Love

Question 1

General:

Answer 1

• At the beginning - Romeo portrays love as painful and depressing.
• Benvolio and Mercutio have a cynical view of love.
• Capulets’ - view love is based on money, status and power - don’t believe in love matches.
• Romeo’s attitude to love changes when he meets Juliet - he is happy and sociable again.
• Juliet is more cautious and practical than Romeo.
• Romeo and Juliet speak possessively about each other - they know very little about each other and there are both immature.
• They convince themselves that their love for each other rules all - they ultimately die for it.

Question 2

Depressed/ confused about love 1.2

Answer 2

‘(Romeo) Under love’s heavy burden do I sink.’

Question 3

Depressed/ confused about love 1.5

Answer 3

‘My only love sprung from my only hate!’

Question 4

Depressed/ confused about love 3.2

Answer 4

‘O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!’

Question 5

Romantic love 2.2

Answer 5

‘(Romeo) With love’s light wings did I o’erperch these walls.’

Question 6

Romantic love 2.2

Answer 6

‘(Juliet) My bounty is as boundless as the sea, my love as deep.’

Question 7

Practical love 2.2

Answer 7

‘(Juliet) O swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon.’

Question 8

Practical love 1.4

Answer 8

‘(Mercutio) If love be rough with you, be love with love.’

Question 9

Practical love 1.3

Answer 9

‘(Lady Capulet) So shall you share all that he doth posses.’

Question 10

Possessive love 2.6

Answer 10

‘(Romeo) Love devouring death do what he dare, It is enough that I may but call her mine.’

Question 11

Possessive love 5.2

Answer 11

‘(Juliet) I have bought the mansion of a love but not possessed it.’