Extra Credit
Romeo and Juliet
Write a soliloquy focussing on some aspect of a main character’s self-deception. Choose one of the following:
Romeo’s delusions about love
Tybalt’s argument for revenge
Mercutio’s ideas about manhood
Friar Laurence’s ideas about virtue
OR
Write a five-paragraph essay in which you tell why Romeo and Juliet’s love affair is like that of today’s teenage romance.
Examples of soliloquy
Romeo’s delusions about love
O’ sweet love
Just saying your name brings me much joy
Sweet love, you are my dreams
You are the center of my universe
And yet you do not know that you hold the stars
In the palm of your hand
Yes, sweet love
I see them now
Dancing in your hands
Shining their light and smiling up at you
Because even the stars know that you
Are superior even to them
No, don’t look down here where I stand
For the moment must carry on even longer
O’ sweet love
The happiness that you have yet to bring to me
Already fills my soul with many wondrous thoughts
The warm and tender smile on your face
Will begin each of my mornings here after
Love will heal the scars inflicted by our family’s hatred
It will send Prince Escalus back home with no fury to patrol
Love will enable your father to see that 13 is the marrying age
It will draw the sun up from over the hills
To spread its rays across your face as you awaken each morning
O’ sweet love
Come to me
Soliloquy
Tybalt’s argument for revenge