Isolation

Question 1

R + J separation symbolised by contrasting day and night

Answer 1

darkness hides forbidden love, blind love to be “best with night”, night is “love-performing”, secrecy of love, emphasises separation from world

Question 2

daylight connotes . . .

Answer 2

realisation and trust, reality of societal expectations and feud separates

Question 3

Juliet’s final detachment from maternal figures

Answer 3

“let (her) now be left alone”, asserts independence, growth into new level of emotional maturity

Question 4

Romeo introduced alone weeping over Rosaline

Answer 4

separated from others not caught up in fights, Shakespeare shines light on him being a Petrarchan lover as separated hyper masculine personas

Question 5

Romeo kills himself

Answer 5

recognises actions to be “savage wild”, detachment from humanity, isolated from everything that previously made him Romeo

Question 6

flow

Answer 6

night relationship > maternal figures > Romeo intro > Romeo’s suicide