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Romeo and Juliet (1968) Online Worksheet

Write brief answers during viewing. Use character choices and scene evidence for your analysis.

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Before viewing

1. How can a setting influence the way an audience hears dialogue?

2. What makes dramatic irony different from ordinary surprise?

Part A · Feud and first meeting

3. What does the opening street conflict establish?

4. How does Romeo behave before meeting Juliet?

5. How do performance and music frame the meeting at the ball?

6. Why does learning each other’s family name matter?

7. How does the balcony setting help express the relationship’s obstacles?

Part B · Secret marriage and violence

8. Why does Friar Laurence support the marriage?

9. Why does Romeo initially refuse Tybalt’s challenge?

10. How does Mercutio’s death change Romeo’s choices?

11. What follows Romeo’s killing of Tybalt?

12. How does the farewell scene contrast intimacy with danger?

Part C · The plan and its consequences

13. What pressure does Juliet face from her father?

14. What is Friar Laurence’s plan for Juliet?

15. Why does Romeo misunderstand what has happened?

16. What does the final procession communicate about the feud?

After viewing

17. Choose a scene in which the audience knows more than a character.

18. How does the use of period costumes affect your interpretation?

19. What difference should you examine between the film’s tomb scene and the play?

20. Which adults have opportunities to reduce the conflict?

Final written response

How do private choices and public conflict combine to produce tragedy? Write a paragraph with a clear claim, evidence from two scenes, and reasoning. End with one limitation of the film’s portrayal or one question for further study.

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