Romeo and Juliet L16

The Wedding
Morning
 Learning Objective
To analyse the relationship between
Romeo and Juliet in Act III, Scene v.

Success Criteria
• To read and understand the beginning of Act III, Scene v.
• To analyse the language and imagery in the extract.
• To consider the use of foreshadowing in the extract.
 Mr and Mrs Montague
What words would you use to describe the love between Romeo and Juliet?
Create a word bank on your activity sheet and share your ideas with your partner.
 Consummation
Act III, Scene v opens in Juliet’s bedroom at dawn. Romeo has spent the
night with his new wife, and their marriage has now been consummated.

Read lines 1-16 of the scene.

What is Juliet trying to achieve? How does she try to persuade Romeo?

Now read lines 17-36.

How do Romeo and Juliet both change their viewpoints here? Why?

Definition
Consummate: Make a marriage
complete by having sex.
Light and Dark
Go through your text and highlight any references to light and dark in lines
1-36. How are light and dark used in this extract?
Write a short paragraph to explain your ideas.

Juliet:
O now be gone, more
light and light it grows.

Romeo:
More light and light,
more dark and dark our woes!
Lady Capulet
Romeo and Juliet are forced to hurry, as the
Nurse warns them that Lady Capulet is on
her way.
• Why is it so important that Romeo is not
caught there?
• How do you think Lady Capulet would
react if she found him?

Romeo is forced to climb down from the

balcony to escape –the same way that he
entered Juliet’s bedroom.
• What is significant about the balcony?
• What does his hurried and secret escape
emphasise about the nature of the
relationship between Romeo and Juliet?
Foreboding
Now read the rest of your text, up to line 64.
Although the first morning of their marriage should be a happy occasion, Romeo and
Juliet’s exchange in this extract has many ominous references, which foreshadow later
events in the play. Can you find any? Highlight them on your text.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Let me be ta’en, let me be put to death,

I am content, so thou wilt have it so.

Come, death, and welcome! Juliet wills it so.

Dry sorrow
O think’st thou we shall ever meet again?
drinks our blood.

O God, I have an ill-divining soul!

Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low,
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.
Mr and Mrs Montague: Revisited
Now go back to the word bank you created at the start of the lesson.
Based on what you have just read, are there any other words you
could add to describe Romeo and Juliet’s relationship?
Put It Together
Look at the question below.
Read through the notes you have made
this lesson. What points would you make
to answer this question? Remember to
include quotations to back up your ideas!

How does Shakespeare convey the

turmoil of Romeo and Juliet’s
relationship in Act III, Scene v?

Remember to use your

notes and your word
bank to help you!
 Feedback
Now share your essay plan with your partner.
• Have they got any great ideas you can borrow?
• Can you help them to upgrade their ideas?
Update and amend your essay plan –
remember to make it as thorough as you can and
to include quotations!