NSC English FAL Macbeth: EXTRACT G

[JULIET learns that R

Question

EXTRACT G

[JULIET learns that Romeo has slain Tybalt.]

JULIET:

Blistered be thy tongue
For such a wish! He was not born to shame.
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit;
For 'tis a throne where honour may be crowned
Sole monarch of the universal earth.
O, what a beast was I to chide at him!

NURSE:

Will you speak well of him that killed your cousin?

JULIET:

Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue shall smooth thy name
When, I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it?
But wherefore, villain, didst thou kill my cousin?
That villain that killed my husband!
Back, foolish tears, back to your native spring!
Your tributary drops belong to wo,
Which you mistaking, offer up to joy.
My husband lives, that Tybalt would have slain;
And Tybalt's dead, that would have slain my husband.
All this is comfort. Wherefore weep I then?
Some word there was, worser than Tybalt's death,
That murdered me. I would fain it were a beast,
But O, it presses me to death.
Tybalt is dead, and Romeo banished;
That banished, that one word, 'banished'
Hath slain ten thousand Tybalts. Tybalt's death

OR, if you will, yourself would have been slain,

And Tybalt's dead. I cannot help it, fill
your love.

When followed on, the word 'Tybalt's dead,'
'Father,' or 'thy mother,' nay, are the scratch,
Which modern lamentation might have moved?

EXTRACT G [JULIET learns that Romeo has slain Tybalt.] JULIET: Blistered be thy tongue For such a wish! He was not born to shame - NSC English FAL - Question 4 - 2017 - Paper 2

Worked Solution & Example Answer:EXTRACT G [JULIET learns that Romeo has slain Tybalt.] JULIET: Blistered be thy tongue For such a wish! He was not born to shame - NSC English FAL - Question 4 - 2017 - Paper 2

C) Tybalt wants to fight Romeo. (Romeo refuses.) Mercutio fights and is fatally wounded (when Romeo tries to stop him). Romeo avenges Mercutio's death by killing Tybalt.

A) Juliet must cry. She must wipe away her tears. She must have a sad facial expression. She could cry out the words.

B) Juliet refers to her tears as foolish because she should not be sad and weep since Romeo is still alive. She should take comfort in the fact that Tybalt dies and not Romeo.

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