Fate

Question 1

Act 1 prologue- implies that their love although it is written from the stars, their fate is doomed and hints at Romeo and Juliet committing suicide

Answer 1

‘A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life’
‘The fearful passage of their death mark’d love’
‘Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife’

Question 2

Act 1 scene 4- Romeo foreshadows his own death being early and also senses that something is wrong

Answer 2

‘Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars’

‘By some vile forfeit of untimely death’

Question 3

Act 1 scene 5- After Romeo kisses Juliet at the party, he fears that things will take a turn for the worse from there on

Answer 3

‘so I fear;the more is my unrest’

Question 4

Act 2 scene 2- Romeo foreshadows his death which will be the result of the ‘ancient grudge’

Answer 4

‘My life were better ended by their hate’

Question 5

Act 3 scene 1- Romeo discreetly references the prologue indicating that he and Juliet are fated to die
he sees himself as a subject of fate

Answer 5

‘O, I am fortune’s fool!’

Question 6

Act 5 scene 1- When Romeo learns of Juliet’s death, he declares that he opposes their fate and his suicide leads to Juliet’s suicide fulfilling their fate from the start

Answer 6

‘Then I defy you, stars’

Question 7

Act 1 scene 5 - After Romeo and Juliet meet, Juliet doesn’t know he’s Romeo and she wonders whether he is married

Answer 7

‘If he be married- My grave is to be like my wedding bed’