English Romeo And Juliet Themes

Question 1

Love

Answer 1

Romeo: Under love’s heavy burden do I sink. (Act 1 Scene 4)
Romeo: With love’s light wings did I o’er-perch these walls. (Act 2 Scene 2)
Juliet: My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep. (Act 2 Scene 6)

Question 2

Conflict

Answer 2

Mercutio: O calm, dishonourable, vile submission! (Act 3 Scene 1)
Tybalt: Peace! I hate the word as I hate hell, all Montagues and thee. (Act 1 Scene 1)
Prince: Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word. (Act 1 Scene 1)
Romeo: Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! (Act 1 Scene 1)

Question 3

Family

Answer 3

Juliet: He shall not make me there a joyful bride. (Act 3 Scene 5)
Lord Capulet: An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets. (Act 3 Scene 5)
Romeo: And so, good Capulet, which name I tender as dearly as my own, be satisfied. (Act 3 Scene 1)

Question 4

Death

Answer 4

Lady Capulet: I would the fool were married to her grave! (Act 3 Scene 5)
Friar Lawrence: These violent delights have violent ends and in their triumph die, like fire and powder. (Act 2 Scene 6)
Juliet: O happy dagger. This is thy sheath: there rust and let me die. (Act 5 Scene 3)

Question 5

Fate

Answer 5

Romeo: Oh I am fortune’s fool! (Act 3 Scene 1)
Prologue: A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life. (Prologue)
Romeo: And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh. (Act 5 Scene 3)
Romeo: I fear, too early, for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars. (Act 1 Scene 4)

Question 6

Betrayal

Answer 6

Juliet: O serpent heart hid with a flowering face! (Act 3 Scene 2)
Juliet: What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. (Act 2 Scene 2)
Lord Capulet: An you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets. (Act 3 Scene 5)