Extra quotations (for links)

Question 1

‘Here’s much to do with hate, but more with love’ - Romeo (Act 1, Scene 1)

Answer 1

Romeo recognises the close connection between love & hate, foreshadowing the tragic love between him and Juliet stemming from their family feud. An oxymoron is used to highlight the opposing forces between love and hate, but how they can also be interrelated and can coexist

Question 2

“Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight, / For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” - Act 1 Scene 5 - Romeo

Answer 2

Romeo’s impulsive change of heart after seeing Juliet - revealing to the audience his fickleness and obsession with courtly love, traits which assist in his downfall

Question 3

‘Under love’s heavy burden do I sink’ - Act 1 Scene 4 (romeo)

Answer 3

Romeo depicts love as a burdensome weight, portraying his sensitivity and tendency towards depression, crushing gender stereotypes

Question 4

My only love sprung from my only hate - Act 1 Scene 5 (Juliet)

Answer 4

Juliet’s paradoxical line expresses her tragic realisation that she loves Romeo, in spite of her family’s hatred of the Montague

Question 5

What’s in a name? - Juliet (Act 2 Scene 2)

Answer 5

Challenges the cultural value placed on family names and hour, defying the conventions of the time

Question 6

‘A plague on both your houses’ - Mercutio (Act 3 Scene 1)

Answer 6

Mercutio curses both feuding families as he dies, foreshadowing the tragic consequences of their meaningless violence in the name of honour

Question 7

‘Methinks I see thee now, thou art so low/ As one dead in the bottom of a tomb’ - Juliet (Act 3 Scene 5)

Answer 7

Juliet’s premonition explicitly foreshadows Romeo’s death, building tension through dramatic irony about their sealed fates