Extension Question Sunny Ou 9B
a) Make a list of all the times in the play when events would have turned out different given better luck.
• If Romeo had of waited a bit longer, he would had realized that Juliet was not dead.
• If the letter to Romeo was delivered earlier, he would not have visited Juliet’s grave and killed himself.
• If Juliet woke up slightly earlier, neither Romeo nor Juliet would have killed each other.
• If Friar Lawrence arrived at the grave earlier, he could have informed Romeo of the news.
• If Romeo did not avenge Mercutio, he would not have been banished.
• If the servant could read, then Romeo would not have been notified
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-IV. 5.98 -The heavens do lower-
The heavens do lower upon you for some ill; Move them no more by crossing their high will.
- V. 1.24 -Then I defy-
Is it even so? Then I defy you, stars Thou know’st my lodging: get me ink and paper and hire post- horses. I will hence to-night.
-V.2.17- Unhappy-
Unhappy fortune! By my brotherhood, the letter was not nice, but full of charge of dear import; and the neglecting it.
c) What might have happened? How could the play have developed had Tybalt not killed Mercutio? If Capulet had not changed his mind about the wedding to Paris? Would the feud have eventually been brought to an end without the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Imagine one of the events you listed in section9 (a) had not taken place bad write an account of how things might have turned out.
If Romeo had of waited a bit longer, he would had realized that Juliet was not dead.
Romeo: My dear Juliet, you cannot be dead. If you live I live, if you die I die.
Narrator: As Romeo prepared to chug down a poisonous potion, he heard a quiet groan.
Romeo: Juliet, it cannot be. How are you? What