Question: How does Mercutio view love?

Answer: Mercutio thinks that love is blind and causes people to be irrational and love is controlling.

Question: What is a soliloquy and how is it used in Scene 2?

Answer: A soliloquy is saying one’s thoughts spoken out loud. Soliloquy is used in scene 2 to when Romeo climbs to her balcony to describe Juliet’s beauty so that he can express his love.

Question: How does Romeo learn of Juliet’s love for him?

Answer: He overhears Juliet speaking of her love for him when she thinks she is alone.

Question: What does Romeo say helped him climb over the high walls of the Cauplet orchard and find juliet’s window

Answer: Love, which gave him wings, helped him over the wall and made it possible for him to find her balcony.

Question: What do Romeo and Juliet plan to do the next day?

Answer: Romeo and Juliet plan to be married the next day

Question: Why does Juliet ask Romeo not to swear by the moon?

Answer: Juliet asks Romeo not to swear his love on the moon because the moon appears to change in size as it orbits the earth, suggesting that it is fickle.

Question: Why did the Friar object to Romeo’s love for Rosaline?

Answer: Friar objects to Romeo’s love to Rosaline because he is not really in love just obsessed.

Question: Why does he object to Romeo’s love for Juliet?

Answer: He is unsure about Romeo’s change of heart from Rosaline to Juliet so soon.

Question: Why, despite these misgivings, does he agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?

Answer: The Friar believes that by marrying the two lovers, he will end the feud between the Capulets and the Montagues.

Question: What is happening with Tybalt? How is he described by Mercutio?

Answer: Tybalt is angry at Romeo and Mercutio says he is a good fighter.