English 1—December 1, 2014

• Bell ringer: Which character in Act 1 of Romeo and Juliet appealed to you the most? Why?

• Homework:– Study Island homework due Friday.

Review Act 1• Foil: a character whose personality or

attitudes are in sharp contrast to those of another character in the same work.

Foils How they are different Text Evidence

Benvolio and Tybalt

Juliet and Rosaline Rosaline is chasteJuliet is more beautiful than Rosaline

“Then she hath sworn that she will still live chaste?” p. 1000

“Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear--/Beauty too rich for use, for

earth too dear!” p. 1014

Romeo and Paris

Nurse and Lady Capulet

Review Act 1—Identify who said the following quotes and explain why they said it.

• “If ever you disturb our streets again,/Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.”

• “Black and portentous must this humour prove/Unless good counsel may the cause remove."

• “My will to her consent is but a part;/And she agreed, within her scope of choice/Lies my consent and fair according voice”

• “Compare her face with some that I shall show,/And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.”

• “By my count,/I was your mother much upon these years/That you are now a maid”

• “. . . my mind misgives/Some consequence yet hanging in the stars/Shall bitterly begin his fearful date/With this night’s revels . . .

• “I will withdraw; but this intrusion shall/Now seeming sweet convert to bitterest gall.”

• “My only love sprung from my only hate!/Too early seen unknown, and known too late!/Prodigious birth of love is it to me . . .”