Question

Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.

Montague: Alas! my liege, my wife is dead to-night;
Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath.
What further woe conspires against mine age?

What is the best paraphrase of the underlined text?

1. What other pain must I suffer through as I get older?
2. What is the reason only older people experience pain?
3. What does getting older have to do with suffering?
4. What has caused me to feel as if I am getting older?

Answer 1

Explanation:

ans. 1 the pain that i must suffer is that i will go far away from the bonding of family relationship