Conflict

Question 1

“For now, these hot days, is the mad blood stirring” - Benvolio

Answer 1

• He is wise and wants to avoid conflict, he is the peace keeper

Question 2

“Tis but thy name that is my enemy” - Juliet

Answer 2

• Implies Shakespeare’s belief that a name means very little
• It is the individual’s worth that counts

Question 3

” These violent delights have violent ends” - Friar

Answer 3

• Foreshadowing, oxymoron, metaphor, paradox
• Such extreme emotions often end in disaster

Question 4

“The continuance of their parent’s rage” - Chorus

Answer 4

• Blame parents for the unrest
• The rage is ongoing

Question 5

“Thou villain Capulet!” - Montague

Answer 5

• Villain has two means - play on words
• Bad guy & poor person - insults

Question 6

“O calm, dishonourable, vile submission!” - Mercutio

Answer 6

• Being feminine, not masculine is “vile”
• Toxic masculinity

Question 7

“Good King of Cats, nothing but one of your nine lives” - Mercutio

Answer 7

• He wants to kill Tybalt - provokes him
• Could be seen as Mercutio causing his own death
• Displays violence of men

Question 8

” A plague a’both your houses!” - Mercutio

Answer 8

• He renounces his allegiance to the Montague house and is blaming both for his death.
• Expressing his anger.

Question 9

“Now, Tybalt, take the ‘villain’ back again” - Romeo

Answer 9

• Shift in attitude.
• No longer gentle to Tybalt, letting his emotion overwhelm him again.
• Shows Romeo is reckless, angry, murderous.
• He is reactive- never stops to think about consequences like Juliet does.

Question 10

“Tybalt, deaf to peace” - Benvolio.

Answer 10

• Thinks violence is the only option.
• Tybalt is the personification of ‘new mutiny’.

Question 11

“O serpent heart, hid with a flow’ring face!” - Juliet.

Answer 11

• She is betrayed and conflicted.
• Shown with oxymorons.
• Flower imagery evokes memories of the balcony scene.

Question 12

“My fingers itch”. - Capulet.

Answer 12

• He wants to slap Juliet, his only daughter he wants the best for.
• Shows how his anger overwhelms him.
• Threat of violence.

Question 13

“Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word”-Prince Escalus.

Answer 13

• Feud: immediate reaction is violence, seems unnecessary
• Shows male aggressive behaviour, shows little is needed to ignite conflict- volatile.