friar

Question 1

Art thou a man

Answer 1

Context - opinions of gender roles at the time
Telling Romeo to go seek out for Juliet instead of weeping like a woman

Question 2

Good morrow father

Answer 2

Friar and Romeo have close bond
Friar is Romeo’s confident
Father like figure
Echoes Juliet and her relationship with the nurse

Question 3

Smile the heavens … after hours chide us not

Answer 3

Hopes heavens happy with r and j marriage and hopes nothing bad happens
Ironic foreshadowing

Question 4

Wisely and slow they stumble that run fast

Answer 4

He warns against impulsivity and haste in falling in love and getting married
Reminds us that he’s only known Juliet for 3 days

Question 5

These violent delights have violent ends

Answer 5

Foreshadows their demise
Juxtaposition of violent delights
Duality of violent - eventhough it is destructive it could also link to passion

Question 6

Virtue itself turns vice when miss applied

Answer 6

Vice and virtue go hand in hand
If misused or done with wrong intent virtue can easily turn to vice like their marriage

Question 7

So soon foresaken? Young men’s love lies not in their hearts but in their eyes

Answer 7

Accuses Romeo of only ever loving rosalines appearance
Accuses him of being insincere as he’s moved on so quickly

Question 8

Love moderately

Answer 8

Delphic maxim - nothing in excess
Warns them / guides them
Both ignore and that ends with their untimely deaths

Question 9

For this alliance may prove to turn ur households rancour into pure love

Answer 9

He marries them in hopes that it’ll end the ‘ancient grudge’ that makes ‘civil hands unclean’ and end the ‘strife’ in Verona