Question

Read the excerpt from Act I, scene ii of Romeo and Juliet.

Benvolio: Tut! you saw her fair, none else being by,
Herself pois’d with herself in either eye;
But in that crystal scales let there be weigh’d
Your lady’s love against some other maid




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That I will show you shining at this feast,
And she shall scant show well that now shows best.
Romeo: I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown,
But to rejoice in splendour of mine own.

Romeo decides to attend the Capulets’ party because he wants to .

A) see his love, the fair Rosaline
B) making peaces with the Capulet's
C) ruin the Capulet's party
D) forget all about his heartache

Answer 1

Romeo decides to attend the Capulets’ party because he wants to (A) see his love, the fair Rosaline.

According to Act 1, scene 2, Benvolio challenges Romeo that Romeo found Rosalie to be the most beautiful of all because he had not seen her with other beautiful women.

If he would go to the feast, Benvolio would make him meet women who were far more worthy of his fascination than Rosalie.

Romeo agrees to go to the feast saying that he would indeed go, not because he had doubts that Rosalie was the most beautiful of all but because he wanted to meet her.