIM AND
JULIET APART SO HE HAS NO RESPECT FOR THE
LAW. ROMEO’S LOVE FOR JULIET IS SO POWERFUL
THAT IT LEADS HIM TO FEEL UTTER DISRESPECT
FOR THE LAW AND TO END HIS LIFE.

7. CREATED BY M. RIDDELL – APRIL 2017